British Expeditionary Force - Order of Battle on the Somme : 1St July to 18Th November 1916

British Expeditionary Force - Order of Battle ‘On the Somme’: 1st July to 18th November 1916

British Expeditionary Force
Guards Division (Regular Army)
1st Guards Brigade / 2nd Guards Brigade / 3rd Guards Brigade
2nd Battalion, The Grenadier Guards
2nd Battalion, The Coldstream Guards
3rd Battalion, The Coldstream Guards
1st Battalion, The Irish Guards / 3rd Battalion, The Grenadier Guards
1st Battalion, The Coldstream Guards
1st Battalion, The Scots Guards
2nd Battalion, The Irish Guards / 1st Battalion, The Grenadier Guards
4th Battalion, The Grenadier Guards
2ndt Battalion, The Scots Guards
1st Battalion, The Welsh Guards
Divisional Pioneers: 4th Coldstream Guards
1st Division (Regular Army)
1st Brigade / 2nd Brigade / 3rd Brigade
10th (Service) Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment
1st Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
8th (Service) Battalion, Prince Charlotte of Wales’s Royal Berkshire Regiment
1st Battalion, The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders / 2nd Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment
1st Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
1st Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment
2nd Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps / 1st Battalion, The South Wales Borderers
1st Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment
2nd Battalion, The Welsh Regiment
2nd Battalion, The Royal Munster Fusiliers
Divisional Pioneers: 1/6th (Glamorgan) Battalion TF, The Welsh Regiment
2nd Division (Regular Army)
5th Brigade / 6th Brigade / 99th Brigade
17th (Service) Battalion (Empire), The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
24th (Service) Battalion (2nd Sportsman’s), The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
2nd Battalion, The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
2nd Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry / 1st Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)
2nd Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment
13th (Service) Battalion (West Ham), The Essex Regiment
17th (Service) Battalion (1st Football), The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) / 22nd (Service) Battalion (Kensington), The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
23rd (Service) Battalion (1st Sportsman’s), The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
1st Battalion, Prince Charlotte of Wales’s Royal Berkshire Regiment
1st Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps
Divisional Pioneers: 10th (Service) Battalion (Cornwall Pioneers),
The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
3rd Division (Regular Army)
8th Brigade / 9th Brigade / 76th Brigade
2nd Battalion, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
8th (Service) Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York’s Own)
1st Battalion, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
7th (Service) Battalion, The King’s Shropshire Light Infantry / 1st Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers
4th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
13th (Service) Battalion, The king’s (Liverpool Regiment)
12th (Service) Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment. / 8th (Service) Battalion, The King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
2nd Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment
10th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
1st Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders
Divisional Pioneers: 20th (Service) Battalion (British Empire League Pioneers), The King’s Royal Rifle Corps
4th Division (Regular Army)
10th Brigade / 11th Brigade / 12th Brigade
1st Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
2nd Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s)
1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria’s)
2nd Battalion, The Royal Dublin Fusiliers / 1st Battalion, Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry)
1st Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment
1st Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment
1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) / 1st Battalion, The King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
2nd Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers
2nd Battalion, The Essex Regiment
2nd Battalion, The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment
(West Riding)
Divisional Pioneers: 21st (Service) Battalion (Wool Textiles Pioneers) , The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire)
5th Division (Regular Army)
13th Brigade / 15th Brigade / 95th Brigade
14th (Service) Battalion (1st Birmingham), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
15th (Service) Battalion (2nd Birmingham), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
2nd Battalion, The King’s Own Scottish Borderers
1st Battalion, The Queen’s Own Royal west Kent Regiment / 16th (Service) Battalion (3rd Birmingham), The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
1st Battalion, The Norfolk Regiment
1st Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment / 1st Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment
12th (Service) Battalion (Bristol), The Gloucestershire Regiment
1st Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment
1st Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
Divisional Pioneers: 1/6th (Renfrewshire) Battalion TF (Pioneers),
Princess Louise’s Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
6th Division (Regular Army)
16th Brigade / 18th Brigade / 71st Brigade
1st Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
8th (Service) Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Battalion, The King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
2nd Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment / 1st Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment
11th (Service) Battalion, The Essex Regiment
2nd Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
14th (Service) Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry / 9th (Service) Battalion, The Norfolk Regiment
9th (Service) Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment
1st Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment
2nd Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters
Divisional Pioneers: 11th (Service) Battalion (Midland Pioneers),The Leicestershire Regiment
7th Division (Regular Army)
20th Brigade / 22nd Brigade / 91st Brigade
8th (Service) Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment
9th (Service) Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment
2nd Battalion, The Border Regiment
2nd Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders / 2nd Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
2nd Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment
1st Battalion, The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
20th (Service) Battalion, (5th City), The Manchester Regiment / 2nd Battalion, The Queen’s Royal (West Surrey)
1st Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment
21st (Service) Battalion (6th City), The Manchester Regiment
22nd (Service) Battalion (7th City), The Manchester Regiment
Divisional Pioneers: 24th (Service) Battalion (Oldham Pioneers), The Manchester Regiment.
