COMPOSITION.
| 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brigade. | Regiment. | Brigade. | Regiment. | Brigade. | Regiment. | Brigade. | Regiment. | Brigade. | Regiment. | |
| Infantry. | 47. | 139. | 47. | 139. | 47. | 139. | 89. | 133. | 89. | 133. |
| 179. | 179. | 133. | 139. | 139. | ||||||
| 48. | 106. | 48. | 106. | 179. | 179. | 179. | ||||
| 107. | 107. | |||||||||
| Cavalry. | 18 Uhlan Rgt. | (?) Sqn. 19 Hus. Rgt. | 1 Sqn. 19 Hus. Rgt. | 1 Sqn. 19 Hus. Rgt. | ||||||
| Artillery. | 24 Brig.: | 24 Brig.: | 24 Brig.: | 24 Art. Command: | 24 Art. Command: | |||||
| 77 F. A. Rgt. | 77 F. A. Rgt. | 77 F. A. Rgt. | 77 F. A. Rgt. | 77 F. A. Rgt. | ||||||
| 78 F. A. Rgt. | 78 F. A. Rgt. | 78 F. A. Rgt. | 96 Ft. A. Btn. (Staff, and 1, 2, and 3 Btries.). | |||||||
| 818 Light Am. Col. | ||||||||||
| 1277 Light Am. Col. | ||||||||||
| 1278 Light Am. Col. | ||||||||||
| Engineers and Liaisons. | 1 Pion. Btn. No. 22: | 1 Pion. Btn. No. 22: | (1/22) Pion. Btn.: | 22 Pion. Btn.: | ||||||
| Field Co. 22 Pions. | 1 Co. 22 Pions. | 2 Co. 22 Pions. | 2 Co. 22 Pions. | |||||||
| 24 Tel. Detch. | 24 T. M. Co. | 5 Co. 22 Pions. | 5 Co. 22 Pions. | |||||||
| 24 Pont. Engs. | 24 Pont. Engs. | 2 Ers. Co. 24 Pions. | 134 Searchlight Section. | |||||||
| 24 Tel. Detch. | 24 T. M. Co. | 24 Signal Command: | ||||||||
| 22 Searchlight Section. | 24 Tel. Detch. | |||||||||
| 24 Tel. Detch. | 93 Wireless Detch. | |||||||||
| Medical and Veterinary. | 47 Ambulance Co. | 47 Ambulance Co. | ||||||||
| 307 Field Hospital. | 307 Field Hospital. | |||||||||
| (?) 24 Vet. Hospital. | 311 Field Hospital. | |||||||||
| 24 Vet. Hospital. | ||||||||||
| Transports. | M. T. Col. | |||||||||
| Attached. | 24 Art. Survey Section. | |||||||||
| 53 Labor Btn. | ||||||||||
HISTORY.
(19th Corps District—Saxony.)
1914.
1. The 24th Division belongs to the 19th Army Corps. It is recruited in the western part of the Kingdom of Saxony (Leipzig).
Marne.
2. At the outbreak of the war it formed a part with the 19th Army Corps, of the 3d German Army (Von Hausen). One of its brigades, the 48th, sent away secretly, detrained on August 4 at Pruem (Eifel), and entered the north of Luxemburg on the 5th. The division concentrated in the Houffalize on August 11, arrived on the banks of the Meuse on the 22d, which it crossed on the 24th and 25th above Dinant. It was at Châlons on September 5, and took part in the battle of the Marne on the 7th and 8th between Vitry le François and Maisons en Champagne. From there it returned to St. Hilaire le Grand.
Flanders.
3. In October, 1914, the 24th Division went over to the 6th Army (Crown Prince of Bavaria), and took up its position, which crosses the Lys (Flanders).