Re: Force sizes

At 3:02 PM -0800 3/21/02, John Atkinson wrote:
>
>Regiment. . . depends on the army and the time period
>and even then there are some exceptions.  In US
>practice, regiment is a purely ceremonial designations
>except in the case of the 3rd Inf Reg't, and the ACRs.
>  In French practice, regiment means batallion, and the
>British are so screwed up I won't attempt to explain
>them.
>

I'll try this as I like to think I study the British Military 
History. Most of what I know is based on WWII historical forms. I 
can't speak of the modern form due to the mass of amalgamations. I'd 
like to think that in the NAC age, many units would have been 
"de-amalgamated" or reformed as many were during the buildup for WWII.

British,
Group (3-7 men depending on form, 7 guys with rifles, 3 with rifles and
Bren)
Section (10 men)
Platoon (3 Sections)
Company (3-4 Platoons)
Batallion (3-4 Companys
Brigade (3 Battalions)
Divison (3 Brigades + additional Support Companys and an MG Battalion 
in the case of Infantry Divisions)

Regiments are funny in that you would have battalions drawn from a 
certain regiment. Say the 8th Roal Scots, 6th Roal Scots Fusiliers, 
6th King's Own Scottish Borderers all as battalions in the 44th 
Infantry Brigade.

So you'd have 3 Battalions in a Brigade, 3 Brigades in a Division, 
Plus an additional Machine Gun Battalion drawn from another Regiment 
that specifically formed the heavy weapons units for various 
Divisons. In the case of the 15th Scottish Division, the 1st 
Middlesex MG Battalion. The 15th Scottish also had a Recconaisance 
Regiment of Armoured Cars, Carriers, half-tracks and Scout cars as a 
recce unit. Naturally you'd also have Royal Artillery units attached, 
Royal Engineer Units, and various other components.

See http://www.regiments.org/milhist/regtintro/index.htm for more
detail.

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