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  • 121st Infantry Division (German Empire)
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  • The 121st Infantry Division (121. Infanterie-Division) was a unit of the Imperial German Army in World War I. The division was formed on March 25, 1915, and organized over the next several weeks. It was part of a wave of new infantry divisions formed in the spring of 1915. The division was disbanded in 1919, during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I.
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Branch
  • Army
Country
Type
  • Infantry
Dates
  • 1915
Unit Name
  • 121
Battles
  • World War I: Battle of Verdun, Passchendaele, Second Battle of the Marne, Second Battle of the Somme (1918)
Size
  • Approx. 12,500
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  • The 121st Infantry Division (121. Infanterie-Division) was a unit of the Imperial German Army in World War I. The division was formed on March 25, 1915, and organized over the next several weeks. It was part of a wave of new infantry divisions formed in the spring of 1915. The division was disbanded in 1919, during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I. The division was formed primarily from the excess infantry regiments of regular infantry divisions which were being triangularized. The 60th Infantry Regiment was formerly part of the 10th Infantry Division, the 7th Reserve Infantry Regiment came from the 9th Reserve Division, and the 56th Reserve Infantry Regiment came from the 13th Reserve Division. The division was mainly composed of Westphalians.