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The 24th Division was an infantrydivision of the British Army, raised in September 1914 from men volunteering for Lord Kitchener's New Armies during the First World War. After almost a year spent training in England the division was sent to the Western Front between August and September 1915. It served in Belgium and France in the trenches of the Western Front for the duration of the war.
The Division was one of the six created for the Third New Army on 13 September 1914. It moved to France in August 1915 and it saw action at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 and the Final Advance in Picardy in 1918. From its arrival in France to May 1917, it was commanded by Major-GeneralJohn Capper.[1] It was disbanded by March 1919.[2]
The 24th Division was constituted as follows during the war:[2]
CIX (Howitzer) Brigade, R.F.A. (broken up 3 October 1916)
24th Heavy Battery, R.G.A. (raised in August 1914 left August 1915)
24th Divisional Ammunition Column
13th Divisional Ammunition Column (attached 3 July to 6 August 1915)
V.24 Heavy Trench Mortar Battery R.F.A. (joined 30 July 1916, left February 1918)
X.24, Y.24 and Z,24 Medium Trench Mortar Batteries R.F.A. (4 x 6-inch mortars) (joined by 30 April 1916, Z.24 broken up in February 1918 and X and Y expanded to 6 x 6-inch mortars each)
United Kingdom
British Army
