40’s in your 40’s, Wargaming in 40mm.2

The organisation and economics of an infantry regiment of 1775 – Part 2. The British

Roughly each stand represents a section, platoon or company depending on the national characteristic of each army whatever the nation and which figure scale we are currently using.

Like many of the regiments at the time they were very lucky to be at full strength.

Stand is the term I will use to mean a section, platoon or company depending on the scale of figures, as I am working on my 40mm collection the stand is to be a movement tray composed of one seatcion, I have mounted all my figures on 1 inch washers for regular's.

We have adopted the 37th Regiment of Foot for our purpose, basing the returns of the 37th in the period of 1775 – 1776 we have organized our regiment as follows, with a listed return strength of around 320 all ranks mustered at that time, the flank companies were on detached duty in the converged Grenadier and Light Infantry battalions so do not add toward this final figure.

The flank company strength's would be near to full as I believe from sources that they would like to keep these numbers up seeing as they were supposed to be the best of the regiment, General Howe liked his converged battalions, however in the field and on campaign numbers would drop, replacements could be drafted in from their parent regiments, it is also interesting to note that draftee's were placed into various regiments from other regiments who on paper were returning home, I thought we should aim for.

8 Line Companies

32 Rank and file including 3 *Corporals split into 2 platoons of 4 sections

2 Sergeants

1 Drummer

2 officers

*I feel that the rank of Corporal was given as a mark of distinction to the most able bodied of the rank & file, looking at various references and also experiencing the 64 drill manual the company would use Corporals as markers, it is our intention to explain our thoughts on this as we post on this theme.

Grenadier Company

32 rank and file + 3 Corporals, split into 2 platoons of 2 sections

2 Sergeants

1 Drummer & 1 fifer

2 officers

Light infantry Company

32 rank and file + 3 Corporals, split into 2 platoons of 2 sections

2 Sergeants

1 Drummer & 1 hornist

2 officers

Colonel Tavington.