The History of
10. /Füsilier - Regiment Nr. 90
& the 17th Infantry Division

1917

- 1917 -

	Brigade	Regiment
Infantry	34.	75. 89 Gren. 90 Fus.

Cavalry	16 Dragoon Regt. (4 Sqns.)

Artillery	17 Art. Command: 60 F.A. Regt.

Engineers and Liaisons.	126 Pion. Btn.: 1 Co. 9 Pions. 5 Co. 9 Pions. 17 T.M. Co. 62 Searchlight Sect. 17 Signal Command. 17 Tel. Detch. 138 Wireless Detch.

Medical and Veterinary.	22 Ambulance Co. 84 Field Hospital. 89 Field Hospital. 17 Vet. Hospital.

Transport	550 M.T. Col.

Attached	52 M.G. S.S. Detch. 13 Anti - Aircraft Sect.

Somme.

1. About January 9th, 1917, the division occupied the sector of Py, South of the Ancre. Local engagements in the neighborhood of Grandcourt and Miraumont (in January and Febuary) caused the division some serious losses.

2. The division was withdrawn from the Somme Front around March 20th. At the time of a German withdrawl. It again rested Southwest of Douai (the end of March and beginning of April).

Artois.

3. On April 10th, the division was sent as a re-enforcement to Arras to oppose the British offensive. It held the sector of Oppy - Gavrelle and suffered a great deal in the counter-attacks. It was relieved on April 25th. From March 27th to April 24th, the 7th Company of Füsilier Regiment 90 had lost 115 men (an estimation from the British Summary of Information).

4. After a rest in the Tournai area, the 17th Division went into line in the sector of Boursies, Demicourt (West of Cambrai).

5. The division was relieved from this calm sector on May 28th, and was sent to rest in the Cambrai area until June 9th.

Flanders.

6. On this date the 17th Division was transferred to Roulers by way of Valenciennes - Mons and put on the Ypres front North of Hooge. It was withdrawn three days before the British attack, on July 27th, but sufferred heavy losses from the bombardment.

7. For five weeks, until September 23rd, the division occupied the calm sector of Havrincourt (South of the road in Bapaume - Cambrai).

8. On September 23rd, it was again entrained for Flanders. It was sent by way of Cambrai to Ledeghem, where it went into action in the Polygone Woods Sector (Northeast of Ypres). On September 26th, they counter-attacked without success and with great losses. In these engagements, Infantry Regiment 75, remained in the line for two extra days. In these engagements Infantry Regiment 75 had lost 30 officers and over 1000 men (estimation from the British Summary of Information).

9. The division was relieved on September 28th from the Flanders Area. It was sent South of Lens on October 17th, and remained there until February 1918.

Value - 1917
(Estimate according to the BEF command)

On July 11, 1916, the following appreciation was written by the 9th Army Corps:

"The 9th Army Corps gives the impression of a very good corps which would be a formidable adversary. The intellectual level of officers and men is appreciably higher that that ordinarily encountered in the German Army. The fact is due to the recruiting which, in most cases, is done in Hamburg, Bremen, and Luebeck."

After the last combat engagements of Flanders (July and September 1917), the division was considered as having its combative force perceptibly diminished on account of its losses.

In general manner, the division has given a good account of itself in the course of its battles.

The Danes, who are numerous in the division ranks, fight well and do not appear to occasion any weakness (October 1917).

The History of 10. /Füsilier - Regiment Nr. 90 & the 17th Infantry Division

The History of
10. /Füsilier - Regiment Nr. 90
& the 17th Infantry Division