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The Royal Hungarian Army
1920 - 1945

by Leo W.G. Niehorster

 
CHAPTER 3
— The Ground Forces to March 1941 —

   
1941 Border Guard Brigade
Authorized Organization
1941 Border Guard Brigade (click for larger image)
  [Annex X, Darnoy, Organisation der kgl.ung. Honvéd Armee]
  Hungarian Military Organizational Symbols
8th Brigade Headquarters
5 Mountain Border Guard Battalions
    • Field Telephone Platoon (pack)
    • Pioneer Platoon (pack)
    • Reconnaissance Detachment (pack)
    • Antitank Platoon (4 light antitank guns)(pack)
    • Mortar Platoon (4 medium mortars)(pack)
    • Mountain Artillery Battery (4 mountain guns)(pack)
3 Infantry Companies (12 LMG + 2 light mortars + 1 ATR Solothurn 20mm, each)(pack)
1 Machine Gun Company (9 HMG)(pack)
1st Regiment/3rd Heavy Artillery Battery (2 horse-drawn 149mm field howitzers)
Antiaircraft Company (6 motorized 40mm antiaircraft guns)
Mountain Signal Company
Mountain Combat Engineer Company
Fortress Infantry Companies
9th Brigade Headquarters
4 Border Guard Guard Battalions
    • Field Telephone Platoon
    • Pioneer Platoon
    • Reconnaissance Detachment
    • Antitank Platoon (4 light horse-drawn antitank guns)
    • Mortar Platoon (4 medium mortars)
    • Artillery Battery (4 horse-drawn 75mm mountain guns)
3 Infantry Companies (12 LMG + 2 light mortars + 1 ATR Solothurn 20mm, each)
1 Machine Gun Company (9 HMG)
Antiaircraft Company (6 motorized 40mm antiaircraft guns)
Signal Signal Company
Combat Engineer Company
Fortress Infantry Companies
NOTES:
Border Police units (which were subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior) have not been indicated, although they were in part within the chain of command of the Border Guard Brigades

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