Champagne.
6. At the beginning of September it occupied the sector of Ville sur Tourbe in Champagne.
RECRUITING.
The 28th Reserve Division is recruited mostly from Baden. In addition, there are men from Rhenish-Hesse and the Rhine districts. There was also a small number of men from the 4th Corps District (1918 class).
VALUE—1917 ESTIMATE.
The combat value of the 28th Reserve Division appears mediocre.
During the entire time that it spent on the Somme (October, 1914-July, 1916), the division remained on the defensive.
Having lost very heavily on the Somme, it showed no great activity on the Somme (August-October, 1916).
On the Californie Plateau (May, 1917), the 28th Reserve Division appeared very much inferior to the guard.
At Hill 344 (Aug. 20), the attitude of the regiments of the 28th Reserve Division was rather passive, and the resistance was quite weak.