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27th Division Signal Company, Royal Engineers
(formerly the Wessex Division Signal Company)

Regimental Numbers assigned to this unit: 510001 to 512000
(Wessex Division Signal Company, T.F.)

Major Headquarters

Locations

Dates

Wessex Division

Salisbury Plain

26-30 Jul 1914

Wessex Division

Devonshire

31 Jul - 19 Nov 1914

27th Division

Joined the 27th Division at Winchester. Redesignated the 27th Division Signal Company

20 Nov 1914

27th Division

Embarked at Southampton

19-21 Dec 1914

France and Flanders

27th Division

Disembarked at Le Havre

20-23 Dec 1914

27th Division

Located in the

Aire-Arques area

25 Dec 1914

27th Division

St. Eloi

14-15 Mar 1915

27th Division

Ypres

22 Apr - 25 May 1915

27th Division

Gravenstafel

22-23 Apr 1915

27th Division

St. Julien

24 Apr - 4 May 1915

27th Division

Frezenberg

8-13 May 1915

27th Division

Bellewaarde

24-25 May 1915

27th Division

Marseille

15 Nov 1915

27th Division

Embarked at Marseille for the Macedonian Front

17 Nov 1915

Macedonia

27th Division

Disembarked at Salonica

13 Feb 1916

27th Division

Struma

30Sep - 4 Oct 1916

27th Division

Homondos

14 Oct 1917

27th Division

Roche Noire Salient

1-2 Sep 1918

27th Division

Doiran

18-19 Sep 1918

27th Division

Passage of the Varda and Pursuit to the Strumica Valley

22-30 Sep 1918

27th Division

Krupnik

30 Oct 1918

27th Division

Orlyak

2 Nov 1918

27th Division

Embarked for the Black Sea

Dec 1918

Turkey

27th Division

Constantinople

19 Dec 1918

27th Division

Tiflis

19 Jan 1919

27th Division

Batum

7 Sep 1919

27th Division

Disbanded

24 Sep 1919

SOURCES:

1. Battle Honours of the Royal Engineers. The Royal Engineers Journal, The Institution of Royal Engineers, Chatham, Kent, 1925-1932.

2. Regimental Numbers Allotted to Soldiers of the Royal Engineers Territorial Force (T.F.) under Army Council Instructions (ACI) 2243, Appendix 192.

3. BECKE, A.F. Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 2a. HMSO, London, 1936.

4. BECKE, A.F. Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 1. HMSO, London, 1934