Oise.
4. On September 9, it was transferred in haste to the Valenciennes area and then sent to the Oise. It detrained on the 13th at Chauny and went into action on the right bank of the Oise, south of Noyon (Sept. 15 to 20).
5. About October 7 the 17th Reserve Division was sent to the vicinity of Roye, where it lost heavily.
6. About the middle of November the division occupied the front between the Avre and Roye. On December 20 it was in line between Ribecourt and Thiescourt.
1915.
On January 4, 1915, the 75th Reserve Infantry Regiment entrained at Noyon for Upper Alsace (Hartmannswillerkopf), and did not return to the division until May.
Roye (Somme).
1. On February 6 the division left the banks of the Oise to go back to the area south of the Avre, between Lassigny and Roye. It remained in this sector until the month of October.
2. Toward the end of September elements of the division formed a part of the Hartz Division in Artois (Sick and Balthasar Regiments).