4 ^e regiment de chasseurs

Régiment de Nancré dragons Régiment de Franche-Comté chasseurs 4 e régiment de chasseurs à cheval 4 e régiment de chasseurs
Internal association badge
Lineup	1675
Country	France
Armed forces	French armed forces
Armed forces	Armée française de terre
Branch of service	Mountain troop
Strength	650
Insinuation	27 e brigade d'infanterie de montagne
Location	Quartier Général Guillaume, 05014 Gap, France
motto	Toujours prêt, toujours volontaire
Awards	Croix de guerre 1914–1918 with three palm branches and a silver star Croix de guerre 1939–1945 with a palm branch
commander
commander	Colonel de Thieulloy (since 2017)
Important commanders	Mestre de camp Claude Antoine de Dreux

The former Régiment de Nancré dragons - currently 4 ^e régiment de chasseurs (4 ^e RC - 4th Jägerregiment) - is a French regiment that was set up in 1675 as a dragoon regiment. Today it is an association of light cavalry. The regiment is on active service and is the armored regiment of the 27 ^e brigade d'infanterie de montagne (27th Mountain Infantry Brigade) in Varces . The members of the regiment wear the beret of the mountain troops.

Chasseur à cheval during the First Empire

history

The forerunners of the regiment were:

• the "Régiment de Nancré dragons", established in 1675 by Claude Antoine de Dreux
• the "Régiment des volontaires étrangers de Clermont-Prince", drawn up in 1758 by Louis de Bourbon-Condé , comte de Clermont
• 1779: Conversion of the two regiments into the "4 ^e régiment de chasseurs à cheval"
• 1788: Renamed "Régiment des chasseurs à cheval de Franche-Comté"
• 1791: Renamed "4 ^e régiment de chasseurs à cheval" under the command of Colonel Maumigny de Verneuil
• 1814: Renamed "Régiment des chasseurs à cheval de Monsieur"
• 1815: re-established as "4 ^e régiment de chasseurs à cheval"
• 1815: dissolution
• 1816: Listed as "Chasseurs à cheval d'Ariège"
• 1825: renamed "4 ^e régiment de chasseurs à cheval"
• 1831: Dissolution and reorganization as "4 ^e régiment de chasseurs à cheval"
• 1921: dissolution
• 1939/1940: re-established as “4 ^e régiment de chasseurs à cheval” and renaming on February 2 to “4 ^e régiment d'automitrailleuses” (4th armored car regiment).
• 1940: dissolution
• 1954: On July 1, 1954, the unit was re-established as the "4 ^e régiment de chasseurs". It received the status of a reconnaissance regiment and was assigned to the "14 ^e division d'infanterie" (14th infantry division). This was intended for use in Indochina .

Garrisons

• 1848-1850: Libourne
• 1882: Bruyères
• 1887: Saint Germain en Laye
• 1894–1921: Marseille ?, Épinal
• 10-30 July 1940: Vic-le-Comte
• 1st - 19th July 1954: Reutlingen
• May 1954–1955: in Tunisia in the Bou Ficha region, then in the Kaïrouan region
• May 1955 – January 1960: Algeria (staff in Chelghoum Laïd, escadrons in Aïn M'lila and Oued-Athménia)
• January 1960 – July 1962: Algeria (Lamy region, then Kouif)
• July – October 1962: Algeria (Tebessa region, then Morsott)
• October 1962 – February 1963: Algeria (La Calle region, staff in Combes)
• February 10, 1963-30. June 1983: Béligneux ( Valbonne , 27 ^e DA)
• July 1, 1983: Gap (Hautes-Alpes)

Mestres de camp / Colonels / Chefs de brigade

Mestre de camp was the rank designation for the regimental owner and / or the actual commander. Should the mestre de camp be a person of the high nobility who had no interest in leading the regiment (such as the king or queen), the command was given to the mestre de camp lieutenant (or Mestre de camp en second). The name "Colonel" was used from 1791 to 1793 and from 1803, from 1793 to 1803 the name Chef de brigade was used . From 1791 there were no more regimental owners.

