Champagne.
2. It then went to the vicinity of Rheims (Loivre-Berry au Bac sector) from May 11 to the beginning of July.
Artois.
3. Sent to rest near Asfeld, it then went into line west of Fontaine les Croisilles (middle of July). Withdrawn from the Arras front, it occupied the Loos sector in September.
Flanders.
4. At the end of October, it went to Flanders, Passchendaele sector, then Becelaere sector.
Artois.
5. At the end of November, it was again in Artois, north of La Bassee Canal, a position which it was still occupying February, 1918.
RECRUITING.
The 171st and 172d Infantry Regiments are recruited in the Rhine District, in the widest sense of the word (Grand Duchy of Baden, Rhenish Hesse, Rhine Province), and from Westphalia.