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The 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Marching regiment" target="_blank">Regiment of the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Foreign regiment" target="_blank">Regiment, (French: 2e Régiment de Marche du 2e étranger, 2eR.M. 2eR.E) was a wartime regiment" target="_blank">regiment of the French Foreign Legion. It formed the Marching regiment" target="_blank">Regiment of the Foreign Legion (R.M.L.E.) and existed briefly from end of 1914 to 1915.
Creation and different nominations
In August 1914 the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Marching regiment" target="_blank">Regiment of the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Foreign regiment" target="_blank">Regiment (French: 2e Régiment de Marche du 2e étranger, 2eR.M. 2eR.E) was created in Saïda, Algeria.
On November 11, 1915 the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Marching regiment" target="_blank">Regiment of the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Foreign regiment" target="_blank">Regiment]] was dissolved and contingents were merged with the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Marching regiment" target="_blank">Regiment of the 1st Foreign regiment" target="_blank">Regiment (French: 2e Régiment de Marche du 1er étranger,) to form the Régiment de Marche of the Foreign Legion (R.M.L.E.).
History
= Creation of the regiment" target="_blank">regiment
=On August 29, 1914, the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Marching regiment" target="_blank">Regiment of the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Foreign regiment" target="_blank">Regiment set voyage from Saïda for Oran and arrived on April 30. The regiment" target="_blank">regiment was then formed of 2 battalions at 2 reduced combat companies counting ( 20 Officers - 68 Sous-Officiers - 694 Caporaux and Legionnaires )
On August 30 and 31, the regiment" target="_blank">regiment embarked for destination Marseille and disembarked on September 2.
While one of the battalion's regiment" target="_blank">regiment joined Orléans on September 3, the remainder of the regiment" target="_blank">regiment made way to Toulouse and stationed until September 29 at garrison Pérignon.
= Combats in Champagne
=The regiment" target="_blank">regiment initiated battle formations at camp de Mailly, south of Reims on October 2 when one of the battalion and general headquarter staff rendez-vous with another of the regiment" target="_blank">regiment's battalion. On October 18, the day of departure, the regiment" target="_blank">regiment counted 1947 men constituting 2 battalions.
The regiment" target="_blank">regiment arrived at camp de Pertus on the 19, and with the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Marching regiment" target="_blank">Regiment of the 1st Foreign regiment" target="_blank">Regiment (French: 2e Régiment de Marche du 1er étranger, 2eR.M.1erR.E), both Marching Regiments formed a brigade which was placed at the corps of the 5th Army of général Louis Félix Marie François Franchet d'Espèrey.
On October 21, the regiment" target="_blank">regiment and the brigade were at Verzy, south of Reims.
Until October 26, the regiment" target="_blank">regiment's battalions relayed each other in the first line trenches within the sectors of Prunay, Sillery, and prepositions of Verzenay in the south-east of Reims.
On October 26, the regiment" target="_blank">regiment left Verzenay, destined for Cuiry-les-Chaudardes in the north-west of Reims where the Marching regiment" target="_blank">Regiment was assigned to the 71st Brigade of Colonel Denis Auguste Duchêne (5th Army).
The regiment" target="_blank">regiment's 3rd recently formed battalion from the depot of Blois, joined the regiment" target="_blank">regiment on October 25 at Merval.
Starting October 28, the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Marching regiment" target="_blank">Regiment of the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Foreign regiment" target="_blank">Regiment made way to the first line at the front within the sector of Blanc Sablon and Craonnelle.
On November 26, Chef de bataillon Mauvilain's battalion ( 14 Officers and 1053 men ), left the depot of Orléans and joined the region of Reims at Baslieux-lès-Fismes where the battalion garrisoned for a couple days. Subsequently, on December 15, Mauvilain's battalion to the turn, made way to the first line at the front.
On May 22, 1915, the regiment" target="_blank">regiment was relieved from the front by the 34th Infantry regiment" target="_blank">Regiment and was retrieved from the 18th Armed Corps; the regiment" target="_blank">regiment counted 72 Officers and 3818 men. On the 24, the regiment" target="_blank">regiment prepositionned south of Reims and was assigned to the Provisionary Touborge Division then the Provisionary Corvisart Division.
On June 14, a detachment from the regiment" target="_blank">regiment made its way to Prouilly and Chenay in the north-west of Reims and was assigned under the orders of the 1st Armed Corps. The regiment" target="_blank">regiment's detachment relieved the 201st French Infantry regiment" target="_blank">Regiment in the trenches of Chauffour and Carrières. On June 20, the remainder of the regiment" target="_blank">regiment to the turn joined the 1st Armed Corps and relieved the 284th French Infantry regiment" target="_blank">Regiment in the sector of Merfy - Saint Thierry.
