40th (4th Royal Saxon) Infantry Division

This peacetime Army unit was formed in April 1899

 Its home station was Saxony

The 40th (4th Royal Saxon) Division combined with the 24th (2nd Royal Saxon) to form the XIX Corps.

88th Infantry Brigade
104th Infantry Regiment Kronprinz, formed on 17th December 1701, garrisoned in Chemnitz
181st Infantry Regiment, formed on 1st April 1900, garrisoned in Chemnitz
89th Infantry Brigade	Transferred to the 24th Infantry Division on 6th March 1915.
133rd Infantry Regiment, formed on 1st April 1881, garrisoned in Zwickow	Transferred to the 24th Division in March 1915
134th Infantry Regiment, formed on 1st April 1881, garrisoned in Plauen
19th Hussar Regiment
40th Field Artillery Brigade	32nd Field Artillery Regiment 68th Field Artillery Regiment

Also 2nd and 3rd Companies, 22nd Pioneer Battalion.

In 1914 the Division was part of the 3rd Army and entered northern Luxembourg on 13th August 1914, and Belgium on the 18th, before seeing action at the battle of the Marne.

In October 1914 it was in Flanders facing the British as part of the 6th Army.  It remained in action in that sector, and in March 1915 it lost the 133rd Regiment to the 24th Division.  In August 1916 the division took part in the battle of the Somme.  It also suffered heavily at the battle of Ypres in 1917, and had to be rested.

In October 1917 it again saw action in Flanders, before leaving for the Russian front.  It remained on the Russian front as part of the 10th Army until February 1918.

At the end of February 1918 it was in the Woevre on the Western Front, and saw action on the Marne.  It ended the war south of Ypres.