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British 3Rd & 5Th Armies, March 1918 British 3rd & 5th Armies March 1918 5th Army: General Sir Hubert Gough III Corps: Lieutenant General Sir R.H.K.Butler 58th (2nd/1st London) Division: Major General A.B.E.Cator 173rd Brigade 2/2/London 3/London 2/4/London 173rd Trench Mortar Battery 174th Brigade 6/London 7/London 8/London 174th Trench Mortar Battery 175th Brigade 9/London 2/10/London 12/London 175th Trench Mortar Battery CCXC Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery CCXCI Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery Medium Trench Mortar Batteries: X.58 Y.58 Heavy Trench Mortar Battery V.58 Attached: 503rd Engineer Field Company 504th Engineer Field Company 511th Engineer Field Company No. 58 (Machine Gun) Battalion MGC 4/Suffolk (Pioneers) Train: 58th Divisional Ammunition Column 58th (2/1/Wessex) Divisional Signals Company 2/1/Home Cities Field Ambulance 2/2/Home Cities Field Ambulance 2/3/Home Cities Field Ambulance 58th (2/1st London) Mobile Veterinary Section 2/1/London Divisional Train 1 18th (Eastern) Division: Major General R.P.Lee 53rd Brigade 10/Essex 8/Royal Berkshire 7/Queen's Own Royal West Kent 53rd Trench Mortar Battery 54th Brigade 11/Royal Fusiliers 7/Bedfordshire 6/Northumberland 54th Trench Mortar Battery 55th Brigade 7/Queen's 7/Buffs 8/East Surry 7/Queen's Own Royal West Kent 55th Trench Mortar Battery LXXXII Artillery Brigade A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery LXXXIII Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery Medium Trench Mortar Batteries: X.18 Y.18 Atttached 8/Royal Sussex (Pioneers) No. 18 (Machine Gun) Battalion,MGC 79th, 80th & 92nd Engineer Field Companies Train: 18th Divisional Signals Company 18th Divisional Ammunition Column 54th, 55th, & 56th Field Ambulances 30th Mobile Veterinary Sections 219th Divisional Employment Company 18th Divisional Train 14th (Light) Division: Major General Sir V.A.Cooper (W.H.Greenley after 3/22/18) 41st Brigade 8/King's Royal Rifle Corps 7/Rifle Brigade 8/Rifle Brigade 41st Trench Mortar Battery 2 42nd Brigade 5/Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 9/King's Royal Rifle Corps 9/Rifle Brigade 42nd Trench Mortar Battery 43rd Brigade 6/Somerset Light Infantry 9/Scottish Rifles 7/King's Royal Rifle Corps 43rd Trench Mortar Battery XLVI Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery XLVII Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery XLVIII Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery XLIX Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery Medium Trench Mortar Batteries: X.14 Y.14 Attached: 61st, 62nd, and 89th Engineer Field Companies 11/King's (Pioneers) No. 14 (Machine Gun) Battalion MGC Train: 14th Divisional Ammunition Column 14th Divisional Signals Companies 42nd, 43rd & 44th Field Ambulances 26th Mobile Veterinary Sections 215th Divisional Employment Company 14th Divisional Train XVII Corps: Lieutenant General Sir I.Maxse 36th (Ulster) Division: Major General O.S.W.Nugent 107th Brigade 1/Royal Irish Rifles 2/Royal Irish Rifles 15/Royal Irish Rifles 107th Trench Mortar Battery 108th Brigade 12/Royal Irish Rifles 13/Royal Irish Rifles 9/(North Irish Horse) Royal Irish Fusiliers 3 108th Trench Mortar Battery 109th Brigade 1/Royal Inniskilling 2/Royal Inniskilling 9/Royal Inniskilling 109th Trench Mortar Battery CLIII Artillery Brigade:q A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery CLXXIII Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery Medium Trench Mortar Batteries: X.36 Y.36 Attached: 121st, 122nd, 150th Engineer Field Companies 16/Royal Irish Rifles (Pioneers) No. 36 (Machine Gun) Battalion, MGC Train: 36th Divisional Ammunition Columns 36th Divisional Signals Company 108th, 109th, & 110th Field Ambulances 48th Mobile Veterinary Sections 233rd Divisional Employment Company 36th Divisional Train 30th Division: Major General W. de L. Williams 21st Brigade 2/Green Howards 2/Wiltshire 17/Manchester 21st Brigade Machine Gun Company 21st Trench Mortar Battery 89th Brigade 17/King's 18/(Lancashire Hussars) King's 20/King's 2/Bedfordshire 89th Brigade Machine Gun Company 89th Trench Mortar Battery 90th Brigade 2/Bedfordshire 2/Royal Scots Fusiliers 16/Manchester 90th Brigade Machine Gun Company 90th Trench Mortar Battery CXLVIII Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery 4 D (H.) Battery CXLIX Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery Medium Trench Mortar Batteries: X.30 Y.30 Attached: 200th, 201st, & 202nd Engineer Field Companies 11/South Lancashire (Pioneers) No. 30 (Machine Gun) Battalion MGC. Train: 30th Divisional Ammunition Columns 30th Divisional Signals Company 96th, 97th & 98th Field Ambulances 40th Mobile Veterinary Sections 227th Divisional Employment Company 30th Divisional Train 61st (2nd/South Midlands) Division: Major General C.J.Mackenzie 182nd Brigade 2/6/Royal Warwick 2/7/Royal Warwick 2/8/Worchester 182nd Trench Mortar Battery 183rd Brigade 1/9/Royal Scots 1/5/Gordon Highalnders 1/8/Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders 183rd Trench Mortar Battery 184th Brigade 2/5/Gloucester 2/4/Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 2/4/Royal Berkshire 184th Trench Mortar Battery CCCVI Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.)