15th Reserve Division (German Empire)

The 15th Reserve Division was a major unit of the Prussian Army in the First World War.

  • 2.1 1914
  • 2.2 1915
  • 2.3 1916
  • 2.4 1917
  • 2.5 1918

Structure

Mobilization of Battle at 1914

  • 30th Reserve Infantry Brigade Reserve Infantry Regiment 25
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment 69
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment 17
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment 30
  • Reserve Uhlan Regiment No. 5
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 15
  • Company 4 / 1 Rhineland Pioneer Battalion No. 8

Of Battle of June 28, 1918

  • 30th Reserve Infantry Brigade Reserve Infantry Regiment 17
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment 25
  • Reserve Infantry Regiment 69
  • 2nd Squadron / Cuirassiers " Count Gessler " (Rhenish ) # 8
  • Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 15
  • Foot Artillery Regiment No. 125

Battle calendar

1914

  • 22 to 23 August --- Battle of Neufchâteau
  • August 24-29 --- Battle of the Meuse
  • August 30 to September 5 --- persecution of the Meuse to Marne
  • September 6 to 12 --- Battle of the Marne
  • September 13 to December 19 --- Trench warfare in the Champagne
  • December 20-30 --- Battle of Perthes les Hurles, Souain and Beausejour
  • From 31 December --- Trench warfare in the Champangne

1915

  • Until January 7 --- Trench warfare in the Champagne
  • January 8 to 13 --- Battle of Perthes les Hurles and Beauséjour
  • January 14-31 --- Trench warfare in the Champagne
  • February 6 to 15 --- Trench warfare in the Champagne
  • February 16-19 --- Battle of Perthes les Hurlus and Beauséjour
  • 21 February to 20 March --- Winter Battle in Champagne
  • March 21 to September 21 --- Trench warfare in the Champagne
  • September 22 to October 1 --- Autumn Battle in Champagne
  • October 2 to 7 --- Reserve the 3rd Army
  • October 8 --- fighting on the Aisne

1916

  • September 4 --- fighting on the Aisne
  • September 5 to November 26 --- Battle of the Somme
  • November 27 --- position battles of the Somme

1917

  • March 15 --- position battles of the Somme
  • March 16-21 --- fighting against the Siegfried front
  • March 21 to April 10 --- position battles on the Aisne
  • April 11 to May 6 --- Frühjahrtsschlacht at Arras
  • 6 to 15 May --- position fighting on the Yser
  • May 15-19 --- Reserve Command East
  • May 19-June 17 --- Trench warfare is the Shchara - Serwetsch
  • June 16-28 --- Trench warfare on the Narajowka between Narajowka and Zlota Lipa and the Ceniowka
  • June 29-July 3 --- Defence of the Russian summer offensive - Battle of Brzezany
  • 4 to 20 July --- Trench warfare on the Narajowka between Narajowka, Zlota Lipa and Ceniowka
  • July 21-30 --- follow-up battles in eastern Galicia
  • July 31-August 2 --- struggles Zbrucz and on Sereth
  • August 3 to December 7 --- position battles between the Dniester, on Zbrucz and between Zbrucz and Sereth
  • December 8 to 17 --- ceasefire
  • December 17-31 --- ceasefire

1918

  • January 3 to April 23 --- Trench warfare at Verdun
  • April 23-June 25 --- Trench warfare in French Flanders and Artois
  • June 25-August 20 --- fighting between Arras and Artois
  • August 21 to September 2 --- Battle of Monchy- Bapaume
  • September 3 to 26 --- fighting against the Siegfried front
  • September 27 to October 8 --- defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
  • October 10 to November 4 --- fights before and in the Hermann position
  • November 5 to 11 --- fighting retreat before the Antwerp -Meuse position
  • From November 12 --- evacuation of the occupied territory and march in the homeland

Commanders

Pictures of 15th Reserve Division (German Empire)

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