22nd Division

Player's Cigarettes card of the 'battle insignia' of 22nd Division. This was narrow, black braid on the shoulder strap.

  • 27-Oct to 02-Nov-15: from France
  • 17-Jun-15: Major General Hon F Gordon CB DSO
  • 07-May-17: Major General J Duncan CMG DSO

65th Infantry Brigade

  • Brigadier General G E Bayley DSO
  • Brigadier General B J Majendie DSO (by 1918)
  • 9/King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
  • 14/King’s (Liverpool Regiment) (to France, 11-Jun-18)
  • 12/Lancashire Fusiliers (to France, 02-Jul-18)
  • 8/South Wales Borderers (from 67th Brigade, 30-Jun-18)
  • 9/East Lancashire Regiment

66th Infantry Brigade

  • Brigadier General F S Montague Bates CMG DSO
  • 12/Cheshire Regiment
  • 9/South Lancashire Regiment
  • 8/King’s (Shropshire Light Infantry)
  • 13/Manchester Regiment (to France, 28-Jun-18)

67th Infantry Brigade

  • Brigadier General H F Cooke
  • Brigadier General A D Macpherson CMG DSO (by 1918)
  • 11/Royal Welsh Fusiliers
  • 7/South Wales Borderers
  • 8/South Wales Borderers (to 65th Brigade, 30-Jun-18)
  • 11/Welsh Regiment

Divisional Troops

  • 9/Border Regiment (Pioneers)
  • 99th, 100th and 127th Field Companies, Royal Engineers
  • D Squadron, 1/1st Lothians and Border Horse (to 8th Mounted Brigade 29-Nov-16)
  • 22nd Divisional Cyclist Company (to XII Corps Cyclist Battalion Dec-16)

Divisional Artillery

  • XCVIII, XCIX, C and CI Brigades, Royal Field Artillery

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Men of the 22nd Divisional Ammunition Column RFA, with their unit mascot ‘Ginger’, watch other members of their unit wrestling on horseback during a horse show outside Salonika, 20th February 1916.  © IWM (Q 31765)

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