(2/4/Warwick) Battery CCCVII Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery CCCVIII Artillery Brigade: A Battery C Battery E Battery D (H.) Battery Medium Trench Mortar Batteries: X.61 Y.61 5 Attached: 476th Engineer Field Company 478th Engineer Field Company 479th Engineer Field Company 1/5/Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (Pioneers) No. 61 (Machine Gun) Battalion, MGC Train: 61st Divisional Ammunition Column 61st Divisional Signals Company 2/1/South Midland Field Ambulance 2/2/South Midland Field Ambulance 2/3/South Midland Field Ambulance 61st Mobile Veterinary Section 2/1/South Midland Divisional Train 20th (Light) Division: Major General A.C.Daly (Assigned 1:00 p.m., 21 March 1918) 59th Brigade 2/Scottish Rifles 11/King's Royal Rifle Corps 11/Rifle Brigade 59th Trench Mortar Battery 60th Brigade 6/King's Shropshire Light Infantry 12/King's Royal Rifle Corps 12/Rifle Brigade 60th Trench Mortar Battery 61st Brigade 12/King's 7/Somerset Light Infantry 7/Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry 61st Trench Mortar Battery XCI Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery XCII Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery Medium Trench Mortar Batteries: X.20 Y.20 Attached: 83rd, 84th & 96th Engineer Field Companies 11/Durham Light Infantry (Pioneers) No. 20 (Machinegun) Battalion, MGC Train: 20th Divisional Ammunition Columns 20th Divisional Signals Company 60th, 61st, & 62nd Field Ambulances 32nd Mobile Veterinary Sections 221st Divisional Employment Company 20th Divisional Train 6 XIX Corps: Lieutenant General H.E.Watts 24th Division: Major General A.C.Daly 17th Brigade 8/Queen's 1/Royal Fusiliers 3/Rifle Brigade 17th Trench Mortar Battery 72nd Brigade 9/East Surry 8/Royal West Kent 1/North Staffordshire 72nd Trench Mortar Battery 73rd Brigade 9/Royal Sussex 7/Northumberland 13/Middlesex 73rd Trench Mortar Battery CVI Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery CVII Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery Medium Trench Mortar Batteries: X.24 Y.24 Attached: 103rd, 104th & 129th Engineer Field Companies 12/Sherwood Foresters (Pioneers) No. 24 (Machinegun) Battalion, MGC Train: 24th Divisional Signals Companies 24th Divisional Ammunition Columns 72nd, 73rd, & 74th Field Ambulances 36th Mobile Veterinary Sections 24th Divisional Train 66th (2nd/East Lancashire) Division: Major General N.Malcolm 197th Brigade 6/Lancashire Fusilier 3/7/Lancashire Fusilier 3/8/Lancashire Fusilier 197th Trench Mortar Battery 198th Brigade 4/East Lancashire 2/5/East Lancashire 9/Manchester 198th Trench Mortar Battery 199th Brigade 2/5/Manchester 2/6/Manchester 2/7/Manchester 7 199th Trench Mortar Battery CCCXXX Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery CCCXXXI Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery Medium Trench Mortar Batteries: X.66 Y.66 Z.66 Heavy Trench Mortar Battery V.66 Attached: 430th Engineer Field Company 431st Engineer Field Company 432nd Engineer Field Company 1/5/Borderers (Pioneers) No. 66 (Machine Gun) Battalion, MGC Train: 66th Divisional Ammunition Column 66th Divisional Signals Company 2/1/East Lancashire Field Ambulance 2/2/East Lancashire Field Ambulance 2/3/East Lancashire Field Ambulance 1/1/East Lancashire Mobile Veterinary Section 66th Divisional Train 50th (Northumbrian) Division: Brigadier General A.U.Stockley (Major Genera. H.C.Jackson after 3/24/18) (Division assigned to Corps at 3:20 p.m., 21 March) 149th Brigade 4/Northumberland Fusilier 5/Northumberland Fusilier 6/Northumberland Fusilier 149th Trench Mortar Battery 150th Brigade 4/East Yorkshire 4/Yorkshire 5/Yorkshire 150th Trench Mortar Battery 151st Brigade 5/Durham Light Infantry 6/Durham Light Infantry 8/Durham Light Infantry 151st Trench Mortar Battery 8 CCL (I Northumberland) Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery CCLI (II Northumberland) Artillery Brigade: A Battery B Battery C Battery D (H.) Battery Medium Trench Mortar Batteries: X.50 Y.50 Attached: 7th, 446th, 447th Engineer Field Companies 7/Durham Light Infantry (Pioneers) No. 50 (Machine Gun) MGC Train: 50th (Northumberland) Divisional Ammunition Columns 50th Divisional Signals Companies 1/, 3/, 2/2/I Northumberland Field Ambulances 1/Northumberland Mobile Veterinary Column 244th Divisional Employment Company 50th (Northumberland) Divisional Train 8th Division: Major General W.C.G.Heneker (Assigned at 1:p.m., 3/22/18) 23rd Brigade 2/Devonshire 2/West Yorkshire 2/Middlesex 23rd Trench Mortar Battery 24th Brigade 1/Worcester 1/Sherwood Foresters 2/Northumberland 25th Trench Mortar Battery 25th Brigade 2/East Lancashire 2/Royal Berkshire 2/Rifle Brigade 25th Trench Mortar Battery XXXIII Artillery Brigade: 32nd Battery 33rd Battery 36th Battery 55th (H.) Battery XLV Artillery Brigade: 1st Battery 3rd Battery 5th Battery 57th (H.) Battery Medium Trench Mortar Batteries: X.8 Y.8 9 Attached: 2nd, 15th, & 490th Engineer Field Companies 22/Durham Light Infantry (Pioneers) No.
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