About the Book
"Anti-Aircraft": District Anti-Aircraft Commands, Anti-Aircraft Groupings, Vulnerable Points, Air Observer and Alert Companies, Alert Centres, Intelligence Centres & Signal Relay Centres. General Reserve Anti-Aircraft Groupings Anti-Aircraft Groupes and Batteries (75mm & 105mm Platform and 75mm Towed), Railway Anti-Aircraft units 90mm anti-aircraft units, Light Anti-Aircraft Batteries (25mm/40mm), Army Anti-Aircraft units Anti-Aircraft units in French North Africa and the Levant, Machine-Gun Companies Searchlight Batteries Naval Anti-Aircraft Batteries. Cavalry: The Cavalry Brigade, The Divisional Cavalry Regiment, The Spahis Brigade and Regiments, African Cavalry Brigades and Regiments (Chasseurs d'Afrique), Foreign Legion Cavalry, Light Mechanised, Light Motorised and Reserve Motorised Cavalry Brigades, The Reserve Motorised Cavalry Regiment.
The Mechanised Cavalry Regiment of the Light Mechanised Division, The Mechanised Cavalry Battalion of the Cavalry Division , The Mechanised Cavalry Regiment of the Light Cavalry Division, The Armoured Car Regiment of the Cavalry Division, The Armoured Car Regiment of the Light Cavalry Division The Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment, The Armoured Cavalry Regiment, Army Corps and Divisional Reconnaissance Battalions, Independent Groups of African Cavalry , Independent Groups and Squadrons of Cavalry , Cavalry Groupe Francs, Cavalry in French North Africa and the Levant, Cavalry Anti-Tank units. Divisional Recovery Squadrons, Veterinary and Remount units. The Colonial units include: Colonial Regiments and Battalions in Metropolitan France, Colonial Regiments and Battalions in French North Africa and the Levant. Colonial Regiments and Battalions in Africa, Colonial Regiments and Battalions in French Indo China. There are also other Colonial units.
Table of Contents:
Contents, Introduction i Abbreviations/Glossary ii-iii, Numbering of French Military units iv, Comparative Table of Ranks v, Anti-Aircraft formations 1, Anti-Aircraft commands and staffs 2, Passive Defence formations 5, General Reserve Groupings 13, Anti-Aircraft Batteries type 75CA Mle32/33, 75CA Mle 15/34 & 105CA Mle 17/34 15, Anti-Aircraft Batteries type 75CA Mle30 29, Anti-Aircraft Batteries type 90CA Mle39 32, Railway Anti-Aircraft Batteries 36, Anti-Aircraft Batteries type 40CA Mle38 38, Anti-Aircraft Batteries type 25CA Mle38 39, Emergency Batteries - Naval guns - Foreign guns 45, Divisional Anti-Aircraft Batteries 46, Anti-Aircraft Groups and Batteries type Army 48, Anti-Aircraft formations in French North Africa 54, Anti-Aircraft formations in the Levant 57, The Machine-gun Companies 58, Searchlight formations 61, Cavalry Formations 63. The Cavalry Brigade and Divisional Cavalry Regiment 64, The Spahis Brigade and Regiments 68, The African Cavalry Regiments - Regiments de Chasseurs d'Afrique 75, Foreign Legion Cavalry 82, The Light Mechanised, Light Motorised & Reserve Motorised Cavalry Brigades 83, The Mechanised Cavalry Regiment of the Light Mechanised Division 90, The Mechanised Cavalry Battalion of the Cavalry Division 95, The Mechanised Cavalry Regiment of the Light Cavalry Division 97, The Armoured Car Regiment of the Cavalry Division 100, The Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment of the Light Mechanised Division 104, The Armoured Cavalry Regiment of the Light Mechanised Division 106, Army Corps and Divisional Reconnaissance Battalions 109, The Army Corps Reconnaissance Battalion 110, The Divisional Reconnaissance Battalion 115, The Independent and Temporary Cavalry units 129, The Irregular Cavalry units 134, Anti-tank units of the cavalry arm 141, Divisional Recovery Squadrons 142, Veterinary, remount and other horse units and establishments 144, Colonial units 147. Colonial Infantry Regiments type North-East 147, Colonial Machine-gun formations 148, Colonial Infantry Regiments type mountain, overseas reduced and mixed 149, Independent Colonial Infantry Battalions and Companies 150, The African Infantry Regiments type North-East, mountain, overseas reduced and territorial 151, The Independent African Infantry Battalions 155, The Indigenous Colonial Regiments and Battalions in French Indo-China 156, Colonial Armoured and Cavalry units 156, Colonial Artillery 157, Colonial Engineer, Signals, Medical, Quartermaster and Transport formations 167, Irregular colonial formations and formations mobilised by colonial depots 168,
