23rd Division (United Kingdom)

23rd Division
23rd Division sign as used on signboards.[1]
Active	September 1914 – March 1919
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Infantry
Engagements	World War I Battle of the Somme Battle of Albert Battle of Pozières Battle of Flers–Courcelette Battle of Morval Battle of Le Transloy Battle of Messines Third Battle of Ypres Battle of the Menin Road Ridge Battle of Polygon Wood First Battle of Passchendaele Battle of Asiago Plateau Battle of Vittorio Veneto

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.