The 22nd Division was an

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division of the

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, raised in September 1914, from men volunteering for Lord Kitchener's New Armies. The division moved to

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in September 1915, but it was transferred to

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only one month later. It served in the Balkans Campaign for the duration of the

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. The 22nd Division's insignia was a solid black bar.

Unit history

The Division was one of the six created for the Third New Army on 13 September 1914. It moved to France in early September 1915 and then to

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in October 1915 seeing action in the Retreat from

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in December 1915, the

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in August 1916, the Battle of Machukovo in September 1916 and the Battle of Doiran in April / May 1917. The Division was disbanded by 31 March 1919.

Order of Battle

The following units served with the division:
65th Brigade *9th (Service) Battalion,

King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) The King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army. It served under various titles and fought in many wars and conflicts, including both the First and the Second World Wars, from 1680 to 1959. In 1959, the ...

*14th (Service) Battalion,

King's (Liverpool Regiment) The King's Regiment (Liverpool) was one of the oldest line infantry regiments of the British Army, having been formed in 1685 when a single battalion was raised as The Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Foot. The original uniform consist ...

(''left 11 June 1918'') *12th (Service) Battalion,

Lancashire Fusiliers The Lancashire Fusiliers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that saw distinguished service through many years and wars, including the Second Boer War, and the World War I, First and World War II, Second World Wars. It had many diffe ...

(''left 2 July 1918'') *9th (Service) Battalion,

East Lancashire Regiment The East Lancashire Regiment was, from 1881 to 1958, a Line infantry, line infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot and 59t ...

*8th (Service) Battalion,

South Wales Borderers The South Wales Borderers was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence for 280 years. It came into existence in England in 1689, as Sir Edward Dering's Regiment of Foot, and afterwards had a variety of names and headquarters. In ...

(''joined June 1918'') *65th Machine Gun Company (''joined 14 July 1916'') *65th Trench Mortar Battery (''joined 3 November 1916'') 66th Brigade *9th (Service) Battalion,

Border Regiment The Border Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, which was formed in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot and the 55th (Westmorland) Regiment of Foot. After service in ...

(''left February 1915'') *9th (Service) Battalion,

Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) The South Lancashire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 to 1958. The regiment, which recruited, as its title suggests, primarily from the South Lancashire area, was created as part of the Childers Ref ...

*8th (Service) Battalion,

King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) The King's Shropshire Light Infantry (KSLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in the Childers Reforms of 1881, but with antecedents dating back to 1755. It served in the Second Boer War, World War I, World War II and Korean ...

*13th (Service) Battalion,

Manchester Regiment The Manchester Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1958. The regiment was created during the 1881 Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of the 63rd (West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot and the 96th R ...

(''left 28 June 1918'') *12th (Service) Battalion,

Cheshire Regiment The Cheshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division. The 22nd Regiment of Foot was raised by the Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk in 1689 and was able to boast an independent existence ...

(''joined February 1915'') *66th Machine Gun Company (''joined 14 July 1916'') *66th Trench Mortar Battery (''joined 5 November 1916'') 67th Brigade *11th (Service) Battalion,

Royal Welsh Fusiliers The Royal Welch Fusiliers () was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, and part of the Prince of Wales's Division, that was founded in 1689, shortly after the Glorious Revolution. In 1702, it was designated a fusilier regiment and becam ...

*7th (Service) Battalion, South Wales Borderers *8th (Service) Battalion, South Wales Borderers (''left 30 June 1918'') *11th (Service) Battalion,

Welsh Regiment The Welch Regiment (or "The Welch", an archaic spelling of "Welsh") was an infantry regiment of the line of the British Army in existence from 1881 until 1969. The regiment was created in 1881 under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of ...

*67th Machine Gun Company (''joined 14 July 1916'') *67th Trench Mortar Battery (''joined 4 November 1916'') Divisional Troops *12th (Service) Battalion, Cheshire regiment (''left February 1915'') *10th (Service) Battalion,

Loyal North Lancashire Regiment The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) (until 1921 known as the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army that was in existence from 1881 to 1970. In 1970, the regiment was amalgamated with the Lancashire Re ...

(''left April 1915'') *9th (Service) Battalion,

North Staffordshire Regiment The North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, which was in existence between 1881 and 1959. The 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot was created on 21 April 1758 from the 2nd Battali ...

(''left April 1915'') *9th (Service) Battalion, Border Regiment (''joined as Divisional Pioneer Battalion in February 1915'') *10th (Service) Battalion,

Hampshire Regiment The Hampshire Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, created as part of the Childers Reforms in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 37th (North Hampshire) Regiment of Foot and the 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot. The re ...

(''joined January 1919, left February 1919'') * 2nd Battalion, the QVO Rajput Light Infantry (''attached January to February 1919'') *10th (Service) Battalion, the Hampshire Regiment (''joined January 1919, left February 1919'') *1/10th Battalion,

Jat Regiment The Jat Regiment also known as The Royal Jats is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army, of which it is one of the longest-serving and most decorated regiments.

(''attached in January 1919'') *

95th Russell's Infantry The 95th Russell's Infantry were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1813, when they were raised as the 2nd Battalion of the Russell Brigade for the Princely state of Hyderabad. Until 1853, the regim ...

(''attached January to February 1919'') *Divisional Mounted Troops **D Sqn, Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry (''joined July 1915, left 29 November 1916'') **22nd Divisional Cyclist Company,

Army Cyclist Corps The Army Cyclist Corps was a corps of the British Army active during the First World War, and controlling the Army's bicycle infantry. History Formation Volunteer cyclist units had been formed as early as the 1880s, with the first complete bicy ...

(''joined February 1915, left November 1916'') *22nd Divisional Train Army Service Corps **186th, 187th, 188th and 189th Companies (''transferred to 0th Division in October 1915'') **108th, 109th, 110th and 111th Companies (''joined from 10th (Irish) Division in late 1915'') *34th Mobile Veterinary Section Royal Army Veterinary Corps">Army Veterinary Corps *816th Divisional Employment Company (''formed 10 October 1917'') Royal Artillery *XCVIII Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (R.F.A.) *XCIX Brigade, RFA *C Brigade, R.F.A. *CI Brigade, R.F.A. *22nd Divisional Ammunition Column RFA (''transferred to XII Corps (United Kingdom), XII Corps January 1915'') *22nd Heavy Battery,

Royal Garrison Artillery The Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) was formed in 1899 as a distinct arm of the British Army's Royal Artillery, Royal Regiment of Artillery serving alongside the other two arms of the Regiment, the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) and the Royal Horse ...

(R.G.A.) (''joined XXIII Heavy Artillery Brigade on 31 August 1915'')

Royal Engineers The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the ''Sappers'', is the engineering arm of the British Army. It provides military engineering and other technical support to the British Armed Forces ...

*87th Field Company (''left February 1915'') *88th Field Company (''left February 1915'') *99th Field Company (''joined February 1915'') *100th Field Company (''joined February 1915'') *127th Field Company (''joined by June 1915'') *22nd Divisional Signals Company

Royal Army Medical Corps The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) was a specialist corps in the British Army which provided medical services to all Army personnel and their families, in war and in peace. On 15 November 2024, the corps was amalgamated with the Royal Army De ...

*66th Field Ambulance *67th Field Ambulance *68th Field Ambulance *39th Sanitary Section

General officers commanding

General Officers commanding were as follows:

Notes

Bibliography

* *Chappel M 1986 ''British Battle Insignia (1). 1914-18'' Osprey Publishing

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