Last update: 19.05.2012
Netherlands Armed Forces
ORDER OF BATTLE
1985
105 Verkbat53 LtverkbatStcieWrnverkpelWrnverkpel (KV)LogpelWrnverkplg (9x) 43 Painfbrig52 Painfbrig53 Painfbrig104 WrnverkcieLLC
by Hans Boersma

Contents

Introduction
Order of Battle:
Royal Navy:
Commander-in-Chief Naval Forces
Naval Forces Command Netherlands
Naval Forces Command Caribbean
Marine Corps
Royal Army:
1 (NL) Corps
National Territorial Command
National Logistics Command
Royal Army Signals Command
Royal Army Medical Command
Royal Army Training Command / Army Training and Replacement Command
Royal Military Constabulary
Royal Air Force:
Commander-in-Chief Air Forces
Tactical Air Force Command
Logistic and Training Command
Unit Organisation and Equipment
Regimental and Corps Affiliations
Unit Symbols
Sources
Contact


What's New

19.05.2012 Updated Unit Organisation and Equipment page: added 101 Artillery Survey Battalion.
19.05.2012 Updated 1 (NL) Corps Artillery: corrected "23 (KL) US Detachement" to "23 KL (US) Detachement" in note (g).
19.05.2012 Updated Unit Organisation and Equipment page: minor amendment to 53 Light Reconnaissance Battalion (armament); added footnote 2 to that section.
19.05.2012 Updated Unit Organisation and Equipment page: added a few words on the presence of LAWs in the introductory Armament paragraph and added footnote 1 there.
15.04.2012 Updated Unit Organisation and Equipment page: added the field artillery battalion M110A2 / M107 and the field artillery battalion M114A1.
08.04.2012 Updated Unit Organisation and Equipment page: added the light antiaircraft artillery battalion.
01.04.2012 Updated Unit Organisation and Equipment page: added the armoured antiaircraft artillery battery.
01.04.2012 Updated 101 Antiaircraft Artillery Group: added Stinger to the main equipment in the tabular data. Expanded note (j) and footnote 4.
01.04.2012 Updated Unit Organisation and Equipment page: several amendments, notably in the tank battalion and reconnaissance unit sections.
01.04.2012 Updated 41 Armoured Brigade: corrected footnote 1 (changed "Royal Army" for "1 (NL) Corps").
20.03.2012 Updated 1 (NL) Corps Artillery: expanded footnote 17 (added reference).
18.03.2012 Updated 41 Armoured Brigade: expanded footnote 1 (added reference).
06.03.2012 Updated 101 Antiaircraft Artillery Group: added note (j) and specified antiaircraft artillery gun type 40L70 as Bofors 40L70.
06.03.2012 Updated the brigade pages: specified tank type Centurion as Centurion Mk 5/2 and self-propelled howitzer type M109 as M109A2/A3.
06.03.2012 Updated 41 Armoured Brigade: corrected footnotes 4 and 5.
04.03.2012 Added 1 (NL) Corps Artillery.
27.02.2012 Updated 1 (NL) Corps: added 103 Field Artillery Group as part of a possible configuration of 1 Division (in the Corps and Divisional Command Structure section). Expanded footnote 5 (added book reference).
26.02.2012 Updated 1 (NL) Corps: minor amendments to the Corps and Divisional Command Structure section.
26.02.2012 Updated NATO Commands: amended the NAEWF paragraph (in the Multinational Forces section) regarding command rotation; idem for footnote 15. Expanded footnote 26. Further minor amendments.
31.01.2012 Updated Unit Organisation and Equipment page: expanded the Reconnaissance Battalion section (alternative organisations).
23.01.2012 Added 101 Antiaircraft Artillery Group.
17.01.2012 Updated Unit Organisation and Equipment page: added 53 Light Reconnaissance Battalion. Minor amendments to 104 Observation and Reconnaissance Company (personal armament).
10.01.2012 Updated 101 Military Constabulary Battalion: minor amendments.
10.01.2012 Updated the remaining brigades: minor (generic) amendments.
09.01.2012 Updated 1 (NL) Corps: added note (c).
09.01.2012 Updated 51 Armoured Brigade: added notes (a) and (h), corrected note (g), updated footnote 4. Some (minor) generic amendments.
09.01.2012 Updated 52 Armoured Infantry Brigade: added notes (a), (h) and (i), updated footnotes 5 and 6. Some (minor) generic amendments.
09.01.2012 Updated 53 Armoured Infantry Brigade: added note (a), updated footnote 3.
08.01.2012 Added 53 Armoured Infantry Brigade. this page features some (minor) generic amendments that will be retrofitted to the other brigade pages over the coming days or weeks.
03.01.2012 Added 12 Armoured Infantry Brigade.
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