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CJ


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Wheres the best place to find organization of German Artillery in 1914?

How many guns would have been in a Field Artillery Battery?

a Foot Artillery Battery? What's the difference? 

Would these all be supplied with standard field guns?

Where do Howitzers and specialized artillery come in?

Thanks from the artillery novice!
CJ


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You could try Handbook of the German Army, compiled by British Army observers in about 1906 and updated just before the outbreak. It's available as a joint publication with the Imperial War Museum and someone else. I've got the Handbook of the Belgian Army, and it goes into just that kind of detail (although a lot less complicated, since Belgium had only one type of field gun and no howitzers)

There are loads of books on the subject. I'm sure there'll be something on the Net about a topic of such great interest.



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A 1914 German field artillerie batterie was composed of six guns.  Regular army infantry divisions also had light field howitzers.  Their ratio to guns was 1:3.  
Foot artillerie batteries were composed of heavy guns and howitzers.  This included all guns of 9cm or larger,  and howitzers of 15cm or larger.  Foot artillerie batteries were typically under Korp control.

Later, when the numbers of field artillerie were expanded they were reduced to 4 gun batteries.

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General Herr of French artillery gives a good overview of german artillery at 1914 in his book.This has been reprinted in the field artillery journal

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