25e regiment of infantry of line

The 25e Régiment of Infantry of Line is a regiment of Infanterie French, heir to the regiment of Poitou.

Creation and various denominations

  • 1585 : lifting of the regiment

  • 1682: the name of regiment of Poitou
  • 1791 takes: 25e regiment of infantry
  • 1794 becomes : is famous in 25e half-brigade of battle starting from the following units:
    • 1st battalion of the 13 {{E}} regiment of infantry
    • 4th battalion of volunteers of the the Jura
    • 4th battalion of volunteers of the Doubs
  • 1796: is famous in 25e half-brigade of infantry of line starting from the following units:
    • 84 {{E}} half-brigade of battle (2nd battalion of the 42 {{E}} regiment of infantry, 4th battalion of the volunteers of the the Rhone-and-Loire and 2nd battalion of the volunteers of the Cantal)
    • 101 {{E}} half-brigade of battle (1st battalion of the 51 {{E}} regiment of infantry, 3rd battalion of the volunteers of the Rhone delta and 6th battalion of the volunteers of the Rhone delta)
  • 1803: famous 25e regiment of infantry of line
  • 1815: 1st Legion of the English Channel , laid off following the Hundred Days
  • 1820: 25e Regiment of Infantry of Line .
  • 1882 : 25e Regiment of Infantry .
  • 1923 : Dissolved (traditions kept by the 8th IH).
  • 1940 : 25e Regiment of Infantry .
  • 1940 : Dissolved.

List chiefs of police

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  • 1830: Barron Of Wood D' Escordal (colonel)
  • 1870: Gibon (colonel)

(*) Officers who became brigadier generals thereafter

Chiefs of police killed and wounded during their command with the head of the 25e regiment of infantry of line:

  • Venoux chief-of-brigade: killed
  • colonel Cassagne: wounded on October 14th, 1806

Officers killed and wounded during their service with the 25e regiment of infantry between 1804 and 1815:

  • killed Officers: 14
  • dead Officiers their wounds: 12
  • wounded Officers: 115

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of 25e IH

Old Mode

  • Wars of religion 1585-1598
  • Against Spain and England 1610-1630
  • War of Thirty-Years 1635-1648
  • the Sling 1649-1652
  • Spain 1653-1659
  • War of Devolution 1667-1668
  • Holland 1672-1678
  • League of Augsburg 1688-1697
  • Succession of Spain 1701-1713
  • Spain 1719
  • Succession of Austria 1740-1748

Revolution and Empire

- Belgium 1792-1793 - Italy 1796-1797 - Egypt 1798-1801 - Germany 1805-1810
  • 1805: Steyer and Austerlitz
  • 1806: Auerstaedt and Pultusk
  • 1807: Eylau
  • 1809 : Letshut, Eckmühl, Ratisbon and Wagram
  • 1810: Ciudad-Rodrigo and Astorga
  • 1811: Carascal
    • the first 4 battalions of 25e IH make parties of the body of observation of the Elba within the 5 {{E}} division of the Compans general. The 5th battalion is in deposit with Landrecies.
- Germany 1813 - Russia 1812
  • 1812: Dorogobouj, Moskowa, Malojaroslawetz, Wisama, Krasnoi and Vilnius
    • January 1st: 25e IH is integrated into the 1st brigade of the general Baron Duppelin (25e and 57 {{E}} IH), always within the 5th division. Quartering is with Bremen
    • February 1st: Departure of Bremen for Stettin
    • March 10th: Arrived at Stettin
    • March 20th: Departure for Marienwerder, where it is confined until May 10th.
    • May 15th: The battalions are dispersed in several quarterings to be joined together shortly after in Mulhausen. The 5th department is assigned to the 1 {{er}} body of army of the marshal Davout:
      • 1st battalion with Mulhausen
      • 2nd battalion with Becklenhoff
      • 3rd battalion with Marienfeld
      • 4th battalion with Weskenhof
      • 6th battalion with Ponickrendork
    • June 24th: The 1st body and thus 25e IH cross Niémen to begin the countryside from Russia
    • June 25th: arrived at Zismoty
    • June 27th: arrived at Jewe
    • June 28th: arrived at Vilnius
  • 1813: Dresden, Kulm and Leipzig ( Battle of the Nations)
- France 1814
  • 1814: Paris and Antwerp
- Belgium 1815

1815 to 1848

  • Spain 1823
  • Belgium 1832
  • Italy 1852-1861

Second Empire

1870 to 1914

  • 1870 : Cherbourg (garrison)
War 1870-1871 Countryside of Tunisia 1881-1886

First World War

Fastening: the 20th division of infantry of August 1914 in November 1918

1914

1915

1916

  • November 30th, 1916 - January 2nd, 1917 - Movement towards the face and occupation of a sector towards the south of Pressoire and the railway of Amiens with Chaulnes. The regiment replaced at the end of November, in the sector of the wood of Chaulnes (Somme), of the elements of 26e D.I. Until January, with water and mud, sometimes to the belly, the men resist the companies of the enemy and, with his beard, create a powerful organization.