• as Nancré-dragons

1676: Mestre de camp de Bursard

1681: Mestre de camp de Philibert-Emmanuel de Froulay de Tessé

1692: Mestre de camp de Sennectère

1705: Mestre de camp de Belabre

1727: Mestre de camp de Plébo

1729: Mestre de camp de Nicolaï

1744: Mestre de camp de Bartillat

1748: Mestre de camp d'Apchon

• as Volontaires de Clermont-Prince

1761: Mestre de camp de Nicolaï

1763: Mestre de camp de Lanan

1782: Mestre de camp Étienne Narcisse de Durfort

Revolution and First Empire

Hofgut Imsbach : Commemorative plaque from Charles Louis Narcisse Lapointe, 1807 Colonel of the regiment

1791: Colonel de Verneuil, Paul Maumigny

1791: Colonel de Jobal, Joseph François

1792: Colonel de Cadignan, Jean Baptiste Dupleix

1792: Colonel de Rossi, Hyacinthe Étienne Antoine Alexandre

1793: Chef de brigade Bregeot, Claude Hyacinthe

1794: Chef de brigade Scalfort, Nicolas Joseph

1802: Chef de brigade (1803 Colonel) Bruguière, Claude Denis Noël

1806: Colonel Lambert, Urbain François

1807: Colonel Lapointe, Charles Louis Narcisse

1809: Colonel Boulnois, Louis Jacques François

1813: Colonel de Villeneuve de Vence, Clément Louis Helion

1815: Colonel Desmichels, Louis Alexis

1815: Colonel Clary, François Joseph Marie

• Three officers of the regiment achieved the rank of "Général de Brigade"

Scalfort, Nicolas Joseph

Lambert, Urbain François

Boulnois, Louis Jacques François

• Regimental commanders killed or injured in fighting

Colonel Bruguière: killed October 28, 1806

Colonel Boulnois: Wounded August 14th and 19th, 1812

Colonel de Vence: wounded October 18th and 20th, 1813

• Number of officers killed or wounded between 1805 and 1815

fallen: 21

died of the wound: 1

wounded: 48

4 ^e régiment de chasseurs à cheval

1907: Colonel Labry de Monpoly

1914: Colonel Arthuis

4 ^e régiment d'automitrailleuses

1939: Lieutenant-Colonel Grevy

4 ^e regiment de chasseurs

1957: Colonel Alain de Boissieu

1958: Colonel de Saint Germain

1960: Colonel Mirabeau

1961: Colonel Raiffaud

1966: Lieutenant-Colonel Tilly

1971: Colonel Provensal

1973: Colonel Basteau

1975: Colonel Codet

1977: Colonel Iliou

1979: Colonel Lajouanie

1981: Colonel Barreau

1983: Colonel Dubost

1985: Colonel Peltier

1987: Colonel Pernet

1989: Colonel Fleuriot

1991: Colonel Dupety

1993: Colonel Langlois

1995: Colonel Epitalon

1997: Colonel Chefson

1999: Colonel de Langlois

2001: Colonel Barrau

2003: Colonel Lockhart

2005: Colonel Kolodziej

2007: Colonel Lemaire

2009: Colonel de Brebisson

2011: Colonel de Courrèges

2013–2015: Colonel Armel Dirou

2015-2017: Colonel Jean-Jacques Fatinet

2017-2019: Colonel Pierre de Thieulloy

Battle calendar

Ancien Régime

• 1684: Siege of Luxembourg
• 1688–1697: War of the Palatinate Succession
• 1701–1710: War of the Spanish Succession
• 1733–1735: War of the Polish Succession
• 1740–1748: War of the Austrian Succession
• 1756–1763: Seven Years War

