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Summary history of the division
August 1914 Based in Ferozepore, India.
September 1914 Moved to France, landing at Marseilles on 26 September 1914. Took part in the following actions:
  Winter Operations 1914-1915
  The Battle of Neuve Chapelle
  The Battle of Aubers and the Battle of Festubert
  The Loos subsidiary attack at Pietre
December 1915 Moved to Mesopotamia, landing at Basra on 14 January 1916. Took part in the following actions:
  The attempt to relieve the besieged garrison of Kut al Amara
January 1918 Moved to Palestine, arriving Suez 13 January 1918.
   

The Ghurkas moving up into the line on Western FrontThe Ghurkas moving up into the line in France
Order of Battle 

7th (or Ferozepore) Indian Infantry Brigade

1st Bn, the Connaught Rangers

1/4th London Regiment (joined 20 Feb 1915, left 11 November 1915)

129th Baluchis (left before Mesopotamia)

57th Wilde's Rifles (left before Mesopotamia)

9th Bhopal Infantry (left before Mesopotamia)

2/7th Gurkha Rifles (joined in Mesopotamia)

27th Punjabis (joined in Mesopotamia)

91st Punjabis (joined in Mesopotamia)

8th (or Jullundur) Indian Infantry Brigade

1st Bn, the Manchesters (left September 1917)

1/4th Suffolks (joined 9 November 1914, left 15 November 1915)

1/5th Border (joined late 1914, left early May 1915)

40th Pathans (left before Mesopotamia)

15th Sikhs (left before Mesopotamia)

47th D.C.O. Sikhs

59th Royal Scinde Rifles

3rd/124th Baluchistan Infantry (joined in Mesopotamia)

9th (or Sirhind) Indian Infantry Brigade

1st Bn, the Highland Light Infantry

4th Bn, the King's (Liverpool) (joined 6 March 1915, left 10 November 1915)

1st/1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles

1st/4th Ghurka Rifles (left before Mesopotamia)

125th Napier's Rifles (left before Mesopotamia, joining Meerut Division)

93rd Burma Infantry (joined in Mesopotamia)

105th Mahrattas (joined in Mesopotamia)


Divisional Troops

15th Lancers (Cureton's Multanis)

34th Sikh Pioneers


Artillery

5th Brigade RFA (moved to 3rd Canadian Division)

11th Brigade RFA (moved to 3rd Canadian Division)

18th Brigade RFA

43rd Brigade RFA (joined in Mesopotamia?)

215th Brigade RFA (joined in Mesopotamia?)

109th Heavy Battery

Divisional Ammunition Column


Engineers

18th, 20th and 21st Companies of the 3rd Sappers and Miners


Signals

Divisional Signals Company


Medical

Two British (Nos 7 and 8 British) and Three Indian Field Ambulances


Transport

Divisional Supply and Transport Company

Divisional Train (428, 429, 430 and 431 Companies ASC. Left to join 54th (East Anglian) Division in February 1917)


Divisional command  
 
Lt-Gen. H. Watkis

 

Major-Gen. H. Keary
   
 
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