Volhynia.
1. During the year 1917 the 91st Division was kept in Volhynia in the region of the Kovel-Sarny railway.
2. About the month of April it transferred the 350th Landwehr to the 45th Landwehr Division. It received the 437th Infantry, which had been organized in 1916 from Prussian elements taken from the 344th Infantry, the 349th Landwehr, and the 350th Landwehr, and which was with Austrian units.
In November the division seemed to have no particular sector and is “distributed among the little reliable troops of the Austrian Army,” (Weekly Bulletin of Information of Russian Army, Dec. 16–23, 1917.)
VALUE—1917 ESTIMATE.
Kept in Russia for the occupation of Ukrainia, the 91st Division had but a very small combat value (April, 1918).
1918.
1. The division was last identified in the Ukraine at the end of August. There is evidence that the division was brought to the Western Front in September. Reports and prisoners’ statements pointed to the presence of the division in the Muelhausen area during October. However, it did not come into line on the Western Front. The division was not identified after the armistice among the retreating German units.
VALUE—1918 ESTIMATE.
The division was rated as fourth class.