117e regiment of infantry of line

The 117e Régiment of Infanterie of line (or 117e IH) is a regiment which was made up under the French revolution.

There so far did not exist any complete history of the regiment. it is also drawn up with the young generations which will collect in this page the heritage of patriotism, i.e. direction of the duty, courage and abnegation which their groins constituted with their intention, commander Pocard Mr.

Badge

oval Ecu of azure radiates with an eagle with the flight lowered of sand, posed on a terrace of same and charged with an escutcheon of crimson to the gold lion.
Edge of the ecu " 117
October 2nd, 1916} - Lt-collar. Bizard
October 1916} - colonel Pageot
November 27th, 1917}
December 5th, 1917} - Lt-collar. Verignon
February 1919}
21 Févier 1919 - Lt-collar. Guitton
August 24th, 1919 - Lt-collar. Bernard
April 21st, 1920 - colonel Passerieux

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November 29th, 1921 - colonel Lagarde
June 26th, 1925 - colonel Beringer
May 25th, 1928 - colonel Reboulleau
December 25th, 1930 - colonel Dutreux
January 23rd, 1933 - colonel Boutignon
December 31st, 1934 - colonel Haga
1938 - colonel Boyer
Févier 1939 - colonel Chalon
May 29th, 1940 - commander Cordonnier
January 16th, 1945} - Lt-collar. Geromini
October 31st, 1945}
1e April 1956 - Lt-collar. Lemaigre
March 14th, 1957 - Lt-collar. Jump
May 5th, 1957 - colonel Pechaudra
February 27th, 1959 - colonel Pin
1e March 1961 - colonel de Froment
1e September 1961 - colonel Faig
July 10th, 1962} - Lt-collar. Desbiens
1e January 1963}
1e September 1963 - Major Berthaud (117e B.I)
March 5th, 1964 - Lt-collar. Coudurier
June 15th, 1964} - colonel de Badts de Cugnac
June 24th, 1966}
July 15th, 1966} - colonel Bahezre de Lanlay
June 30th, 1968}
1970 - Lt-collar. Small
1975 - colonel de Quatrebarbes
1979 - November 1982 - Lt-collar. Daunay
November 1982 - June 1987 - colonel Degan
June 1987 - January 1990 - colonel de Montesson
January 1990 - January 1994 - Lt-collar. Loridan

The battles in which the regiment took part

From 1794 to 1914

1808 : Tudela
1809 : Saragossa
1810: Lérida
1811 : Taragone

Assignments

''' 4 {{E}} Army corps ''' in August 1914
8 {{E}} division of infantry
16th brigade:

First World War

1914 : Vuton, the Marne, Quesnoy
1915: Perthes, Champagne
1916: Verdun
1917 : Champagne mounts, Moronvilliers, Aisne (April-June 1917)
1918: the Marne, Wall, Châtillon-Vaudiéres, Champagne, Wood of the dog.

The courage of a Officer and his battalion

In the night of the 4 to the 5 June 1940, the German artillery rams the French positions. The attack of the German armoured tanks begins at dawn of June 5th, the 117e IH, which does not profit from the protection of any natural anti-tank obstacle, supports almost all the weight of the centered attack Belloy, Estrées, Berny, Pressoir and Caulnes. As of 3 h 30, after a redoubling of the shootings of artillery, the 117e sees arriving on him of the waves of assault of three armor-plated divisions of which a reserve. The tanks bombard, mitraillent. Between two waves of tanks, the stukas launch their bombs in piqué. The fulcrums and the centers of resistance are neutralized one by one, after the destruction of the edges of the villages by incendiary bomb. The commander Brébant knew to communicate to its frameworks and its men his will to hold June 5th and 6th, was spent with admiration with the contempt of the danger to fulfill the mission which was entrusted to him on the village of Berny in Santerre of which it ensured defense with his battalion. Continuing to fight in a heroic way the attacks of the tanks and the infantry German with some elements which had joined him, it carries severe losses to the enemy. Senior officer which with fact the admiration of all during the combat which were held May 25th at June 1st 1940, it seized with the head its battalion a village held by the enemy, directly taking the command of some elements which hesitated in front of a counter-attack of the enemy and carried them ahead galvanizing them of his example. Four times quoted during the war 1914-1918. The battalion Obliged to give up their sites in flames, exhausted, encircled, grapeshot, lack vivres since several days, the battalion will go, with court ammunition.

the enemy, frightened by the audacity and the courage of this officer and his some soldiers of 117e R.I., paid homage to them, as if it were about one of their clean regiment of iron (of elite) .
the roughness of the resistance opposed by the 117e is worth with the survivors taken along in captivity the homage of German; “ your men fought magnificiently ”. The 117e R.I., the 13th company of pioneers and the 21e battalion are dissolved in Saint-Yriex Hollow, on August 1st, 1940.

Honors with our old

1914-1918 Belgium - the Marne - the Sum - the Marne - Verdun.
the Saar - Sum 1939-1940, 1 mention in dispatches, the old ones of the regiment to their 3 500 dead.

From 1945 to 1994

the 3rd battalion of the 117e is created on January 16th 1945 with Poitiers with the elements of the regiment of the F.F.I of Bir-Hakeim formed at the beginning of September 1944 with Angouleme and which fought German in the north of the pocket of Rochefort in October 1944. Meanwhile, these elements had temporarily taken the denomination of 1e battalion of the 107 {{E}} R.I, on October 7th, 1944 then of 3rd battalion of the 80 {{E}} R.I the 1e January 1945.

1956 : Participation in the War of Algeria. Nearer to us, the Algerian conflict illustrated last once the pugnacity of this regiment of Maine which will lose on the top-plates of the Atlas, 134 as of his in seven years of ambushes and fixings.
operations in Algeria It leaves as of on May 5th to Algeria where it settles in the area of Algiers; its implaantation extends initially in the Mitidja, of Fondouk to Boufarik and on the edge of the Atlas until Tablat.
In September 1957, the PC of the 117e settles with Blida and the regiment becomes unit support of the sector: it leaves the districts of White House and Tablat to occupy the district of Boulnan.
During nearly seven years, the regiment worked to ensure peace an important part of the Inhabitant of Algiers. he fulfilled his mission by imposing his rise on a particularly aggressive enemy, thanks to an intense operational activity and while being spent without counting with the service populations to which he brought a generous help, in particular by opening schools, dispensaries, roads.

Names of the 38 died for France in Algeria on the 134 as of his

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