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  dates ''' World War I '''<br>formed October 1914
  country United Kingdom
  branch Regular Army
  type Infantry
  battles ''' World War I '''


The British 27th Division was a First World War regular army Infantry Division formed in late 1914 by combining various units that had been acting as Garrison s about the British Empire . The division spent most of 1915 on the Western Front in France before moving to Salonika .


UNIT HISTORY


FORMATION

; 80th Brigade :
  • 2nd Battalion, the King's Shropshire Light Infantry

  • 3rd Battalion, the King's Royal Rifle Corps

  • 4th Battalion, the King's Royal Rifle Corps

  • 4th Battalion, the Rifle Brigade


The Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry battalion served with the brigade from November 1914 until joining the Canadian 3rd Division in November 1915.

; 81st Brigade :


The following battalions also served with the brigade for periods in 1915:
  • 1/9th (Highlanders) Battalion, the Royal Scots Regiment

  • 1/9th (The Dumbartonshire) Battalion, the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders


; 82nd Brigade :

  • 2nd Battalion, the Duke Of Cornwall 's Light Infantry

  • 1st Battalion, the Royal Irish Regiment (''until November 1916'')

  • 2nd Battalion, the Royal Irish Fusiliers (''until November 1916'')

  • 1st Battalion, the Prince Of Wales 's Leinster Regiment (''until November 1916'')

  • 2nd Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment (''from 81st Bde. November 1916'')

  • 10th (Service) Battalion, the Hampshire Regiment (''from November 1916'')

  • 1/1st Battalion, the Cambridgeshire Regiment (''from February 1915 to November 1915'')

  • 10th (Lovat's Scouts) Battalion TF , the Cameron Highlanders (''from October 1916 to June 1918'')


; 19th Brigade ( May 31 1915 to August 19 1915) :
  • 2nd Battalion, the Royal Welch Fusiliers

  • 1st Battalion, the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

  • 1/5th Battalion, the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

  • 1st Battalion, the Middlesex Regiment

  • 2nd Battalion, the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders


The brigade joined the division in May 1915 from the 6th Division before joining the 2nd Division in August.


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