9 e régiment d'infantry

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Regiment de Normandie
9 e regiment d'infanterie

Insigne régimentaire du 9e regiment d'infanterie.jpg

Internal association badge
active 1616 to 1999
Country Armoiries république française.svg France
Armed forces Flag of France.svg French armed forces
Armed forces Flag of France.svg Armée française de terre
Branch of service infantry
Type Infantry regiment
Location Reims
Patron saint Saint-Maurice d'Agaune
motto "Normandy en Avant!"
commander
commander Last: Colonel Testart

The 9 e régiment d'infanterie , abbreviated 9 e RI, was a regiment in the French army that existed from 1616 to 1999. It was one of the Six Grands Vieux of the six "great old regiments" in the army of the Ancien Régime .

Before regiment numbering was introduced on January 1, 1791, it was last named Régiment de Normandie in the royal French army .

Flag of the Regiment de Normandie (1616 - 1791)

List and name changes in chronological order

  • 1616: Established under the name Régiment de Normandie by the Maréchal de France Concini , Marquis d'Ancre from parts of the Bandes de Normandie .
  • 1776: The Régiment de Neustrie was established from the 1st and 3rd Battalions .
  • 1791: Renaming to: 9 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne .
  • 1793 First army reform The regiment was than 1 he bataillon (ci-devant Normandy) for 17 e demi-brigade de Bataille and 2 e bataillon (ci-devant Normandy) to 188 e demi-brigade de Bataille off. This ends the regimental association and the line of tradition.
  • 1803: Renaming of the “9 e demi-brigade d'infanterie de ligne” to 9 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne (de facto continuation of the regiment tradition).
  • 1814: During the first restoration , the name was changed to: Régiment de Bourbon .
  • 1815: During the reign of the Hundred Days , renamed: 9 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne .
  • July 16, 1815: The regiment was dismissed together with the other units of the Napoleonic Army.
  • August 11, 1815: Establishment of the 17 e légion du Cher and the 34 e légion de l'Indre .
  • The two incomplete territorial legions were merged under the name 9 e légion du Cher et de l'Indre .
  • 23 October 1820: The 9 e légion du Cher et de l'Indre became the 9 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne in Toulouse .
  • July monarchy  : 9 e régiment d'infanterie .
  • Second Republic and Second Empire : 9 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne .
  • During the Third Republic it finally became the 9th e régiment d'infanterie .
  • 1914: During the mobilization it set up the reserve regiment "209 e régiment d'infanterie".
  • 1929: dissolution
  • 1940: erected again on June 1st
  • 1940: disbanded on July 31st
  • 1956: On June 1, re-established as “9 e régiment de chasseurs parachutistes” and the 18 e régiment d'infanterie parachutiste de choc. (18th Infantry Airborne Assault Regiment) under.
  • 1999: In the one he régiment de chasseurs parachutistes incorporated.

Mestres de camp / Colonels

Mestre de camp was from 1569 to 1661 and from 1730 to 1780 the denomination of rank for the regiment holder and / or for the officer in charge of the regiment. The name "Colonel" was used from 1721 to 1730, from 1791 to 1793 and from 1803 onwards.

After 1791 there were no more regimental owners.

Should the Mestre de camp / Colonel 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”) or the “Colonel-lieutenant” or “Colonel en second”.

  • 1616: Comte de la Penne, son of Maréchal Concini , Marquis d'Ancre
  • 1617: Mestre de camp Charles Honoré d'Albert
  • 1699: Armand Desbordes, Comte d'Angennes († 1717)
  • November 15, 1717: Philippe Charles de La Fare (later Maréchal de France)
  • July 1753 to February 1762: Louis Nicolas de Péruse, Marquis d'Escars.
  • February 1762: Louis de Chastenet, Comte de Puységur
  • 1792: Colonel Jean-François Louis Picault Desdorides
  • 1794: Chef de brigade Cardon
  • 1796: Chef de brigade Marpete
  • 1796: Chef de brigade Simon Lefebvre
  • 1799: Chef de brigade Joseph Pepin

(...)

