Anyone ever come across this terminology before as something formally defined? Context is the Carrier Pl (four sections) of an Infantry Bn...
I would like to find out if the nominal strength of a Battalion (or, to be more precise, of the 2nd London Rifle Brigade, later 8th Rifle Brigade)...
Hi Can anyone tell me what the role of an Infantry Holding Battalion would have been and where 3 Infantry Holding Battalion would have been...
I have read a few of Robert Lyman's books, on the British Indian Army, and recently took a free subscription to his Substack offerings. Today he...
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I have just joined, so please forgive me if this has been discussed previously. I am trying to get an accurate breakdown of the structure of a...
Hi, whilst going through gallantry citations for the closing stages of the Italian Campaign I found some recommendations made by the Deputy...
Hi all, I am wondering whether the 126th, 127th, and 128th Field Regiments in 51st Division (post-1940) had usual pairings with particular...
As part of my research into the service of Colonel L E A Gwynne CBE, I am trying to establish the strength of the units under his command during...
On paper, infantry battalion stretcher bearers and signallers were assigned to battalion HQ (later HQ Company). In action they worked with the...
Hello,Can someone tell me how much men were in a battalion? Most of the Bef battalions went into Belgium en retreted then first to the Tourcoing-...
Hello, everyone! I have found that the wartime British Army War Establishment is in the WO24 of the National...
https://core.ac.uk/download/429714369.pdf British Army Logistics in the Burma Campaign 1942-1945
This info has been scand from my Original copy of the War Office book [ Movements ] printed in 1955 and was Restricted at that time. Chapter 10...
Hi all. Does anyone know which archive holds the files for the Senior Officers School? SOS was run out of Sheerness during the interwar/early war...
Good morning All, I've read with great interest the posts by Trux and Paul Reed on the organisation of Motor Battalions in Normandy. In trying to...
In the tank development thread, ceolredmonger wrote: Simply focusing on the failings of individual tank designs is distracting. After action...
Hi all, I came across the DAAG acronym in reviews of citations at the end of the war in the war diary of 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, e.g....
While updating my website regarding the various War Establishments of the Motor Battalion, I was reminded of an unusual change seen in the...
I am looking to gather some data on the structure and equipment of the Parachute engineer squadrons that served alongside the airborne forces. I...
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