101 Infantry
Brigade
101
Infanteriebrigade (101 Infbrig)
Operational Role | Reorganisation: Army Plan 162
Unit |
Main
Equipment |
Location |
Peace
Strength |
War
Strength |
Staff
and Staff Company
101 Infantry Brigade [a] |
|
– |
– |
24/28/113/2
(167) |
55 Infantry
Battalion [b] |
|
– |
– |
37/113/681/2
(833) |
102 Infantry
Battalion [c] |
|
– |
– |
37/113/681/2
(833) |
132
Infantry Battalion [d] |
|
– |
– |
37/113/681/2
(833) |
142 Infantry
Battalion [e] |
|
– |
– |
37/113/681/2
(833) |
54 Field
Artillery Battalion
[f] |
M114A1 |
– |
– |
44/104/484/2
(634) |
101 Engineer
Field Company [g] |
|
– |
– |
7/21/143/
(171) |
101
Brigade Supply
Company [h] |
|
– |
– |
7/27/173
(207) |
101
Brigade Repair Company [i] |
|
– |
– |
6/34/132
(172) |
101
Brigade Medical Company [j] |
|
– |
– |
19/21/145/2
(187) |
101
Infantry Brigade Peace Strength: – |
101
Infantry Brigade War Strength: 255/687/3914/14
(4870) |
Notes
a. |
Filled by mobilisable
personnel
that had fulfilled their active-duty period in Staff and Staff
Company, 42
Armoured Infantry Brigade up to six and a half years prior to mobilisation.1 |
b. |
Filled by mobilisable
personnel that had fulfilled their active-duty period
in 45 Armoured
Infantry Battalion up to eight and a half years prior to mobilisation.1 This battalion was
added to the brigade in November 1984.2 |
c. |
Filled
by mobilisable
personnel that had fulfilled their active-duty period
in 11 Armoured
Infantry Battalion up to eight and a half years prior to mobilisation.1 |
d. |
Filled by mobilisable
personnel that had fulfilled their active-duty period
in 43 Armoured
Infantry Battalion up to eight and a half years prior to mobilisation.1 |
e. |
Filled by mobilisable
personnel that had fulfilled their active-duty period
in 41 Armoured
Infantry Battalion up to eight and a half years prior to mobilisation.1 |
f. |
Filled
by mobilisable
personnel from 14 Field
Artillery Battalion (RIM)
after
their fourteen to sixteen-month RIM period in that unit had expired, up
to eight and a half years prior to mobilisation.1 |
g. |
From mid-1985 filled
by mobilisable
personnel that had fulfilled their active-duty period
in 13 Armoured Engineer
Company up to eight and a half years prior to mobilisation. Before mid-1985 probably filled by 41 Armoured
Engineer Company.1 |
h. |
GRIM company, largely
filled by mobilisable platoons that had fulfilled their active-duty
period in 42
Brigade Supply Company between four and
twenty
months prior to mobilisation.1 7 |
i. |
GRIM company, largely
filled by mobilisable platoons that had fulfilled their active-duty
period in 42
Brigade Repair Company between four and
twenty
months prior to mobilisation.1 7 |
j. |
RIM
company until mid-1985, filled
by mobilisable platoons that had fulfilled their active-duty
period in 41
Brigade Medical Company between
four and twenty
months prior to mobilisation. After mid-1985 the company lost its
RIM status, retaining the same personnel until 1988.1 7 |
Operational Role
In
wartime 101
Infantry Brigade would secure the Corps
Rear Area, probably in conjunction with 102 and 105
Reconnaissance Battalion.3 <
Reorganisation: Army Plan 162 4
Between 1988
and 1990 the brigade was reorganised and partly re-equipped, as had
been announced in the 1984 Defence White Paper.5
The project was part
of Army Plan 162 and included the
following measures:
- The Staff and
Staff Company was formed into
a tactical
staff, analogue to the divisional staff
type, enabling
the infantry battalions either to be detached to the
armoured infantry brigades at the FEBA (Forward Edge of Battle
Area) or to be deployed in the Corps
Rear Area;
- 55
and 142 Infantry Battalion were mechanised by equipping them with
YPR-765s (with M2 hmg .50 inch); 6
- The
organisation and equipment of 102 and 132 Infantry Battalion were
improved; 6
- The
antitank capacity of the four infantry battalions was enhanced
by
equipping each with twelve TOW atgm systems (hitherto not present in
the brigade); 6
- 54
Field Artillery Battalion was transferred to 1 (NL) Corps Artillery;
- 101
Engineer Field Company was transferred to 201 Engineer Combat Group;
- 101
Supply Company, 101 Repair Company and 101 Medical Company were
disbanded, logistic support responsibilities being transferred to corps
level. <
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1. |
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NIMH 205A/10,
Aflossing van
mobilisabele eenheden en
-aanvullingen d.d. 27 mei 1980. Ibid., d.d. 11 november 1983.
