XVI Corps

Headquarters XVI Corps

  • formed in theatre: 17-Jan-16
  • 17-Jan-16: Lieutenant General G F Milne KCB DSO
  • 17-May-16: Lieutenant General C J Briggs KCB KCMG
  • 05-Nov-16: 2/5/Durham Light Infantry (Garrison) from UK; to 228th Brigade, 01-Mar-17
  • 27-Dec-16: XVI Corps Cavalry Regiment (A & B Squadrons, 1/1st Surrey Yeomanry from 27th & 28th Divisions)

10th (Irish) Division

  • 05 to 24-Oct-15: from Gallipoli
  • 23-Aug-15: Lieutenant General Sir B T Mahon
  • 20-Dec-15: Major General J R Longley
  • to Egypt, starting 01-Sep-17

27th Division

  • 17-Jan to 13-Feb-16, from France
  • 16-Jul-15: Major General G F  Milne KCB DSO
  • 07- Feb-16: Major General W R Marshall
  • 15-Sep-16: Major General H S L Ravenshaw
  • 22-Feb-17: Major General G T Forestier-Walker CB

28th Division

  • from France via Egypt, starting 04-Jan-16
  • 12-Oct-15: Major General C J  Briggs CB
  • 21-May-16: Major General H L Croker CB

Lieutenant Colonel H.F. Byrne, D.S.O., A.D.S.O. XVI Corps Salonika Force, in the White Tower Gardens, Salonika, November 1917.
Lieutenant Colonel H. F. Byrne, D.S.O., A.D.S.O. XVI Corps Salonika Force, in the White Tower Gardens, Salonika, November 1917. (Click on image to see full size) © IWM (Q 57875)

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