61 e régiment d'infantry

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Régiment de Vermandois
61 e regiment d'infanterie

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Union badge of the 61 e régiment d'infanterie
active 1669 to 1962
Country Blason France modern.svg Flag of France.svg France
Armed forces Blason France modern.svg Flag of France.svg french army
Armed forces infantry
Type regiment
Location Aix-en-Provence , Belle Isle
Patron saint Saint-Maurice d'Agaune
Regimental flag 1671 to 1791

The 61 e régiment d'infanterie was an association of French infantry. The regiment distinguished itself from its formation in all wars with French participation up to the First World War . It no longer exists today.

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

Lineup and significant changes

  • December 24, 1669: Listed as "Régiment de l'Amiral de France" and assigned as a maritime unit to the fleet in the Levant
  • after March 1671: transfer to the land forces and renaming to Régiment de Vermandois (after Louis de Bourbon , last Comte de Vermandois)
  • November 14, 1691: A company had to be handed over to the formation of the Régiment de Chartres .
  • January 1, 1791: Renamed 61 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne
  • October 10, 1794: Incorporation of the 1st Battalion into the "121 e demi-brigade de bataille" ( Premier amalgame )
  • June 19, 1795: The 2nd battalion was incorporated into the "122 e demi-brigade de bataille".
  • 1793: The "24 e demi-brigade de bataille", consisting of the following units , became the later successor to the Deuxième amalgame :
2. battalion of 12 e régiment d'infantry
3 e battalion de volontaires de la Somme
10 e bataillon de volontaires des réserves et bataillon de volontaires de réquisition de Saint-Omer

and the "138 e demi-brigade de bataille", consisting of the following units:

1. battalion of 31 e régiment d'infantry
1 he battalion de volontaires du Morbihan
8 e battalion de volontaires de la Manche

merged to form the 61 e demi-brigade d'infanterie de ligne .

  • 1803: The "61 e demi-brigade d'infanterie de ligne" was renamed the 61 e regiment d'infanterie de ligne .
  • 1914: During the mobilization, the reserve regiment , the "261 e régiment d'infanterie", was set up
  • June 11, 1919: dissolution
  • 1939: Re-erection because of the threat of war
  • June 1940: dissolution after the defeat of France and the Armistice of Compiègne (1940)
  • 1954: Re-erection for use in the Algerian War
  • 1962: Dissolution after the end of the Algerian War

Uniform in the Ancien Régime

  • 1720 to 1734

  • 1734 to 1762

  • 1762 to 1767

  • 1767 to 1776

  • 1776 to 1779

  • 1779 to 1791

  • 61 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne 1791 to 1792

  • 61 e régiment d'infanterie de ligne 1792 to 1795

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”.

  • December 24, 1669 : Charles de Goyon-Mattignon, comte de Gacé
  • November 1, 1674 : Charles-Auguste Goyon-Mattignon, comte de Gacé
  • March 29, 1689 : de Seiglières-Belleforière, marquis de Soyecourt
  • July 16, 1690 : Armand de Béthune, marquis de Charost
  • May 5, 1696 : Antoine de La Vove, marquis de Tourouvre
  • January 1705 : de La Vove, chevalier de Tourouvre
  • July 27, 1709 : François-Lazare Thomassin, marquis de Saint-Paul
  • August 26, 1733 : Louis Antoine, comte de l'Esparre de Gramont
  • March 10, 1734 : Louis Marie Bretagne Dominique de Rohan-Chabot, duc de Rohan
  • April 16, 1738 : Colonel Armand Henri, marquis de Clermont-Gallerande
  • February 21, 1740 : Colonel de Froulay, chevalier de Tessé
  • April 16, 1743 : Colonel Pierre François, marquis de Rougé
  • February 1, 1749 : Colonel César-Jean-Baptiste de Valence-Combes, marquis de Thimbrune
  • June 5, 1763 : Colonel Anne-Joseph-Hippolyte de Maurès de Malartic, comte de Malartic
  • April 13, 1780 : Colonel Pons Simon de Pierre, vicomte de Bernis
  • March 10, 1788 : Colonel Jean François Béranger, vicomte de Thézan
  • 1791 : Colonel Jean-François-Beranger de Thézan
  • February 5, 1792 : Colonel Jean-Joseph Christophe de Bazelaire
  • March 23, 1792 : Colonel Claude-Louis de Chartongne

(...)

