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19th (Western) Division    19th (Western) Division was established by the Western Command in September 1914, as part of the Army Orders authorising Kitchener's Second New Army, K2. Early days were somewhat chaotic, the new volunteers having very few trained officers and NCOs to command them, no organised billets or equipment. The units of the Division initially concentrated in the Bulford area with the infantry being at Tidworth, Ludgershall and Grately. The battalions moved into billets for the winter, in Andover, Whitchurch, Basingstoke and Weston-super-Mare. In March 1915 all units concentrated near Tidworth. The Division was inspected by King George V on 23 June 1915. Advanced parties left for France on 11 July and the main body crossed the English Channel 16-21 July. Units initially moved to the point of assembly near St Omer. The Division served on the Western Front for the remainder of the war, taking part in many of the significant actions: 1915 The Action of Pietre 1916 The Battle of Albert - Somme in which the Division captured La Boisselle The attacks on High Wood - Somme The Battle of Pozieres Ridge - Somme The Battle of the Ancre Heights - Somme The Battle of the Ancre - Somme 1917 The Battle of Messines The Battle of the Menin Road Ridge - Third Battles of Ypres The Battle of Polygon Wood - Third Battles of Ypres The Battle of Broodseinde - Third Battles of Ypres The Battle of Poelcapelle - Third Battles of Ypres First Battle of Passchendaele - Third Battles of Ypres The Second Battle of Passchendaele - Third Battles of Ypres 1918 The Battle of St Quentin - Somme The Battle of Bapaume - Somme The Battle of Messines - Lys The Battle of Bailleul - Lys The First Battle of Kemmel Ridge - Lys The Battle of the Aisne The Battle of the Selle - Final Advance in Picardy The Battle of the Sambre - Final Advance in Picardy and the passage of the Grand Honelle The Division advanced across Marlborough's old battlefield at Malplaquet on 8 November, after which it was withdrawn into XVII Corps Reserve. When the Armistice came into effect at 1100 on 11 November 1918 the units of the Division were in billets near Bavay. By 26 November they had moved west to Naours. Demobilisation began in December 1918 and by 18/19 March 1919 the Division ceased to exist. Final cadres returned to England 21-27 June 1919. In all the 19th (Western) Division had suffered the loss of 39381 killed, wounded and missing. Order of Battle of the 19th (Western) Division. 56th Brigade 7th Btn, King's Own disbanded February 1918 7th Btn, East Lancashire Regiment disbanded February 1918 7th Btn, South Lancashire Regiment disbanded February 1918 7th Btn, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment disbanded February 1918 4th Btn, King's (Liverpool Regiment) joined 3 December 1915, left 19 December 1915 56th Machine Gun Company joined 14 February 1916, although a provisional Company existed September - December 1915, left to move into 19th MG Battalion 14 February 1918 56th Trench Mortar Battery joined 17 June 1916, broken up 5 February 1918 and reconstructed 6 March 1918 9th Btn, Cheshire Regiment joined February 1918 1/4th Btn, King's Shropshire Light Infantry joined February 1918 8th Btn, North Staffordshire Regiment joined February 1918 57th Brigade 10th Btn, Royal Warwickshire Regiment 8th Btn, Gloucestershire Regiment 10th Btn, Worcestershire Regiment left as a cadre June 1918 8th Btn, North Staffordshire Regiment left February 1918 57th Machine Gun Company joined 14 February 1916, left to move into 19th MG Battalion 14 February 1918 57th Trench Mortar Battery joined 15 June 1916 3rd Btn, Worcestershire Regiment joined June 1918 58th Brigade 9th Btn, Cheshire Regiment left February 1918 9th Btn, Royal Welsh Fusiliers 5th Btn, South Wales Borderers left December 1914 9th Btn, Welsh Regiment 6th Btn, Wiltshire Regiment joined December 1914, left as a cadre June 1918 58th Machine Gun Company joined 14 February 1916, left to move into 19th MG Battalion 14 February 1918 58th Trench Mortar Battery joined 15 June 1916 2nd Btn, Wiltshire Regiment joined May 1918 Divisional Troops 6th Btn, Wiltshire Regiment left December 1914 5th Btn, South Wales Borderers joined as provisional Pioneer Bn December 1914, conversion completed February 1915 13th Motor Machine Gun Battery joined 14 July 1915, left 7 March 1916 246th Company, MGC joined 19 July 1917, moved into 19 Mg Bn 14 February 1918 19th Battalion Machine