Osioni I m a little confused by the paragraph from Bowman you ve put into the article What does the Indianisation of the 10th Division mean Are we talking here about the dispersal of its units or the dilution of its Irish character Not the same things How can we condense this para and also get the facts right In 1918 the 10th Division was further broken up split between the Middle East and Western Front Military historian Timothy Bowman points out that Following the German Spring Offensive the need for manpower on the Western Front saw the Indianisation of the 10th Irish Division serving in the Middle East Effectively meant that six Irish battalions were released for service on the Western Front It was perhaps felt as in the case of Irish regular battalions that the experience of the Service battalions of the 10th Irish Division should be spread through other formations A second practical problem for the 10th Division to be split up was malaria Obviously concentrating so many men with malaria in one division could have lead to that division being unfit for action on an almost permanent basis Lastly bereft of political allies and in a situation where the BEF generally was facing serious manpower problems it is not surprising that the 10th Irish Division was broken up rather than other formations transferred from the Middle East to the Western Front 7