28th Division (United Kingdom) - Component Units

Component Units

• 83rd Brigade

This Brigade was temporarily under the command of 5th Division between 3 March and 7 April 1915, when it was replaced by 15th Brigade from that Division.

• 2nd Bn, The King's Own Regiment (Lancaster)

• 1/5th Bn, The King's Own Regiment (Lancaster) (joined March 1915, left October 1915)

• 2nd Bn, The East Yorkshire Regiment (joined December 1914)

• 1st Bn, The KOYLI (joined November 1914, left June 1918)

• 1st Bn, the York and Lancaster (joined December 1914)

• 1/3rd Bn, The Monmouthshire (joined March 1915, left September 1915. Absent May to August 1915 when amalgamated with its sister 1/1st and 1/2nd Bn following serious casualties at Ypres)

• 84th Brigade

This Brigade was temporarily under the command of 5th Division between 23 February and 7 April 1915, when it was replaced by 13th Brigade from that Division.

• 2nd Bn, The Northumberland Fusiliers (joined December 1914, left June 1918)

• 1st Bn, The Suffolk Regiment (joined November 1914)

• 2nd Bn, The Cheshire Regiment (joined December 1914)

• 1st Bn, The Welsh Regiment (joined December 1914)

• 1/6th (Glamorgan) Bn, The Welsh (joined July1915, left October 1915)

• 1/1st Bn, The Monmouthshire Regiment (joined February 1915, left September 1915)

• 1/12th (County of London) Bn, The London Regiment (joined February 1915, left May 1915)

• 85th Brigade

Brigade transferred temporarily to 3rd Division between 19 February 1915 and 6 April 1915. It was replaced by the 9th Brigade from that Division.

• 2nd Bn, The Buffs (joined December 1914)

• 3rd Bn, The Royal Fusiliers (joined December 1914, left July 1918)

• 2nd Bn, The East Surrey Regiment (joined December 1914)

• 3rd Bn, The Middlesex Regiment (joined December 1914)

• 1/8th Bn, The Middlesex (joined March 1915, left June 1915)

• 228th Brigade

This Brigade was formed on 26 February 1917, as Army Troops, although it was always associated with this Division. It came under the command of the Greek Crete Division from 30 September 1918, and was broken up on 4 October 1918.

• 2nd (Garrison) Bn, The King's (Liverpool) Regiment (joined August 1917)

• 2/5th Bn, Durham Light Infantry (joined March 1917)

• 1st Garrison Bn, The Seaforth Highlanders (joined March 1917)

• 2nd Garrison Bn, The Royal Irish Fusiliers (joined March 1917, left August 1917)

• 22nd (Wessex & Welsh) Bn TF, The Rifle Brigade (joined November 1916)