I came across this site recently which may be of interest: http://www.bayonetstrength.150m.com/index.htm Gerry
Just bumping up this thread that Gerry started, as I mentioned the link in another post - might it be worthwhile changing the thread title to something a bit more descriptive? It's a great site.
There is a lot of good, useful information on that site. It represents one heck of a lot of work. Thanks for the link.
Thanks for the link Gerry, great info there. As an aside, it the site states that the average rifle company was 5 officers & 122 men. To give an idea of casualties in Normandy 5th Camerons history states "Rifle companies were now reduced to an average of 60 men". Indeed later in 1944 & into 1945. they were reduced from 4 to 3 companies because of casualties. No doubt these sort of figures apply to lots of other units.
