32nd Division (United Kingdom)

32nd Division
Active	1915–1919
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Division
Engagements	Battle of the Somme Pursuit to the Hindenburg Line Defence of Nieuport German spring offensive Allied Hundred Days Offensive
Commanders
Notable commanders	Maj-Gen Reginald Barnes Maj-Gen Cameron Shute

The 32nd Division was an infantry division of the British Army that was raised in 1914, during the First World War. The division was raised from volunteers for Lord Kitchener's New Armies, made up of infantry 'Pals battalions' and artillery brigades raised by public subscription or private patronage. The division was taken over by the War Office in September 1915. It served in France and Belgium in the trenches of the Western Front for the duration of the war. It saw action at the Battle of the Somme, the Pursuit to the Hindenburg Line, the Defence of Nieuport, the German spring offensive, and the Allied Hundred Days Offensive beginning at the Battle of Amiens. After the Armistice it marched into Germany as part of the Army of Occupation.