"Come out ye blacks and tans 2" Topic

Unit organization time.

I plan to add a British platoon and have found some different organizations.

The first shows a 30 man platoon made up of 4 – 7 man sections (2 rifle and 2 with Lewisgun) and 1 -2 man command element.

Another link show 4 – 9 man sections with 1 – 3 man command.

How have you organized your British regulars for then Irish Revolution 1920's period?

From Platoon Training 1919 – The section is the unit from which infantry organisation is built. It consists of a leader and six men, and is the fire unit. It will not go into action more than seven strong or with less than three men. The platoon is the "fighting" or "tactical unit" of the infantry it consists of a platoon HQ (one officer, one sergeant, one runner and a batman trained as a runner), and two rifle sections and two Lewis gun sections. If a platoon falls below an effective strength of two sections (each of three other ranks) it may be attached temporarily to another platoon in the same company.

The organisation of the platoon stayed the same until 1936.

Honestly, I went down the middle and I have sections of 8, with four sections, a pair of Lewis guns, and a couple of officers.

This gives me two weak platoons or one very large augmented one.

But currently, I'm looking more at section strength level actions with house mods for Five Men in Normandy that I am calling "Five Men in Ireland".

So for now, I don't "really" need a platoon…<ahem> <cough, cough>

Eric