Revolution / First Empire

• 1792 : with the Armée du Midi
• 1793 : Second battle near Weißenburg . When Fort Vauban surrendered in Alès , almost the entire regiment was captured by the Austrian troops.
• 1796 : An exchange of prisoners enables the regiment, which was assigned to the "Armée de Rhin-et-Moselle" and took part in the battle of Biberach , to be re-established.
• 1796–1797: Assignment to the Armée d'Italie (Italian Army) with participation in the Italian campaign (1796–1797)
• 1797–1798 : Used to put down the Vendée uprising
• 1799: with the "Armée du Nord" (also called "Batavian Army")
• 1800: Italian campaign under the command of Chef de brigade Jean-Auguste Carrié de Boissy
• 1803: Relocation to Martinique
• 1805 : at the "Armée d'Italie": Battle of Caldiero
• 1806–1807: Campaign against Prussia and Poland
• 1812: Campaign to Russia : Battle of Borodino , Battle of the Beresina
• 1813: Campaign in Germany: Battle of the Nations near Leipzig
• 1814: Campaign in France
• 1815: Campaign to Belgium: Battle of Ligny , Battle of Waterloo

After the final fall of Napoleon I , the regiment was disbanded and the riders were assigned to the "21 ^e bataillon de chasseurs à pied" (21st battalion hunters on foot).

restoration

• 1823: French invasion of Spain
• 1840: Campaign of conquest in Algeria

Second empire

• 1854–1859: Campaign of conquest in Algeria
• 1859: Sardinian War
• 1864–1868: Campaign of conquest in Algeria

During the Franco-Prussian War , the regiment was assigned to the Armée du Rhin (Rhine Army): Battle of Spichern

1871-1914

• 1871–1873: in Camp de Graves, Abbeville , Amiens
• 1873–1885: in Saint-Omer
• 1885–1914: in Compiègne

First World War

→ Main article : French cavalry in World War I

• When the war broke out, the regiment was in Épinal , it belonged to the "2 ^e brigade de cavalerie légère" (2nd light cavalry brigade). This was part of the "21 ^e corps d'armée" (21st Army Corps) in the "1 ^re Armée" (1st Army).
• For the years 1916/17 there is no reliable information about combat operations.

1914

7-30 August: Occupation of the Col de Bonhomme , Sainte Marie and Saales

August 25–4. September: Fights at Col de la Chipotte , at Hans, Urbeis and at Donon

6-13 September: First Battle of the Marne

1915

• Fight in the Artois

1918

• Fight on the Aisne

Interwar period

In 1921 the regiment was disbanded.

Second World War

• Campaign in France:

On February 3, 1940, the "4 ^e régiment de chasseurs à cheval" was renamed "4 ^e régiment d'automitrailleuses" (4 ^e RAM). Under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Grevy, the regiment became a reconnaissance unit for the "4 ^e division légère de cavalerie" (4th light cavalry division) and belonged to the "14 ^e brigade légère motorisée" (14th light motorized brigade). It fought in Champagne , Burgundy and south of the Loire . When the armistice was concluded, the regiment had only been in real action for two months, but had lost 795 men (including 29 officers). On July 10, 1940, the "4 ^e régiment de chasseurs à cheval" within the Vichy Army was reorganized again, but dissolved again at the end of the month.

Since 1954

On July 1, 1954, the former "4 ^e régiment de chasseurs à cheval" was reorganized as the "4 ^e régiment de chasseurs". It is again a reconnaissance regiment and was assigned to the "14 ^e division d'infanterie". This was originally intended to be used in Indochina , but was then moved to Tunis . Between 1954 and 1955 the regiment in Tunisia was mainly concerned with maintaining the military infrastructure. On October 14, 1962, the largest armored unit of the French army in Algeria left the country and returned to France.

