32nd Division (United Kingdom)

32nd Division
Active1915–1919
Country United Kingdom
Branch British Army
TypeInfantry
SizeDivision
Engagements
Battle of the Somme
Pursuit to the Hindenburg Line
Defence of Nieuport
German spring offensive
Allied Hundred Days Offensive
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Maj-Gen Reginald Barnes
Maj-Gen Cameron Shute

The 32nd Division was an infantry division of the British Army that was raised in 1914, during the First World War. The division was raised from volunteers for Lord Kitchener's New Armies, made up of infantry 'Pals battalions' and artillery brigades raised by public subscription or private patronage. The division was taken over by the War Office in September 1915. It served in France and Belgium in the trenches of the Western Front for the duration of the war. It saw action at the Battle of the Somme, the Pursuit to the Hindenburg Line, the Defence of Nieuport, the German spring offensive, and the Allied Hundred Days Offensive beginning at the Battle of Amiens. After the Armistice it marched into Germany as part of the Army of Occupation.