17th (Northern) Division

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unit_name= 17th (Norther) Division


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dates= World War I
September 1914 - May 1919
country= United Kingdom
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type= Infantry
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battles= Battle of the Somme (1916)
Third Battle of Ypres
Battle of Epehy
anniversaries=The British 17th (Northern) Division was a New Army division 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.

Unit history

Formation

; 50th Brigade :

*10th (Service) Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)
*7th (Service) Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment
*7th (Service) Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own (Yorkshire Regiment) ("disbanded February 1918")
*6th (Service) Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment ("from March 1915")
*7th (Service) Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment ("until March 1915")

; 51st Brigade :

*7th (Service) Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
*7th (Service) Battalion, The Border Regiment
*10th (Service) Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters
*8th (Service) Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment ("disbanded February 1918")
*3/4th Battalion Battalion, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) ("from June 1917 to 52nd Bde August 1917")

; 52nd Brigade :

*10th (Service) Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers
*12th (Service) Battalion, The Manchester Regiment
*9th (Service) Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
*9th (Service) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers ("until August 1917")
*3/4th Battalion, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) ("from 51st Bde August 1917, disbanded February 1918")

Battles

*Battle of the Somme (1916)
*Third Battle of Ypres
*Battle of Epehy

ee also

*List of British divisions in WWI

External links

* [http://www.1914-1918.net/17div.htm The British Army in the Great War: The 17th (Northern) Division]