Flanders.
3. Sent to rest in the Bruges area for a fortnight; it then went in line for a month north of Ypres (calm sector).
4. It was in reserve in June and then went to the front on July 10 between the railroad from Ypres to Staden and the Ypres-Roulers Railroad. In the course of its relief (July 31) it suffered heavily from the bombardment which preceded the British attack.
5. Retained in Flanders, it took part on September 22 in the fighting in the Passchendaele sector and underwent the British attack of September 26, which caused it heavy losses. (The 2d Company of the 100th Reserve Infantry Regiment was reduced to 25 men.)
Russia.
6. After five days in line the 23d Reserve Division was relieved and transferred to Russia, where it arrived on October 8.
7. It appeared in the Vilna area between October 10 and 17. In the middle of November it was identified near Postavy, where it still was at the end of January, 1918.
RECRUITING.
The 23d Reserve Division is purely Saxon.