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| Posted by: BobM April 12, 2009 09:06 am |
| Gents Could anyone please help me with the following: How were the companies numbered in an infantry regiment? ie how were the companies designated? Thanks Bob |
| Posted by: Victor April 15, 2009 02:02 pm |
| Hello, The companies were numbered consecutively starting from the first company of the 1st Battalion and going until the last company of the last battalion. |
| Posted by: BobM April 15, 2009 03:21 pm | ||
Thanks Victor  Can you confirm that the heavy/weapons companies were part of the sequence? Cheers Bob |
| Posted by: Victor April 16, 2009 06:48 pm |
| Good question. I will see what I can find. From memory, the mountain troops battalion heavy weapons company wasn't numbered and neither was the cavalry's heavy weapons squadron. |
| Posted by: BobM April 17, 2009 10:38 pm | ||
Thanks Victor - that's interesting but if you could find a definitive answer about the infantry regiments I'd be grateful Cheers Bob |
| Posted by: Matasso May 11, 2009 08:45 pm |
| IF, and its very probable, the Romanian Army used the french style of numbering, then the rifle companies in an Infantry Regiment would be 1,2, 3 for the 1st Battalion, 4, 5 and 6 afor 2nd and 7, 8, 9 for the 3rd, the Heavy Weapons Companies being numberd differently as 1st, 2nd and 3rd for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions respectively Cheers Mat |
| Posted by: BobM May 15, 2009 07:54 am | ||
I'd agree its likely - be nice to find a Romanian source that confirmed it though |
| Posted by: Victor May 16, 2009 05:20 pm |
| So far I haven't many reference to a heavy weapons company and a number. Usually it was referred to as the heavy weapons company of the battalion X or regiment Y. What I found so far was that in 1941, the 3/4th Motorized Vanatori Regiment of the 1st Armored Division had the 4th and 8th companies designated as machine-gun companies. |
| Posted by: Dénes May 17, 2009 08:09 am |
| In this thread I listed the complete OoB of the Rumanian 7th Corps during combat operations in Budapest city, in early 1945 (in Hungarian): http://www.worldwar2.ro/forum/index.php?showtopic=1497&view=findpost&p=34928 I hope it helps somewhat. Gen. Dénes |