  • 1805 : Colonel Jean Nicolas
  • 1806 : Colonel Jean-Charles Faure
  • 1807 : Colonel Charles Bouge
  • 1813 : Colonel Antoine Pailhes
  • 1813 : Colonel Jacques Ricard
  • 1814: Colonel Charles Bouge
  • [...]
  • 1840 : Colonel Josse
  • 1843 : Colonel Herbillon
  • [...]
  • 1874 to 1879 : Colonel François Pittié
  • [...]

Colonels killed or wounded during the Coalition Wars

October 14, 1806 : Colonel Nicolas, wounded
February 8, 1807 : Colonel Faure, died of his wounds
February 17, 1814 : Colonel Ricard, wounded

Officers killed or wounded between 1804 and 1815

fallen: 34
died of her wounds: 19
wounded: 142

Battle calendar

In 1669, King Louis XIV appointed his illegitimate son Louis de Bourbon, comte de Vermandois , Amiral de France , which automatically made him regiment owner of the maritime unit "Régiment de l'Amiral". In August 1670, the regiment set up a department that drove with Abraham Duquesne's fleet to the Canary Islands and Cap Verde. Back in Brest in March 1671, the unit was transferred from the navy to the army and was given the name "Régiment de Vermandois", which it was to run until 1791.

In the Dutch War, 1671 to 1678

Seconded to the "Dutch Army", the unit spent the winter in Guise . 1672 took part in the siege of Orsoy and Rheinberg , then the income of Doesburg , Deventer and Utrecht . After the end of the campaign, the regiment was garrisoned in Kampen , which it left in June 1763 for the siege of Maastricht. After taking the city, the unit was ordered to Bonn, where it took part in the unsuccessful defense of the city against the troops of Raimondo Montecuccoli . Three general attacks could be repulsed, but the garrison then had to surrender with honor.

Northern War (1674–1679)

  • June 26, 1679: Battle near Minden

Reunion War

  • 1684: During the siege of Luxembourg on May 19, the regiment lost over 20 grenadiers, Colonel de Gacé and seven officers were wounded.

War of the Palatinate Succession

  • 1688: Siege of Philippsburg
  • 1690: Battle of Fleurus ; the Colonel de Soyecourt fell, the Lieutenant-Colonel La Ferrière and 13 officers were wounded.
  • 1691: Siege of Mons, Lieutenant-Colonel La Ferrière was wounded again in the attack on April 6th. The regiment took part in the Moselle campaign and spent the winter in Courtrai.
  • 1692: "Vermandois" was used in the capture of Namur, in the battle of Steenkerke and in the bombardment of Charleroi. During the winter it was garrisoned in Hautrange (near Ath ).
Battle of Neer winds
  • 1693: In the battle of Neer winds the regiment earned merits in the third and final attack on the village. Colonel Charost was wounded during the siege of Charleroi.
  • 1695: used in the bombardment of Brussels
  • 1697: Participation in the siege of Ath, in which the grenadiers were able to capture a demi-lune , which led to the surrender of the garrison the next day
  • 1698: in the Camp de Compiègne

