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201 Engineer Combat Group 1
201 Geniegevechtsgroep (201 Gnggp)

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Unit Location Peace Strength War Strength
Staff and Staff Company
201 Engineer Combat Group [a]
20/14/52/2 (88)
102 Engineer Battalion [b] 31/88/548/2 (669)
107 Engineer Battalion [b] 31/88/548/2 (669)
223 Engineer Battalion [c] 31/88/548/2 (669)
155 Pontoon Bridge Company [d] 5/20/132 (157)
109 Diver Platoon [e] 1/11/44 (56)
212 Construction Machine Company [f] 6/26/165 (197)
227 Dump Truck Company [g] 5/15/165 (185)

201 Engineer Combat Group Peace Strength:
201 Engineer Combat Group War Strength: 130/350/2202/8 (2690)

Notes

a. GRIM company, largely filled by mobilisable subunits that had fulfilled their active-duty period in Staff and Staff Company, 101 Engineer Combat Group between four and twenty months prior to mobilisation.2 5
b.Filled by mobilisable personnel from 103 Engineer Battalion (GRIM) after their fourteen to sixteen-month RIM period in that unit had expired, up to eight years prior to mobilisation.2 5
c.The battalion's Staff and Support Company was filled by personnel from the general pool of mobilisable reserves (vrij-indeelbaar bestand) that had fulfilled their active-duty period in relevant functions up to eight and a half years prior to mobilisation. A, B and C Company were filled by mobilisable personnel from, respectively, 51, 52 and 53 Armoured Engineer Company (RIM) after their fourteen to sixteen-month RIM period in those units had expired, up to eight years prior to mobilisation.2 5
d.GRIM company, largely filled by mobilisable platoons that had fulfilled their active-duty period in 105 Pontoon Bridge Company between four and twenty months prior to mobilisation.2 5 Equipped with German hollow-deck bridge materiel (Hohlplattenbrücke).3
eRIM platoon, filled by mobilisable teams that had fulfilled their active-duty period in 108 Diver Platoon between four and twenty months prior to mobilisation.2 5
f.GRIM company, largely filled by mobilisable platoons that had fulfilled their active-duty period in 102 Construction Machine Company between four and twenty months prior to mobilisation.2 5
g.GRIM company, largely filled by mobilisable platoons that had fulfilled their active-duty period in 107 Dump Truck Company between four and twenty months prior to mobilisation.2 5

Operational Role

In wartime 201 Engineer Combat Group would be tasked with keeping open tactically and logistically important roads in the Corps Rear Area. In addition, it was to prepare alternative crossings across the Weser and Aller rivers, for which 105 and 155 Pontoon Bridge Company would be kept in reserve.4

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1.It should be noted that the designation Engineer Combat Group is somewhat delusive: this formation type and its subordinate units were neither  designed nor equipped for combat engineering; see for instance VS 5-154, I-1. In 1975 the more adequate designation Geniegroep was reverted to the previously used Geniegevechtsgroep, apparently because it was an (internally) well established designation and the new one caused confusion. NL-HaNA 2.13.110 inv. nr. 267, Naamswijziging geniegevechtsgroep, 1975.
2.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.
3.Hoffenaar en Schoenmaker, Met de blik, 195. Elands et al., 250 jaar, 192.
4.Elands et al., op. cit., 232-233. For the operations described 105 Pontoon Bridge Company would likely be placed under the command of 201 Engineer Combat Group. Ibid., 227. 
5.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 TodayMilitary Review April 1982, 23-28.