The 15th Infantry Brigade was a

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that participated in the

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during

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. The 15th Infantry Brigade was redesignated 15th Light Division 17 February 1942.

Organization

''April 1941'' 15th Infantry Brigade (Kiskunhalas): * 20. Infantry Regiment (Kiskunhalas): Brigadier General Alajos Lemberkovits I. Battalion (Kiskunhalas); II. Battalion (Kalocsa); III. Battalion (Baja) * 15. Field Artillery Division (Kiskunhalas): Lieutenant Colonel Tamas Szirmay

Commanders

15th Infantry Brigade ( hu, 15. gyalogdosztály) * Brigadier General Lajos Veress (23 Jan 1939 - 1 Mar 1940) * Brigadier General Alajos Lemberkovits (1 Mar 1940 - 1 Aug 1941) * Colonel József Grassy (1 Aug 1941 - 17 Feb 1942) 15th Light Division ( hu, 15. könnyűhadosztály) * Colonel

József Grassy József Grassy (31 December 1894 – 5 November 1946) was a Hungarian military officer in the Royal Hungarian Army who, in the Second World War, commanded Hungarian divisions as an SS-'' Gruppenführer'' and ''Generalleutnant'' of the Waffen-SS. ...

(17 Feb 1942 - 1 Apr 1942) * Major General Pál Platthy (1 Apr 1942 - 1 Aug 1943) * Brigadier General József Vasváry (1 Aug 1943 - 10 Aug 1943)

Notes

References

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