It remained on home defence and training duties in Scotland and England until early 1917, when it was deployed to Ireland in order to free up another division for front-line service.

The second line units also served to absorb the large number of new, untrained, recruits who had joined the Territorial Force following the outbreak of war.

[1] Command of the division was given to the Conservative peer Lord Erroll, a retired cavalry officer, in April 1915.

[6] Through the next two years, the 2nd Lowland, numbered as the 65th Division in 1915, provided trained men for its parent unit as well as carrying out home defence duties.

It effectively ceased to exist on 18 March, when the headquarters closed but some units remained active until May.