8th artillery regiment

First World War

From 1919 to 1940

After the 2nd World war until 1955

War of Algeria: 1955-1962

From 1964 to our days

From 1919 to 1940

After the 2nd World war until 1955

War of Algeria: 1955-1962

From 1964 to our days

Famous personalities having been used for the 8th RA

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of the 8th RA

Old Mode

Famous personalities having been used for the 8th RA

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of the 8th RA

Old Mode

Revolution and Empire

• 1793: Countryside of the Vendée.

• 1794: With the Armed with North: Sit of Wood-The-Duke.
• 1801: Naval action of Algeciras.
• 1802: Saint-Dominique (4 cies); a detachment is maintained in the East of the island until 1809.
• 1802 - 1810: the Meeting (a detachment).
• 1805 : Large army: participation in the Battle of Austerlitz. The artillery of the regiment causes very heavy losses at the enemy insofar as its guns break the ice of the lake on which it took refuge. That is worth name to him, on decision of the emperor Napoleon i, of Régiment of Austerlitz .
• 1806 - 1808: Large army. The regiment is distinguished in 1807 with Friedland where its gunners cause great devastations among the Russian troops. During an inspection, the Muller general declares " then; The species of men is superb, the regiment is ordered, of brilliant held well and well discipliné".
• 1808-1813: War of Spain: Somosierra (1808); Uclès, Almonacid (1809); Ciudad Rodrigo (1810); Head office of Tarragone, Chiclana (1811).
• 1809: Armed with Germany: Eckmühl, Essling, Wagram, Znaïm.
• 1812: Large army: Moskowa; Krasnoe; Beresina.
• 1813: Lützen; Bautzen; Dresden; Leipzig.
• 1814: Countryside of France: Craonne; Laon; Defense of Paris.
• 1815: Countryside of Belgium: Waterloo. The regiment is laid off in November 1815.

Of 1815 with 1848

• 1823: Forwarding of Spain (1st with 8th cies): Corogne; Trocadero.
• 1828-1833: participation in the Forwarding of Morée to support the Greek insurrectionists at the time of the War of Greek independence. Catch of the castle of Morée. Sit of Coron.
• 1832: Head office of Antwerp (2nd and 10th with 14th batteries).
• 1832 - 1854: Algeria (15th battery).

Second Empire and War of 1870

March 16th, 1854, the 8th Regiment of Artillery is transformed into 17th Artillery Regiment with Horse . But following the decree of February 14th, 1854, the 8th Regiment of Assembled Artillery is formed in Toulouse on March 16th. It takes it again round of the garrisons quickly: Toulouse (1854-1857), Rennes (1857-1861), Douai (1861-1865), Metz (1865-1868), Fère (1868-1870). Then the rate/rhythm accelerates: Vincennes on September 6th, 1870, Rennes on September 11th, Saint-Omer on March 11th, 1871, then Saint-Omer and Surface-S-Lily on April 28th, 1871.

Its campaigns for this period:

• 1854-1855: Countryside of the Crimea: Alma (1854); Head office of Sébastopol (1st with 4th, 7th, 8th, 15th bies).
• 1857: Forwarding of Kabylie (1st, 5th bies).
• 1859: Countryside of Italy (6th, 9th with 13th bies): Montebello; Magenta; Solférino.
• 1870-1871:
• Armed with the Rhine (5th with 9th bies): Borny; Rezonville; Saint-Privat.
• Armed with Châlons (3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th bies): Mouzon; Bazeilles; Sedan.
• Defense of Paris (13th, 16th bies).
• Defense of Longwy (2nd bie) and Soissons (1st bie (a)).
• Armed with the Loire (18th with 25e bies): Beaune-The-Rolande; Patay.
• Armed with the East (20th, 21e, 23e (a)): Villersexel.

Of 1871 with 1914

September 1st, 1883, it becomes the 8th Regiment of Field artillery . From 1883 to 1887 its deposit is in Châlons-sur-Marne, of 1887 to 1894 the regiment stations with Nancy, Toul and Châlons. From 1894 to 1914, it is tightened on Nancy.

First World War

It is articulated in 3 groups of active equipped with the Canon of 75mm. Here places and dates where it made countryside during this war.

