Cambrai.
9. It then occupied the lines before Cambrai south of Marcoing and Masnières (Dec. 21-Jan. 31, 1918).
RECRUITING.
At the beginning the 50th Reserve Division was composed of drafts from Silesia and Prussian Saxony, but after the end of 1915 it received most of its replacements from the 10th Corps District. The 229th Reserve Infantry Regiment is from Brunswick; the two others from Hanover. In certain documents we find the division designated as “troops from lower Saxony.”
VALUE—1917 ESTIMATE.
The 50th Reserve Division took part in a great number of battles.
Its morale was shaken by the heavy losses which it suffered; it has improved very much.
The division fought comparatively well at Ypres.
1918.
1. The 50th Reserve Division was withdrawn from line south of Marcoing on the 31st of January, the neighboring divisions extending their fronts, and went to the area east of Cambrai, where it received training in open warfare.