With the 6th Cavalry Chasseurs regiment" target="_blank">Regiment, the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Marching regiment" target="_blank">Regiment constituted the Guérin group.
On July 11, following the departure of 334 Russians and 394 Belgians, one of the battalion's regiment" target="_blank">regiment was subsequently dissolved.
= Haute Saône
=On July 14, the regiment" target="_blank">regiment was relieved by the 127th French Infantry regiment" target="_blank">Regiment, the 75th French Infantry regiment" target="_blank">Regiment (territorial) and left the Guérin group. Accordingly, the regiment" target="_blank">regiment was assigned to the Moroccan Division (French: Division marocaine) and reconnected again with the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Marching regiment" target="_blank">Regiment of the 1st Foreign regiment" target="_blank">Regiment (French: 2e Régiment de Marche du 1er étranger, 2eR.M.1erR.E) at the corps of the 1st Brigade, north of Montbéliard.
On August 21, the regiment" target="_blank">regiment was put at disposition of the 57th French Infantry Division in order to participate to the mounting of counter-attack preparations in the region of the Sentheim, Soppe le Haut, Leimbash and Roderen south of Thann.
From August 28, the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Marching regiment" target="_blank">Regiment was found prepositioning in Plancher Bas, Auxelles Bas and Auxelles Haut.
On September 13, 1915, the regiment" target="_blank">regiment participated with the Moroccan Division in an inspection revue in presence of the President of the Republic and the Minister of War, a ceremony during which the regiment" target="_blank">regiment received the regimental colors.
= Return to Champagne
=On September 14, the regiment" target="_blank">regiment left the respective prepositionings and made way to Saint-Hilaire-au-Temple, north of Châlons-en-Champagne within the sector of the 10e DIC.
On September 25, the regiment" target="_blank">regiment occupied the front line trenches and participated since the following day to a joint offensive along with the colonial regiments and during which the regimental commander Lecomte-Denis, was wounded. Until October 2, the date in which the regiment" target="_blank">regiment was relieved, the regiment" target="_blank">regiment registered around the sectors in concern numerous losses.
The 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Marching regiment" target="_blank">Regiment which reconnected with the 1st Brigade of the Moroccan Division (French: Division marocaine) made way then to Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus, then Saint-Étienne-au-Temple, south of Suippes where the regiment" target="_blank">regiment garrisoned until October 19 of 1915 and endured also numerous heavy losses.
= Dissolution
=On October 20, 1915, the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Marching regiment" target="_blank">Regiment of the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Foreign regiment" target="_blank">Regiment heads to l'Oise in the region of Pont-Sainte-Maxence, until November 11, the date in which the regiment" target="_blank">regiment was dissolved. At dissolution, the regiment" target="_blank">regiment counted 30 Officers and 1910 men, all of whom formed the Marching regiment" target="_blank">Regiment of the Foreign Legion (RMLE) by merger.
Traditions
= Regimental Colors
=The 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Marching regiment" target="_blank">Regiment of the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Foreign regiment" target="_blank">Regiment received the regimental colors on September 13, 1915, in a ceremony presided by President of the Republic and the Minister of War.
= Decorations
=Citation of the regiment" target="_blank">regiment: " In September 1915, the regiment" target="_blank">regiment mounted the assaults of enemy positions with a superb tempo and handling, while seizing numerous machine gun posts ".
Regimental Commanders
Period 1914-1915
2nd" target="_blank">2nd Marching regiment" target="_blank">Regiment of the 2nd" target="_blank">2nd Foreign regiment" target="_blank">Regiment
2ème R.M.2eR.E
August 29, 1914 - December 2, 1914: Lieutenant-Colonel Passard
December 3, 1914 - December 10, 1914: Chef de battaillon Gueilhers ( by interim )
December 11, 1914 - September 25, 1915: Colonel Lecomte-Denis
September 26, 1915 - October 18, 1915: Commandant Rozet ( by interim )
October 19, 1915 - November 11, 1915: Lieutenant-Colonel de Lavenne de Choulot
See also
Joseph Joffre
Canadian National Vimy Memorial
References
Régiment de marche de la légion, Erwan Bergot, éditions Presses de la Cité, 1984. ISBN 978-2-7242-2440-5.
Le livre d’or de la Légion étrangère (1831-1955), Jean Brunon et Georges Manue, éditions Charles Lavauzelle et Cie, 1958.
= External links
="Detailed History of the RMLE"
"The French Foreign Legion on the front of Champagne (1914 - 1917)"