126th Infantry Regiment (France)

126st Infantry Regiment
126e Régiment d'Infanterie
Regimental insignia
ActiveAugust 1793 - present
CountryFrance
BranchFrench Army
TypeInfantry
Part of9th Marine Infantry Brigade
1st Division
Motto(s)"Fier et vaillant" (Proud and valiant).
EngagementsFrench Revolutionary War
Napoleonic Wars
World War I
World War II
Mali War

The 126th Infantry Regiment is a regiment of the French Army. It was first constituted during the French Revolution.

History

  • 1870 : defend Paris.[2]
  • May 16, 1871 in France : creation of the 126 Line Infantry Regiment formed with the 19th Provsionary Infantry Regiment.
  • April 4, 1872 : a decree of the President of the Republic constituted officially the regiment which was designated as 126th Infantry Regiment, composed of four battalions of four companies.[1]

Third Republic

  • 1874: garrison at Lyon.
  • 1881 to 1896: campaigns of North African and Madagascar.
  • 1907, the regiment left Toulouse and arrived in garrison at Brive-la-Gaillarde.

WWI

Interwar period

The 126e RI was in garrison at Brive-la-Gaillarde in January 1939, and recalled to apply the "barrage plan" in the Pyrénées-Orientales.

WWII

  • The regiment showed its prowess in June 1940 in trying to halt the German offensives, marching a record 350 km in two weeks.
  • August 5, 1940 : dissolution.
  • 1944 : 126th Infantry Regiment. Reconstituted officially on October 15, 1944 in France. The regiment was reconstituted in 1944 from marquis of Corrèze and Périgord and participated in the liberation of Alsace, then entered the Black Forest. In January 1945, the 126th Infantry Regiment was integrated into the First Army, which was first at the disposition of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Free French Division 1re DFL, where the 126th reinforced the 2nd Brigade during the period of the defensive mounted on Strasbourg, and the surveillance of left wing of the River Rhine. Then, with the 2nd Moroccan Infantry Division, and participating with the 9th Colonial Infantry Division (9e DIC) to campaign battles, combat of Karlsruhe, Ruppur, Rastadt with the 6th and 23rd Regiments d'Infanterie Coloniale.

1945 to present

Traditions

Insignia of the 126e RI

White Buffalo since 1937, on the background of a blue Cross of Lorraine since 1944.

Lieutenant-colonel Godefroy, regimental commander of the 126e RI endowed the regiment with an insignia featuring the ruins of Oradour, to evoke the 134th Infantry Regiment (French: 134e Régiment d'Infanterie, 134e RI) which was integrated to the 126e RI in October 1945.

The actual insignia of the regiment was endowed by colonel Mestelan, regimental commander from 1979 to 1981.

Regimental Colors

5th Regimental Colors of the 126e RI.

Decorations

The regimental colors of the 126e RI are decorated with:

Fourragere:

  • Fourragere with colors of the croix de guerre 1914-1918 and colors of the croix de la Valeur militaire.

Honours

Battle Honours

  • Bérézina 1812
  • Artois 1915
  • Auberive 1917
  • Italie 1918

Regimental Commanders

  • Chef de brigade Marillac
  • 1810 - 1813 : colonel Dumoulin
  • 1870: colonel Neltner
  • 1870 - 1871 : lieutenant-colonel Duban
  • 1871 - 1873 : colonel Voynant
  • 1873 - 1877 : colonel Denuc
  • 1877 - 1878 : colonel Bergeron
  • 1878 : colonel de Saint-Mars
  • 1878 - 1881 : colonel Doumenjou
  • 1881 - 1885 : colonel Bournenfou
  • 1885 - 1887 : colonel Desfrancois de Ponchalon
  • 1887 - 1894 : colonel Montagne
  • 1894 - 1997 : colonel Roget
  • 1897 - 1906 : colonel de la Brousse de Veyrazet
  • 1906 - 1908 : colonel Roustan
  • 1908 - 1913 : colonel Chandezon
  • 1913 - 1914 : colonel Dubois
  • 1914 - 1915 : lieutenant-colonel Laporte
  • 1915 : lieutenant-colonel Bressan
  • 1915 - 1918 : lieutenant-colonel Labourdette
  • 1918 : lieutenant-colonel Bontemps
  • 1918 - 1919 : lieutenant-colonel Cholet
  • 1919 - 1926 : lieutenant-colonel Larrieu
  • 1926 - 1928 : colonel Tixier
  • 1928 - 1930 : lieutenant-colonel Foures
  • 1930 - 1931 : colonel Sonnerat
  • 1931 - 1934 : colonel Baille
  • 1934 - 1936 : colonel Vital
  • 1936 - 1938 : colonel Papillon
  • 1938 - 1940 : colonel Duche
  • 1940 : colonel Donnat
  • 1944 - 1945 : commandant Passemard
  • 1945 - 1946 : colonel Godefroy
  • 1946 - 1947 : chef de Bataillon Lagasquie
  • 1947 - 1948 : chef de Bataillon Basseres
  • 1948 - 1950 : chef de Bataillon Dumas
  • 1950 - 1952 : chef de Bataillon Habert
  • 1952 - 1954 : lieutenant-colonel de Martin du Tyrac de Marcellus
  • 1954 - 1956 : lieutenant-colonel Helme-Guizon
  • 1956 - 1958 : colonel Henry
  • 1958 : colonel Parisot
  • 1958 - 1961 : colonel Gueneau
  • 1961 - 1963 : colonel Galle
  • 1963 : chef de bataillon Toulouse
  • 1964 : chef de bataillon Pellabeuf
  • 1964 - 1965 : colonel Audibert
  • 1965 - 1967 : colonel du Bois de Gaudusson
  • 1967 - 1969 : colonel Lacoste
  • 1969 - 1971 : lieutenant-colonel Blanquefort
  • 1971 - 1973 : colonel Burgard
  • 1973 - 1975 : colonel Goerger
  • 1975 - 1977 : colonel Fregiere
  • 1977 - 1979 : colonel de la Moriniere
  • 1979 - 1981 : colonel Mestelan
  • 1981 - 1983 : colonel Castagne
  • 1983 - 1985 : colonel Langlois
  • 1984 - 1985 : colonel Anglade
  • 1985 - 1987 : colonel Rozec
  • 1987 - 1989 : colonel Brousse
  • 1989 - 1991 : colonel Renault
  • 1991 - 1993 : colonel Bresse
  • 1993 - 1995 : colonel Seguret
  • 1995 - 1997 : colonel Beauval
  • 1997 - 1999 : colonel Martin
  • 1999 - 2001 : colonel Herbert
  • 2001 - 2003 : colonel Lesimple
  • 2003 - 2005 : colonel Didier
  • 2005 - 2007 : colonel Barnay
  • 2007 - 2009 : colonel Malassinet
  • 2009 - 2011 : colonel Goisque
  • 2011 - 2013 : colonel Secq
  • 2013 - 2015 : colonel Ponchin
  • 2015 - 2017 : colonel Mollard
  • 2017 - 2019 : colonel Perot

References

  1. ^ a b c "Historique et caractéristiques du 126ème Régiment d'Infanterie". Anori (in French). Retrieved 2024-09-14.
  2. ^ "126e régiment d'infanterie". www.defense.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2024-09-14.

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