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The light and medium batteries.
There was a number
of different guns present at the defence line. From 7,7 cm field guns
to 15 cm field haubits and naval guns.
Guns that came from the army artillery guns from the navy and coastal defence.
Gunners form the
army and gunners from the navy.
It is possible
that occupied guns had been used. The Defence Line was
reserve, and therefore it didn't
get the modern guns. They were sendt to the Western and the Eastern
Fronts.
We know for sure, that in one occation occupied guns has been used (Beutekanonen).
At at least one
battery Frensh guns from Schneider-Canet has been used. Beside France,
only Denmark had guns like
these, and the Danish guns were at the time placed outside Copenhagen.
On several occations we meet guns that has been taken out of the old Kiel
Forts as Herwarth,
Röepsdorff, Höhe and Freienfelde.
Forts from the late 19th century and from an artillery point of view,
old and useless.
In general there was
great need for artillery. The number of men in the Imperial Army was doubled
6
times, which meant bid changes in the organisation. From 669 to 2300
infantry battallions and from 642
to 2900 field artillery batallions.
Initially the Army-Corps (two infantry divisions and a artillery brigade)
were the biggest unit. Later the
division became biggest unit (one infantry brigade, an artilley command of
a size fit ro the task and a
heavy artillery batallion.)
In order to arm all the new artilley units, the batteries went from 6 to 4
guns. Also occupied guns were
used.
It is most lightly, that occupied guns has been used in the Defence Line
in Jutland which after all was
secondary.
It seems, that new artillery units were formed when guns for them were
available.
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