War of the Spanish Succession

  • 1701: Occupation of Namur
  • 1702: Seconded to the "Armée du Rhin" (Rhine Army) under Maréchal Villars , left the regiment in Strasbourg in September and went via Hüningen to the battle of Friedlingen .
  • 1703: Used in the siege of Kehl . "Vermandois" was able to distinguish itself, together with the Régiment de Navarre , in the attack on March 6th, when the grenadiers under Lieutenant-Colonel des Arennes established themselves in a breach in the wall. Then the regiment moved with the army to Bavaria and took part in the attack on the fortification of Hornberg and in the battle near Munderkingen . First battle near Höchstädt , capture of Augsburg and winter quarters in Neuburg an der Donau .
  • 1704: Second battle near Höchstädt in the corps of Maréchal Ferdinand de Marsin . After that, the severely decimated regiment returned to France and was sent to the fortress Landau , where it together with the regiments de Toulouse , d'Angoumois , Beaufermé, Hessy-Suisse, de Ponthieu , d'Agenois , Savigny and Castelet (together 12 battalions ) participated in the unsuccessful defense. After the capitulation on November 24th, “Vermandois” withdrew to Strasbourg.
  • 1705: The Lieutenant-Colonel de Nocey and 300 men took the Castle of Wœrth and burned it down. In the battle at Lauterbourg the major of the regiment was one of the dead.
  • 1706: Occupation of Rheinzabern ; Participation in the relief of Fort Louis and capture of Druzeheim . On July 2nd, after the imperial troops had crossed the Rhine again, "Vermandois" was thrown to Lauterbourg and then took part in a march to the "Île de Marquisat", a former Rhine island with a fortification. The island has disappeared since the Rhine was straightened, and the fortress no longer exists either.
  • 1707: Campaign with Maréchal Villars to Swabia and Franconia
  • 1709: in the Dauphiné
  • 1710 to 1712: at the end of 1710 the regiment was transferred to Catalonia, where it took part in the siege of Girone under the command of Maréchal Anne-Jules de Noailles. During the next two campaigns it stayed in the Alps.
  • 1713: that year he returned to the theater of war on the Rhine with the capture of Landau and Freiburg
  • 1715: After the end of the war, the regiment consisted of only one battalion.

War of the Polish Succession

During the war, "Vermandois" operated on the Rhine. It took part in the battle near Ettlingen, the siege of Philippsburg and the battle near Klausen . In 1736 the regiment was stationed on the Belle-Îsle-en-Mer .

War of the Austrian Succession

  • 1741 to 1742: "Vermandois" was assigned to the "Armée de Westphalie" (Westphalian Army) and stayed in Paderborn until June, in order to then form a brigade with the Régiment de Limousin and take part in the winter campaign to Bavaria and Bohemia. Taking of Elbogen , Kaaden and Eger . Then march to relieve Braunau am Inn and defend Landau an der Isar and Deggendorf . Winter quarters were moved into Amberg .
  • 1743: After the defense of Dingolfing , he returned to France in July, leaving a detachment in Ingolstadt , which did not follow until October. The winter quarters were moved into Saarlouis .
  • 1744: "Vermandois" was assigned to the "Armée de la Moselle", where it contributed to the defeat of the imperial general Nádasdy near Zabern . It was used in the skirmish near Suffelsheim and the remarkable attack on the covered path of the fortified Freiburg. After the city was taken, the unit was assigned to the "Armée du Bas Rhin" (Lower Rhine Army)
  • 1746: Deployment in Flanders under the command of Maréchal d'Estrées with participation in the sieges of Mons, Saint-Ghislain and Charleroi as well as the Battle of Roucourt . The 2nd Battalion was re-established on October 27th.
  • 1747: In April the regiment replaced the Arquebusier de Grassin in Namur and in June joined the army at Camp Tirlemont. Participation in the battle of Lauffeldt . The regiment then lay in Antwerp for the winter.
  • 1748: Used as escort for an ammunition convoy to Bergen-op-Zoom, the unit was attacked by superior forces en route. However, all attacks could be repulsed and the destination reached in good order. Together with the Régiment de Champagne , "Vermandois" was then used in the siege of Maastricht. The 2nd Battalion was disbanded on November 15th.

Interwar period

  • 1749: On March 10th, the 2nd battalion was set up again, and the remnants of the dissolved Régiment de Vexin were incorporated.
  • 1753: The regiment was garrisoned in the camp near Saarlouis.

Seven Years War

  • 1756: "Vermandois" arrived in Menorca in April under the command of Richelieu and was distinguished on June 27th in the forcible capture of Fort Saint-Philippe de Mahon. The Capitaine Kerjean and Lieutenant de Charmont were killed. The unit remained stationed on Menorca until the end of the war.

Interwar period

After returning to France, the unit was initially assigned to Rochefort as a garrison, and in May 1763 moved to Blaye and Bordeaux . In April 1764 the regiment came back to Rochefort, in August 1765 it went to Brest and there in October 1767 it was shipped to the Antilles .

After the successful occupation of Guadeloupe, Martinique and Saint-Domingue, the regiment left the colonies and returned to Brest on November 28, 1769. There was a constant change of garrisons: to Metz in November 1770, to Gravelines in October 1772, to La Rochelle in May 1773, to the Île de Ré in March 1774, to La Rochelle in July 1775, to Perpignan in May 1776, to Béziers in October 1776, to Montpellier in September 1777, to Marseille in April 1778 and to Corsica in October of the same year. It stayed there until 1784. Then it was ordered back to the mainland and arrived in Toulon on May 10, 1784 . First commanded to Montpellier and Béziers, it came to Perpignan in April 1788 - there it remained until the outbreak of the revolution.

On December 5th, the regiment in Perpignan faced a riot in which it prevailed.
  • 1791 : On June 1st the company was moved to Béziers.

Wars of the Revolution and the First Empire

  • 1792: The 1st battalion was commanded to Gap, the 2nd battalion returned to Perpignan.

The 1st Battalion then took part in the conquest of the county of Nice under the command of Generals Anselme and Brunet . Here it excelled in the battle at Sospello. Soon after, it was moved to Corsica , where it fought against the gangs of Pasquale Paoli and also against the English. After returning from Corsica, it was stationed in Toulon and on October 10, 1794 incorporated into the "121 e demi-brigade de bataille".

The 2nd battalion was deployed in 1793 with the "Armée des Pyrénées Orientales". Here it stood out in the skirmish at Cornélia on August 31. On September 22nd it was used in the battle of Truillas and on June 19, 1795 it was incorporated into the "122 e demi brigade de bataille".

In 1804 the "61 e demi-brigade d'infanterie" - which had nothing to do with the former Régiment de Vermandois - was renamed the 61 e régiment d'infanterie .

1815 to 1848

The regiment was in the conquest of Algeria applied

1870 to 1914

In the Franco-Prussian War , the eight companies of the 2nd and 3rd Battalion provided the "29 e régiment de marche" (29th March regiment), which took part in the battles at Chilleurs, Ladon, Boiscommun , Neuville-aux-Bois and in the Loiret department Maizières was used.

First World War

Stationed in Aix-en-Provence and Privas , the regiment belonged to the 60th Infantry Brigade of the 30th Infantry Division in the 15th Army Corps.

  • 1914 :
The regiment left Privas under the command of Colonel Leblanc on August 6th and moved to Dieuze. With the exception of a vanguard skirmish on August 15, it was not involved in any combat operations until August 19.
Battle of Mörchingen on August 19th and 20th
The regiment attacked Dieuze , which was on the German side of the border , but had to withdraw the next day after bitter resistance. The commandant, Colonel Leblanc, had been shot in the arm.
Attack on Mont-sur-Meurthe on August 24th
Battle of the Trouée de Charmes . The German-occupied Mont-sur-Meurthe was attacked. After fierce fighting, the Germans gave up the village and withdrew to Lunéville .
Fights followed at Maison-Blanche and Audernay in the region around Bar-le-Duc , with the Germans being pushed back to the Avocourt –Montfaucon line . From September 16, they dug their way between Avocourt and the Bois de Forges: the trench warfare had begun.
Trench warfare at Avocourt from September 23rd to 25th
Attacks on Avocourt and the Bois de Cheppy. The regimental commander, Colonel Capxier, was killed. A number of prisoners were taken.
Trench warfare at height 281 - Malancourt - Béthincourt from October 29th to December 20th
  • 1915 :
Trench warfare at height 281 - Malancourt - Béthincourt from January to May 1915
Trench warfare in Champagne in May 1915
Fight in the Tourbe-Massiges sector. As a crew in the Fort de la Pompelle and in positions in the Bois des Zouaves.
Surroundings of Fort de la Pompelle
Autumn battle in Champagne
On September 28th the regiment was in attack positions near Suippes (Champagne). On October 6, it attacked the Butte de Souain, where it came under fire from the German artillery. It continued to occupy positions at Souain and Tahure. Then replenished in Reims, the regiment was assigned positions to the north and east of Reims .
  • 1916 :
Fighting in the sector of La Pompelle until April.
Verdun (June to August)
Replenished, the regiment went to the Battle of Verdun in June, where it occupied a section near Louvemont-Côte-du-Poivre on June 20 . On June 22nd, a German attack took place on the right section of the regiment, which forced the defenders to give up the 1st and 2nd trenches and pushed them back to the Ouvrage de Froideterre . On June 23, the 5th and 6th companies and two companies of the "106 e bataillon de chasseurs à pied" carried out a successful counterattack.
On August 2, the order was given to the 3rd Battalion to attack the ridge of the Côte du Poivre (German: powder height) with a German observation post. Here, 800 meters of terrain could be gained and a number of prisoners made.
On August 18, the regiment was withdrawn from the front, replenished and deployed from September to December in the Paissy sector on the Chemin des Dames . This was followed by rail loading and transport to Toulouse .
With the Armée d'Orient (Orient Army)
From December 1916 to February 1917, the regiment in Toulouse was prepared for use in the Orient.
  • 1917 :
The staff and 1st battalion left Toulouse on February 18, 1917 and moved to Italy. The 2nd and 3rd Battalions drove to Toulon on January 23 and February 3, to be embarked from there to Saloniki .
From June 10th during the invasion of Thessaly , on June 12th occupation of Larisa . On June 20, a march was made to Domokos and then to Macedonia .
The regiment was decimated by the very hot days during these stages; numerous cases of malaria and dysentery occurred, the cause of which was to be sought in the crossing of the Arkilisé marshes.
In August, positions were taken in the Bitola sector and held until August 1918.
  • 1918 :
From August 14th to 28th, the unit took part in an offensive against the Bulgarian front. The persecution struggles extended to the village of Bucum-Dolenci.
Invasion of Serbia and Bulgaria
After the armistice with Bulgaria, the division was concentrated at Prilep and replenished. On October 31, the regiment reached Kyustendil , where it remained until November 5. On November 8th, the march to Roustchouk on the Danube took place , where the bridge was checked.
On November 28, the regiment paraded in front of the Romanian king in Bucharest .
Relocated to Dobruja on December 3, 1918 , it returned to France in 1919 and was disbanded there on June 11.

Second World War

After the start of the German campaign in the west , the regiment fought within the scope of its possibilities. His trace is lost after the armistice in June 1940.

1954 to 1962

Participation in the Algerian War

Regimental flag

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.

  • Last regimental flag used
  • 61e regiment d'infanterie 1962 av.png
  • 61e regiment d'infanterie 1962 rev.png

Awards

The regiment has not been mentioned in any army report since 1914 and has therefore not received any awards.

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ German: 61st Infantry Regiment
  2. ↑ Major was not a rank, but a position. It concerned the head of the regimental administration.
  3. ↑ Historique sommaire du 61 e Régiment d'Infanterie. Henri Charles-Lavauzelle, Paris 1920 ( digitized on Gallica ); Digitized by Olivier Gaget, p. 1 (PDF; 21 kB).
  4. ↑ Historique sommaire du 61 e Régiment d'Infanterie. Henri Charles-Lavauzelle, Paris 1920 ( digitized on Gallica); Digitized by Olivier Gaget, p. 3 (PDF; 21 kB).
  5. ↑ Historique sommaire du 61 e Régiment d'Infanterie. Henri Charles-Lavauzelle, Paris 1920 ( digitized on Gallica); Digitized by Olivier Gaget, p. 4 (PDF; 21 kB).
  6. ↑ Historique sommaire du 61 e Régiment d'Infanterie. Henri Charles-Lavauzelle, Paris 1920 ( digitized on Gallica); Digitized by Olivier Gaget, p. 5 (PDF; 21 kB).
  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

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