10th (Irish) Division

Player's Cigarettes card of the 'battle insignia' of 10th (Irish) Division. This was a narrow green stripe.

  • 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

29th Infantry Brigade

  • Brigadier General R S Vandeleur CMG
  • 10/Hampshire Regiment (to 27th Division, 02-Nov-16)
  • 6/ Royal Irish Rifles
  • 5/Connaught Rangers
  • 1/Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) (from 27th Division, 02-Nov-16)
  • 6/Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)

30th Infantry Brigade

  • Brigadier General A D Macpherson DSO
  • 1/Royal Irish Regiment (from 27th Division, 03-Nov-16)
  • 6/Royal Munster Fusiliers
  • 7/Royal Munster Fusiliers (absorbed by 6th Battalion, 03-Nov-16)
  • 6/Royal Dublin Fusiliers
  • 7/Royal Dublin Fusiliers

31st Infantry Brigade

  • Brigadier General E M Morris
  • 5/Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
  • 6/Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
  • 2/Princess Victoria’s (The Royal Irish Fusiliers) (from 27th Division, 02-Nov-16)
  • 5/Princess Victoria’s (The Royal Irish Fusiliers)
  • 6/Princess Victoria’s (The Royal Irish Fusiliers) (absorbed by 5th Battalion, 02-Nov-16)

Divisional Troops

  • 5/Royal Irish Regiment (Pioneers)
  • 65th, 66th and 85th Field Companies, Royal Engineers
  • 10th Divisional Cyclist Company (ACC) (to A Coy, XVI Corps Cyclist Battalion, 07-Dec-16)

Divisional Artillery

  • LIV (to 28th Division, 29-Aug-17), LVII, LXVII and LXVIII Brigades, Royal Field Artillery

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Infantry manning part of the 10th (Irish) Division’s line on the Kosturino Ridge, December 1915. © IWM (Q 62966)

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