3. In October the 17th Reserve Division was withdrawn from the front south of Roye and sent to Artois, near Lens (Liévin-Givenchy).
1916.
1. The 17th Reserve Division remained in Artois until the battle of the Somme. In February it launched several attacks.
Somme.
2. About the beginning of July the 163d Infantry Regiment was sent, temporarily, to reinforce the 185th Division, engaged along the Somme near Cantalmaison.
3. The 17th Reserve Division was in line as a whole north of the Somme about July 25 (Bazentin-Pozières). It remained there until August 9–14.
4. It was sent to rest and to be reorganized near Valenciennes.
5. At the end of August it occupied the sector of Loos-Hulluch (north of Lens). In September the 75th Reserve Infantry Regiment was sent to the 211th Division.
6. About September 21 the division returned to the Somme (Le Transloy-Combles), where it lost heavily (losses, 51 per cent).
7. Relieved about October 10 it was transferred to Belgium.