List of forces involved in the Battle of Amiens
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The following is a list of forces involved in the Battle of Amiens of World War I fought from August 8 to August 11, 1918.
Contents
Allies
Allied forces at Amiens were under the supreme command of General Ferdinand Foch.
British Fourth Army[1]
General Sir Henry Rawlinson
- British III Corps – Lieutenant General Sir Richard Butler
- Australian Corps – Lieutenant General Sir John Monash
- 1st Australian Division
- 2nd Australian Division
- 3rd Australian Division
- 4th Australian Division
- 5th Australian Division
- 33rd US Division
- 5th Tank Brigade – 2nd, 8th, 13th Bn Tank Corps with 108 Mark V tank; 15th Bn Tank Corps with 36 Mark V* Tank; 17th (Armoured Car) Bn (Austin Armoured Cars.[2]
- Canadian Corps – Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Currie
- 1st Canadian Division
- 2nd Canadian Division
- 3rd Canadian Division
- 4th Canadian Division
- 4th Tank Brigade – 108 Mark V tank, 36 Mark V* Tank
- British Cavalry Corps – Lieutenant General Sir Charles Kavanagh
- 1st Cavalry Division
- 2nd Cavalry Division
- 3rd Cavalry Division
- 3rd Tank Brigade – 72 Whippet tank of 3 Bn and 6 Bn Tank Corps
- Reserve
Royal Air Force air support
(Major General John Salmond)
- V Brigade
- 15th (Corps) Wing – 110 aircraft
- 22nd (Army) Wing – 222 aircraft
- IX Brigade
- 9th Wing – 2 fighter sqns, 2 bomber sqns, 1 reconnaissance sqn. (99 aircraft)
- 51st Wing – 3 fighter sqns, 2 bomber sqns. (101 aircraft)
- 54th Wing – 2 night-fighter sqns, 4 night-bomber sqns (76 aircraft)
- III Brigade (available in support)
- 13th (Army) Wing – 136 aircraft
- I Brigade (available in support) – 19 aircraft
- X Brigade (available in support) – 19 aircraft
French First Army[3]
General Marie-Eugène Debeney
- XXXI Corps – General Paul-Louis Toulorge
- IX Corps – General Noël Garnier-Duplessix
- X Corps – General Charles Vandenburg
- XXXV Corps – General Charles Jacquot
- II Cavalry Corps – General Felix Robillot
French Third Army
The French Third Army played a peripheral role in the battle and was commanded by Georges Humbert
- XV Corps – General Jacques de Riols de Fonclare
- XXXIV Corps – General Alphonse Nudant
- Division Aerienne
- I Brigade – 3 fighter groups, 3 bomber groups
- II Brigade – 3 fighter groups, 2 bomber groups
- Groupe Lauren – 2 night-bomber groups
- Groupe Weiller
Total: 1,104 aircraft
Germans[4]
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German prisoners of war after the battle
The German Second and Eighteenth armies were part of Army Group Rupprecht, commanded by Crown Prince Rupprecht
Second Army
General Georg von der Marwitz
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Eighteenth Army
General Oskar von Hutier
- III Corps – Generalleutnant Walther von Lüttwitz
- 24th Division
- 25th Reserve Division
- 1st Reserve Division
- 79th Reserve Division – (From Seventh Army, 9 August)
- IX Corps – Generalleutnant Horst Ritter und Edler von Oetinger
- I Bavarian Corps – Generalleutnant Nikolaus Ritter von Endres (Corps was formed during the battle on 10 August)
- Alpenkorps – (from Fourth Army, 10 August)
- 121st Division – (from Ninth Army, 10 August)
(The remaining corps of Eighteenth Army played only a peripheral role in the battle.)
- I Reserve Corps – Generalleutnant Kurt von Morgen
- 75th Reserve Division
- 206th Division
- 119th Division – (Sent to 51st Corps, Second Army, 8 August)
- XXVI Reserve Corps – Generalleutnant Oskar von Watter
- 17th Reserve Division
- 54th Division
- 204th Division – (Sent to I Bavarian Corps, 10 August)
- XVIII Reserve Corps – Generalleutnant Ludwig Sieger
- 3rd Bavarian Division
- 105th Division
- 221st Division – (Sent to III Corps, 9 August)
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Captured German artillery piece
- Luftstreitkräfte (air support)
- Jagdstaffel 24, 42, 44, 78
- Bombengeschwader 4
- Fliegerabteilung (Lichtbildgerät) 23
- Fliegerabteilung (Artillerie) 2, 245, 14,212,238,203
- Schlachtstaffel 36
References
- ↑ McCluskey 2008, p. 24
- ↑ Messenger, Charles The Day We Won The War: Turning Point At Amiens, 8 August 1918
- ↑ McCluskey 2008, p. 25
- ↑ McCluskey 2008, p. 26
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