Gun Corps formed 14 February 1918 Divisional Mounted Troops C Sqn, Yorkshire Dragoons Yeomanry joined 26 June 1915, left 21 April 1916 19th Divisional Cyclist Company, Army Cyclist Corps formed 19 November 1914, left 21 April 1916 Divisional Artillery LXXXVI Brigade, RFA left 23 January 1917 LXXXVII Brigade, RFA LXXXVIII Brigade, RFA LXXXIX (Howitzer) Brigade, RFA broken up 8-9 September 1916 19th Divisional Ammunition Column RFA 19th Heavy Battery, RGA raised with the Division but moved independently to France on 15 July 1915 and joined XXI Brigade RGA W.19 Heavy Trench Mortar Battery RFA joined May 1916, disbanded 19 February 1918 X.19, Y.19 and Z.19 Medium Mortar Batteries RFA formed by May 1916; on 18 February 1918, Z broken up and batteries reorganised to have 6 x 6-inch weapons each Royal Engineers 81st Field Company 82nd Field Company 94th Field Company 19th Divisional Signals Company Royal Army Medical Corps 57th Field Ambulance 58th Field Ambulance 59th Field Ambulance 36th Sanitary Section left 9 July 1917 Other Divisional Troops 19th Divisional Train ASC 154, 155, 156 and 157 Companies 31st Mobile Veterinary Section AVC 220th Divisional Employment Company joined 19 July 1917 19th Divisional Motor Ambulance Workshop absorbed into Divisional Train 6 April 1916 Jul 1915 Training Instruction Jul 1915 Billets 20th Jul 1915 On the Move 21st Jul 1915 On the Move 22nd Jul 1915 Training 23rd Jul 1915 On the March 24th Jul 1915 On the March 25th Jul 1915 Church Parade 26th Jul 1915 Training 27th Jul 1915 Training 28th Jul 1915 Training 29th Jul 1915 Visit 30th Jul 1915 Training 31st Jul 1915 On the March   13th Aug 1915 Exercise 16th Aug 1915 Exercise 17th Aug 1915 Instruction   18th Aug 1915 Working Parties   19th Aug 1915 Working Parties & Instruction   20th Aug 1915 Posts   21st Aug 1915 Posts   22nd Aug 1915 Instruction   23rd Aug 1915 Instruction   24th Aug 1915 Instruction   25th Aug 1915 Working Parties   26th Aug 1915 On the March   27th Aug 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Want to know more about 19th (Western) Division? There are:389 items tagged 19th (Western) Division available in our Library   These include information on officers, regimental histories, letters, diary entries, personal accounts and information about actions during the Great War. Those known to have served with 19th (Western) Division during the Great War 1914-1918. Bullus Ralph Henry Samuel. Pte. 6th Btn. Jobling Samuel. Pte. att. 58th Field Ambulance Saunders George. Spr. 82nd Field Company White Sidney. Pte. 10th Btn. (d.23rd Mar 1918) All names on this list have been submitted by relatives, friends, neighbours and others who wish to remember them, if you have any names to add or any recollections or photos of those listed, please Add a Name to this List The Wartime Memories Project is the original WW1 and WW2 commemoration website. 1st of September 2024 marks 25 years since the launch of the Wartime Memories Project. Thanks to everyone who has supported us over this time. 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We also have a section on World War Two. and a Timecapsule to preserve stories from other conflicts for future generations. 1206160 Pte. Ralph Henry Samuel Bullus 6th Btn. Wiltshire Regiment Ralph Bullus, born 3rd June 1896, volunteered at the start of the war and served in France and Flanders throughout. Wounded and captured in the German spring offensive 1918, he was taken P.O.W and enterned in Germany until repatriated by the red cross in January 1919 and taken to Blackfriars Hospital London for treatment of wounds. He lived out the rest of his life with his family in Nunney, Somerset until he died in 1969. He was my grandfather and we are very proud of him. Below is an extract from a letter he sent to the hospital in London and published in the Somerset Standard newspaper at the time; "Private Ralph Bullus, of the 6th Wilts, from Nunney, writes to Mrs Milne-Redhead from King George’s Hospital, Blackfriars, as follows:- I am safe back in the dear old country once more. We left Germany about the ninth of January under the French Red Cross people. They handed us over to our Red Cross about ten days after, to a hospital in the South of France, and I was very thankful for that day. The French Red Cross seems so poor to our own. Having stayed in the Field Hospital for three days we got transferred to the Base Hospital at Rouen, staying there a few days. We left Rouen on last Tuesday night, going by train to