6 e regiment de cuirassiers

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Régiment du Roi cavalerie
6 e Régiment de Cuirassiers

Insigne régimentaire du 6e Régiment de Cuirassier.s.jpg

Internal association badge
active 1635 to 2009
Country Armoiries république française.svg France
Armed forces Flag of France.svg French armed forces
Armed forces Flag of France.svg French army
Branch of service Cuirassiers
Type Panzer Regiment
Insinuation 2 e brigade blindée
("2nd Armored Brigade")
Location Olivet
Patron saint Saint Georges de Lydda
motto "Toujours debout"

The 6 e régiment de cuirassiers ("6th cuirassier regiment") was an association of the French armored forces . Set up as a dragoon in 1635 , transferred to the heavy cavalry in 1646 and converted to cuirassiers with this in 1803 , the regiment was mechanized shortly before the Second World War and then equipped with tanks . Until its final dissolution in 1994, it served France in almost all of its wars.

Surname

  • 1635: Established as "dragons du cardinal" by Cardinal Richelieu
  • 1638: " Fusiliers à cheval de son eminence" ( Mounted Fusiliers of the Cardinal )
  • 1643: "fusiliers à cheval du Roi" (due to the assumption of ownership by the king after the cardinal's death in the previous year)
  • 1646: "regiment du roi-cavalerie" (after being taken over into the line cavalry )
  • January 1, 1791: "6 e régiment de cavalerie" (due to the abolition of all aristocratic regimental names)
  • 1803: "6 e régiment de cuirassiers" (due to the conversion of line cavalry into cuirassiers)
  • 1814: "régiment colonel-général" (during the first restoration )
  • 1815: "régiment de Condé-cavalerie" (by merging with the " 3 e régiment de cuirassiers " during the second restoration)
  • 1830: "6 e régiment de cuirassiers"
  • 1942 to 1943 and 1944 to 1951: dissolved
  • 1951: "6 e régiment de cuirassiers"
  • 1963–1964: dissolved
  • 1964: 6 e régiment de cuirassiers (by converting the 8 e régiment de dragons )
  • 1994: "6 e -12 e régiment de cuirassiers" (by merging with the " 12 e régiment de cuirassiers " while internal continuation of the respective tradition of both regiments by "Groupe d'Escadrons cuirassiers")
  • July 19, 2009: Separation of parts of the “6 e régiment de cuirassiers” and dissolution in Saumur .

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 (e.g. 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.

  • 1791: Colonel Charles-Francois-Marie-Joseph de Dorthan
  • 1791: Colonel de Beaurecueil
  • 1792: Colonel de la Hitte
  • 1792: Colonel Duverger
  • 1792: Colonel Jacques Marie Joseph Conigliano-Carenthal
  • 1793: Chef de brigade Tardieu
  • 1794: Chef de brigade Pelletier
  • 1799: Chef de brigade (from 1803 Colonel) Cacatte
  • 1805: Colonel Rioult d'Avenay
  • 1807: Colonel d'Haugéranville
  • 1809: Colonel Isidore Martin

...

  • 1848: Colonel Salle
  • 1854: Colonel Crespin
  • 1856: Colonel Bonnard de Brosse de Labarge
  • 1859: Colonel de Laroque Latour
  • 1866: Colonel Martin
  • 1871: Colonel Dulac
  • 1879: Colonel Thibault de la Rochethulon
  • 1876: Colonel Thomas
  • 1882: Colonel Bossan
  • 1884: Colonel Haubt
  • 1892: Lieutenant-Colonel Rouvray
  • 1900: Colonel Petit
  • 1905: Colonel Rossignol
  • 1911: Colonel de Place

...

  • 1972: Lieutenant-Colonel, then Colonel Rinjonneau
  • 1974: Colonel Gamache
  • 1976: Lieutenant-Colonel Soulet
  • 1978: Colonel Stibio (Couvron, Olivet)
  • 1980: Lieutenant-Colonel, then Colonel de Ravinel
  • 1982: Lieutenant-Colonel, then Colonel Triquiniaud
  • 1984: Colonel Pougin de la Maisonneuve
  • 1986: Lieutenant-Colonel, then Colonel Raynaud

garrison

Battle calendar

War of the Fronde

Ancien Régime

1745: Battle of Fontenoy
1760: Battle near Korbach

French Revolutionary Wars (1792 to 1815)

Restoration (1815 to 1848)

Second empire

First World War

Swearing-in of the regiment's recruits in the courtyard of the École militaire , painting by Louis Auguste Loustaunau, 1887.

