23rd Division (United Kingdom)

23rd Division
23rd Division sign as used on signboards.[1]
ActiveSeptember 1914 – March 1919
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeInfantry
Engagements

The 23rd Division was an infantry division of the British Army raised in 1914 in the Great War as part of Kitchener's Army. The division was sent to France in August 1915 under the command of Major-General Sir James Melville Babington C.B. C.M.G. During the war the division fought on the Western Front until October 1917 when it moved to the Italian Front. It remained in Italy and was disbanded by March 1919.

  1. ^ Chappel pps. 32, 42