26th Division

Player's Cigarettes card of the 'battle insignia' of 26th Division. This was narrow, dark blue braid on the shoulder strap.

  • from France, starting 23-Nov-15
  • 18-Sep-14: Major General E C W Mackenzie-Kennedy CB
  • 14-Jan-17: Major General A W Gay CB DSO

77th Infantry Brigade

  • Brigadier General G L Hibbert DSO
  • Brigadier General W A Blake CMG DSO (from 06-Feb-17)
  • 8/Royal Scots Fusiliers
  • 11/Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
  • 10/Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) (to France, 30-Jun-18)
  • 12/Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)

78th Infantry Brigade

  • Brigadier General J Duncan CMG DSO
  • Lieutenant Colonel T N S M Howard DSO (from 06-May-1917)
  • Brigadier General G F H Wingate DSO (by 1918)
  • 9/Gloucestershire Regiment (to France, 04-Jul-18)
  • 11/Worcestershire Regiment
  • 7/Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
  • 7/Princess Charlotte of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment)

79th Infantry Brigade

  • Brigadier General A J Poole CMG
  • 10/Devonshire Regiment
  • 8/Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
  • 12/Hampshire Regiment
  • 7/Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) (to France, 16-Jun-18)

Divisional Troops

  • 8/Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Pioneers)
  • 107th, 108th and 131st Field Companies, Royal Engineers
  • A Squadron, 1/1st Lothians and Border Horse (to 8th Mounted Brigade, 29-Nov-16)

Divisional Artillery

  • CXIV, CXV, CXVI and CXVII Brigades, Royal Field Artillery

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A dressing station on the Salonika Front in 1917. Walking wounded from 77th Brigade are being assisted into an ambulance by Royal Army Medical Corps orderlies. © IWM (Q 31801)

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