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The Royal Hungarian Army
1920 - 1945

by Leo W.G. Niehorster

 
CHAPTER 3
— The Ground Forces to March 1941 —

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

Mountain Brigade Headquarters
   Mountain Artillery Commander
   Mountain Infantry Commander
4 Mountain Infantry Battalions
    • Field Telephone Platoon
    • Pioneer Platoon
    • Reconnaissance Detachment
    • Antitank Platoon (4 light horse-drawn antitank guns)
    • Mortar Platoon (4 medium mortars)
    • Mountain Artillery Battery (4 horse-drawn 75mm mountain guns)
   3 Mountain Infantry Companies (12 light machine guns + 2 light mortars + 1 ATR 20mm, each)
   1 Mountain Machine Gun Company (9 heavy machine guns)
Mountain Artillery Battalion
       5th Mountain Artillery Battery (4 horse-drawn 75mm mountain guns)
       6th Mountain Artillery Battery (4 horse-drawn 75mm mountain guns)
       4th Heavy Artillery Battery/1st Regiment (2 horse-drawn 149mm field howitzers)
Mountain Cavalry Company (12 light machine guns + 2 heavy machine guns)
Armored Car Platoon (5 Csaba armored cars)
Motorcycle Infantry Platoon (3 light machine guns)
Motorized Antitank Company (4 motorized light antitank guns)
Motorized Antiaircraft Company (6 motorized 40mm antiaircraft guns)
Mountain Signal Company
Mountain Combat Engineer Company
Mountain Brigade Trains Headquarters
     •  Antiaircraft Machine Gun Company (10 AAMG)(horse-drawn/wagon-mounted)
     •  1 Supply Administration Unit (ammo)
     •  3 Supply Columns (cart)
     •  2 Supply Columns (pack animal)
     •  2 Supply Columns (horse-drawn wagons)
     •  1 Supply Column (rations)(cart)
     •  1 Supply Column (rations)(pack animal)
     •  1 Supply Column (rations)(horse-drawn wagons)
     •  1 Field Hospital Company (partially motorized)
     •  1 Ambulance Column (motorized)
     •  1 Supply Administration Unit (rations)
     •  1 Field Bakery Company
 

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