• 1914: Lorraine (E. Nancy, Vic-S-Pail) from August 15th to 18th; Morhange from August 19th to 21st; Large Crowned (NO Lunéville) from August 21st to September 16th; The Sum (Bray) from September 25th to October 20th; Artois (SO. Arras) of October at November 2nd; Flandres (N.Ypres) from November 8th, 1914 to April 18th, 1915.
• 1915: Artois (NR. Arras) from April 20th to July 8th; Champagne from September 1st to December 24th.
• 1916: Lorraine (E. Nancy) from February 13rd to March 13rd: Verdun (left bank) from March 24th to April 17th; The Sum (. Bray) from June 1st to August 15th, then from November 17th to December 12th.
• 1917: Lorraine (. Nancy) from December 29th, 1916 to January 16th, 1917; Way of the Ladies (NR. Oeuilly) from March 29th to June 12th; Woëvre (O. Flirey) from June 28th to October 6th.
• 1918: Verdun from January 29th to March 23rd; Picardy (O. Amines) in reserve from April 28th to May 30th; Matz (O. Ressons) from June 6th to 13rd, in the west of Soissons from June 19th to August 12th; in the North-East of Vic-s-Aisne from August 16th to 25th; The Wing (Coucy) from September 1st to 15th; Flandres (Roulers) from October 7th to 17th; The Lily (Deinze) from October 21st to 31st; The Scheldt (NR. Audenarde) from November 3rd to 11th.

Inter-war period

With IIIe Groups 8th and two other groups of the 264 {{E}}, it is made up the Régiment of Artillery of Walk 8/264 with Mailly from March 5th, 1919 to May 31st, 1919. But on June 1st, 1919, the 8th Regiment of Field artillery is recreated. It is with Nancy, Toul and Lunéville in 1919, then Nancy and Toul in 1920. Then the regiment leaves in occupation to Germany.

• 1919: occupation of the the Saar from June 21st to July 28th.
• 1920: occupation of Frankfurt from April 3rd to 30th.
• 1921: occupation of Crefeld from May 12th to September 20th.
• 1923-1924: Occupation of the Ruhr (Duisburg) from January 11th, 1923 to January 26th, 1924.

March 1st, 1923, the regiment becomes the 8th Regiment of Artillery Divisional . It stations in Nancy of 1923 to 1940.

Its campaigns for this period:

• 1925-1927: Syria (2nd and 4th bies) of August 1925 in April 1927; Damas; Djebel Druze from March in September 1926. These two batteries pass to the 19 {{E}} on their return in April 1927.

Second world war

Marketing year 1939-1940:

• 1939: Face of Lorraine (O. Sarreguemines) from August 27th to November 15th; Operations on Blies, forest of Warndt from September 9th to October 2nd; Delme from December 1st to March 26th, 1940.
• 1940: Sarre (E.Saint-Avold) from March 30th to May 18th; Face of Aisne (E. Compiegne) from May 22nd to June 10th; Crépy-in-Valois from June 11th to 12th; Reprocess Center: channel of Ourq (O. Meaux) on June 13rd; The Seine (Fontainebleau) June 14th and 15th; The Loire (Châteauneuf) from June 16th to 18th; Salbris on June 19th; Indre on June 20th, Nontron on June 24th.

It is dissolved in Clermont-Ferrand in July 1940.

Reconstituted on January 1st, 1945 in a structure with three groups, it is with Saint-Mihiel in April 1945. Some elements take part at the end of the May campaign in Germany: the 1st Group with Offenburg; the 2nd Group with Rastadt then with Emmendingen on June 5th; from July to October the 3rd Group and the staff of I/8 are with Offenburg and Kehl. July 17th, the 2nd Group makes movement on Strasbourg.

Of 1945 at our days

• on April 15th, 1946, the 8°RA is tiny room to a Group, the 1/8ème RA. In June 1946, it is in Lambach, Drachenbronn, Langensoultzbach. May 2nd, 1947, it is with the Drouot district in Nancy.
• the 8th RA is reconstituted on April 1st, 1949 in a battery of command and 4 groups. From April 1st to October 1st it is thus distributed: the battery of command and IV/8ème in NANCY; I/8ème with HAGUENAU; II/8ème with the FERE; III/8ème in Mill-the-Metz. Then of October 1st, 1949 at 1955, only II/8ème changes garrison into settling with VERDUN.

