Formation

• 10th (Service) Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
  King's Royal Rifle Corps
  The King's Royal Rifle Corps was a British Army infantry regiment, originally raised in colonial North America as the Royal Americans, and recruited from American colonists. Later ranked as the 60th Regiment of Foot, the regiment served for more than 200 years throughout the British Empire...
  
   (disbanded February 1918)
• 11th (Service) Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
• 10th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (disbanded February 1918)
• 11th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade
• 2nd Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
  The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
  The Cameronians was an infantry regiment of the British Army, the only regiment of rifles amongst the Scottish regiments of infantry...
  
   (from February 1918)

• 6th (Service) Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
  Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
  The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Army.The regiment was formed as a consequence of Childers reforms, a continuation of the Cardwell reforms, by the amalgamation of the 43rd Regiment of Foot and the 52nd Regiment of Foot , forming the 1st...
  
   ( disbanded February 1918)
• 6th (Service) Battalion, The King's Shropshire Light Infantry
  The King's Shropshire Light Infantry
  The King's Shropshire Light Infantry was a regiment of the British Army, formed in 1881, but with antecedents dating back to 1755. The KSLI was amalgamated with three other county light infantry regiments in 1968 to became part of The Light Infantry...
  
  
• 12th (Service) Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
• 12th (Service) Battalion, The Rifle Brigade

• 7th (Service) Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry
• 7th (Service) Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
• 7th (Service) Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
  King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
  The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry was a regiment of the British Army. It officially existed from 1881 to 1968, but its predecessors go back to 1755. The regiment's traditions and history are now maintained by The Rifles.-The 51st Foot:...
  
   ( disbanded February 1918)
• 11th (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry
  Durham Light Infantry
  The Durham Light Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1968. It was formed by the amalgamation of the 68th Regiment of Foot and the 106th Regiment of Foot along with the militia and rifle volunteers of County Durham...
  
   (to pioneers January 1915)
• 12th (Service) Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment) (from January 1915)

• 11th (Service) Battalion, Durham Light Infantry (from 61 Bde January 1915)

Battles

• Battle of Loos
  Battle of Loos
  The Battle of Loos was one of the major British offensives mounted on the Western Front in 1915 during World War I. It marked the first time the British used poison gas during the war, and is also famous for the fact that it witnessed the first large-scale use of 'new' or Kitchener's Army...
  
  
• Battle of the Somme (1916)
  Battle of the Somme (1916)
  The Battle of the Somme , also known as the Somme Offensive, took place during the First World War between 1 July and 14 November 1916 in the Somme department of France, on both banks of the river of the same name...
  
  
  • Battle of Guillemont
    Battle of Guillemont
    The Battle of Guillemont was a British assault on the German-held village of Guillemont during the 1916 Battle of the Somme. Guillemont lay on the right flank of the British sector where it linked with French forces and by holding it, the Germans prevented the Allied armies from operating in...
    
    
  • Battle of Flers-Courcelette
    Battle of Flers-Courcelette
    The Battle of Flers-Courcelette, was a battle within the Franco-British Somme Offensive which took place in the summer and autumn of 1916. Launched on the 15th of September 1916 the battle went on for one week. Flers-Courcelette began with the overall objective of cutting a hole in the German...
    
    
  • Battle of Morval
    Battle of Morval
    The Battle of Morval, which began on 25 September 1916, was an attack by the British Fourth Army on the German-held villages of Morval, Gueudecourt and Lesboeufs during the Battle of the Somme. These villages were originally objectives of the major British offensive of 15 September, the Battle of...
    
    
  • Battle of Le Transloy
    Battle of Le Transloy
    The Battle of Le Transloy was the final offensive mounted by the British Fourth Army during the 1916 Battle of the Somme.-Prelude:With the successful conclusion of the preceding Battle of Morval at the end of September, the Fourth Army of Lieutenant General Henry Rawlinson had finally captured the...
    
    
• Battle of Messines
  Battle of Messines
  The Battle of Messines was a battle of the Western front of the First World War. It began on 7 June 1917 when the British Second Army under the command of General Herbert Plumer launched an offensive near the village of Mesen in West Flanders, Belgium...
  
  
• Third Battle of Ypres
• Battle of Cambrai (1917)

See also

• List of British divisions in WWI
• Richard Hutton Davies
  Richard Hutton Davies
  Major General Richard Hutton Davies CB was an officer of the New Zealand Army during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the first New Zealander to command an independent force overseas and one of the most senior New Zealand officers during the First World War.Born in London, he...
  
  General Officer Commanding of the division 1915-16.

External links

• The British Army in the Great War: The 20th (Light) Division