Headquarters and Headquarters Company

Only around three hundred eighty-five are infantrymen.

most of the infantry come from the second parachute battalion these are its headquarters group headquarters company company a company b less part of four platoon and support company three hundred forty men in all the other forty-five or so belong to two incomplete platoons and a headquarters element of company c of the third parachute battalion the other three hundred fifty men are varied one hundred ten come from first parachute brigade headquarters minus brigadier The 1st Parachute Squadron and the 9th Field Company Royal Engineers provide 75 and 30.

40 come from the Headquarters and Troops B and C of the 1st Air Landing Anti-Tank Battery.

They bring four anti-tank guns.

Fitch's tactical headquarters travels with the company.

Burkett and Lathbury go with it, together with a party of the 1st Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers and a single six-pounder.

Headquarters company follows.

Major Mervyn Dennison's Company A brings up the rear.

At about 19.30 hours, with darkness falling, Tatham Water and Company A cross the city boundary with frost.

Headquarters Company follows, then Hibbert's Column, which has swollen on the march.

It now includes part of the 1st Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers and a platoon and attached section of 250 Airborne Light Composite Company.

It also carries a two-man Jedburgh team and Guff with two armed Jeeps of the Reconnaissance Squadron.

As a mortarmen, we're a company asset or a battalion asset.

So, in HHC, which is the headquarters higher company for, um, or headquarters and headquarters company for the battalion, they have a mortar platoon of around 40 guys, and then the companies have mortar sections of six guys.

It's the staff sergeant, a sergeant, and then four junior enlisted, two on each gun.

Um, and we-