GERMANY

Infantry

Battalion4 Companies of 270, or 1,080 men.
Regiment3 Battalions and 1 Company of 6 machine guns.

Fighting strength: 3,000 bayonets, 6 machine guns.

Total strength: 3,300 men, 190 horses, 60 vehicles.

Brigade2 Regiments.
Division2 Brigades (a few Divisions have 3).
1 Cavalry Regiment.
1 Artillery Brigade of 2 Regiments.
1 Company of Pioneers (i.e. Engineers).
1 Light Bridge Train.
4 Heavy Ammunition Columns.
2 Infantry Ammunition Columns.
1 Bearer Company and 4 Field Hospitals.
3 Supply Columns and 3 Supply Parks.
1 Horse Depôt.

Fighting strength: 12,000 rifles, 600 sabres, 72 guns, 24 machine guns.

Total strength: 17,000 men, 4,000 horses, 600 vehicles.

Army Corps2 Divisions (a few Corps have 3).
1 Rifle Battalion.
1 Company of Pioneers and 1 Telegraph Company.
12 Ammunition Columns (4 being for Infantry).
6 Supply Columns and 6 Supply Parks.
2 Field Bakery Columns.
12 Field Hospitals.
2 Horse Depôts.

Fighting strength: 25,000 rifles, 1,200 sabres, 126 guns, 48 machine guns.

Total strength: 41,000 men, 14,000 horses, 2,400 vehicles.

Cavalry

Squadron180 men, or 150 sabres.
Regiment4 Squadrons, or 750 all ranks, 750 horses.
Brigade2 Regiments (some 3).
Division3 Brigades.
1 Horse Artillery Abteilung (2 Batteries) and 1 Light Ammunition Column.
1 Machine-Gun Section of 6 guns.
1 Mounted Detachment, of 1 Officer, 33 men.

Fighting strength: 3,600 sabres, 12 guns, 6 machine guns.

Total strength: 5,000 men, 5,300 horses, 200 vehicles.

Artillery

FIELD ARTILLERY
Battery6 guns and 6 ammunition wagons.
Abteilung (British Brigade):
3 Batteries (only 2 in Horse Artillery).
Regiment2 Abteilungen of Artillery and 2 Light Ammunition Columns.
Brigade2 Regiments, or 2,300 men, 2,000 horses, 70 guns and ammunition wagons, 90 vehicles.

(In one Division of each Army Corps 1 Abteilung is detached for duty with the Reserve Army.)

HEAVY ARTILLERY
Battery4 Heavy Field Howitzers, or Field Mortars.
Battalion4 Howitzer (or 2 Mortar) Batteries and 1 Light Ammunition Column.

One Battalion of Heavy Field Howitzers will probably be allotted to each Army Corps. Their function is to support the Field Artillery.

The Heavy Field Howitzer Battery has 4 guns and 8 wagons.

The Field Mortar Battery has 4 mortars, each with 3 carriages—one for travelling, one for firing, and one carrying firing platform. It has no ammunition wagons.

The function of Field Mortars is to attack Barrier Forts, or strongly defended positions. These Batteries will probably be allotted to Armies, not Army Corps.

Ammunition Columns

Field Battery wagons: 130 rounds shrapnel per gun.

Light Ammunition Columns, Field Artillery: 58 shrapnel, 44 high explosive, per gun.

Heavy Ammunition Columns, Field Artillery, 8 per Army Corps, or 1 per Artillery Regiment: 115 shrapnel, 26 high explosive, per gun.

Total with Troops, per Field Gun: 373 rounds, of which 80 per cent. are shrapnel, 20 high explosive.