Order of battle for the Spring Offensive

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German Empire

Bavaria
Prussia
Saxony
Württemberg

France
British Empire

United States

Italy

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Western Front

1914

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Invasion of Belgium
- Liège
- Dinant
- Namur
Frontiers
Great Retreat
- Le Cateau
- Étreux
- 1st St. Quentin
Maubeuge
Grand Couronné
1st Marne
1st Aisne
Antwerp
Race to the Sea
- Yser
- 1st Ypres
Winter actions
1st Artois

1915

1916

1917

Ancre
Alberich
Nivelle offensive
- Arras
- Vimy
- 2nd Aisne
- The Hills
Messines
Passchendaele
La Malmaison
Cambrai

1918

German spring offensive
- Michael
- The Lys
- 3rd Aisne
- Belleau Wood
- 2nd Marne
Soissons
Amiens
Ailette
2nd Somme
Saint-Mihiel
St Quentin Canal
Meuse-Argonne
5th Ypres
2nd Cambrai
Courtrai
Sambre
Lys and Escaut

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This is the order of battle for Operation Michael, part of the German Spring Offensive fought from 21 March to 5 April 1918 as one of the main engagements of the First World War. It was fought between mixed French, British and Dominion forces and the German Empire in the Somme region in northern France.

German forces, Western Front

Army Group Crown Prince Rupprecht

Generalfeldmarschall Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria
- Chief of Staff: General Hermann von Kuhl
4th Army (18 divisions)
- General der Infanterie Sixt von Armin
- Chief of Staff: General Fritz von Loßberg
6th Army (15 divisions)
- General der Infanterie Ferdinand von Quast
- Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-Colonel Hermann Baron von Lenz
17th Army (28 divisions) *
- General der Infanterie Otto von Below
- Chief of Staff: General Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen
2nd Army (21 divisions)
- General der Kavallerie Georg von der Marwitz
- Chief of Staff: Colonel Erich von Tschischwitz

Army Group German Crown Prince

General der Infanterie Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Germany
- Chief of Staff: Colonel Friedrich Bernhard Count von der Schulenburg
18th Army (27 divisions)
- General der Infanterie Oskar von Hutier
- Chief of Staff: General Traugott von Sauberzweig
7th Army (11 divisions)
- Generaloberst Max von Boehn
- Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-Colonel Walther Reinhardt
1st Army (12 divisions)
- General der Infanterie Fritz von Below
- Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-Colonel Robert von Klüber
3rd Army (11 divisions)
- Generaloberst Karl von Einem
- Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-Colonel Wilhelm von Klewitz

Army Group Gallwitz

General der Artillerie Max von Gallwitz
- Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-Colonel Richard von Pawelsz
5th Army (12 divisions)
- General der Artillerie Max von Gallwitz
- Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-Colonel von Pawelsz
Armee-Abteilung C (12 divisions)
- Generalleutnant Georg Fuchs [de]
- Chief of Staff: Colonel Otto Baron von Ledebur

Army Group Duke Albrecht

Generalfeldmarschall Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg
- Chief of Staff: Colonel Wilhelm Heye
19th Army (10.5 divisions)
- General der Infanterie Felix Graf von Bothmer
- Chief of Staff: Colonel Hans Ritter von Hemmer
Armee-Abteilung A (5 infantry, 2 dismounted cavalry divisions)
- General der Infanterie Bruno von Mudra
- Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-Colonel Friedrich Baron von Esebeck
Armee-Abteilung B (9 infantry, 1 dismounted cavalry division)
- General der Infanterie Erich von Gündell
- Chief of Staff: Lieutenant-Colonel Hermann Drechsel^[1]

British armies

Fifth Army

General Sir Hubert Gough

III Corps (Lieutenant-General Sir R. H. K. Butler)
- 58th (2/1st London) Division
- 18th (Eastern) Division
- 14th (Light) Division
XVIII Corps (Lieutenant-General Sir I. Maxse)
- 36th (Ulster) Division
- 30th Division
- 61st (2nd South Midland) Division
- 20th (Light) Division (from 21 March)
XIX Corps (Lieutenant-General Sir H. E. Watts)
- 24th Division
- 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division
- 50th (Northumbrian) Division (from 21 March)
- 8th Division (from 22 March)
VII Corps (Lieutenant-General Sir W. N. Congreve VC)
- 16th (Irish) Division
- 21st Division
- 9th (Scottish) Division
- 39th Division
- 35th Division (from 23 March)
- 12th (Eastern) Division (from 25 March)^[2]

US Army

6th Battalion United States (railway) Engineers (2 companies)^[3]

Third Army

General Hon. Sir Julian Byng

V Corps (Lieutenant-General Sir E. A. Fanshawe)
- 47th (1/2nd London) Division
- 63rd (Royal Naval) Division
- 17th (Northern) Division
- 2nd Division
- 19th (Western) Division
- 12th (Eastern) Division (from 8:30 p.m. on 25 March)
IV Corps (Lieutenant-General Sir G. M. Harper)
- 51st (Highland) Division
- 6th Division
- 25th Division
- 19th (Western) Division (from 21 March)
- 41st Division (from 22 March)
- 42nd (East Lancashire) Division (from 24 March)
- 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division (from 25 March)
- New Zealand Division (from 25/26 March)
- 4th Australian Division (from 25/26 March)
VI Corps (Lieutenant-General Sir J. A. L. Haldane)
- 59th (2nd North Midland) Division
- 34th Division
- 3rd Division
- 40th Division (from 21 March)
- Guards Division (from 22 March)
- 31st Division (from 22 March)
XVII Corps Corps (Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Fergusson, Bt.)
- 15th (Scottish) Division
- 4th Division
- Guards Division
Cavalry Corps (Lieutenant-General Sir C. T. MacM. Kavanagh)
- 1st Cavalry Division
- 2nd Cavalry Division
- 3rd Cavalry Division^[2]

French Group of Armies of Reserve

General Émile Fayolle

Third Army

General Georges Louis Humbert

V Corps (General Maurice Pellé)
- 125th Division (from 22 March)
- 1st Dismounted Cavalry Division (from 23 March)
- 9th Division (from 23 March)
- 10th Division (from 23 March)
- 55th Division (from 24 March)
- 1st Division (from 25 March)
- 35th Division (from 25 March)
- 53rd Division (part, from 26 March)
- 77th Division (part, from 26 March)
II Cavalry Corps (General Félix Adolphe Robillot)^[a]
- 22nd Division (from 24 March)
- 62nd Division (from 24 March)

First Army

General Marie-Eugène Debeney

56th Division (from 25 March)
II Cavalry Corps^[b]
1st Cavalry Division (from 26 March)
5th Cavalry Division (from 26 March)
6th Cavalry Division (from 27 March)^[4]

Notes

^ Staff only^[4]
^ Divisions were deployed separately^[4]

Footnotes

^ Kitchen 2001, pp. 320–321.
^ ^a ^b Edmonds 1995, pp. 545–547.
^ Edmonds 1995, p. 507.
^ ^a ^b ^c Edmonds 1995, p. 549.

Bibliography

Edmonds, J. E.; et al. (1995) [1935]. Military Operations France and Belgium, 1918 The German March Offensive and its Preliminaries. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents By Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence (Imperial War Museum & Battery Press ed.). London: HMSO. ISBN 0-89839-219-5.
Kitchen, Martin (2001). The German Offensives of 1918. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 0752417991.

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