Boulogne, arriving there in the morning. We were then put on the Hospital ship and sailed for Dover, landing about five o’clock. We then had the pleasant train-ride up to Charing Cross, getting there about nine. It was a fine reception; we could not eat much or drink as we were filled with joy. I am now in King George’s Hospital. I am expecting every day to be transferred nearer home. I have booked for Bath; I hope it will go through alright. This is only a clearing station here for the wounded P.O.W. I am fairly well in health, but my leg is still very bad. The fracture is set in a bad position, and some short stiffening knee – all this is through German treatment. I was in a good hospital – I mean as a hospital, but the treatment they gave for a fracture was absolute torture. I entered this hospital on May 2nd, last year. They drove two nails into my knee, put my leg on a board at the side of the bed, attached two strings to these nails, and hung about 25lbs on them. This lasted for about a month, then while I was having the leg dressed one morning one nail broke off in my leg. They put me on the operation table, took it out, also the sound one, and then drove one clean through my heel; all this was done without chloroform of any description. I had the sand sack on the nail for another two months. Then the nails were taken out. I am now in bed, but am going to try my luck with crutches. Madam, I am now sending you my very best thanks for all your splendid kindnesses. I was on the point of death three times in Germany, and had it not been for the splendid parcels I got, I certainly should not have seen old Blighty again. I sent all the acknowledgement postcards back; hope you received them. The last Frome parcel I received was the beginning of November. Then when the armistice came, all the parcels were collected together and we had anybody’s. I also thank you for the memo cards; I received quite a good few, but not the later months. I hope all the Nunney prisoners of war are safely back. My first letter came yesterday from home. My brother is now enjoying his two months’ leave. Well, I believe the Germans paid very dearly for us lads; they had it in the March offensive. I shall never forget it. I am lucky to be alive. We had the odds of 111 to one against us, but we hung on to the very last. My battalion lost very heavily. I had an officer come to see me; he had such a list of the dear lads that have been missing since last March. I was able to tell him the news of three – two killed and one wounded and P.O.W. I am afraid most of them are killed. I would have given the world to have been in this last offensive of ours. By what I can gather from the lads it was fine sport; it’s a pity they gave in so soon. Well, madam, I expect you feel greatly relieved with the strain of all the parcel work off your mind. I am sure us P.O.W’s can never repay you for your kindness and strenuous work. I am patiently waiting now to get my transfer. I hope it won’t be long, as I have to go through another operation, and I am getting tired of this lying-in-bed sort of life." Paul Bullus Add to this record. 1205748 Pte. Samuel Jobling DCM. att. 58th Field Ambulance Royal Army Service Corps Samuel Jobling DCM served with the RASC (MT) attached to 58th Field Ambulance during WW1 and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal whilst serving with the 19th Division. He was a Motor Ambulance Driver with 3 blue chevrons and noted with one wound stripe. He had enlisted at Burnley on 17th July 1915. He was discharged as being no longer fit for military service on the 18th December 1918. Born in 1892, he was a native of Burnley, Lancashire. The citation for the D.C.M. published in the London Gazette reads: For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during an enemy attack. For six days he drove his ambulance between the regimental aid posts and advanced dressing stations under heavy shell fire with almost no rest. On one occasion he made fourteen consecutive trips on a road under heavy fire. He undoubtedly saved many lives, and only ceased work when he himself was badly wounded. Nick Jobling Add to this record. 218062 Pte. Sidney White 10th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment (d.23rd Mar 1918) Sidney White served with the 10th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment and died on the 23rd March 1918. He is remembered on Bay 3 of the Arras Memorial. 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