VALUE—1918 ESTIMATE.
As the division did not operate as a division in 1918, no estimate can be given of its fighting value.
1st Naval Division.
COMPOSITION.
| 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brigade. | Regiment. | Brigade. | Regiment. | Brigade. | Regiment. | Brigade. | Regiment. | Brigade. | Regiment. | |
| Infantry. | 1 Nav. | 1 Nav. | 1 Nav. | 1 Nav. | 1 Mar. | 1 Mat. | ||||
| 2 Nav. | 2 Nav. | 2 Nav. | 2 Mat. | |||||||
| 6 Mat. | ||||||||||
| The 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6th Marine Fus. Rgts. and the 4th Marine Inf. Rgt. alternated between the 1st and 2d Naval Division. | ||||||||||
| Cavalry. | 1 Ldw. Sqn. (10 C. Dist.). | 4 Sqn. 6 Cuirassier Rgt. | ||||||||
| Artillery. | 1 and 2 Ldw. F. A. Detch. (10 C. Dist.). | Nav. Brig.: | 1 Nav. F. A. Rgt. | 258 Ldw. F. A. Rgt. | Mar. F. A. Rgt. | |||||
| 1 Nav. F. A. Rgt. | 2 Nav. F. A. Rgt. | Torpedo-Matrosen Art. Rgt. | 1 Mat. A. Rgt. | |||||||
| 2 Nav. F. A. Rgt. | 3 Nav. F. A. Rgt. | Marine Corps 1st Ft. A. M. Col. | ||||||||
| Torpedo-Matrosen Art. Rgt. | Torpedo-Matrosen Art. Rgt. | 2 Light A. Col. of the Mar. F. A. Rgt. | ||||||||
| Engineers and Liaisons. | 1 Nav. Pion. Co. | 1 Nav. Pion. Btn.: | 1 Mar. Pion. Btn.: | |||||||
| 2 Nav. Pion. Co. | 1 Nav. Pion. Co. | 1 Mar. Pion. Co. | ||||||||
| 165 T. M. Co. | 2 Nav. Pion. Co. | 4 Mar. Pion. Co. | ||||||||
| 337 Pion. Co. | 1 Entrenching Co. | |||||||||
| 165 Nav. T. M. Co. | 2 Entrenching Co. | |||||||||
| Tel. Detch. | 291 Mar. Signal Command: | |||||||||
| 291 Mar. Tel. Detch. | ||||||||||
| 291 Wireless Detch. | ||||||||||
| Medical and Veterinary. | Ambulance Co. | 1 Mar. Ambulance Co. | ||||||||
| 1 Nav. Field Hospital. | 1 Mar. Field Hospital. | |||||||||
| Vet. Hospital. | Vet. Hospital (Ostend). | |||||||||
| Transports. | M. T. Col. | |||||||||
| Odd units. | 1 Sect. Flanders Reconnaissance Flight. | |||||||||
| 2 Sec. Flanders Reconnaissance Flight. | ||||||||||
| Attached. | 124 Labor Btn. | 41 Cyclist Co. | ||||||||
HISTORY.
1914–1917.
Belgium.
1. At the beginning of the war the Field Army contained only one naval division. This division entered Belgium on September 4, 1914, detrained at Brussels, and on September 6 took up its position to the left of the corps which was besieging Antwerp. After the taking of the city on October 10 the division marched along the coast, arrived at a point between Ostend and Bruges on October 23, and on November 2 relieved the 4th Ersatz Division on the front of Nieuport-St. Georges.
2. On November 24, 1914, the Naval Corps was formed by adding a 2d Naval Division to the 1st.