14th (Light) Division
The 14th Division was an infantry division of the British Army, one of the Kitchener's Army divisions raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener during the First World War. All of its infantry regiments were originally of the fast marching rifle or light infantry regiments, hence the title "Light". It fought on the Western Front for the duration of the First World War.
The division was disbanded by March 1919, and was not reformed in the Second World War.
Order of battle
The division comprised the following infantry brigades, which underwent major changes between February 1918 and June 1918.;41st Brigade:
- Before June 1918
- *7th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
- *8th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
- *7th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
- *8th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade
- *41st Machine Gun Company
- *41st Trench Mortar Battery
- After June 1918
- *18th Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment
- *29th (Service) Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
- *33rd Battalion, The London Regiment
- *41st Trench Mortar Battery
- Before June 1918
- *5th Battalion, The Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
- *5th Battalion, The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)
- *9th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
- *9th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade
- *42nd Machine Gun Company
- *42nd Trench Mortar Battery
- After June 1918
- *6th Battalion, the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
- *16th (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment (1st City)
- *14th Battalion, Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
- *42nd Trench Mortar Battery
- Before June 1918
- *6th Battalion, The Somerset Light Infantry
- *6th Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
- *6th Battalion, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
- *10th (Service) Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
- *9th Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
- *7th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
- *43rd Machine Gun Company
- *43rd Trench Mortar Battery
- After June 1918
- *12th (Service) Battalion, Suffolk Regiment (East Anglian)
- *20th (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment (Shoreditch)
- *10th Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry
- *43rd Trench Mortar Battery
- 11th Battalion The King's Regiment (Liverpool)
- 15th Battalion The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)
- 249th Machine Gun Company
- 224th Machine Gun Company
- 14th Battalion Machine Gun Corps
- 14th Divisional Train Army Service Corps
- 26th Mobile Veterinary Section Army Veterinary Corps
- 215th Divisional Employment Company, Labour Corps
- XLVI Brigade Royal Field Artillery
- XLVII Brigade RFA
- XLVIII Brigade RFA
- XLIX Brigade, RFA
- V.14 Heavy Trench Mortar Battery RFA
- X.14, Y.14 and Z.14 Medium Mortar Batteries RFA
- 14th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
- 61st, 62nd and 89th Field Companies
- 14th Divisional Signals Company
- 42nd, 43rd and 44th Field Ambulances
- 25th Sanitary Section
Battles
Second Battle of Ypres- Hooge – 30 and 31 July 1915
- Second Attack on Bellewaarde – 25 September 1915
- Battle of Delville Wood – August – September 1916
- Battle of Flers-Courcelette – September 1916
- The First Battle of the Scarpe – 9–14 April 1917
- The Third Battle of the Scarpe – 3–4 May 1917
- The Battle of Langemark – 22–27 August 1917
- The First Battle of Passchendaele October 1917
- The Second Battle of Passchendaele November 1917
- The Battle of St Quentin – 23–25 March 1918
- The Battle of the Avre – 4 April 1918
- The Battle of Ypres 1918
- The advance in Flanders
Commander
- Major-General Thomas Morland
- Brigadier-General Francis Alexander Fortescue acting
- Major-General General Victor Arthur Couper
- Brigadier-General Francis Alexander Fortescue acting
- Major-General Victor Arthur Couper
- Major-General Walter Howarth Greenly
- Major-General Sir Victor Arthur Couper
- Major-General Percy Cyriac Burrell Skinner