43e regiment of infantry of line

The 43e regiment of infantry of line (currently 43e regiment of infantry, or 43e IH) is a regiment of infantry created under the Ancien Mode under the name of regiment of the vessels , and which is particularly illustrated at the time of the battles Marengo and of Iéna.

Creation and various denominations

Old Mode

March 13rd 1638: survey under the name of Regiment of the vessels , it is illustrated very early;
March 10th 1644: ''' Vessels-Mazarin '''
June 25th 1650 becomes the : then the ''' Vessels-Candale '''
January 1658: becomes again Vessels-Mazarin
March 15th 1661: change name for ''' Vessel-Provence '''
September 20th 1669: and finally, its final name for the Old Mode is ''' Royal Vessels '''

Revolution and First Empire

January 1st 1791: 43e regiment of infantry
1793: transformed into 43e half-brigade of battle , starting from the following units:

1st battalion of the 22 {{E}} regiment of infantry
4th battalion of volunteers of Seine-et-Oise
3rd battalion of volunteers of the Batch

September 12th 1794: 43e half-brigade of battle
February 20th 1796: transformed into 43e half-brigade of infantry of line , starting from the following units:

34e half-brigade of battle (formed it even of the following units: 2nd battalion of the 18 {{E}} regiment of infantry, 3rd battalion of volunteers of the Moselle and 5th battalion of volunteers of Meurthe)
3rd battalion of the 149 {{E}} half-brigade of battle

September 24th, 1803: 43e regiment of infantry of line

Restoration, Monarchy of July and Second Empire

1815 : bachelor
1816: recreated under the name of Legion of Loiret
1821: begins again the name of 43e regiment of infantry of line

IIIe Republic

1870 : the 3rd battalion of the 43e IH form the 8 {{E}} Regiment of Walk
1914: 43e Regiment of Infantry

With the mobilization, it gives rise to the 243 {{E}} Régiment of Infantry
August 2nd, 1914 at October 26th, 1916: affected with the 1 {{Re}} Division of Infantry
October 26th, 1916 at January 7th, 1919: affected with the 162 {{E}} Division of Infantry
January 8th, 1919 at the end of the war: reallocated with the 1st Division of Infantry

1939: 43e Regiment of Infantry Motorized
September 1st 1940: 43e Regiment of Alpine Infantry , the Armed with armistice
November 11th 1942 at April 29th 1943: progressive dissolution

IVe and Ve Républiques

September 16th 1944: creation of the 43e regiment of infantry of the Release , in Lille
January 12th 1945: 43e regiment of infantry
1947: 43e battalion of infantry
January 1949: 43e regiment of infantry
February 1949: 43e half-brigade of made up infantry:

of the 43e battalion of infantry
and of the 16 {{E}} battalion of hunters to foot

1956: 43e regiment of infantry
1957: Center instruction of the 43e regiment of infantry (the flag is returned to the Fort of Vincennes)
March 1st 1964: re-creation of the 43e regiment of infantry
1984: 43e regiment of infantry and command of army corps (43e RICCA)
September 1st 1991: 43e regiment of infantry

Chiefs of police of the Old Mode

March 13rd, 1638: Henri d' Escoubleau de Sourdis (archbishop of Bordeaux)
February 3rd, 1640: Armand Jean of Plessis de Richelieu (cardinal of)
March 10th, 1644: Jules Mazarin (Cardinal)
June 25th, 1650: Louis Charles Gaston de Nogaret de Foix, duke of Candale
March 15th, 1661: Louis de Vendôme, duke of Mercœur
September 20th, 1667: Alexandre Bret
March 29th, 1679: Louis Potter of Gesvres, marquis de Gandelus
April 24th, 1689: Louis de Mailly (count of)
April 29th, 1692: Rene de Névet (marquis of)
June 16th, 1699: Hyacinthe de Montvalat, knight of Entragues
March 1st, 1702: Isaac Charles of Rochefoucaud, count de Montendre
August 27th, 1702: Louis de Régnier, marquis de Guerchy
June 14th, 1705: Thomas the Son-in-law of Collandre
March 6th, 1719: Pierre-Aime de Guiffrey, count de Marcieu
November 25th, 1734: Claude Louis François de Régnier, count de Guerchy
May 26th, 1745: Jean-Baptiste Charles Hubert d' Esparbès de Lussan, knight of Aubeterre
February 21st, 1746: Louis Henri d' Esparbès de Lussan, count d' Aubeterre - the Greenhouse
August 7th, 1747: François Emmery de Durfort, count de Civrac
November 30th, 1761: Anne Pierre de Montesquiou (marquis of)
July 28th, 1773: Charles Pierre Hyacinthe, count d' Ossun
March 10th, 1788: Frederic Seraph of the Tower of the Pine, marquis de Gouvernet

