Late World War I Organization
Divisions underwent many changes during the war, with regiments moving from division to division, and some being destroyed and rebuilt. During the war, most divisions became triangular – one infantry brigade with three infantry regiments rather than two infantry brigades of two regiments (a "square division"). An artillery commander replaced the artillery brigade headquarters, the cavalry was further reduced, the engineer contingent was increased, and a divisional signals command was created. The 37th Infantry Division's order of battle on February 20, 1918 was as follows:
- 73.Infanterie-Brigade
- 2. Masurisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 147
- 1. Ermländisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 150
- 2. Ermländisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 151
- Maschinengewehr-Scharfschützen-Abteilung Nr. 57
- 3.Eskadron/Jäger-Regiment zu Pferde Nr. 10
- Artillerie-Kommandeur 37:
- 1. Masurisches Feld-Artillerie-Regiment Nr. 73
- II.Bataillon/Lothringisches Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr. 16
- Stab Pionier-Bataillon Nr. 134
- 3.Kompanie/Masurisches Pionier-Bataillon Nr. 26
- Pionier-Kompanie Nr. 250
- Minenwerfer-Kompanie Nr. 37
- Divisions-Nachrichten-Kommandeur 37
Read more about this topic: 37th Division (German Empire)
Famous quotes containing the words late, world, war and/or organization:
“Lancaster bore him such a little town,
Such a great man. It doesn’t see him often
Of late years, though he keeps the old homestead
And sends the children down there with their mother
To run wild in the summer a little wild.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The newly-formed clothing unions are ready to welcome her; but woman shrinks back from organization, Heaven knows why! It is perhaps because in organization one find the truest freedom, and woman has been a slave too long to know what freedom means.”
—Katharine Pearson Woods (1853–1923)