812 Transport Group
812 Transportgroep (812 Tgp)
| Unit |
Location |
Peace
Strength |
War
Strength |
Staff
and Staff Company
812 Transport Group |
Gouda |
10/8/2/4 (24)
|
16/26/42/2 (86) |
| └ Replacement
Holding Detachment [a] |
– |
– |
41/72/132
(245) |
| Regional
Traffic and Transport Staff East [a] |
– |
– |
11/24/51
(86) |
| └ Replacement
Holding Detachment [a] |
– |
– |
29/58/100
(187) |
| Regional
Traffic and Transport Staff South [a] |
– |
– |
8/19/42
(69) |
| └ Replacement
Holding Detachment [a] |
– |
– |
23/45/83
(151) |
| Territorial
Transport Company East [b] |
Teuge |
3/12/96/32
(143) |
3/12/129/32
(176) |
| Territorial
Transport Company West |
Den
Haag |
3/17/145/15
(180) |
3/17/166/15
(201) |
| Territorial
Transport Company South |
Breda |
3/10/79/18
(110) |
3/10/100/18
(131) |
| 814
Transport Battalion |
Staff
and Staff Company
814 Transport Battalion [a] |
– |
– |
7/11/29/2
(49) |
| 25
Light Transport Company [c] [f] |
– |
– |
5/16/143
(164) |
| 26
Light Transport Company [c]
[f]
|
– |
– |
5/16/143
(164) |
| 27
Light Transport Company [c]
[f] |
– |
– |
5/16/143
(164) |
| 28
Light Transport Company [d] [f]
|
– |
– |
5/16/143
(164) |
| 5/16/143
(164) |
| 816
Transport Battalion |
Staff
and Staff Company
816 Transport Battalion [a] |
– |
– |
7/11/29/2
(49) |
| 33
Light Transport Company [e] [f] |
– |
– |
5/16/143
(164) |
| 34 Light
Transport Company [a] [f]
|
– |
– |
5/16/143
(164) |
| 35
Light Transport Company [a]
[f] |
– |
– |
5/16/143
(164) |
| 36
Light Transport Company [a]
[f]
|
– |
– |
5/16/143
(164) |
| 817
Transport Battalion |
Staff
and Staff Company
817 Transport Battalion [a] |
– |
– |
7/11/29/2
(49) |
| 37
Light Transport Company [a] [f] |
– |
– |
5/16/143
(164) |
| 38 Light
Transport Company [a]
[f]
|
– |
– |
5/16/143
(164) |
| 39
Light Transport Company [a] [f] |
– |
– |
5/16/143
(164) |
| 40
Light Transport Company [a]
[f]
|
– |
– |
5/16/143
(164) |
| 821
Transport Battalion |
Staff
and Staff Company
821 Transport Battalion [a] |
– |
– |
7/11/29/2
(49) |
| 53
Light Transport Company [a]
[f] |
– |
– |
5/16/143
(164) |
| 54 Light
Transport Company [a]
[f]
|
– |
– |
5/16/143
(164) |
| 55
Light Transport Company [a]
[f] |
– |
– |
5/16/143
(164) |
| 56
Light Transport Company [a]
[f]
|
– |
– |
5/16/143
(164) |
| 826
Heavy Transport Company [g] [i] |
– |
– |
5/16/134
(155) |
| 828 Heavy
Transport Company [h] [i]
|
– |
– |
5/16/134
(155) |
| 812
Transport Group Peace Strength: 19/47/322/69 (457) |
| 812
Transport Group War Strength:
255/615/3517/75 (4462) |
Notes
| a. |
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 twelve and a half years prior to mobilisation.1 |
| b. |
In
wartime responsible for transport of petrol, oil and lubricants (POL)
from depots in the Netherlands and West Germany to the corps supply point areas of 1 (NL) Corps.2 |
| c. |
Filled
by mobilisable personnel that had fulfilled their active-duty period in
108
Light Transport Company up to eight and a half years
prior to mobilisation.1 |
| d. |
Filled
by mobilisable personnel that had fulfilled their active-duty period
in 52
Light Transport Company up to eight and a half years
prior to mobilisation.1 |
| e. |
Filled
by mobilisable personnel that had fulfilled their active-duty period in
49
Light Transport Company up to eight and a half years
prior to mobilisation.1 |
| f. |
Each light transport company had three
transport platoons, each probably with 20 x
three-tonne
truck (DAF YA-314 or perhaps YA-328) and 1 x DAF YA-314 with one-tonne
trailer.3 |
| g. | GRIM
company, largely filled
by
mobilisable platoons that had fulfilled their active-duty period
in 829 Heavy Transport
Company between four and twenty
months prior to mobilisation. In some
documents the company carries the suffix '10t' (ten-tonne).1
5 | | h. | Filled
by mobilisable
personnel from 826 Heavy Transport
Company
(GRIM) after
their fourteen to sixteen-month RIM period in that unit had expired, up
to eight and a half years prior to mobilisation. In some
documents the company carries the suffix '10t' (ten-tonne).1
5 | | i. | 826
and 828 Heavy Transport Company probably still mainly had trucks of the
DAF YA-616 series: DAF YT-616 tractor trucks with
ten-tonne semi-trailers.4 |
_________________________________________________
| 1. |
|
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. |
|
IJntema, Bevoorrading Klasse III,
12. |
| 3. |
|
Website
Geschiedenis Bevoorrading en
Transport, 105 Transportbataljon. |
| 4. |
|
See IJntema, op.
cit., 17. For vehicle modernisation in the active-duty parent unit, 829
Heavy Transport Company, see Corps Logistic Command, Part
V, note f and footnote 12. |
| 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 Today, Military Review April 1982, 23-28. |
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