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The Foreign Legion was primarily used, as part of the Armée d'Afrique, to protect and expand the French colonial empire during the 19th century, but it also fought in almost all French wars including the Franco-Prussian War, World War I and World War II. The Foreign Legion has remained an important part of the French Army, and sea transport ...
The Foreign Legion was heavily involved in World War II, playing a large role in the Middle East and the North African campaign. The 6th Foreign Infantry Regiment was established by consolidating battalions stationed in Syria into a single battalion on October 15, 1939. [53]
The Legion of French Volunteers Against Bolshevism (French: Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchévisme, LVF) was a unit of the German Army during World War II consisting of collaborationist volunteers from France.
Foreign Legion Units Involved: August 1884 – April 1885 Siege of Tuyên Quang: Tuyên Quang, Indochina: Victory 600 March 2, 1882 Battle of Hòa Mộc, Indochina Tuyên Quang: French Victory 2nd Foreign Legion Battalion 3rd Foreign Legion Battalion
Foreign Brigade (unit designation in 1854 for two merged foreign regiments during the Crimean War) Mounted Companies (Compagnies montées de la Légion étrangère) – 1881; Saharan Companies of the French Foreign Legion, Saharan Companies and Squadrons of the French Foreign Legion – (CSPLE, ESPLE) – 1901
Susan Mary Gillian Travers (23 September 1909 – 18 December 2003) was a British nurse and ambulance driver who served in the French Red Cross during the Second World War. [1] She later became the only woman to be enlisted in the French Foreign Legion, having also served in French Indochina, during the First Indochina War.
The 5th Foreign Infantry Regiment (abbr. 5th REI, French: 5 e Régiment Étranger d'Infanterie), nicknamed the "Regiment of Tonkin" (French: "Régiment du Tonkin"), was a regiment of the Foreign Legion of the French Army created under the Third Republic, and dissolved in 2000.
As an infantry regiment within the format defined in the cadre plan of the French Army "Au contact", the 13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion is composed of 1300 men grouped in eight companies: One CCL, command and logistics company, regrouping all necessary projectable services to the regiment's command engaged in operations (signals ...