1. The Oise sector of Thiescourt was held by the division until 1917.
In the middle of March, 1917, the 15th Landwehr Division took part in the withdrawal of the German troops and retired southeast of St. Quentin by way of Salency, Chauny, and La Fere.
Galicia.
2. Relieved at the end of March, it was transferred to the Eastern Front. Itinerary: Charleroi-Luxemburg-Treves * * * Breslau-Cracow-Lemberg. (Some elements of the division had already left before the withdrawal to the Hindenburg line and had entrained at Noyon.)
3. In Galicia the 15th Landwehr Division occupied the sector west of Brody until the beginning of 1918.
Almost immediately after its arrival the 52d Landwehr Regiment was withdrawn from the division (April, 1917).
Like the other Landwehr divisions on the Eastern Front, the 15th Landwehr Division at the end of 1917 had given its best elements to divisions operating in France (especially to the 111th Division).
VALUE—1917 ESTIMATE.
The division is purely a sector division.