<sod>As the name suggests, the division recruited in the [[Home Counties]], particularly [[Kent]], [[Middlesex]], [[Surrey]] and [[Sussex]].  It was composed of the [[Surrey Brigade|Surrey]], [[Middlesex Brigade|Middlesex]] and [[Kent Brigade|Kent Infantry Brigades]] (each of four [[battalion]]s), four artillery brigades{{efn|The basic organic unit of the [[Royal Artillery]] was, and is, the [[Artillery battery|Battery]].<ref name=MOD_RA>{{cite web | publisher=[[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)]] | accessdate=13 April 2013 | title=The Royal Artillery | url=http://www.army.mod.uk/artillery/23445.aspx}}</ref> When grouped together they formed brigades, in the same way that infantry battalions or cavalry regiments were grouped together in brigades. At the outbreak of the [[First World War]], a field artillery brigade of [[Headquarters#Military|headquarters]] (4 officers, 37 [[Other ranks (UK)|other ranks]]), three batteries (5 and 193 each), and a brigade ammunition column (4 and 154)<ref name=LLT_WAB>{{cite web | publisher=The Long, Long Trail | accessdate=13 April 2013 | last=Baker | first=Chris | title=What was an artillery brigade? | url=http://www.1914-1918.net/whatartbrig.htm}}</ref> had a total strength just under 800 so was broadly comparable to an infantry battalion (just over 1,000) or a cavalry regiment (about 550). Like an infantry battalion, an artillery brigade was usually commanded by a [[Lieutenant-Colonel]]. These figures refer to 6-gun batteries; [[Territorial Force]] artillery batteries were organized on a 4-gun basis at the outbreak of the war, so strengths would be approximately two thirds of this.  Artillery brigades were redesignated as regiments in 1938.}} of the [[Royal Field Artillery]] recruited in Sussex and Kent, a heavy [[Artillery battery|battery]] of the [[Royal Garrison Artillery]] (also recruited in Kent), plus support units of the [[Royal Engineers]] (including the [[Royal Engineers Signal Service|Signal Service]]), [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] and the [[Army Service Corps]].  Two [[Army Troops]] battalions of the [[Royal Sussex Regiment]] were also attached for training, but were not integral to the division.  In peacetime, the divisional [[Headquarters#Military|headquarters]] was in [[Hounslow]] in Middlesex.<ref name=Conrad>{{cite web | url=http://marksrussianmilitaryhistory.info/BRIT14.html | title=The British Army, 1914 | last=Conrad | first=Mark | year=1996 | accessdate=27 February 2015}}</ref><ref name=Becke53>{{harvnb|Becke|1936|p=53}}</ref><eod>
<sod>As the name suggests, the division recruited in the [[Home Counties]], particularly [[Kent]], [[Middlesex]], [[Surrey]] and [[Sussex]].  It was composed of the [[Surrey Brigade|Surrey]], [[Middlesex Brigade|Middlesex]] and [[Kent Brigade|Kent Infantry Brigades]] (each of four [[battalion]]s), four artillery brigades{{efn|The basic organic unit of the [[Royal Artillery]] was, and is, the [[Artillery battery|Battery]].<ref name=MOD_RA>{{cite web|publisher=[[Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)]] |accessdate=13 April 2013 |title=The Royal Artillery |url=http://www.army.mod.uk/artillery/23445.aspx |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023001138/http://www.army.mod.uk/artillery/23445.aspx |archivedate=23 October 2013 |df=dmy }}</ref> When grouped together they formed brigades, in the same way that infantry battalions or cavalry regiments were grouped together in brigades. At the outbreak of the [[First World War]], a field artillery brigade of [[Headquarters#Military|headquarters]] (4 officers, 37 [[Other ranks (UK)|other ranks]]), three batteries (5 and 193 each), and a brigade ammunition column (4 and 154)<ref name=LLT_WAB>{{cite web | publisher=The Long, Long Trail | accessdate=13 April 2013 | last=Baker | first=Chris | title=What was an artillery brigade? | url=http://www.1914-1918.net/whatartbrig.htm}}</ref> had a total strength just under 800 so was broadly comparable to an infantry battalion (just over 1,000) or a cavalry regiment (about 550). Like an infantry battalion, an artillery brigade was usually commanded by a [[Lieutenant-Colonel]]. These figures refer to 6-gun batteries; [[Territorial Force]] artillery batteries were organized on a 4-gun basis at the outbreak of the war, so strengths would be approximately two thirds of this.  Artillery brigades were redesignated as regiments in 1938.}} of the [[Royal Field Artillery]] recruited in Sussex and Kent, a heavy [[Artillery battery|battery]] of the [[Royal Garrison Artillery]] (also recruited in Kent), plus support units of the [[Royal Engineers]] (including the [[Royal Engineers Signal Service|Signal Service]]), [[Royal Army Medical Corps]] and the [[Army Service Corps]].  Two [[Army Troops]] battalions of the [[Royal Sussex Regiment]] were also attached for training, but were not integral to the division.  In peacetime, the divisional [[Headquarters#Military|headquarters]] was in [[Hounslow]] in Middlesex.<ref name=Conrad>{{cite web | url=http://marksrussianmilitaryhistory.info/BRIT14.html | title=The British Army, 1914 | last=Conrad | first=Mark | year=1996 | accessdate=27 February 2015}}</ref><ref name=Becke53>{{harvnb|Becke|1936|p=53}}</ref><eod>