• the 8th Artillery Regiment is recreated on May 16th, 1964 with Commercy.
• 1991 : Participation in the War of the Gulf. A section of mini-planes of tactical recognition without pilot (M.A.R.T.), in the course of experimentation with the regiment, is setting-up in the few days which precede the terrestrial action then is conveyed for the theater of operation. The mission lasts from February 8th to April 1st, 1991. The regiment having been strongly solicited to provide its personnel engaged to other units of division (the 10th Armor-plated Division), it is called upon personnel coming from the 403ème Régiment of Artillery of Chaumont. It is during this operation that the requirement in the slow drone is consolidated to acquire in real-time the information by images. The lesson drawn from the success of this experiment will direct the choice towards the Crécerelle drones which will equip thereafter the 6th Group with the 7th Artillery Regiment, then the 7th Artillery Regiment until its transformation into 61ème Régiment of Artillery.

• 1999: It belongs to the 7 {{E}} Armor-plated Brigade

Feat of arms carried to the flag of the regiment

• ''' AUSTERLITZ 1805 ''' (it is the only artillery regiment where figure this inscription)
• ''' FRIEDLAND 1807 '''
• ''' SEBASTOPOL 1854-1855 '''
• ''' SOLFERINO 1859 '''
• ''' LORRAINE 1914 '''
• ''' VERDUN 1916 '''
• ''' SOISSONNAIS 1918 '''

The 8th RA today

Missions

Organization

• 4 batteries of shooting.
• 1 battery of the operations including/understanding of the acquisition and observation aids (teams of observation in the depth) sophisticated.
• 1 battery of command and logistics.
• 1 basic battery and of instruction.
• 1 unit of infantry of reserve (UIR).

Materials

• Guns of 155 mm AMX AUF1
• Mortars of 120mm
• Vehicles of observation of artillery (VOA).
• VAB equipped with specific materials, for the topographic needs (SAW) and for the data transmission (ATLAS).

See too

Internal bonds

• List of the French regiments

External bonds

Famous personalities having been used for the 8th RA

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of the 8th RA

Old Mode

Revolution and Empire

• 1793: Countryside of the Vendée.

• 1794: With the Armed with North: Sit of Wood-The-Duke.
• 1801: Naval action of Algeciras.
• 1802: Saint-Dominique (4 cies); a detachment is maintained in the East of the island until 1809.
• 1802 - 1810: the Meeting (a detachment).
• 1805 : Large army: participation in the Battle of Austerlitz. The artillery of the regiment causes very heavy losses at the enemy insofar as its guns break the ice of the lake on which it took refuge. That is worth name to him, on decision of the emperor Napoleon i, of Régiment of Austerlitz .
• 1806 - 1808: Large army. The regiment is distinguished in 1807 with Friedland where its gunners cause great devastations among the Russian troops. During an inspection, the Muller general declares " then; The species of men is superb, the regiment is ordered, of brilliant held well and well discipliné".
• 1808-1813: War of Spain: Somosierra (1808); Uclès, Almonacid (1809); Ciudad Rodrigo (1810); Head office of Tarragone, Chiclana (1811).
• 1809: Armed with Germany: Eckmühl, Essling, Wagram, Znaïm.
• 1812: Large army: Moskowa; Krasnoe; Beresina.
• 1813: Lützen; Bautzen; Dresden; Leipzig.
• 1814: Countryside of France: Craonne; Laon; Defense of Paris.
• 1815: Countryside of Belgium: Waterloo. The regiment is laid off in November 1815.

Of 1815 with 1848

• 1823: Forwarding of Spain (1st with 8th cies): Corogne; Trocadero.
• 1828-1833: participation in the Forwarding of Morée to support the Greek insurrectionists at the time of the War of Greek independence. Catch of the castle of Morée. Sit of Coron.
• 1832: Head office of Antwerp (2nd and 10th with 14th batteries).
• 1832 - 1854: Algeria (15th battery).

