France.
1. Entrained on December 12 in the vicinity of Brest-Litowsk.
2. Detrained near Hirson about December 18 and stayed at rest for three weeks in the vicinity of Aubenton.
RECRUITING.
The 97th and the 137th of the old 21st Corps were among those regiments which did not find a sufficient source of recruits in their home stations and filled up their ranks with soldiers from the Rhine Province and Westphalia.
The 265th Reserve Regiment, originally recruited from the Hanseatic cities, was now principally recruited in Mecklenberg.
VALUE—1917 ESTIMATE.
The 108th Division, coming from Russia, only went in line on the Western Front on January 1, 1918.
At the end of January, 1918, the 137th and 97th still had in its ranks many men from Alsace and Lorraine, which must have been transferred shortly thereafter.