Tuesday 20th
February 1917 from our correspondent in
the field
We have hear
d today from the adjutant of 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment that they
have been re-organised along lines ordered by general Headquarters. It seems
that Battalion Headquarters, which includes the Battalion Transport and the
Quarter Master’s troops, has been reduced to 150 all ranks plus an attachment
of sixteen snipers and sixteen drummers.
Each of the
battalion’s four companies has also been reorganized. Each company now consists
of a headquarters of fourteen and four platoons of four sections, as before,
but each of these sections now has a different composition. Number 1 Section comprises
riflemen and rifle-grenadiers, Number 2 Section is entirely Lewis gunners and snipers,
Number 3 Section is composed completely of bombers and Number 4 Section a
mixture of riflemen and rifle-grenadiers as Number 1 Section.
This new
organization, no doubt, will be true of every infantry battalion in the army
from now on.
Source: X550/2/5
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