  • 1804: Colonel Joseph Pepin (later Général de brigade )
  • 1808: Colonel Antoine Gallet
  • 1809: Colonel André Gouy
  • 1809: Colonel Victor Vautre
  • 1813: Colonel Nicolas Broussier
  • ?
  • 1897–1903: Colonel François Léon Faure
  • March 23 - November 6, 1914: Colonel Pierre Georges Duport
  • December 1916 - May 1917: Commandant Castella

Colonels killed or wounded as regimental commander (1804–1815):

  • Colonel Gallet, died July 6, 1809.
  • Colonel Gouy, died on July 21, 1809 of his wounds after the battle of Wagram.
  • Colonel Vautre, wounded September 7, 1812.
  • Colonel Broussier, wounded March 4, 1814.

Officers of the regiment killed or wounded (1804–1815):

  • fallen: 24
  • died of her wounds: 15
  • wounded: 92

Royal Army Uniforms

  • Regiment de Normandy

  • 1720 to 1734

  • 1734 to 1757

  • Officer 1734 to 1757

  • 1757 to 1762

  • 1762 to 1767

  • 1767 to 1776

  • 1776 to 1779

  • 1779 to 1791

  • 9 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne 1791 to 1793

Battle calendar

Huguenot Wars

Franco-Spanish War

Expedition to North Africa

On July 2, 1664, the regiment, consisting of only four companies (after the end of the war against Spain had been massively disarmed and personnel reduced), was embarked in Toulon. The association was under the command of François de Bourbon-Vendôme, duc de Beaufort and still consisted of the Régiment de Normandie , Régiment de Picardie , Régiment de Navarre and Régiment Royal des Vaisseaux . On June 22nd, the small fleet appeared on the Algerian coast and occupied the city of Jijel . This expedition, however, was a total failure. Diseases decimated the troops to such an extent that the duc de Beaufort finally had to order a retreat. Jijel was left on October 5th and the journey back to Toulon began.

The regiment was then transferred to the Antilles .

Dutch War

  • 1672: Work on the fortification of the siege of Zutphen begins .

War of the Spanish Succession

  • 1709: together with the de La Couronne and Artois regiments , it was used to combat irregular Spanish troops, the so-called miquelets , in Roussillon .
  • 1714 : on July 12th, the ditches open, together with the Régiment d'Artois, in front of Barcelona

War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748)

Seven Years War

On October 16, 1760, the regiment was involved in the victory in the battle of Kampen Abbey over the British-Hanoverian troops, who then had to give up the siege of Wesel . However, it lost its flag to the British cavalry.

  • 1761: Part of the Corps des Comte de Stainville, which brought up the rear in December. Then it returned to garrison service in Normandy .

Wars of the Revolution and the First Empire

  • 1791: The five old regiments (cinq "vieux corps") were split up and renamed. The former regiment Normandie became the 9 e régiment d'infantry and after Saint-Domingue laid.
  • 1791: Fighting during the Haitian Revolution
  • 1793: Siege of Mainz

Between 1794 and 1803 there was no 9th infantry regiment due to the premier amalgams

Battle of Wagram

July 25th and 27th: Battle of Ostrowno ,
Battle of the Berezina ,
Battle of Malojaroslavets ,
Battle of Vyazma ,
in Dorogobusch
Battle of Krasnoye
  • 1813:
Fights at Venzone and Bassano del Grappa
  • 1814:
Battle of the Mincio
Fight in Parma
  • 1815:
Reconnaissance Corps in the Var

restoration

Second empire

On August 1, 1870, the regiment was assigned to the Armée du Rhin under Colonel Roux. Together with the 14 e régiment d'infantry there was formed the 1st Brigade under command of General Noël (later Général Archinard) which, together with the 2nd Brigade, two four-pounder artillery batteries, a Mitrailleusekompanie and a pioneer company, the 2nd infantry Division under Général de division Bisson formed. The division belonged to the 6th Army Corps of Maréchal Certain-Canrobert.

  • Battle of Gravelotte
  • On August 16, 1870, the 4th battalion formed the “5e régiment de marche” (5th march regiment) from arriving reservists and surplus soldiers. It belonged to the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division in the 13th Army Corps.

The regiment was destroyed in this war.

Third Republic

First World War

1914

Garrison: Agen From August 1914 to November 1918 the regiment belonged to the "33 e division d'infanterie" (German: 33rd Infantry Division)

  • 22: August: Fights near Forêt de Luchy and the Meuse.
  • 5th - 12th September: First Battle of the Marne
  • Battle of Champagne:
    • December 20th: Fight at les Hurlus
    • December 28th: ​​Trench warfare in the Tranchée Blanche

1915

1916

1917

  • Trench warfare on the Marne near Moronvilliers and Le Téton

1918

Interwar period

  • Before the dissolution in 1929, the regiment was still deployed in Lebanon and Syria from 1925 to 1926 .

Second World War

  • On June 1, 1940, the regiment from the personnel of the "Groupement d'unités d'instruction n ° 11" (German: 11th group of training units) by the "Center mobilisateur d'infanterie 112"; Type Réserve A installed. It consisted of three battalions, the 14th Company was equipped as a division tank destroyer company. The regiment was the "235. Light Infantry Division "assigned.
  • It was not involved in combat operations and was disbanded at the end of the same month.
Memorial to the fallen of the regiment in Saint-Masmes (north of Reims )

post war period

  • On June 1, 1956, it was re-established as the 9th Paratrooper Regiment and used in Algeria.

Regimental flag of the 9 e RI

Flag of the regiment

On the back of the regimental flag (since Napoleonic times) the campaigns and battles in which the regiment took part are listed in gold letters.

  • Inscriptions
Austerlitz 1805
Wagram 1809
La Moskova 1812
Sébastopol 1856
Verdun 1916
Soissonnais 1918
L'Ailette 1918
AFN 1952-1962

Awards

The flag ribbon is decorated with the Croix de guerre 1914-1918 with three three palm branches for honorable mentions in the daily orders of the army, a gold-plated star for an honorable mention in the daily orders of the army corps and a silver-plated star for an honorable mention in the daily orders of the division. Furthermore, the regiment was awarded the gold medal of the city of Milan for participating in the Battle of Solferino .

  • Fourragère des Croix de Guerre

  • Croix de guerre 1914–1918 with three palm branches, a gold star and a silver star

  • Gold Medal of the City of Milan

The members of the regiment had (or have) the right to wear the Fourragère des Croix de guerre 1914-1918.

Motto

Normandie en avant
(Forward Normandy)

Remarks

  1. ^ Favorite of Maria di Medici
  2. ↑ which had nothing to do with the previous 9 e regiment d'infanterie
  3. ↑ 9th Paratrooper Regiment
  4. ^ Beginning of the siege work
  5. ↑ "Opération du 13e corps d'armée et de la 3e armée durant le Siège de Paris (1870)" by Général Vinoy, pp. 7 and 15
  6. ↑ increvablesanarchistes.org , consulté le 3 août 2008
  7. ↑ «  Décision n ° 12350 / SGA / DPMA / SHD / DAT du 14 September 2007 relative aux inscriptions de noms de batailles sur les drapeaux et étendards des corps de troupe de l'armée de terre, du service de santé des armées et du service des essences des armées, Bulletin officiel des armées, n ° 27, 9 November 2007  »(German:“ Provision n ° 12350 / SGA / DPMA / SHD / DAT of September 14, 2007 on the appearance of the inscriptions on the flags and standards of the Troops of the army, the medical service and the fuel supply branch. Published with the official army bulletin No. 27 of November 9, 2007 ")
  8. ↑ "  Arrêté relatif à l'attribution de l'inscription AFN 1952–1962 sur les drapeaux et étendards des formations des armées et services, du 19 novembre 2004 (A) NORDEF0452926A Michèle Alliot-Marie  " (German: "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 Michèle Alliot-Marie ")
  9. ↑ This also applies to units that have already been disbanded, as they can (theoretically) be put back into active service at any time
  10. ↑ according to French practice, a unit with this name can be set up again at any time,

Web links

Commons : Flags of the 9 ° regiment d'infanterie  - collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

  • Archives militaires du Château de Vincennes.
  • Taken from: "Recueil d'Historiques de l'Infanterie Française" by Général Andolenko - Eurimprim 1969.