Speaking of information readers cannot obtain, would you happen to have any detail on how the various WW1 German supporting arms converted from peacetime structure to wartime abteilungen? Specifically, the Telegraph-Bataillon, Flieger-Bataillon and Lufschiffer-Bataillon all seem to have had a normal structure of battalion + 3-5 companies in peacetime, but broke down into several abteilungen of different sizes for war duty. Was each abteilung just created ad-hoc from whatever personnel were at hand, or was there some more ordered process? I'm assuming that reserves would be recalled to the battalion first, and then used to fill out any vacancies in the abteilungen.
Speaking of information readers cannot obtain, would you happen to have any detail on how the various WW1 German supporting arms converted from peacetime structure to wartime abteilungen? Specifically, the Telegraph-Bataillon, Flieger-Bataillon and Lufschiffer-Bataillon all seem to have had a normal structure of battalion + 3-5 companies in peacetime, but broke down into several abteilungen of different sizes for war duty. Was each abteilung just created ad-hoc from whatever personnel were at hand, or was there some more ordered process? I'm assuming that reserves would be recalled to the battalion first, and then used to fill out any vacancies in the abteilungen.