After the war, the regular cavalry was quickly reduced to its pre-war establishment, and reduced further by the 1957 Defence White Paper; as a result of this, seven regular cavalry regiments were lost through amalgamation, leaving two household, sixteen line regiments.
32.
Some 2, 860 motor vehicles and motorcycles suitable for military use were purchased in 1939 for the Militia and another 784 for the 6th Division, but since a division's war establishment was around 3, 000, this was only enough for training.
33.
By the summer of 1942 it became obvious that there would not be enough volunteers, so National Resource Mobilization Act ( NRMA ) conscripts were assigned to the regiments of the Division to bring their numbers up the war establishment strength.
34.
Each battalion was reduced in size and placed on a new " tropical war establishment ", the anti-aircraft and carrier platoons were disbanded, and the later converted into a medium machine-gun platoon of four 3-inch mortars was increased from six to eight.
35.
Such as when the need may one day arise, to call out more than 26, 000 supplementary reservists and cadet instructors ( who are also subjected to provide general service ), to reinforce the order of battle, bringing it up to war establishment.
36.
When the British Expeditionary Force was mobilised, it had a war establishment of seventeen cavalry regiments five cavalry brigades of three regiments each, and two regiments which would be broken up to serve as reconnaissance squadrons, one for each of the six infantry divisions.
37.
Prior to going overseas 2 Squadron RCAF had been disbanded and the airmen reassigned to 110 and 112 Squadrons to bring them up to war establishment ( 2 Squadron would later reform in England as a Hurricane unit and eventually be renumbered to 402 Squadron ).
38.
In all, eight Home War Establishment Squadrons were equipped with the Kittyhawk : 72 Kittyhawk I, 12 Kittyhawk Ia, 15 Kittyhawk III and 35 Kittyhawk IV aircraft, for a total of 134 aircraft . These aircraft were mostly diverted from RAF Lend-Lease orders for service in Canada.
39.
While'B'Company was deployed to Merauke, the remainder of the battalion moved to the Atherton Tablelands in mid-August 1943, at which time the battalion was transferred to the command of the " tropical war establishment " during this period as part of an Army-wide reorganisation intended to optimise units for jungle warfare.
40.
The brigade soon left to be sent to Essex for a month before returning to Suffolk again and in July, after being brought up to full War Establishment strength, began to prepare for overseas service although the whereabouts where as yet unknown and the men of the battalions were given 14 days leave.
