1st LIGHT REGIMENT GENDARMERIE

1st LIGHT REGIMENT GENDARMERIE
BELGIAN NAME:
1 ère Light Infantry Régiment Gendarmerie

COMMANDER:
Lieutenant Colonel Oscar Dethise

HEADQUARTERS:
Charleroi

MOBILIZED:
25th August 1939

INTERNED:
28th May 1940

STRUCTURE 1940:

REGIMENTAL HEADQUARTERS:

1st BATTALION

• 1st SQUADRON
• 1st Platoon (Motorcycles)
• 2nd Platoon (Motorcycles)
• 2nd SQUADRON
• 1st Platoon (Motorcycles)
• 2nd Platoon (Motorcycles)
• 3rd SUPPORT SQUADRON
• Machine Gun Platoon (Mitrailleuse Modele 1914)
• Anti-Tank Platoon (C47 Anti-Tank Guns)
• ARMOURED PLATOON (VUBD Armoured Cars & T-13s)

2nd BATTALION

• 1st Platoon (Motorcycles)
• 2nd Platoon (Motorcycles)
• 2nd SQUADRON
• 1st Platoon (Motorcycles)
• 2nd Platoon (Motorcycles)
• 3rd SUPPORT SQUADRON
• Machine Gun Platoon (Mitrailleuse Modele 1914)
• Anti-Tank Platoon (C47 Anti-Tank Guns)
• ARMOURED PLATOON (VUBD Armoured Cars & T-13s)

ENGINEER PLATOON SIGNAL PLATOON