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The 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division was an infantry division of the British Army that served in the First World War . The 15th (Scottish) Division was formed from men volunteering for Kitchener's Army , and served from 1915 to 1918 on the Western Front . The division was later disbanded, after the war, in 1919.
First World War File:The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916 Q4142.jpg Two men of the 9th (Service) Battalion, Gordon Highlanders with their pet cat at Martinpuich, France, 25 August 1916. The division was a New Army unit formed in September 1914 as part of the K2 Army Group. The division moved to France in July 1915 and spent the duration of the First World War in action on the Western Front . The division fought in the Battle of Loos in which it seizing the village of Loos and Hill 70, the deepest penetration of the German positions by the six British divisions involved in the initial day. It later fought in the Battle of the Somme (1916) which included the battles of Pozières and Flers–Courcelette , the Battle of Arras 1917 and the Third Battle of Ypres later in the year.Template:Sfn
The North Uist -born war poet Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna , a highly important figure in 20th century Scottish Gaelic literature , saw combat with the 7th (Service) Battalion King's Own Cameron Highlanders , 44th Infantry Brigade , 15th (Scottish) Division during the trench warfare along the Western Front and vividly described his war experiences in verse.[ 1]
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The division had the following commanders:Template:Sfn
Appointed
Name
14 September 1914
Major-General A. Wallace
12 December 1914
Brigadier-General M. G. Wilkinson (acting)
15 December 1914
Major-General C. J. Mackenzie
15 March 1915
Brigadier-General F. E. Wallerstein (acting)
22 March 1915
Major-General F. W. N. McCracken
17 June 1917
Major-General H. F. Thullier
11 October 1917
Major-General H. L. Reed VC (sick 4 July 1918)
4 July 1918
Brigadier-General E. B. MacNaghten (acting)
9 July 1918
Major-General H. L. Reed VC
Order of battle
15th (Scottish) DivisionTemplate:Sfn Template:Sfn Template:Sfn
44th Infantry Brigade
9th Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) (left February 1918)
8th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's)
9th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders (became divisional pioneer battalion in left on 12 January 1915)
10th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders (merged with 8th Battalion May 1916)
7th (Service) Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (joined January 1915 left, June 1918)
1/4th (City of Dundee ) Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) (joined November 1915 left January 1916)
8th (Service) Battalion, Gordon Highlanders (joined May 1916, merging with 10th Battalion, renamed as 8th/10th Battalion, left June 1918)
4th/5th Territorial Force (T.F.) Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) (joined June 1918)
1/5th (T.F.) (Buchan and Formartine ) Battalion, Gordon Highlanders (joined June 1918)
44th Machine Gun Company, Machine Gun Corps (M.G.C.) (joined 12 January 1916, left to move into 15th MG Battalion 17 March 1918)
44th Trench Mortar Battery (joined 25 June 1916) 45th Brigade
46th Brigade
10th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
12th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (left February 1918)
7th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers (merged with the 8th Battalion in May 1916, renamed the 7th/8th Battalion, left May 1916)
8th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers (merged with the 7th Battalion in May 1916)
1/4th (Ross Highland) Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) (joined November 1915 left January 1916)
1/4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment (joined November 1915 left February 1916)
9th Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) (joined February 1918 left May 191')
1/9th (Highlanders) Battalion, Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) (joined June 1918)
10th/11th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry (joined May 1916 left, February 1918)
46th Machine Gun Company, M.G.C. (joined 11 February 1916, left to move into 15th MG Battalion 17 March 1918)
46th Trench Mortar Battery (joined 20 June 1916) Divisional Troop
7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment (left February 1915)
7th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment (left April 1915)
9th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders (Pioneer Battalion, January 1915)
11th Motor Machine Gun Battery (joined 23 June 1915, left 22 July 1916)
225th Machine Gun Company (joined 19 July 1917, left to move into 15th MG Battalion 17 March 1918)
15th Battalion M.G.C. (formed 17 March 1918)
Divisional Mounted Troops
15th Divisional Train Army Service Corps
138th, 139th, 140th and 141st Companies
27th Mobile Veterinary Section Army Veterinary Corps
216th Divisional Employment Company (joined 22 May 1917) Royal Artillery
LXX Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (R.F.A.)
LXXI Brigade, R.F.A.
LXXII Brigade, R.F.A. (left 20 January 1917)
LXXIII (Howitzer) Brigade, R.F.A. (broken up 1–3 December 1916)
15th Divisional Ammunition Column R.F.A.
15th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (R.G.A. (raised with the division but moved independently to Gallipoli and was attached to 10th (Irish) Division in 1915)
V.15 Heavy Trench Mortar Battery R.F.A. (joined November 1916, left 9 February 1918)
X.15, Y.15 and Z.15 Medium Mortar Batteries R.F.A. (formed by June 1916; on 9 February 1918, Z broken up and distributed among X and Y batteries) Royal Engineers
73rd Field Company
74th Field Company
91st Field Company (joined January 1915)
15th Divisional Signals Company Royal Army Medical Corps
45th Field Ambulance
46th Field Ambulance
47th Field Ambulance
32nd Sanitary Section (left 29 March 1917)
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↑ Fred MacAulay (editor), Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorùna , Comann Eachdraidh Uibhist a Tuath, (1995), p. xxxiv
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