8th Division (Regular Army)
23rd Brigade / 25th Brigade / 70th Brigade
2nd Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment
2nd Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment
2nd Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own)
2nd Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) / 2nd Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
2nd Battalion , Prince Charlotte of Wales’s Royal Berkshire Regiment
1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Rifles
2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) / 11th (Service) Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottingham and Derbyshire Regiment)
8th (Service) Battalion, The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
8th (Service) Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment
9th (Service) Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment
Divisional Pioneers: 22nd (Service) Battalion (3rd County Pioneers), The Durham Light Infantry
9th Scottish Division (New Army)
26th Brigade / 27th Brigade / South African Brigade
8th ( Service) Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
7th (Service) Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s)
5th (Service) Battalion, The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
10th ( Service) Battalion, Princess Louise’s Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders / 11th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
12th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
6th (Service) Battalion, The King’s Own Scottish Borderers
9th (Service) Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) / 1st South African Infantry (Cape Province)
2nd South African Infantry (Natal & Orange Free State)
3rd South African Infantry (Transvaal & Rhodesia)
4th South African Infantry (Scottish)
Divisional Pioneers: 9th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), The Seaforth
Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany’s)
11th (Northern) Division (New Army)
32nd Brigade / 33rd Brigade / 34th Brigade
9th (Service) Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment
6th(Service) Battalion, The Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire) Regiment
8th (Service) Battalion, The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (West Riding)
6th (Service) Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment / 6th (Service) Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
6th (Service) Battalion, The Border Regiment
7th (Service) Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment
9th (Service) Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment) / 8th (Service) Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers
9th (Service) Battalion, the Lancashire Fusiliers
5th (Service) Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment
11th (Service) Battalion, The Manchester Regiment
Divisional Pioneers: 6th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York’s Own)
12th (Eastern) Division (New Army)
35th Brigade / 36th Brigade / 37th Brigade
7th (Service) Battalion, The Norfolk Regiment
7th (Service) Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment
9th (Service) Battalion, The Essex Regiment
5th (Service) Battalion, Prince Charlotte of Wales’s Royal Berkshire Regiment / 8th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
9th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
7th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment
11th (Service) Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) / 6th (Service) Battalion, The Queen’s Royal (West Surrey)
6th (Service) Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
7th (Service) Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment
6th (Service) Battalion, The Queen’s Own Royal west Kent Regiment
Divisional Pioneers: 5th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers) , The Northamptonshire Regiment
14th (Light) Division (New Army)
41st Brigade / 42nd Brigade / 43rd Brigade
7th (Service) Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps
8th (Service) Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps
7th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consorts Own)
8th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade / 5th (Service) Battalion, The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
5th (Service) Battalion, The King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
9th (Service) Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps
9th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) / 6th (Service) Battalion, Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry)
6th (Service) Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
6th (Service) Battalion, The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
10th (Service) Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Divisional Pioneers: 11th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), The King’s
(Liverpool Regiment)
15th (Scottish) Division (New Army)
44th Brigade / 45th Brigade / 46th Brigade
9th (Service) Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
8th (Service) Battalion, The Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire, The Duke of Albany’s)
8th/10th (Service) Battalion, The Gordon Highlanders
7th (Service) Battalion, The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders / 13th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)
6th/7th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Scots Fusiliers
6th (Service) Battalion, The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders
11th (Service) Battalion, Princess Louise’s Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders / 7th/8th(Service) Battalion, The King’s Own Scottish Borderers
10th (Service) Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
10th/ 11th (Service) Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry
12th (Service) Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry
Divisional Pioneers: 9th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), The Gordon Highlanders
16th (Irish) Division (New Army)
47th Brigade / 48th Brigade / 49th Brigade
6th(Service) Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment
6th (Service) Battalion, The Connaught Rangers
7th (Service) Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
8th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Munster Fusiliers / 7th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Irish Rifles
1st Battalion, The Royal Munster Fusiliers
8th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Dublin Fusiliers
9th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Dublin Fusiliers / 7th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
8th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
7th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria’s)
8th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria’s)
Divisional Pioneers: 11th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), The Hampshire Regiment
17th (Northern) Division (New Army)
50th Brigade / 51st Brigade / 52nd Brigade
10th (Service) Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment
7th (Service) Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York’s Own)
7th (Service) Battalion, The Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment
6th (Service) Battalion, The Dorsetshire Regiment / 7th (Service) Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
7th (Service) Battalion, The Border Regiment
8th (Service) Battalion, The South Staffordshire Regiment
10th (Service) Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) / 9th (Service) Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers
10th (Service) Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers
9th (Service) Battalion, The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (West Riding)
12th (Service) Battalion, The Manchester Regiment
Divisional Pioneers: 7th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), The York and Lancaster Regiment
18th(Eastern) Division (New Army)
