New Zealand Infantry Battalion, February 1945

Rifle Company

Numbers in parenthesis indicate number of personnel assigned to role, number of unallocated weapons or number of sub-units in detachment.

Note on ranks

Subaltern may have been 1st or 2nd Lieutenant

Company Headquarters

Unit Rank Weapon Vehicle
       
Company Commander Major Pistol  
Second-in-command Captain Pistol  
Company Sergeant-major Warrant Officer II Thompson  
Company Quartermaster Sergeant Staff Sergeant Rifle  
Company Clerk Private Rifle  
Storeman Private Rifle  
Orderly Private Rifle Bicycle
Orderly (2) Private Rifle  
Batman-driver  Private Thompson 5-cwt Jeep
Batman-driver Private Thompson 15-cwt truck
Driver-mechanic Private Thompson 3-ton lorry

Company Headquarters Weapons;

Pistol    (2);    Thompson machine carbine   (4);    Rifle (6)

Provisional allocation shown above, no clue to the official issue is given in the War Establishment table.

Rifle Platoon (3), each

Unit Rank Weapon Vehicle
       

Platoon HQ

      
       
Platoon Commander Subaltern Pistol  
Platoon Sergeant Sergeant Rifle  
Batman * Private Thompson  
Orderly Private Thompson  
       
Rifle Section (3) each      
       
Section Commander Corporal Thompson  
Rifleman (7) Private Rifle  
Second-in-command Lance-corporal Rifle  
Bren Number 1 Private Bren, rifle  
Bren Number 2 Private Rifle  

Notes

* Batman also acted as Platoon runner

Platoon Weapons;

Pistol    (1);    Thompson machine carbine   (5);    Rifle (31)

Bren light machine gun (3) (one per Rifle Section)

Provisional allocation shown above, no clue to the official issue is  given in the War Establishment table.

Platoon Support Weapons;

Projector, infantry, anti-tank

2-inch mortar

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