The brigade numbered about twenty-five hundred men and probably consisted of two infantry battalions, four heavy machine gun battalions, an engineer battalion, a 76-mm artillery battalion, a 120-mm mortar battalion, and miscellaneous service troops.
A large military unit, numbering around twenty-five hundred personnel, was comprised of two infantry units, four heavy machine gun units, an engineering company, an artillery battalion equipped with 76-mm guns, a mortar battalion firing 120-mm projectiles, and a range of auxiliary support services.