Company Numbering within an Infantry Regiment

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

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.

Thanks Victor

Can you confirm that the heavy/weapons companies were part of the sequence?

Cheers

Bob

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.

Thanks Victor - that's interesting but if you could find a definitive answer about the infantry regiments I'd be grateful

Cheers

Bob

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

This post has been edited by Matasso on May 11, 2009 08:45 pm

I'd agree its likely - be nice to find a Romanian source that confirmed it though

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.

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?sh...indpost&p=34928
I hope it helps somewhat.

Gen. Dénes

This post has been edited by Dénes on May 17, 2009 08:13 am