After the long period of peace from 1871, the regiment took part in the following actions during the First World War:

  • mobilization
The 6 e cuir - the abbreviation used in French military jargon - was assigned to the 4 e division de cavalerie under Général Abo during the partial mobilization on July 30, 1914 . Together with the 3 e cuirassiers , it formed the 3 e Brigade de Cuirassiers . The units were preparing for a possible general mobilization. On July 31, the regiment marched east and arrived at Billy-sous-Mangienne on the Meuse , where it was on standby until August 6, the day of general mobilization and the declaration of war .
  • August 1914
Battle of the Ardennes
Battle of St. Quentin (1914)
  • September 1914
First battle of the Marne
  • October - November 1914
Fight in the Artois
First Battle of Flanders
  • December 1914 - February 1915
Trench warfare in Flanders
  • April - September 1915
Trench warfare in the Artois
  • September - October 1915
Autumn battle in Champagne
  • October 1915 - June 1916
Trench warfare in Champagne
  • June - September 1916
Battle of the Somme
  • November 1916
Trench warfare on the Somme
  • December 1916 - January 1917
Fight on the Aisne
  • January - March 1917
Relocation to Provins for training
  • April 1917
Battle of Arras (1917)
  • May - November 1917
Trench warfare in Champagne
  • November - December 1917
Battle of Cambrai
  • December 1917 - January 1918
Trench warfare in Champagne
  • Late March - early April 1918
Battle of the Avre
  • Late May - early June 1918
Battle of the Chemin des Dames
  • July 1918
Battle of Soissons
  • August 1918
Battle of Montdidier
  • September - November 1918
Fight in Flanders
  • November 1918 - March 1919
After the armistice, the regiment followed the withdrawing German troops through Belgium, passed Brussels on November 21, Liège on December 2 and finally reached the Rhine via Aachen, where it was assigned to the occupation army. On March 24, 1919, the unit in Bingen was awarded the Fourragère by the Général Mangin for being mentioned twice in the army report.

The regiment recorded the following dead:

007 officers
013 NCOs
007 brigadiers
105 riders

Interwar period

From July 1935, the regiment, together with the 4 e régiment de dragons portés and the 74 e régiment d'artillerie, formed the 2nd brigade of the 4 e division de cavalerie, which had been transformed into the 1 re division légère mécanique as a prototype of a motorized division .

Second World War

The regiment took part in World War II and was temporarily disbanded in 1942, reorganized in 1943 and disbanded again in 1944.

post war period

Set up again in 1951, 6 e Cuir relocated from its Camp de Sissonne location to Algeria in the Mondovi area during the Algerian War and converted into a marching battalion. At the end of the war it was initially equipped with captured Panther tanks (Ausf. A & G.) At the end of 1956 and beginning of 1957, it was given back its old status as a cavalry regiment. The regimental headquarters were in Guebar. In 1963 the relocation to France took place, then the regiment in Sissonne was disbanded and the personnel was divided between other cavalry regiments.

On February 1, 1964, the 8 e régiment de dragons in Saarburg was converted into a cuirassier regiment and was given the name 6 e régiment de cuirassiers . It took part in NATO maneuvers in Münsingen , Sissonne, Mailly and in Baumholder .

In 1994 it was merged with the 12 e régiment de cuirassiers to form the 6 e -12 e Régiment de Cuirassiers , the tradition of the regiment was continued by the Groupe d'escadrons-6 e cuirassiers . After the detachment of the component of the 6 cuirassiers, the regiment that was now active again was disbanded on July 19 at the armored troop school in Saumur.

Large device

In 1964, the regiment had three Escadrons with M47 tanks , one Escadron with AMX 13 D rocket tank destroyers , and a staff and supply cadron. In 1969 the regiment was converted to 52 AMX-30 main battle tanks in four Escadrons and 12 AMX-10 P armored personnel carriers in the 5th Escadron. Then there was the staff and supply squadron. When it was disbanded, the regiment was equipped with the Leclerc battle tank.

Inscriptions on the standard

Standard of the regiment

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

  • FLEURUS 1794
  • HOHENLINDEN 1800
  • WAGRAM 1809
  • MOSKOWA 1812
  • L'AVRE 1918
  • L'AISNE 1918
  • MONTDIDIER 1918
  • AFN 1952-1962

Awards

  • The flag ribbon is decorated with:
the Croix de guerre 1914–1918 , with two palm branches and a gold-plated starCroix de Guerre 1914 1918.jpg
the Croix de guerre 1939-1945 with a palm branch Croix-de-guerre-contraste-IMG 0949.jpg
  • The members of the regiment have the right to wear the Fourragère in the colors of the Croix de guerre 1914–1918.

Uniforms of the Ancien Régime

  • around 1740

  • Uniform 1757–1762

  • Uniform 1762–1767

  • Uniform 1767–1776

  • Uniform 1776–1779

  • Uniform 1779–1786

  • Uniform 1786–1791

  • Uniform 1791–1792

Standards of the Ancien Régime

  • Front page to 1739

  • Front from 1739 to the beginning of the Seven Years' War

  • Back to the beginning of the Seven Years' War

  • Front from the Seven Years War

literature

  • Général de brigade Philippe Peress 31, rue Hoche 49400 Saumur .
  • Musée des Blindés ou Association des Amis du Musée des Blindés 1043, route de Fontevraud, 49400 Saumur.
  • Henri le Pointe: Historique deu 6e régiment de cuirassiers 1635 à 1912 . Pitault / Paris undated

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ http://www.chars-francais.net/2015/index.php/engins-blindes/chars?task=view&id=76
  2. ↑ Quasi to the half regiment
  3. ↑ Regulation 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 , number 27, November 9, 2007.
  4. ^ Decree on the assignment of the inscription AFN 1952–1962 on the flags and standards of the army units and services of November 19, 2004 (A) NORDEF0452926A Michèle Alliot-Marie