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  2. 1st Free French Division - Wikipedia

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    1940: Free French Expeditionary Corps. 1941: Free French Orient Brigade. May 1941: 1st Light Free French Division. 20 August 1941: dissolution following the campaign of Syria. 24 September 1941: regrouping of the Free French units of the Middle East into the 1st and 2nd Light Free French Divisions (divisions with two brigades each).

  3. List of French divisions in World War I - Wikipedia

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    Les Armées françaises dans la Grande guerre [French Armies in the Great War] (in French). Vol. X-2 : Ordres de bataille des grandes unités : divisions d'infanterie, divisions de cavalerie. Paris: Impr. nationale. 1924.

  4. List of French Army regiments - Wikipedia

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    French Infantry Command. 1 er Régiment d'Infanterie (1st Infantry Regiment), 1ere Brigade Mécanisée (1st Mechanized Brigade) - Sarrebourg; 1er Régiment de Tirailleurs (1st Riflemen Regiment), 1ere Brigade Mécanisée (1st Mechanized Brigade) - Epinal

  5. Free France - Wikipedia

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    The 1st Free French Division also contained a mixed brigade of French Troupes de marine and the Pacific island volunteers. [33] It also included the Foreign Legion Brigades. In late September and early October 1944, both the Tirailleurs Sénégalais brigades and Pacific Islanders were replaced by brigades of troops recruited from mainland ...

  6. Battle of Bir Hakeim - Wikipedia

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    By late May, the 1st South African Division was dug in nearest the coast, with the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division to the south and 1st Free French Brigade furthest left at Bir Hakeim. The British 1st and 7th Armoured divisions waited behind the main line as a mobile counter-attack force, the 2nd South African Division garrisoned Tobruk ...

  7. List of French generals who died during the First World War

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    The Le Souvenir français is responsible for maintaining French war memorials and cemeteries and providing information about war dead. [8] It maintains a list of military personnel determined to have mort pour la France ("died for France"), a designation granted under the French Code des pensions militaires d'invalidité et des victimes de guerre [] ("code for military disability pensions and ...

  8. French Army in World War I - Wikipedia

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    French infantry pushing through enemy barbed wire, 1915. During World War I, France was one of the Triple Entente powers allied against the Central Powers.Although fighting occurred worldwide, the bulk of the French Army's operations occurred in Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Alsace-Lorraine along what came to be known as the Western Front, which consisted mainly of trench warfare.

  9. 1st Army (France) - Wikipedia

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    Operations by the First Army in April 1945 encircled and captured the German XVIII S.S. Armee Korps in the Black Forest and cleared southwestern Germany. At the end of the war, the motto of the French First Army was Rhin et Danube, referring to the two great German rivers that it had reached and crossed during its combat operations.