[4] In early 1916 the division was part of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Wilson's IV Corps.

The 47th Division conducted a carefully planned single battalion raid on the night of 27–8 June, claiming to have killed 300–600 Germans for only 13 British casualties.

[6] In the final stages of the war the division's GSO1 (effectively chief of staff) was the thirty-year old Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Montgomery.

[18] The following officers commanded 47th Division throughout its existence:[8] Two wooden memorial crosses erected at High Wood and Eaucourt l'Abbaye by 47 Divisional Engineers in 1916[19] were falling into disrepair by 1925, when they were replaced in stone.

The restored wooden crosses were preserved at the Duke of York's Headquarters in London (the former divisional HQ) until that building was sold in 2003, and are now at Connaught House, the HQ of the London Irish Rifles on the site of the former First Surrey Rifles drill hall at Flodden Road, Camberwell.