Second Empire and War of 1870

March 16th, 1854, the 8th Regiment of Artillery is transformed into 17th Artillery Regiment with Horse . But following the decree of February 14th, 1854, the 8th Regiment of Assembled Artillery is formed in Toulouse on March 16th. It takes it again round of the garrisons quickly: Toulouse (1854-1857), Rennes (1857-1861), Douai (1861-1865), Metz (1865-1868), Fère (1868-1870). Then the rate/rhythm accelerates: Vincennes on September 6th, 1870, Rennes on September 11th, Saint-Omer on March 11th, 1871, then Saint-Omer and Surface-S-Lily on April 28th, 1871.

Its campaigns for this period:

• 1854-1855: Countryside of the Crimea: Alma (1854); Head office of Sébastopol (1st with 4th, 7th, 8th, 15th bies).
• 1857: Forwarding of Kabylie (1st, 5th bies).
• 1859: Countryside of Italy (6th, 9th with 13th bies): Montebello; Magenta; Solférino.
• 1870-1871:
• Armed with the Rhine (5th with 9th bies): Borny; Rezonville; Saint-Privat.
• Armed with Châlons (3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th bies): Mouzon; Bazeilles; Sedan.
• Defense of Paris (13th, 16th bies).
• Defense of Longwy (2nd bie) and Soissons (1st bie (a)).
• Armed with the Loire (18th with 25e bies): Beaune-The-Rolande; Patay.
• Armed with the East (20th, 21e, 23e (a)): Villersexel.

Of 1871 with 1914

September 1st, 1883, it becomes the 8th Regiment of Field artillery . From 1883 to 1887 its deposit is in Châlons-sur-Marne, of 1887 to 1894 the regiment stations with Nancy, Toul and Châlons. From 1894 to 1914, it is tightened on Nancy.

First World War

It is articulated in 3 groups of active equipped with the Canon of 75mm. Here places and dates where it made countryside during this war.

• 1914: Lorraine (E. Nancy, Vic-S-Pail) from August 15th to 18th; Morhange from August 19th to 21st; Large Crowned (NO Lunéville) from August 21st to September 16th; The Sum (Bray) from September 25th to October 20th; Artois (SO. Arras) of October at November 2nd; Flandres (N.Ypres) from November 8th, 1914 to April 18th, 1915.
• 1915: Artois (NR. Arras) from April 20th to July 8th; Champagne from September 1st to December 24th.
• 1916: Lorraine (E. Nancy) from February 13rd to March 13rd: Verdun (left bank) from March 24th to April 17th; The Sum (. Bray) from June 1st to August 15th, then from November 17th to December 12th.
• 1917: Lorraine (. Nancy) from December 29th, 1916 to January 16th, 1917; Way of the Ladies (NR. Oeuilly) from March 29th to June 12th; Woëvre (O. Flirey) from June 28th to October 6th.
• 1918: Verdun from January 29th to March 23rd; Picardy (O. Amines) in reserve from April 28th to May 30th; Matz (O. Ressons) from June 6th to 13rd, in the west of Soissons from June 19th to August 12th; in the North-East of Vic-s-Aisne from August 16th to 25th; The Wing (Coucy) from September 1st to 15th; Flandres (Roulers) from October 7th to 17th; The Lily (Deinze) from October 21st to 31st; The Scheldt (NR. Audenarde) from November 3rd to 11th.

Inter-war period

With IIIe Groups 8th and two other groups of the 264 {{E}}, it is made up the Régiment of Artillery of Walk 8/264 with Mailly from March 5th, 1919 to May 31st, 1919. But on June 1st, 1919, the 8th Regiment of Field artillery is recreated. It is with Nancy, Toul and Lunéville in 1919, then Nancy and Toul in 1920. Then the regiment leaves in occupation to Germany.

• 1919: occupation of the the Saar from June 21st to July 28th.
• 1920: occupation of Frankfurt from April 3rd to 30th.
• 1921: occupation of Crefeld from May 12th to September 20th.
• 1923-1924: Occupation of the Ruhr (Duisburg) from January 11th, 1923 to January 26th, 1924.

March 1st, 1923, the regiment becomes the 8th Regiment of Artillery Divisional . It stations in Nancy of 1923 to 1940.

