50th (Northumbrian) Division

Northumbrian Division 50th (Northumbrian) Division
Division sign as used on signboards.[1]
Active	1908–19 March 1919
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army Territorial Force
Type	Infantry
Size	Division
Peacetime HQ	Richmond, North Yorkshire
Engagements	Western Front (World War I) Second Battle of Ypres Battle of the Somme Battle of Arras (1917) Battle of Passchendaele First Battle of the Somme (1918) Battle of the Lys (1918) Battles of the Hindenburg Line Final Advance in Picardy

The Northumbrian Division was an infantry division of the British Army, formed in 1908 as part of the Territorial Force with units drawn from the north-east of England, notably Northumberland, Durham and the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire. The division was numbered as 50th (Northumbrian) Division in 1915 and served on the Western Front throughout the First World War. Due to losses suffered in the Ludendorf Offensive in March 1918 it had to be comprehensively reorganized. It was once again reformed in the Territorial Army as the Northumbrian Division in 1920.