Armies -- Europe -- History -- 19th century; Europe -- Armed Forces -- History -- 19th century
Württemberg has 1 battalion (No. 13), and
Bavaria has 2 regiments.
[Sidenote: +Engineers.+]
There remain yet the Engineers and the Train.
[Illustration: Bavarian Officer of Lancers.
(Aide-de-Camp.)]
The officers of the corps of Engineers are divided into the
Engineer Staff Corps (_i.e._, generals and field officers) and 4
“Engineer-Inspections” (captains and lieutenants).
This is in the Prussian group. The Saxon, Württemberg, and Bavarian
officers are not so divided. Engineer officers are employed either with
the “fortification branch,” _i.e._, that branch which superintends the
construction, repair, etc., of fortresses, or with the “Pioneers,”
_i.e._, Field Engineers.
There are in the German Army nineteen Pioneer battalions, distributed
thus:
1 Guard battalion and 14 others (Nos. 1–11, 14–16), including
1 Baden battalion (No. 13), to Prussia.
1 battalion to Saxony (No. 12),
1 battalion to Württemberg (No. 18), and
2 battalions to Bavaria.
Each battalion numbers 4 companies; of these the 1st is a Pontoon
company, the 2nd and 3rd are Sapper companies: _i.e._, for sap-work,
construction of siege-batteries, and field-works, etc.; and the 4th
is a Mining company, for laying mines and subterranean galleries in
siege-work.
Besides these, there is a Railway Regiment of 4 battalions (including
1 Saxon and 1 Württemberg company), and 1 Bavarian Railway
battalion of 2 companies, for the construction of military railways
and railway-bridges. Included in the Railway Regiment are the
Field-Telegraph and Balloon sections.
[Sidenote: +Train.+]
The “Train” (corresponding to our Army Service Corps) is for the
transport of supplies, ammunition, and war-material of all sorts. The
drivers and men of the corps are trained in peace-time in the Train
battalions, and the wagons are stored in Train depôts.
There are 19 Train battalions and 1 company, thus divided:
14 battalions, each of 2 to 3 companies, and a depôt (the Guard
battalion, and Nos. 1–11, 15 and 16), in Prussia; one (No. 14), in
Baden, and 1 Train company in Hesse; one (No. 12) in Saxony, one in
Württemberg (No. 13), and 2 in Bavaria.
To the depôt of each battalion belong: 5 provision sections, 3 medical
detachments with field hospitals and bearers, 1 remount-depôt, 1 field
bakery section, and 5 sections of transport.
* * * * *
[Sidenote: +Tactical Organisation.+]
The above account gives a general résumé of the fighting force of
Germany. It now remains to give the tactical organisation of the
different branches of the Army.
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