22nd Infantry Division

This peacetime Army unit was formed in October 1866

Its Home Station was in Hesse, part of the XI Corps District

The 22nd and 38th Infantry Divisions combined to form the XI Army Corps

43rd Infantry Brigade
82nd (2nd Kurhessian) Infantry Regiment, formed on 30th November 1813, garrisoned in Gottingen
83rd Infantry Regiment von Wittich (3rd Kurhessian), formed on 22nd November 1813, garrisoned in Kassel
44th Infantry Brigade	To 103rd Infantry Division as 205th Brigade on 15th May 1915.
32nd (2th Thüringian) Infantry Regiment, formed on 7th March 1815, garrisoned in Meiningen	To 103rd Infantry Division (1915)
167th (1st Upper Alsatian) Infantry Regiment, formed on 31st March 1897, garrisoned in Kassel
11th (Kurhessisches) Jäger Bataillon Nr. 11	Served in the American revolutionary War

 

It also included the 6th Cuirassier Regiment, the 22nd Field Artillery Brigade, comprising the 11th and 47th Field Artillery Regiments.  It also contained the 1st Company of the 11th Pioneer Battalion.

At the start of the war the 43rd Brigade was detached to attack and take the city of Liege.  The remainder of the Division saw action at Namur as part of the 3rd Army.  All the components of the Division entrained for the Russian Front.

In October 1914 the Division fought in the German offensives in Poland until March 1915.

In July 1915 it took part in further German offensives in the East as part of the 4th Austrian Army.  In the Spring of 1916 it rested in the Vilna before being sent to Galacia and Romania to counter the Russian offensives there.

In January 1917 it rejoined the 4th Austrian Army on the Lipe.  Having taken part in the Tarnopol offensive it returned in October to the Western Front.

In January 1918 it defended the Meuse, before taking part in the battle of the Marne, and the battle of the Somme.  After seeing action in the battle of the Scarpe it ended the war near Mons.