Some information from German "Taschebuch der Heere 1939" about Latvian Military:
Basic information:
- Population: 1.97 million (1937)
- Population density: 30 persons per square km
- Land borders: 1.196 km
- Sea borders: 494 km
Military service:
- Army type: State Army, universal consription
- Service time: 29 years (years 21 - 50)
- Active service: 1 year for infantry, 1.5 years for other braches of Armed Forces.
- Active Service: age 21
- Reserve: age 22 - 39
- Home Reserve: age 40 - 50 (presumably comparable to German Landsturm)
- Members of Armed Forces 1.24 % of population (peacetime)
Peacetime troops:
- Armed Forces: 24.300 men
- Frontier Guard: 1.200 men
- Total: 25.500 men
Wartime troops: 150.000 men
Structure of peacetime Army:
- 4 Divisions
- Technical Division
Structure of infantry division:
- division HQ
- 3 infantry regiments
- artillery regiment
Structure of technical division:
- division HQ
- engineer regiment
- tank regiment
- signals regiment
- aircraft regiment
Troops of General HQ:
- General HQ
- heavy artillery regiment
- coastal artillery battalion
- armoured train regiment (2 armoured trains)
Locations of peacetime divisions (note: with original German placenames):
- 1. Division: Libau
- 2. Division: Riga
- 3. Division: Rezekne (Rositten)
- 4. Division: Donaburg
- Technical Division: Riga
Amounts of peacetime troops:
Infantry:
- 12 regiments = 28 battalions = 112 companies
Cavalry:
- 1 regiment = 7 squadrons
Tanks:
- 1 regiment
Artillery:
- 4 field artillery regiments = 8 artillery battalions = 24 artillery batteries
- 1 heavy artillery regiment = 2 artillery battalions = 5 artillery batteries
Technical troops:
- 1 engineer regiment
- 1 signals regiment
Special formations:
- 1 armoured train regiment (2 armoured trains)
Structure of infantry regiment:
- regimental HQ
- 2 or 3 battalions, each containing
--- battalion HQ
--- 3 rifle companies
--- 1 machinegun company
- mortar company
- signals company
Weaponry listed in this book is pretty much the same as listed by daveh earlier. However I spotted following differences in information concering field artilelry weapons:
- No German 77-mm or French 75-mm field guns listed
- British 13-pounder field guns are listed
- Both 105-mm cannons and 152-mm howitzers have been marked as British instead of French, in addition to this "Taschenbuch..." lists German 15 cm s.F.H 13 among heavy weaponry used by Latvian Army.
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