53rd Brigade / 54th Brigade / 55th Brigade
8th (Service) Battalion, The Norfolk Regiment
8th (Service) Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment
10th (Service) Battalion, The Essex Regiment
6th (Service) Battalion, Prince Charlotte of Wales’s Royal Berkshire Regiment / 11th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
7th (Service) Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment
6th (Service) Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment
12th (Service) Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) / 7th (Service) Battalion, The Queen’s Royal (West Surrey)
7th (Service) Battalion, The Buff’s (East Kent Regiment)
8th (Service) Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment
7th (Service) Battalion, The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Divisional Pioneers: 8th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), The Royal Sussex Regiment
19th (Western) Division (New Army)
56th Brigade / 57th Brigade / 58th Brigade
7th (Service) Battalion, The King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
7th (Service) Battalion, The East Lancarshire Regiment
7th (Service) Battalion, Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
7th (Service) Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment / 10th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment
8th (Service) Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment
9th (Service) Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment
8th (Service) Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment) / 9th (Service) Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment
9th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers
9th (Service) Battalion, The Welsh Regiment
6th (Service) Battalion, The Wiltshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s)
Divisional Pioneers: 5th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers) , The South Wales Borderers
20th (Light) Division (New Army)
59th Brigade / 60th Brigade / 61st Brigade
10th (Service) Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps
11th (Service) Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps
10th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own)
11th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) / 6th (Service) Battalion, The Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
6th (Service) Battalion, The King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
12th (Service) Battalion, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps
12th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) / 7th (Service) Battalion, Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry)
7th (Service) Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
7th (Service) Battalion, The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
12th (Service) Battalion, The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)
Divisional Pioneers: 11th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), The Durham Light Infantry
21st Division (New Army)
62nd Brigade / 63rd Brigade / 64th Brigade
12th (Service) Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers
13th (Service) Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers
1st Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
10th (Service) Battalion, The Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire) Regiment / 8th (Service) Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment
8th (Service) Battalion, Prince Albert’s (Somerset Light Infantry)
4th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own)
10th (Service) Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment / 1st Battalion, The East Yorkshire Regiment (The Duke of York’s Own)
9th (Service) Battalion, The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
10th (Service) Battalion, The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
15th (Service) Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
Divisional Pioneers: 14th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), The Northumberland Fusiliers
23rd Division (New Army)
24th Brigade / 68th Brigade / 69th Brigade
1st Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment
2nd Battalion, The East Lancashire Regiment
1st Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
2nd Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment / 10th (Service) Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers
11th (Service) Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers
12th (Service) Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
13th (Service) Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry / 11th (Service) Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment
8th (Service) Battalion, The Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire ) Regiment
9th (Service) Battalion, The Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire) Regiment
10th (Service) Battalion, The Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (West Riding)
Divisional Pioneers: 9th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), The South Staffordshire Regiment
24th Division (New Army)
17th Brigade / 72nd Brigade / 73rd Brigade
1st Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
12th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
8th (Service) Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
3rd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) / 8th (Service) Battalion, The Queen’s Royal (West Surrey)
9th (Service) Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment
8th (Service) Battalion, The Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment
1st Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s (North Staffordshire Regiment) / 9th (Service) Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment
7th (Service) Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment
13th (Service) Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own)
2nd Battalion, The Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
Divisional Pioneers: 12th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), The Sherwood (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
25th Division (New Army)
7th Brigade / 74th Brigade / 75th Brigade
10th (Service) Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment
3rd Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment
8th (Service) Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
1st Battalion, The Wilshire Regiment (Duke of Edinburgh’s) / 11th (Service) Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers
13th (Service) Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment
9th (Service) Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
2nd Battalion, The Royal Irish Rifles / 11th (Service) Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment
8th (Service) Battalion, The Border Regiment
2nd Battalion, Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
8th (Service) Battalion, Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)
Divisional Pioneers: 6th (Service) Battalion (Pioneers), The South Wales’s Borderers
29th Division (Regular Army)
86th Brigade / 87th Brigade / 88th Brigade
2nd Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)
1st Battalion, The Lancashire Fusiliers
16th (Service) Battalion (Public Schools), The Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge’s Own)
12st Battalion, The Royal Dublin Fusiliers / 2nd Battalion, The South Wales’s Borderers
1st Battalion, The King’s Own Scottish Borderers
1st Battalion, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
1st Battalion, The Border Regiment / 4th Battalion, The Worcestshire Regiment
2nd Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment
1st Battalion, The Essex Regiment
1st Battalion, The Newfoundland Regiment
Divisional Pioneers: 1/2nd Battalion, TF (Pioneers), The Monmouthshire Regiment
30th Division (New Army)
21st Brigade / 89th Brigade / 90th Brigade
18th (Service) Battalion (2nd City), The King’s (Liverpool Regiment)