26th Division (United Kingdom)

26th Division
Formation sign of the 26th Division, a strip of blue cloth on the shoulder strap.[1]
ActiveSeptember 1914 – 10 May 1919
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeInfantry
SizeDivision
EngagementsWorld War I

The 26th Division was an infantry division of the British Army during World War I. The division was created in September 1914 from men volunteering for Lord Kitchener's New Armies and was the last division to be raised under the K3 enlistment scheme. Although the 26th Division began to assemble in September 1914, it was not fully deployed on the Western Front until the following year. In November 1915, the division was redeployed to the Macedonian Front, where it remained until the end of the war.

  1. ^ Chappell pp. 15-16