107th Brigade
8th Bn Royal Irish Rifles (East Belfast Volunteers)
Amalgamated with 9th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, 29th August 1917, as 8th/9th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles
9th Bn Royal Irish Rifles (West Belfast Volunteers)
Amalgamated with 8th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, 29th August 1917, as 8th/9th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles
8th/9th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles
Disbanded 7th February 1918
10th Bn Royal Irish Rifles (South Belfast Volunteers)
Disbanded 20th February 1918
15th Bn Royal Irish Rifles (North Belfast Volunteers)
1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
Joined from 4th Division 2nd August 1917 to 108th Brigade 8th February 1918.
2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
Joined from 108th Brigade 8th February 1918.
This Brigade was attached to 4th Division from 6th November 1915, to 7th February 1916, being replaced during that period by the 12th Infantry Brigade.
108th Brigade
11th Bn Royal Irish Rifles (South Antrim Volunteers)
12th Bn Royal Irish Rifles (Central Antrim Volunteers)
13th Bn Royal Irish Rifles (1st Co.Down Volunteers)
9th Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers (Armagh, Monaghan & Cavan Volunteers)
109th Brigade
9th Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (Tyrone Volunteers)
10th Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (Derry Volunteers)
11th Bn Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (Donegal & Fermanagh Volunteers)
14th Bn Royal Irish Rifles (Young Citizen Volunteers of Belfast)
Military Chronology of The First World War 1914-1918
1914
AUGUST
3rd Germany declares war on France
4th Britain declares war on Germany
7th British Expeditionary Force begins to land in France
26-29th Russians defeated by Germany at Battle of Tannenberg
SEPTEMBER
5th Britain, France and Russia sign Pact of London
6-9th German advance on Paris halted at Battle of the Marne
OCTOBER
12th German advance on Channel Ports halted at First Battle of Ypres
29th Turkey enters the war on the side of the Central Powers
NOVEMBER
1st British troops land in Mesopotamia
1915
FEBRUARY
4th German declaration of submarine war zone around the UK (suspended 30th August 1915)
MARCH
10th Britain promises Constantinople to Russia at end of war
10-13th Battle of Neuve Chapelle
APRIL
25th Allied troops land at Gallipoli. Italy signs Treaty of London
MAY
5-6th German breakthrough at Gorlice-Tamow
9th Battle of Festubert
AUGUST
5th Germans occupy Warsaw
6-15th Failure of Suvla Bay operation at Gallipoli
SEPTEMBER
23rd Bulgaria joins Central Powers, who attack Serbia
OCTOBER
5th Anglo-French landing at Salonika
DECEMBER
2nd Central Powers occupy Serbia
8th Evacuation of Gallipoli till 9th January 1916
1916
FEBRUARY
21st Battle of Verdun – ended 18th December
MARCH
29th Fall of Kut-el-Amara
JUNE
4th Arab Revolt begins
4th Brusilov offensive on Russian front – till 7th September
JULY
1st Anglo-French offensive on the Somme – till 18th November
AUGUST
27th Romania joins the Entente
DECEMBER
6th Germans occupy Bucharest
1917
MARCH
12th First Russian Revolution
APRIL
6th America enters the war
16-20th Nivelle offensive fails
JULY
31st Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) – till 6th November
OCTOBER
24th Italians defeated at Caporetto – till 12th November
NOVEMBER
7th Bolshevik Revolution in Russia
20th Battle of Cambrai – till 3rd December
DECEMBER
9th British capture Jerusalem
15th Russians sign armistice with Germany
1918
MARCH
3rd Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
21st Start of German western offensive – till 4th April
MAY
5th Germans occupy Sebastopol
27th Battle of the Aisne – till 3rd June
AUGUST
8th Second Battle of Amiens. The ‘black day’ of the German Army
SEPTEMBER
15-29th Allied offensive at Salonika forces Bulgaria to sue for peace
18th Allied troops on Western Front break through the Hindenburg Line – till 7th October
30th British troops occupy Damascus
OCTOBER
24th Italians defeat Austrians at Vittorio Veneto – till 4th November
29th Mutinies in German High Seas Fleet
30th Turkey signs armistice
NOVEMBER
3rd Austria signs armistice
11th Germany signs armistice
21st German High Seas Fleet interned at Scapa Flow