5 October 1941 Part 2

5 October 1941 Jersey II Battalion Infantry Regiment 582 strength and deployment return

Editorial note: Identified as Jersey by the deployment locations, including Grève de Lecq, La Moye House and Kempt Tower. The undated deployment sheet is associated with the 5 October combat-strength return; it is not separately dated.

[Scan 1119.jpg] Infantry Regiment 582, Ia, file reference 16. Regimental headquarters, 5 October 1941. Subject: combat strength of II Battalion on 5 October 1941. Combat strength: eight officers, fifty-eight NCOs and 282 men. [Handwritten routing note partially unclear.]

Battalion weapons and crews. Figures following each item are NCOs/men; crew figures are per weapon. Unit-owned: thirty-six light machine guns, crew 0/3, total 0/108; twelve heavy machine guns, crew 1/5, total 12/60; three light mortars, crew 1/2, total 3/6. Fixed-position weapons: five heavy machine guns 08, crew 1/5, total 5/25; six heavy mortars, crew 1/6, total 6/36; six light mortars, crew 1/2, total 6/12; four antitank guns, crew 1/4, total 4/16; two infantry guns, crew 1/5, total 2/10. Total crews: thirty-eight NCOs and 273 men. Remainder: twenty NCOs and nine men.

This remainder must provide platoon leaders, section leaders, company and platoon headquarters personnel, telephonists, runners and riflemen.

Reasons: 1) The regiment has received and will receive no replacements. 2) The regiment has no thirteenth or fourteenth company, each rifle company has only one light mortar, and the machine-gun companies lack the six heavy mortars. 3) The regiment has received fixed-position weapons for a thirteenth and fourteenth company, but not the men to crew them. 4) Each rifle company has received the missing second and third light mortars, but no men. 5) The regiment has received six heavy mortars as fixed-position weapons for each machine-gun company, without men. 6) Five heavy machine guns 08 are currently assigned to the battalion, again without men.

[Scan 1120.jpg] Front-line return, II Battalion, Infantry Regiment 582. Columns: officers / NCOs / men. Authorized strength 21/122/615; actual strength 10/114/567; shortfall 11/8/48.

Leave 1/13/62; special leave 0/2/2; detached outside the unit 0/8/54; detached within the unit 0/22/91; sick in hospital 0/1/0; sick in quarters 0/0/3; indoor/light duty 0/2/1; mainland 1/8/72. Subtotal 2/56/285.

Deployments: B4, 0/2/9; Grève de Lecq, 0/4/28; cable guard, 0/1/11; B5, 0/0/4; 5th Company reserve, 2/6/34; B6, 0/0/3; Battery, 0/5/26; B7, 0/0/3; La Moye House, 0/5/28; Jellow House [as typed], 0/3/18; Kempt Tower, 0/2/11; Quen’s Bay [as typed], 0/3/10; Quen’s Dune, 0/7/35; 7th Company reserve, 1/7/26; 8th Company reserve, 1/6/8; tank position east, 0/1/6; tank position south, 0/0/7; battalion command post, 4/6/15. Subtotal 8/58/282. Grand total 10/114/567.

Original source image 1119.jpg — T-78 Roll 317. Jersey II Battalion Infantry Regiment 582 strength and deployment return.

Original source image 1120.jpg — T-78 Roll 317. Jersey II Battalion Infantry Regiment 582 strength and deployment return.

German Army High Command records, T-78 Roll 317. Supplied English translation T78_Roll_317_English_Translation.docx. Source images: 1119.jpg, 1120.jpg.