30th Bavarian Reserve Division

The 30th Royal Bavarian Reserve Division ("30. Kgl. Bayerische Reserve-Division") was a reserve infantry division of the Imperial German Army in World War I. It was initially the Main Reserve, Fortress Strasbourg ("Hauptreserve/Festung Straßburg") and was designated the 30th Reserve Division ("30. Reserve-Division") from mobilization in August 1914. It was almost entirely made up of Bavarian units and thus, on December 26, 1916, it was renamed the 30th Royal Bavarian Reserve Division. It spent the war engaged in positional warfare in the Vosges mountains of France and the Alsace-Lorraine region.
On mobilization, the division comprised three brigades: the non-Bavarian "60. Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade" ("Reserve-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 60, 99"), "3. bayerische Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade (4. und 15. bayerisches Reserve-Infanterie-Regimenten") and "10. bayerische Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade", together with divisional cavalry, artillery and pioneer components. On August 17, "5. bayerische Ersatz-Brigade" transferred into the division from the Bavarian Ersatz Division. By the end of August, "60. Reserve-Infanterie-Brigade" had been broken up and its constituent regiments had left the division.
Order of Battle on August 18, 1914:
Order of Battle on January 1, 1918: