6 e régiment de dragons

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Régiment la Reine Dragons
6 e régiment de dragons

Badge of the regiment

Internal association badge
active September 14, 1673 to 1992
Country FranceFrance France
Armed forces Armoiries république française.svg French armed forces
Armed forces Armoiries république française.svg Armée française de terre
Branch of service Armored force
Type Dragoon Regiment
motto "Mort au champ d'honneur"
Awards Croix de guerre 1914–1918 with a palm branch
Croix de guerre 1939–1945 with a palm branch
commander
commander Last: Lieutenant-Colonel Riedinger
Standard (until 1791)
Uniform of the regiment from 1762 - 1763
Uniform of the 1776 regiment
Uniform of the 1791 regiment

The Régiment la Reine dragons - then 6 e régiment de dragons ( 6 e RD ) was an association of French cavalry established in 1673. It doesn't exist anymore.

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  • September 14, 1673: Established as the Régiment d'Hocquincourt
  • 1675: Renamed the Régiment des dragons de la Reine
  • 1791: Renamed the 6e régiment de dragons
  • 1814: Renamed Dragons de Monsieur
  • 1815: Renamed 6e régiment de dragons , (dissolved after the rule of the Hundred Days )
  • 1816: Re-established as Dragons de la Loire
  • 1825: Renamed the 6e régiment de dragons
  • 1940: dissolved
  • 1951: Re-established as the 6e régiment de dragons
  • 1960: Converted into a training center (Center d'instruction) for the AMX-13 tank
  • 1963: Disbanded
  • 1964: Re-established as 6e régiment de dragons (from parts of the 3e régiment de spahis algériens )
  • 1992: dissolved

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.

  • 1673: Mestre de camp Charles de Monchy d'Hocquincourt - killed on July 25, 1675 during the attack on the church of Gramshusen ( Dutch War )
  • 1791: Colonel - Louis-Marthe de Gouy d'Arsy -
  • 1792: Colonel - Marc Pierre de la Turmeliere
  • 1792: Colonel - Blaise Duval
  • 1792: Colonel - Jacques Louis François Delaistre Tilly
  • 1793: Chef de brigade François Philibert Michel Pelicot
  • 1794: Chef de brigade - François Jourdan
  • 1794: Chef de brigade - Vincent (?)
  • 1794: Chef de brigade - Jean-Louis-François Fauconnet
  • 1796: Chef de brigade and Colonel 1803 - Jacques Lebaron
  • 1807: Colonel - Cyrille-Simon Picquet
  • 1813: Colonel - Claude Mugnier
  • 1814: Colonel - Jean-Baptiste Saviot
  • ?
  • 1855: Colonel - Jean Jacques Paul Félix Ressayre
  • ?
  • 1963–1964: Lieutenant-colonel - Jeannerod
  • 1965: Lieutenant colonel - Lediberder
  • 1967: Colonel - Fournier
  • 1969: Lieutenant colonel - O'Delant
  • 1971: Colonel - Maillard
  • 1972: Lieutenant colonel - Carabin
  • 1974: Colonel - Delcourt
  • 1976: Lieutenant colonel - de Cotton
  • 1978: Lieutenant colonel - Thiébaut
  • 1980-1982: Colonel Burel
  • 1982-1984: Colonel Winckel
  • 1984-1986: Colonel Cailloux
  • 1986-1988: Colonel Lefebvre
  • 1988-1991: Colonel Francon
  • 1991–1992: Lieutenant-Colonel Riedinger

Until then, the regiment commander:

  • the Chef de brigade Vincent: died April 26, 1794
  • Colonel Lebaron: died February 6, 1807
  • Colonel Picquet: wounded July 11, 1812

Ancien régime

On September 14, 1673, a regiment of dragons was established by royal decree by the Chevalier d'Hocquincourt in the French fortress of Philippsburg , which initially bore the name "Règiment de drangons d'Hocquincourt". Two years later it was designated as the body regiment of Queen Marie-Thérèse and renamed the "Régiment dragons de la Reine". Thereafter, the respective queen was the regiment owner or honorary colonel of the regiment until 1791 .

It consisted of four escadrons of two companies each. Each company had a captain , two lieutenants, and fifty to sixty dragoons .

The number of personnel changed analogously to the state of peace or war and was also dependent on the respective royal orders.

May 11, 1745: Battle of Fontenoy

In 1787 the regiment was garrisoned in Verdun

French Revolution | Revolution and First Empire

Battle of Jena , battles near Scheltz , Zehdenick , Prenzlau , Bieżuń
Member of the Armée de Rhin-et-Moselle (Rhine-Moselle Army)
Campaign to Germany, Battle of the Nations near Leipzig

1815-1848

k. A.

Second Republic and Second Empire

  • Participation in the Crimean War
    • Battle of Kanghil 1855

First World War

  • When the war broke out, the regiment was stationed in Vincennes , it was part of the "5 e brigade de dragons" (5th Dragoon Brigade). From August 1914 to November 1918 this was subordinate to the "1 e division de cavalerie" (1st cavalry division).

