DELVILLE WOOD
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The 9th (SCOTTISH) DIVISION
on the 14th July 1916
Formed at the end of August 1914, the 9th (Scottish) Division was the first division of the First New Army raised by Kitchener, Secretary of State fo War.
After training in England, the Division arrived in France in May 1915.
Its first major engagement was the Battle of Loos in September 1915, losing its General Officer commanding, Major-General G.H. THESIGER, killed in action on the 27th September. Casualties during this battle had been heavy and, consequently, its 28th Brigade was disbanded and replaced by the South African Infantry Brigade in April 1916.
On the eve of the Battle of the Somme, the 9th (Scottish) Division was composed as follows :
General Officer Commanding
Major-General W.T. FURSE
General Staff Officer
Lieutenant-Colonel P.A.V. STEWART
Assistant-Adjudant & Quarter-Master-General
Lieutenant-Colonel A.A. McHARDY
Commanding Royal Engineers
Lieutenant Colonel E. BARNARDISTON
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26th (Highland) INFANTRY BRIGADE Brigadier General A.B. RITCHIE |
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Lieutenant-Colonel C.W.E. GORDON
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7th Seaforth Highlanders Lieutenant-Colonel J. KENNEDY
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5th Cameron Highlanders Lieutenant-Colonel G.B. DUFF
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10th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Lieutenant-Colonel W.J.B. TWEEDIE
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26th Brigade Machine Gun Company
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26th Brigade Trench Mortar Battery |
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63rd Field Coy, Royal Engineers
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27th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
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27th (Lowland) INFANTRY BRIGADE Brigadier General S.W. SCRASE-DICKENS |
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11th Royal Scots Lieutenant-Colonel W.D. CROFT
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12th Royal Scots Lieutenant-Colonel H.L. BUDGE
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6th King's Own Scottish Borderers Lieutenant-Colonel J.C.W. CONNELL
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9th Scottish Rifles (The Camronians) Lieutenant-Colonel H.A. FULTON
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27th Brigade Machine Gun Company
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27th Brigade Trench Mortar Battery |
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90th Field Coy, Royal Engineers
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27th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
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1st SOUTH AFRICAN INFANTRY BRIGADE Brigadier General Henry Timson LUKIN |
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1st South African Infantry Regiment (Cape of Good Hope) Lieutenant-Colonel F.S. DAWSON
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2nd South African Infantry Regiment (Natal and Orange Free State) Lieutenant-Colonel W.E.C. TANNER
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3rd South African Infantry Regiment (Transvaal and Rhodesia) Lieutenant-Colonel E.F. THACKERAY
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4th South African Infantry Regiment (South African Scottish) Lieutenant-Colonel F.A. JONES
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28th Brigade Machine Gun Company, composed of men of the H.L.I. reinforced by South Africans
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South African Trench Mortar Battery |
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64th Field Coy, Royal Engineers
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1st South African Field Ambulance, South African Medical Corps
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PIONEERS 9th Seaforth Highlanders Lieutenant-Colonel T. FETHERSTONHAUGH
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ARTILLERY Brigadier-General H.H. TUDOR
Field Artillery Brigades L (A, B, C Batteries : D Howitzer Battery) LI (A, B, C Batteries : D Howitzer Battery) LII (A, B, C Batteries : D Howitzer Battery) LIII (A, B, C Batteries) 9th Division Ammunitions Column Trench Mortar Batteries Medium : X9, Y9, Z9 Heavy : V9 |
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SIGNAL SERVICE 9th Division Signal Coy
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VETERINARY SERVICE 21st Mobile Veterinary Section, Army Veterinary Corps
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SANITARY SERVICE 20th Sanitary Section, Royal Army Medical Corps
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TRAIN 104th, 105th, 106th and 107th Transport Companies, Army Service Corps
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9th SCOTTISH DIVISION MEMORIAL
Point-du-Jour, Athies, Pas-de-Calais, France
