Order of battle for the Spring Offensive

German Spring Offensive, 1918
	Part of the Western Front of World War I
	; German gains in 1918
Date	21 March – 18 July 1918
Location	Northern France; West Flanders, Belgium50°00′10″N 02°39′10″E
Result	See Aftermath section
Belligerents
German Empire Bavaria; Prussia; Saxony; Württemberg;	France; British Empire Australia; Canada; India; Newfoundland; New Zealand; South Africa; United Kingdom; United States ; Italy ; Portugal
Commanders and leaders
Erich Ludendorff	Ferdinand Foch; Douglas Haig; Philippe Pétain; John J. Pershing; Alberico Albricci; Tamagnini de Abreu

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

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

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

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
- Chief of Staff: Colonel Otto Baron von Ledebur

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]

General Hon. Sir Julian Byng

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)[lower-alpha 1]
- 22nd Division (from 24 March)
- 62nd Division (from 24 March)

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.
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