Chiefs of police of the Revolution and Empire

October 21st 1791: Joseph-Marie Rogon De Kerkaradec - Colonel
May 16th 1792: Anselme De Sicard - Colonel
September 4th 1792: François de Vergès - Colonel (*)
1794: Louis-Price Vare - Chief-of-Brigade (*)
1796: Barrere - Chief-of-Brigade
1799: Baptist Pierre Bison - Chief-of-Brigade (**)
1799: Jean-Baptiste Pierre de Semellé - Chief-of-Brigade (**)
1800: Guillaume Raymond Lover Vivies - Chief-of-Brigade (*)
1805: Yves Lemarois - Colonel
1807: Jean-Claude Baussin - Colonel
1811: Antoine Must - Colonel
1813: Nicolas Jacquemard - Colonel (*)
1813: Jean-Pierre Rene Stanislas To calve of Chief of Wood - Colonel

(*) Officers having become brigadier generals following their command. (**) Officers having reached the rank of major general

Colonels killed and/or wounded whereas it ordered 43e IH:

Colonel Marois: killed on February 8th, 1807
Colonel Baussin: wounded on June 10th, 1807 then killed on February 27th, 1811
Colonel Must: killed on April 14th, 1812
Colonel Veller of Chief of Wood: wounded on October 13rd, 1813 then on November 10th, 1813

Officers killed and/or wounded during their service within 43e IH between 1804 and 1815:

killed Officers: 42
dead Officers of the continuations of their wound: 18
wounded Officers: 182

Chiefs of police of the First World War

from August 2nd to 29th 1914: colonel Proye
August 31st at September 6th, 1914: lieutenant-colonel Baston
September 14th at December 6th, 1914: lieutenant-colonel Lapointe
December 6th, 1914 at January 8th, 1915: colonel Proye
January 8th, 1915 at April 24th, 1917: lieutenant-colonel Lapointe
April 25th at May 4th, 1917: major Marthe
May 4th at June 12th, 1917: lieutenant-colonel Nenig
June 24th, 1917: lieutenant-colonel Carrot

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of 43e IH

Old Mode

Wars of the Revolution and the Empire

1792 : Valmy and taken Namur
1795: Loano
1796 : Wurzburg
1797 : Rivoli, Favorite the, and Valvassone
1800: Montebello, Marengo, and Pozzolo
1805: Ulm and Austerlitz
1806: Iéna
1807 : Eylau and Heilsberg
1808: Medina-LED-Rio Secco, Bilbao, and Durango
1809: Santeter and Ronda
1810: catch of Ronda, Pampelune, and Aspiro
1811: Defense of Ronda, Villa-Nova-LED-Duque, and Osuna
1812: Olora
1813 : Vitoria, Battle of Bidassoa, Saint-Bores, Nivelle, and Bayonne
1813: Lützen, Baützen, Kulm, Leipzig, and Hanau
1814: Orthez and Toulouse
1814: Champaubert, Montmirail, Vauchamps, Laon, Rheims, Fère-Champagne and Paris
1815: Saint-Gilles and Matha

Second Empire

First World War

Assignment:

1st Brigade of Infantry of the 1 {{Re}} division of infantry of the 1 {{er}} Army corps) of August 1914 in October 1916
1914

1915

1916

1917

1918

Inter-war period

Second world war

Inscriptions of the battles on its flag

1792 : Valmy
1800 : Battle Marengo
1805: Austerlitz
1806 : Battle of Iéna
1849: Zaatcha
1855 : Sébastopol
1916 : Somme
1917: Flandres
1918 : Aisne
AFN 1952-1962
the badge blue of the regiment goes on the fodder one.

the regiment receives the Military Cross 1914-1918, Fourragère with the colors of the ribbon of the Military Cross 4 mentions in dispatches, (three palms).

43e IH today

Mission

The 43 IH, projectable regiment of the chain of the forces is subordinated to the Commandement of the Terrestrial Force of Action. It has the role of ensuring the support of the various staffs of the garrison of Lille. It contributes, in the respect of criteria NATO to the support of the deployment of the HQ of the Fast Corps of Reaction France (CRR-Fr) within the framework of its operational preparation and during its engagements.

Composition

1 company of command and logistics (CCL)
1 company of administration and support (CASE)
1 company of intervention of reserve (5CIR)

Materials

Reorganized at July 1st, 2005 and having given rise to the 6th RCS of Douai, it counts to date: 21 officers, 106 warrant officers and 227 EVAT articulated in two units of active: CASE and CCL and a unit of reserve: 5th Co UER. Its flag received name AFN 52-62 in its folds.

See too

Internal bonds

List of the French regiments
List of the ranks in the French Army

External bonds

http://www.43ri.com/

History of the regiment

Sources and bibliography

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