Mavi Boncuk |The order for the formation of the Yildirim Army Group :
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, September 1917.
1. A new group command will be formed under the name of the Yildirim Army Group
Command. The group commander will remain in Constantinople for the present.
2. Field-Marshal von Falkenhayn Pasha has been appointed commander of the Yildirim Army Group, and Colonel von Dummes Bey has been appointed chief of his staff.
3. The Sixth and Seventh Armies will come under the Yildirim Army Group.
4- For the present the Order of Battle will be as follows :
(a) Sixth Army. I3th Army Corps. 2nd, 6th, and 1 4th Divisions. 18th Army Corps. I4th, 51st, and 52nd Divisions.
(b) Seventh Army. 3rd Army Corps. 24th, 50th, and 59th Divisions. 15th Army Corps.16th and 20th Divisions.
(c) German Asiatic Column.
5. The Sixth Army Group will be placed under the command of the Yildirim Army Group from the 16th September 1917.
6. The headquarter personnel of the Seventh Army will be completed by the Ministry of War as soon as possible. When this has been done, the Seventh Army will come under the command of the Yildirim Army Group.
7. For the present the headquarters of the Seventh Army will be in Constantinople. The
troops of the Seventh Army will be placed under the command of that Army as soon as they reach Constantinople. The First Army in Constantinople will keep the Seventh Army Command informed as to the arrival of these troops.
8. The instructions regarding the official relationship between the Army Commands and
the Yildirim Army Group Command will be issued as a separate order.
9. The Second and Fourth Armies and the Yildirim Army Group will exchange daily war
reports.
10. The telegraphic address of the Yildirim Army Group headquarters will be ' Yildirim Group Command, Constantinople/
11. This address will be sent to all telegraphic centres in the Empire by the Yildirim Army Group Command, who will be responsible that this order is carried out.
(Signed) ENVER, Vice-Generalissimo.
No. 5392
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