Note 146 — Chapter IX · THE PAUSE IN JULY

I am unable to give the exact formations of these Divisions. The battalions were changed shortly before they left England. From dispatches and other sources, however, one can make the following list:

53rd (Welsh) Division:

158th Brigade (Brigadier-General E. A. Cowans)—

5th, 6th, and 7th Royal Welsh Fusiliers, and the 1/1st Herefordshire.

159th Brigade (Brigadier-General F. C. Lloyd)—

4th and 7th Cheshires, and the 4th and 5th Welsh.

160th Brigade (Brigadier-General J. J. F. Hume)—

4th Queen’s (Royal West Surrey), 4th Royal Sussex, a composite Kent Battalion, and the 10th Middlesex.

54th (East Anglian) Division:

161st Brigade (Brigadier-General C. M. Brunton)—

4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th Essex.

162nd Brigade (Brigadier-General C. de Winton)—

10th and 11th London, 5th Bedfordshire, and 4th Northants.

163rd Brigade (Brigadier-General Brunker, later under F. F. W. Daniell)—

4th and 5th Norfolks, 5th Suffolks, and 8th Hants.