Ibid., d.d. 17
juni 1985. < |
2. |
|
NL-HaNA 2.13.182
inv. nr. 643, Planningsmemorandum Legerplan 162 d.d.
1 augustus 1985, 8. < |
3. |
|
Hoffenaar en
Schoenmaker, Met de blik, 388-389. Somewhere between 1985 and 1987 command over the Corps Rear Area, hitherto assigned to Commander, Corps Logistic Command, was transferred to Commander, 101 Infantry Brigade. In 1987 the brigade's staff and staff company, now labelled Staff and Staff Company 101
Infantry Brigade/Rear Area Command, had a peacetime core staff of about twenty men, located in
Stroe. Given
the fact that in 1985 this unit had a peace strength of nil, and the
fact that a 1985 concept for the reorganisation of this unit
(NL-HaNA 2.13.182, op. cit., 79-85) does not (yet) include a rear area
command element, my conclusion is that in 1985 this command
was still held by
Commander, Corps Logistic Command. The
post-1985 Rear Area Command (Commando Achtergebied, also more correctly
referred to as Commando Legerkorpsachtergebied) is mentioned in NL-HaNA 2.13.148
inv. nr. 24,
Organisatie KMar 1 Lk d.d. 30 juni 1987, Bijvoegsel 4a bij Bijlage A;
Ibid., inv. nr. 694, begeleidende brief en verzendlijst bij Alarmboek
LLC d.d. 17 februari 1987; HTK 1988-1989, kamerstuknr. 20800 X ondernr.
43.
Additional information kindly provided by M. van Schaik, conscript
soldier-administrator with Staff and Staff Company 101 Infantry
Brigade/Rear Area Command in 1987-1988 (emails 31.01.2014, 02.02.2014). < |
4. |
|
NL-HaNA 2.13.182, inv. nr. 643, op. cit., 3-4, 8-10, 16,
68-69, 78. HTK
1983-1984, kamerstuknr. 18169 ondernr. 2
(Defensienota
1984-1993), 99. HTK
1988-1989, kamerstuknr. 20800 X ondernr. 2, 41. Hoffenaar en
Schoenmaker, op.
cit., 389. < |
5. |
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HTK 1983-1984, ibid., 99. < |
6. |
|
For an overview of the
reorganisation of the infantry battalions see Unit Organisation and
Equipment, The Infantry Battalion of the Infantry Brigade.
< |
7. |
|
RIM was
the Dutch acronym for Direct Influx into Mobilisable Units (Rechtstreekse
Instroming in Mobilisabele Eenheden). GRIM was a variant of
this system, meaning "Largely RIM" (Grotendeels
Rechtstreekse Instroming in Mobilisabele Eenheden).
For a survey of the
Royal Army's unit filling and reserve system see Gijsbers, Blik
in de smidse, 2222-2231;
Selles,
Personele
vulling;
Berghuijs, Opleiding,
14-23. In English: Isby and Kamps, Armies,
341-343; Sorrell, Je Maintiendrai, 94-96; Van Vuren, The Royal Netherlands Army Today, Military Review April 1982, 23-28. < |
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