In February 1963, the regiment moved into its garrison in “La Valbonne dans l'Ain” in the “Quartier Maréchal des Logis de Langlade” barracks. In 1983 it was moved to Gap in the "Quartier Général Guillaume" barracks, which at that time was one of the most modern barracks in Europe.

equipment

The regiment has:

• ? AMX-10 RC R
• 36 ERC-90 saga
• 20 Véhicules de l'avant blindés (VAB)
• 72 Véhicules Blindés Légers (VBL)
• 2 BV 206 D / S
• 8 snowmobiles
• 6 Aérospatiales SA 341/342
• as well as several unarmored transport vehicles (Renault GBC 180, Renault TRM 2000 , Peugeot P4 )
• and repair and recovery vehicles (GBC180 Lot7, TRM10000 CLD)

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  AMX-10 RCR

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  ERC-90 saga

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  VAB T-20/13

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  BV 206 D / S

tasks

The unit is a light tank regiment and subordinated to the "27 ^e brigade d'infanterie de montagne - 27 ^e BIM" (27th mountain brigade). It has the tasks:

conduct violent reconnaissance quickly and accurately

secure operational spaces

The regiment also operates in crisis areas such as Côte-d'Ivoire , Chad , Kosovo and Senegal . It is also used in Afghanistan; among other things to train the Afghan army.

structure

• 3 armored escadrons
• 1 reconnaissance and anti-tank squadron
• 1 staff and supply cadron
• 1 reserve cadron

All protected vehicles in the regiment are wheeled vehicles. Armored tracked vehicles are not used.

From 1965 to 1983 the regiment was subordinated to the 13th ^e régiment de chasseurs à cheval as a junior regiment.

address

4 ^e régiment de chasseurs
Quartier Général Guillaume
BP 158
05014 Gap CEDEX
Tel. [phone]

Inscriptions on the standard

The regiment's standard bears the names of the battles in which it has honored in gold letters on the reverse.

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Awards

The ribbon of the standard is decorated with the Croix de guerre from 1914–1918 with three palm branches and a silver star, the Croix de guerre from 1939–1945 with a palm branch and the gold medal of the city of Milan.

Motto

The regiment's motto is:

Toujours prêt, toujours volontaire
(Always ready - and always voluntary)

Known members of the regiment

• Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey, Maréchal de France , head of the 1st Escadron in 1887
• Capitaine Xavier de Cacqueray-Valménier, fell at the helm of the 3rd Escadron on September 28, 1958 in Oued-Athménia
• Ismael de Lesseps, son of Ferdinand de Lesseps , brigadier in the 1st Escadron

literature

• Roland Jehan, Jean-Philippe Lecce: Encyclopédie des insignes de l'Arme Blindée Cavalerie. Volume II: Les chasseurs à cheval. Cheminements Éditions, 2008, ISBN 978-2-84478-708-8 .
• Pascal Adrien: Histoire de l'armée et de tous les régiments, depuis les premiers temps de la monarchie française. A. Barbier, 1850.

Web links

• Les chasseurs à cheval. Deux siècles d'histoire. 1ère époque, derniers venus dans la Cavalerie de la monarchie ( Memento of May 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Histoire des chasseurs
• Hubert Lyautey (1854–1934) ( Memento from May 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Chemins de mémoire. Ed .: Ministère de la defense et des anciens combattants
• 4th regiment de chasseurs. In: Armée de terre. Ed .: Ministère des armées

Remarks

1. ↑ The hunters on horseback only had one number at this point.
2. ↑ have been replaced by AMX-10 RCR since 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The provision no. 12350 / SGA / DPMA / SHD / DAT of September 14, 2007 regulates the inscriptions on the standards of the troops of the army, the medical service and the fuel supply service (Service des essences des armées). The basis is the Bulletin officiel des armées , No. 27, November 9, 2007.
2. ^ Order AFN 1952–1962 on the assignment of the inscriptions on the flags and standards of the formations of the army and the services of November 19, 2004 (A) NORDEF0452926A by Michèle Alliot-Marie.