16th (Irish) Division - Order of Battle

Order of Battle

47th Brigade

• 8th (Service) Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers (New Army) (disbanded November 1916)
• 6th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment (disbanded 1922)
• 7th (Service) Battalion, Leinster Regiment; (disbanded February 1918)
• 6th (Service) Battalion, Connaught Rangers (until June 1918)
• 1st (Service) Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers (from November 1916 until April 1918)
• 18th (Service) Battalion Welsh Regiment (2nd Glamorgan), (from May 1918)
• 14th (Service) Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment (from June 1918)
• 9th (Service) Battalion, Black Watch (from July 1918)
• 2nd (Service) Battalion, Leinster Regiment (from February 1918 until April 1918)
• 47th Machine Gun Company Joined 28 April 1916, moved to 16th Battalion MGC 9 March 1918

The 47th Brigade was known as the "Nationalist Brigade" as the majority were men from Redmond's Irish Volunteers. The four battalions were;- 6th Batt. Royal Irish Regiment, 6th Batt. Connaught Rangers, 7th Battalion. Leinster Regiment and 8th Batt. Royal Munster Fusiliers. They, with the 20th (Light) Division captured Guillemont on the Somme battlefield on 3 September 1916. Six days later, with the rest of the 6th Division, captured Ginchy.

48th Brigade

• 9th (Service) Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers (New Army) (disbanded May 1916)
• 7th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles (until August 1917)
• 8th (Service) Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers (merged with 9th Battalion October 1917)
• 9th (Service) Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers (merged with 8th Battalion October 1917)
• 1st (Service) Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers (from May 1916 until November 1916)
• 1st (Service) Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers (from October 1917 until April 1918)
• 2nd (Service) Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers (from February 1918 until May 1918)
• 22nd (Service) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers (from June 1918)
• 18th (Service) Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (from July 1918)
• 11th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers (from June 1918 until August 1918)
• 5th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers (from August 1918)
• 10th (Service) Battalion, Royal Dublin Fusiliers (from June 1917, disbanded February 1918)
• 48th Machine Gun Company Joined 28 April 1916, moved to 16th Battalion MGC 9 March 1918

The 8th and 9th Battalions of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers combined to form the 8/9th Battalion in October 1917 which was subsequently disbanded in February 1918.

49th Brigade

• 7th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers (merged with 8th Battalion October 1916, disbanded February 1918)
• 8th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers (merged with 7th Battalion October 1916, disbanded February 1918)
• 7th (Service) Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (merged with 8th Battalion August 1917)
• 8th (Service) Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (merged with 7th Battalion August 1917)
• 2nd (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment (from October 1916 until April 1918)
• 7th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles (from August 1917 until October 1917)
• 7th (Service) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment (South Irish Horse) Battalion,(from October 1917 until July 1918)
• 34th (Service) Battalion, The London Regiment (County of London) Battalion (from June 1918)
• 6th (Service) Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry (from July 1918)
• 18th (Service) Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment (from July 1918)
• 49th Machine Gun Company Joined 29 April 1916, moved to 16th Battalion MGC 9 March 1918

The 7th and 8th Battalions of the Royal Irish Fusiliers combined to form the 7/8th Battalion in October 1916 which was subsequently disbanded in February 1918. The 7th and 8th Battalions of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers combined to form the 7/8th Battalion in August 1917 which was subsequently disbanded in February 1918.