28th Infantry Division

This peacetime division was formed in July 1871

Its home station was in the Grand Duchy of Baden and northern Alsace.  Part of the XIV Corps District.

The 28th and 29th Divisions formed the XIV Army Corps

55th Infantry Brigade
109th Baden Life Grenadier Regiment, formed on 23rd March 1803, garrisoned in Karlsruhe
110th Baden Grenadier Regiment (Kaiser Wilhelm I), formed on 22nd October 1852, garrisoned in Mannheim
56th Infantry Brigade	Transferred to the 52nd Reserve Infantry Division on 30th November 1916.  Transferred to the 52nd Infantry Division on 4th April 1917.
40th Fusilier Regiment (Prince Karl-Anton von Hohenzollern), formed on 26th January 1818, garrisoned in Rastatt
111th Infantry Regiment (Marquis Ludwig Wilhelm), formed on 22nd October 1852, garrisoned in Rastatt
5th Horse Jaeger Regiment 29th Field Artillery Brigade 2nd and 3rd Companies 14th Pioneer Battalion	14th Field Artillery Regiment 50th Field Artillery Regiment

At the start of the war the division saw action in the Alsace-Lorraine area.  It was moved to the Artois sector at the beginning of October.

From October 1914 until May 1915 the division saw action in the Artois sector where it suffered heavy loses.  After a rest period it was transferred to the Champagne sector.  

In July 1916 the majority of the division was sent to the Somme.  It suffered serious loses and by October had been moved back to Champagne.

 At the end of January 1917 the division was moved to the Meuse sector, where it saw action at Verdun, where it took part in the German offensive in August.  In September the division moved to Alsace.

1918 saw the division in action on the Aisne, and at the second battle of the Marne.  By September it was in action on the Woevre.

In November it was in action at Mons, it was still in action there at the end of the war