RHINELAND OCCUPATION
BRITISH FORCES REDUCED. (British Official News.) Press Association—By Wireless—Copyright. RUGBY, September 13. The reduction in the strength of the British Army on the Rhine has now been declared in detail. Of 1,001) men to return home, the main body will be an infantry battalion of 700 strong from the Second King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, with about 300 details of tho Royal Corps of Signallers, the Royal Army Medical Corps, and the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, together with military police, chaplains, nurses, and about twelve staff officers! The effect on the infantry organisation will be to reduce both infantry brigades on tlie Rhine to three battalions each.
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Evening Star, Issue 19662, 15 September 1927, Page 5
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108RHINELAND OCCUPATION Evening Star, Issue 19662, 15 September 1927, Page 5
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