1917

  • January 2nd - February 7th, 1917 - Withdrawal of the face and movement towards Ailly-on-Noye, then, starting from January 10th, worms Crèvecoeur-the-Large; instruction with the camp Raised on January 1st, 1917, the regiment goes to Hardivillier and Crocq, army maneuvers of division on the camp of Crévecoeur.

  • February 7th - March 21st, 1917 - Occupation towards Beuvraignes and south of Armancourt, on the left reduced, on February 27th, until Popincourt worms. From the March 17th, continuation of the enemy (GERMAN FOLD). On line between Popincourt and Tilloloy (February 15th - March 20th), it starts to equip offensively these sectors with quietest, but the enemy, defendant of the future attack, yields to the pressure Allies and withdraws himself towards the Hindenburg position.

  • March 21st - April 24th, 1917 - Withdrawal of the face; movement, by Breteuil and Meaux, towards Athis, then towards the face. The regiment goes towards Saint-Quentin, by Ercheu, the Grinding stone-Villette, through the upset ground. the 10th A.C. is raised and 25e R.I returns on Roye, then, by successive stages until April 23rd, goes out of Champagne where the offensive was started since April 16th.

  • April 24th - May 25th, 1917 - Occupation of a sector towards the Cornillet mount and the farm of the Marchionesses. April 30th, attacks on the Cornillet mount, then progression in the Massive wood of the Grid of Moronvilliers (BATTLE OF the CHAMPAGNE MOUNTS). The 25 and on April 27th, 1917, the regiment raises 27e R.I in the sector of Prosnes Secteur of: Moronvilliers, in connection on the right with the 19th D.I. (sector of the Cornillet mount). The general attack of the mounts by the 4th army is fixed at April 30th with 12:40. The 2nd battalion, having the 3rd company in support, goes towards dimension 142, but its progression is slowed down soon. The enemy resists in his positions. The shooting of its machine-guns under concreted casemates is more fatal; the 6th company and a group of 3rd succeeds in however penetrating in the trench Leopoldshohe, objective of the attack, but, decimated, they cannot there be maintained. All the day, the entire battalion resists heroically, to preserve the light advance carried out and to support overflowing action of the regiment of left, the 2nd R.I. April 30th: progression in the bowels of Oder and Darmstadt, stops with distinct of Leopoldshöhe. May 4th, in connection with the 19th division which tries to remove the position of the Cornillet mount, the Germans, cut off in their concreted work, oppose a vigorous resistance. In spite of their remarkable energy, the attackers cannot seize the work, but are maintained with the south-western horn. The regiment remains on its positions so dearly acquired. During two weeks, under terrible bombardments, it prepares a new attack and makes the recognitions necessary. May 20th, the group of 37, a section of machine-guns and a section of infantry support the catch of the Cornillet mount effectively by the 1st Zouaves. Placed on the slope of coast 142, they prevent all German counter-attacks on the sides of the troops of Africa. May 21st at 4 a.m., the regiment takes again the attack with two battalions coupled (1st and 3rd) in first line. In spite of the formidable shooting of our artillery, the German line, roughcast machine-guns with counterslope, cannot be approached. At the beginning of the attack, all the officers almost, fall. The 2nd company, extreme right of division, catch of side, is forced to stop and causes the stop of the 1st company on its left. 9th and the 10th company succeed in engaging in the Leopoldshohe trench, but too isolated, cannot there be maintained.

  • May 25th - June 15th, 1917 - Withdrawal of the face; rest in the west of Châlons-sur-Marne. After being itself reformed then rested during three weeks with Thilic and Saint-Pierre-with-Geese, close to Châlons, 25e R.I leaves for Verdun, where it confined on June 15th, 1917. Division was availability of the 15th army corps to carry out the preliminary works with the attack of August 20th.

  • June 15th - July 14th, 1917 - Transport by trucks in the area of Verdun; work.

  • July 14th - August 8th, 1917 - Occupation of a sector towards the coast of Pepper and Louvemont: preparations of offensive.

