help on equipment and oobs of the allies

[ozgur]

For a wargaming project I need some detailed info on the british, anzac anf french forces in the Gallipoli campaign. Can anyone help me finding data on those topics?

1. equipments used by french, british and anzac troops; rifles, machine guns, field artillery

2. small scale oob of the allied forces. from battalion to the level of squad organization. what are the typical squad organization of the troops? what kind of equpiments a regular squad was equiped?

Most of the info I have covers rather larger oobs. Hard to find squad level info.

Thanks in advance

Ozgur

[Guest Eugen Pinak]

Hello ozgur,

I'm not a big specialist on it, but here's what I know:

1. French: Bertier rilfes, poss. Lebel too; Hotchkiss MG; 75-mm guns, 105-mm how.

British and ANZAK: SMLE rifles, poss Lee-Enfields; Vickers MG; 18-pdr guns and 4,5-in. how.

I haven't heard about the use of LMG during Dardanelles battles.

2. IIRC, both French, British and ANZAK had their infantry battalions of 4 companies, each of 4 platoons, each of 4 squads + 1 MG section for battalion (4 ? MG)

Hope this helps.

[ozgur]

Thank you Eugen,

do you know the standart number of soldiers in a squad? 10 or 9 ?

Ozgur

[Guest richpics5174]

Hi there Ozgur,

Are you doing squad level wargaming? Which system?

Wargame Enthusiast here!

Richard