The 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division was an infantrydivision 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.
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.[1]
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)
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Goss, J. (1920). Ferguson, J. (ed.). A Border Battalion. The history of the 7/8th-Service-Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers (1sted.). Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis. OCLC558549942.
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