1914

1915

the light group fought at Gancourt and Roclincourt

1916

That year the dragoons gave up their horses and were used in trench warfare in the Artois and on the Somme

the easy group was in the Compiègne section

1917

  • Fight on the Oise
  • During the period of unrest and mutinies , three brigades of dragoons were sent to Paris and major industrial centers to provide security. Here they guarded railway stations and ammunition depots, among other things.
  • Fight on the Aisne

1918

  • Operations north of the Oise Marne and Champagne

Second World War

The regiment fought to the armistice and was then disbanded

Original equipment tank

After 1945

  • The regiment was re-established in Besançon in 1951 and converted into a training center (Center d'instruction) for the AMX-13 tank destroyer in 1960 . In 1964 it was given its old task and name again.
  • It was then stationed from 1964 to 1978 in Lachen-Speyerdorf, a district of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . Until 1972 the main weapon system consisted of the AMX-13 , after which it was converted to the AMX-30 .
  • In 1978 the regiment moved to Saarburg , where it remained until it was dissolved. It belonged to one he division blindée (1st Armored Division).

On July 1, 1977, the brigade units were disbanded and the tank regiments directly subordinated to the remaining tank divisions. The 6 e RD now belonged to the division troops of the "1 e division blindé" in Trier.

After the 3rd Escadron in October 1980, the 1st Escadron was also handed over to Berlin in February 1981 to set up the 11th e régiment de chasseurs à cheval .

With the establishment of the "Force d'action rapide" (rapid reaction forces) in 1984, a reorganization of the army became necessary. The 1977 model division was reformed, which meant the loss of the 5th Escadron from the armored regiments. At the same time, the number of main battle tanks per platoon was reduced to four. From then on, each tank squadron had three platoons of mechanized infantry with four wheeled armored vehicles VAB as security and cover.

Due to German reunification and the associated reduction in troops in Europe, the regiment was disbanded on July 31, 1992.

The last used tank type AMX-30 B

At this point the regiment existed:

  • Escadron de Commandement et des Services (Staff and Supply Cadron)
  • 1 e escardon (four platoons of four battle tanks each and one infantry security platoon + one chief tank)
  • 2 e escardon (four platoons of four battle tanks each and one infantry security platoon + one chief tank)
  • 3 e escardon (four platoons of four battle tanks each and one infantry security platoon + one chief tank)
  • 4 e escardon (four platoons of four battle tanks each and one infantry security platoon + one chief tank)
    • Total
70 main battle tanks including a commander tank and a transfer vehicle
2 AMX10 PC (command vehicles)
3 AMX30Dépannage (armored recovery vehicles) with the names «Athos», «Porthos» and «Aramis»
23 VAB (including three command vehicles )

The workforce was:

28 officers
157 NCOs (including three women)
237 teams
1 French civilian employee
9 civilian employees with foreign citizenship

Material and personnel were divided between the 3 e and 5 e régiment de dragons and the 4 e régiment de cuirassiers (la Reine Cavalerie).

The regiment had two sponsorships with foreign units, it was the German "Panzerbataillon 14" in Hildesheim and the Belgian 2nd regiment Jagers te Paard (hunters on horseback) in Lüdenscheid.

Inscriptions on the standard

The back of the regiment's standard bears the names of the battles in which it has honored in gold letters:

  • Valmy 1792
  • Marengo 1800
  • Austerlitz 1805
  • Friedland 1807
  • Kanghil 1855
  • L'Yser 1914
  • Picardy 1918

Awards

  • The ribbon of the standard is decorated with the Croix de guerre from 1914 to 1918 with a palm branch and with the Croix de guerre 1939–1945 with a palm branch.

Motto

"Mort au champ d'honneur" (To die in the field of honor)

Known members of the regiment

Thomas Alexandre Dumas
Jean Louis Brigitte Espagne
Louis Chrétien Carrière de Beaumont
Joseph Piston

Uniforms of the Ancien Régime

Commons : Uniforms of La Reine Dragoons  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German: 6th Dragoon Regiment
  2. ^ D'Hocquincourt was also the first mestre de camp (commander) of the regiment
  3. ↑ Michel Roucaud, "Le récit méconnu de la Bataille d'Austerlitz par le maréchal Alexandre Berthier: avortée une relation officielle" paru dans la Revue historique des armées no 238, 2005, disponible en ligne.
  4. ↑ Source par le général de brigade Philippe Peress 31, rue Hoche 49400 Saumur .
  5. ↑ 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, 9 November 2007
  6. ^ 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

literature

  • Historiques of the corps de troupe de l'armée française (1569–1900) . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1900 (on behalf of the Ministère de la Guerre)
  • Serge Andolenko : Recueil d'historique de l'arme blindée et de la cavalerie . Eurimprin, Paris 1968.
  • Historiques of the corps de troupe de l'armée française (1569–1900) . Berger-Levrault, Paris 1900 (on behalf of the Ministère de la Guerre)
  • Suzane (général), Histoire de la cavalerie française . Dumaine, Paris 1874 (3 vol.)
  • Historique succinct par le Lt colonel (H) Henri Azema et la participation du Lt colonel (ER) Guy Besson.

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