  • 8 - August 29th, 1917 - Withdrawal of the face; rest and instruction in the area of Verdun. August 20th, elements engaged in the 2nd OFFENSIVE BATTLE OF VERDUN, towards coast 344. Until this date, the battalions improved the communications of the sector of the coast of Pepper, built shelters. They made proof, like everywhere, of moral good and spirit of discipline in the achievement of this long and arduous work and very often perilous. August 20th, the companies of machine-guns, placed in the old first lines on the northern slope of the coast of Pepper carried out indirect shootings during the progression of the waves of assault of the 123e and 126e D.I

  • August 29th - October 20th, 1917 - occupation of a sector towards Samogneux and the coast of Talou: The September 9th, October 2nd and 6th, German attacks pushed back. August 25th, the regiment went in the area of Chaumont-on-Surface. Returned in Verdun on September 4th, it alternated until October 19th with 47e R.I., in the under-sectors of Tacel and Weimar, between Samogneux and dimension 344. The German attacks of the September 9th, October 5th and 6th fail.

  • October 20th - November 6th, 1917 - Withdrawal of the face; rest towards Vanault-the-Ladies.

1918

November 6th, 1917 - March 3rd, 1918 - Transport in the area of Verdun, then occupation of a sector towards Eparges and Haudiomont. After a rest well gained, taken in the zone Bassuer-Bassu (Champagne), the regiment is transported in Sommedieue, where, during six days, he works with the maintenance of the roads, (11 November 16th, 1917). November 17th, it went up to Eparges, famous sector, illustrated by the terrible combat delivered in 1915. The peaks of Combres and Montgirmont are upset by the mines and the torpedes. The come night, the enormous funnels which separate the lines daN the sector called “Crater”, the gabionnades of the plain of Woëvre, the bushes which border Longeau are excavated by daring patrols which tighten ambushes. December 10th, a new snub is accompanied by a violent one bombardment who causes losses sensitive to the T.C of the regiment, stationed with the camp of Douzains. One of our small stations, fixed on the peak of Combres, puts in escape on January 17th, 1918 a strong enemy patrol which wanted to remove it. During nearly four months, in this painful sector, 25e and 2nd R.I alternate thus per 10 days period, fighting vigorously against the enemy, water, snow, the ground which collapses, the cold which exceeds sometimes 20°. Lastly, on February 28th, 33e D.I raised the 20th D.I., which went in Verdun.

March 3rd - May 23rd, 1918 - Withdrawal of the face, movement towards Sommedieue; work. From the March 21st, occupation of a sector towards Bezonvaux and wood Thatch, extended to left, on March 26th, until Beaumont worms. March 21st, guard of the wood of Caurières, (1,2 km in the North-West of Bezonvaux. North of Verdun. Meuse) that the perpetual bombardments transformed into chaos, is entrusted to the regiment. As of the arrival, the enemy artillery of all gauges makes rage, not leaving any respite to the garrisons of first line. the enemy who occupies the binoculars of Flowering ashes, bombards the village of Bezonvaux sporadically

April 2nd, at 8 p.m., under a violent fire, the enemy attacks the 2nd company abruptly; the body with body engages, disproportionate combat where bravest succumbed. One hour later, the company restored itself its line. It had lost, in three days of bombardments and combat, half of its manpower.

April 17th, fights with the wood of Caurières.le 17, the enemy carries out a violent concentration by toxic shells on our batteries of stopping. At once, all provisions are taken: the artillerists are with their parts, the elements of monitoring are folded up and, against 8 p.m., when the attack starts, accompanied by a formidable artillery fire, the German groups of attack run up against our shortened stopping and our fires of infantry. time to require the lengthening of the stopping and the counter-attack, carried out with an amazing strength by lieutenants Le Bourget, Chatillon, Caubrière, drives back them in disorder, digging in their rows of the bloody vacuums.

At the end of this brilliant action, the 1st battalion counted in the table: 2 officers, 34 died, 23 wounded and captive, several machine-guns, 2 flame throwers.

The 1st company is quoted with the order for its valiant control: “… On April 17th, 1918, with the wood of Caurières, carried out with a remarkable brilliance, a skilful and effective answer, with a strong knack which the enemy had been successful several times before on the same point. After having stopped it Net on the line of resistance, trained magnificiently by his young person and valiant chief, lieutenant Le Bourget, sprang vigorously and with an admirable relevance with the counter-attack; completely its position in a few minutes restored, by inflicting to the Germans severe losses out of of killed and captive, of which several officers, and capturing many a material. ”

With these knacks violent one, the Germans add in the nights of the 13 and of April 18th, of the sudden attacks by projectors. Two of our officers and many men die under the effect of the powerful poisons (carbon oxychloride).

Every six days, in spite of the difficulties, the battalions are raised in this infernal sector where only one grass bit does not push. No the bowel in this sinister corner; to lead to the position of first line, a single track skirts the bottom of a ravine, baptized by hairy of a strange and poignant name: “The Pedal”.

Inter-war period

Second world war

Quotations

; The names of eight battles are registered in gold letters on the flag: ; Decorated with the Military Cross 1914-1918 with 1 palm. Gold medal of Milan.

Refrain. " Still a biffin of fallen into the pétrin."

External bonds

  • 25e R.I

INF, 025 INF, 025

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