XX Corps (German Empire)

XX Corps (German Empire)

The XX Army Corps was a unit of the German Army that was stationed in Allenstein. At the beginning of World War I, the corps was transferred to the Eastern Front. [ http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~maampo/militaer/armkorp.html#kokarden List of locations for the German corps]

In 1914, the component units of the division were:
*37th Division
*41st Division [ http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/ww1/1914i.html Eastern Front 1914, mentioning XX corps and divisions ]
*1st Light Infantry Battalion "Graf York von Wartenburg"
*1st Machine-gun Detachment
*5th Machine-gun Detachment
*Pioneer Command (XX Corps)
**23rd Pioneer Battalion (2nd West Prussian)
**26th Pioneer Battalion
*20th Training Battalion

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