9th (Scottish) Division
The 9th Division, was an infantry division of the British Army during World War I, one of the Kitchener's Army divisions raised from volunteers by Lord Kitchener to serve on the Western Front during the First World War.
After the 1st South African Infantry Brigade Group joined in early 1916, the division was known colloquially as the Jock and Springboks.
Unit history
In the Battle of Loos, notable for being the first battle in which British forces used poison gas, the 9th Division assaulted the Hohenzollern Redoubt, the 5th Camerons suffered horrific casualties, and Corporal James Dalgleish Pollock gained a Victoria Cross for his actions.leads four men of the 26th Brigade back from the trenches after the attack on Longueval, France, July 1916.
The 9th Division took part in major fighting during the Somme offensive. Notably it relieved the 30th Division at Montauban and later attacked German positions at Bernafay Wood, where it succeeded in capturing vital objectives and forcing a German withdrawal. In the Somme offensive, the 9th Division liberated the village of Longueval; the village now has a statue of a Scottish piper at its crossroads that commemorates this fact and also other pipers who served in World War I.
Order of battle
The division comprised the following brigades:; 26th Brigade
- 8th Battalion, Black Watch
- 7th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders
- 8th Battalion, Gordon Highlanders
- 5th Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
- 1/5th Territorial Force Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
- 10th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
- 26th Machine Gun Company
- 26th Trench Mortar Battery
- 11th Battalion, Royal Scots
- 12th Battalion, Royal Scots
- 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers
- 10th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
- 6th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
- 9th Battalion, Cameronians
- 27th Machine Gun Company
- 27th Trench Mortar Battery
- 6th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers
- 9th Battalion, Cameronians
- 10th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry
- 11th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry
- 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers
- 1st Battalion, Royal Newfoundland Regiment
- 28th Machine Gun Company
- 28th Trench Mortar Battery
- 1st Regiment, South African Infantry
- 2nd Regiment, South African Infantry
- 3rd Regiment, South African Infantry
- 4th Regiment, South African Infantry
- 10th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry
- 11th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry
- 3/4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment
- 3/10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment
- 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers
- 9th Battalion, Cameronians
- 28th Machine Gun Company
- South African Trench Mortar Battery
- 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment
- 6th Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment
- 9th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders
- 10th Motor Machine Gun Battery
- 197th Company, M.G.C.
- 9th Battalion, M.G.C.
- 11th Motor Machine Gun Battery
- Divisional Mounted Troops
- *B Squadron, 1/1st Glasgow Yeomanry
- *9th Divisional Cyclist Company, Army Cyclist Corps
- 9th Divisional Train Army Service Corps
- *104th, 105th, 106th and 107th Companies
- 21st Mobile Veterinary Section Army Veterinary Corps
- 212th Divisional Employment Company
- L Brigade, Royal Field Artillery
- LI Brigade, R.F.A.
- LII Brigade, R.F.A.
- LIII Brigade, R.F.A.
- 9th Divisional Ammunition Column R.F.A.
- 9th Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
- V.9 Heavy Trench Mortar Battery R.F.A.
- X.9, Y.9 and Z.9 Medium Mortar Batteries R.F.A.
- 63rd Field Company
- 64th Field Company
- 90th Field Company
- 9th Divisional Signals Company
- 27th Field Ambulance
- 28th Field Ambulance
- 29th Field Ambulance
- South African Field Ambulance
- 2/1st Field Ambulance
- 20th Sanitary Section
General Officers Commanding
- 27 August 1914 – 11 October 1914 Major-General Colin Mackenzie
- 26 October 1914 – 31 December 1914 Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Fergusson
- 21 January 1915 – 8 September 1915 Major-General Herman Landon
- 8–26 September 1915 Major-General George Thesiger
- 28 September 1915 – 2 December 1916 Major-General William Furse
- 2 December 1916 – 4 March 1918 Major-General Henry Lukin
- 13–16 March 1918 Major-General Cyril Blacklock
- 28 March 1918 – 1919 Major-General Hugh Tudor