This peacetime army unit was formed in 1817 as the 2nd Wurttemberger Infantry Division. The division was placed on the Prussian establishment in 1871.
Its home station was Wurttemberg, part of the XIII Corps District.
Together with the 26th Division it formed the XIII Army Corps
53rd (3rd Wurttenburg) Infantry Brigade
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123rd Grenadier Regiment
(King Karl) (5th Württemberger), formed on 17th October 1799, garrisoned in Ulm
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124th Infantry Regiment
(King Wilhelm I) (6th Württemberger), formed on 1st June 1673, garrisoned in Weingarten
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54th (4th Wurttenburg) Infantry Brigade
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Transferred to the 242nd Infantry Division as the 242nd Infantry Brigade on 1st February 1917.
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120th Infantry Regiment
(Kaiser Wilhelm, King of Prussia (2nd Württemberger), formed on 1st June 1673, garrisoned in Ulm
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127th (9th
Württemberger) Infantry Regiment, formed on 1st April 1897, garrisoned in Ulm
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19th (1st Wurttenburg) Ulhan Regiment
27th (2nd Wurttenburg) Field Artillery Brigade 2nd and 3rd Companies 13th Pioneer Battalion |
13th (1st Wurttenburg)Field Artillery Regiment
49th (3rd Wurttenburg) Field Artillery Regiment |
The 27th Division started the war in Lorraine as part of the 5th Army. In October the XIII Army Corps was broken up.
The 27th Division was placed in the Argonne, in positions it occupied until the end of 1915. The 26th Division rejoined at the end of December 1915, and the XIII Corps was reformed.
In January 1916 the division saw action at Ypres, and in July was placed in the Somme sector. In 1917 the division moved from the Somme to Cambrai.
It suffered serious loses, and replacements came from the break up of the 627th Infantry Regiment in May 1917.
At the start of 1918 it held the line at Cambrai, and ended the war on the Meuse sector.
