 The 9th Division Infantry headquarters and the divisional hospital were located in the village of Gorjansko a village now in the southwestern part of the Municipality of Komen in the Littoral region of Slovenia on the border with Italy.During the eight and inconclusive, battle of the Isonzo, the “Gruppe Schenk now XXIII Army Corps” had a strength of 30 infantry battalions, with 20.180 rifles, 118 pieces of field artillery, and 37 pieces of heavy siege artillery.The corps was reinforced with another division, the 16th Infantry Division Nazysbzen (Sibiu) from Siebenbürgen (now Transylvania in Rumania), which was composed of the 31st and 32nd brigades.