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The Royal Hungarian Army
1920 - 1945

by Leo W.G. Niehorster

 
CHAPTER 3
— The Ground Forces to March 1941 —

   
1941 Infantry Brigade
Authorized Organization
1941 Infantry Brigade (click for larger image)
  [Annex X, Darnoy, Organisation der kgl.ung. Honvéd Armee]
  Hungarian Military Organizational Symbols

Brigade Headquarters
2 Infantry Regiments
     •  Field Telephone Platoon
     •  Pioneer Platoon
     •  Antitank Platoon (4 light horse-drawn antitank guns)
     •  Mortar Platoon (4 medium mortars)
     •  Machine Gun Company (8 horse-drawn/wagon-mounted heavy machine guns)
   3 Infantry Battalions
       •  Field Telephone Platoon
       •  antitank Platoon (4 light horse-drawn antitank guns)
       •  Mortar Platoon (4 medium mortars)
       3 Infantry Companies (12 light machine guns + 2 light mortars + 1 ATR 20mm, each)
       1 Machine Gun Company (9 heavy machine guns)
Artillery Regiment
   Ist Artillery Battalion
       1nd Battery (4 horse-drawn 75mm mountain guns)
       2nd Battery (4 horse-drawn 76.5mm field guns)
       3rd Battery (4 horse-drawn 100mm field howitzers)
   II. Artillery Battalion
       4th Battery (4 horse-drawn 100mm field howitzers)
       5th Battery (4 horse-drawn 105mm field howitzers)
       6th Battery (4 horse-drawn 149mm field howitzers)
       7th Battery (4 horse-drawn 149mm field howitzers)
Cavalry Company (12 light machine guns + 2 heavy machine guns)
Signal Company
Motorized Antiaircraft Company (6 motorized 40mm Antiaircraft guns)
Brigade Trains Headquarters
     •  Antiaircraft Machine Gun Company (10 AAMG)(horse-drawn/wagon-mounted)
  Supply Staff
     •  4 Supply Columns (ammunition)(horse-drawn wagons)
     •  1 Supply Column (rations)(horse-drawn wagons)
     •  1 Supply Column (motorized)
     •  1 Supply Administration Unit (ammunition)
     •  1 Supply Administration Unit (rations)
     •  1 Field Bakery Company
     •  1 Field Hospital Company (partially motorized)
     •  1 Ambulance Column (motorized)
     •  1 Engineer Equipment Park
     •  1 Band
  Military Labor Headquarters
     •  3 Military Labor Companies
 

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