Yser.
1. The 44th Reserve Division, formed between August and October, 1914, like the other division of the 22d Reserve Corps (43d Reserve Division), was trained at Jueterbog Camp and entrained on October 12. Detraining at Termonde, it was in action at Dixmude and at Bixschoote in October and November and lost very heavily. On November 9 the 3d Battalion of the 205th Reserve Infantry Regiment was reduced to 153 men. (Notebook.)
2. After the battle of the Yser, it occupied several sectors north of Ypres.
1915.
Nieuport.
1. The 44th Reserve Division remained on the Flanders front until the month of June, 1915.
2. On June 7 the division was relieved from the Lombartzyde-Nieuport sector and transferred to the Eastern Front.
Russia.
3. Arriving in Russia in the middle of June, it took part in the Mackensen offensive—battles of pursuit on the Galician frontier (June 22-July 16); battle of Krasnostaw (July 19–28) and of Biskupice (July, 29–30); battles up to the Bug (July 31 to Aug. 19); taking of Brest-Litovsk on August 26.