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The French Foreign Legion (French: Légion étrangère, also known simply as la Légion, "the Legion") is an elite corps of the French Army created to allow foreign nationals into French service. [8] The Legion was founded in 1831 and today consists of several specialties, namely infantry , cavalry , engineers , and airborne troops . [ 9 ]
Katriuk claimed in Federal Court that in August 1944 he defected with the entire battalion and joined the French Resistance to fight the Nazis. Later that year he was transferred to the French Foreign Legion , [ 6 ] as a private, and was one of twenty to twenty-five volunteers who were dispatched by their French commanders to go to the front to ...
The Disciplinary Company of the Foreign Regiments in the Far East (French: Compagnie disciplinaire en Extrême-Orient, CDRE/EO) created on June 1, 1946, was the disciplinary company for serious French Foreign Legion offenders in the Far East. It was located on Tagne Island in Cam Ranh Bay.
The creation of the Second Mexican Empire was the impetus for an expansion of the French Foreign Legion. One of Maximilian I's conditions for the acceptance of the Mexican throne was the provision of a corps of 10,000 European soldiers. [37] The Foreign Legion was loaned by Napoleon III to the Crown of Mexico for this purpose. [37]
In the 1930s, Voignier joined the French Foreign Legion, which gave him the opportunity to erase his past. He wound up deserting the legion shortly afterwards - six times - and returning to his criminal life. [5]
In 1942 Degueldre clandestinely entered the occupied zone to join the French Resistance under Roger Pannequin and engaged the 10th German Motorized Infantry Division at Colmar in January 1945. He then joined French Foreign Legion, under the name of Roger "Legueldre" with a claimed birth on 18 September 1925 in Gruyeres in Switzerland.
The Croix de guerres of officers, NCO's and legionnaires in the Foreign Legion Notable people who served in the Foreign Legion . The following is a list of legionnaires who have gained fame or notoriety inside or outside of the legion.
Roger Louis Faulques (14 December 1924 – 6 November 2011) [2], also known as René Faulques, was a French military officer and mercenary.A graduate of the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr, he served as a paratrooper officer in the French Foreign Legion, and later as a mercenary in conflicts in Africa and the Middle East.