5. At the beginning of October it was sent to Belgium. On the 12th it went into line east of Zonnebeke.
Cambrai.
6. Sent to rest about October 15 in the vicinity of Bruges, it then fought on the Cambrai front, south of Crèvecoeur, at the end of November (German counterattack).
7. It was sent to rest in December.
RECRUITING.
The 220th Division may be considered as Westphalian since two of its regiments were normally filled up from the 7th Corps District, and since the 99th Reserve Infantry Regiment, like a number of regiments in Alsace, received most of its men from there.
VALUE—1917 ESTIMATE.
The regiments of the 220th Division did not appear to have any great offensive value.
The division lost quite heavily in the sector of Lens at the beginning of 1918.