Its campaigns for this period:

• 1925-1927: Syria (2nd and 4th bies) of August 1925 in April 1927; Damas; Djebel Druze from March in September 1926. These two batteries pass to the 19 {{E}} on their return in April 1927.

Second world war

Marketing year 1939-1940:

• 1939: Face of Lorraine (O. Sarreguemines) from August 27th to November 15th; Operations on Blies, forest of Warndt from September 9th to October 2nd; Delme from December 1st to March 26th, 1940.
• 1940: Sarre (E.Saint-Avold) from March 30th to May 18th; Face of Aisne (E. Compiegne) from May 22nd to June 10th; Crépy-in-Valois from June 11th to 12th; Reprocess Center: channel of Ourq (O. Meaux) on June 13rd; The Seine (Fontainebleau) June 14th and 15th; The Loire (Châteauneuf) from June 16th to 18th; Salbris on June 19th; Indre on June 20th, Nontron on June 24th.

It is dissolved in Clermont-Ferrand in July 1940.

Reconstituted on January 1st, 1945 in a structure with three groups, it is with Saint-Mihiel in April 1945. Some elements take part at the end of the May campaign in Germany: the 1st Group with Offenburg; the 2nd Group with Rastadt then with Emmendingen on June 5th; from July to October the 3rd Group and the staff of I/8 are with Offenburg and Kehl. July 17th, the 2nd Group makes movement on Strasbourg.

Of 1945 at our days

• on April 15th, 1946, the 8°RA is tiny room to a Group, the 1/8ème RA. In June 1946, it is in Lambach, Drachenbronn, Langensoultzbach. May 2nd, 1947, it is with the Drouot district in Nancy.
• the 8th RA is reconstituted on April 1st, 1949 in a battery of command and 4 groups. From April 1st to October 1st it is thus distributed: the battery of command and IV/8ème in NANCY; I/8ème with HAGUENAU; II/8ème with the FERE; III/8ème in Mill-the-Metz. Then of October 1st, 1949 at 1955, only II/8ème changes garrison into settling with VERDUN.

• the 8th Artillery Regiment is recreated on May 16th, 1964 with Commercy.
• 1991 : Participation in the War of the Gulf. A section of mini-planes of tactical recognition without pilot (M.A.R.T.), in the course of experimentation with the regiment, is setting-up in the few days which precede the terrestrial action then is conveyed for the theater of operation. The mission lasts from February 8th to April 1st, 1991. The regiment having been strongly solicited to provide its personnel engaged to other units of division (the 10th Armor-plated Division), it is called upon personnel coming from the 403ème Régiment of Artillery of Chaumont. It is during this operation that the requirement in the slow drone is consolidated to acquire in real-time the information by images. The lesson drawn from the success of this experiment will direct the choice towards the Crécerelle drones which will equip thereafter the 6th Group with the 7th Artillery Regiment, then the 7th Artillery Regiment until its transformation into 61ème Régiment of Artillery.

• 1999: It belongs to the 7 {{E}} Armor-plated Brigade

Feat of arms carried to the flag of the regiment

• ''' AUSTERLITZ 1805 ''' (it is the only artillery regiment where figure this inscription)
• ''' FRIEDLAND 1807 '''
• ''' SEBASTOPOL 1854-1855 '''
• ''' SOLFERINO 1859 '''
• ''' LORRAINE 1914 '''
• ''' VERDUN 1916 '''
• ''' SOISSONNAIS 1918 '''

The 8th RA today

Missions

Organization

• 4 batteries of shooting.
• 1 battery of the operations including/understanding of the acquisition and observation aids (teams of observation in the depth) sophisticated.
• 1 battery of command and logistics.
• 1 basic battery and of instruction.
• 1 unit of infantry of reserve (UIR).

Materials

• Guns of 155 mm AMX AUF1
• Mortars of 120mm
• Vehicles of observation of artillery (VOA).
• VAB equipped with specific materials, for the topographic needs (SAW) and for the data transmission (ATLAS).

See too

Internal bonds

• List of the French regiments

External bonds

Famous personalities having been used for the 8th RA

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of the 8th RA

Old Mode

Revolution and Empire

• 1793: Countryside of the Vendée.

• 1794: With the Armed with North: Sit of Wood-The-Duke.
• 1801: Naval action of Algeciras.
• 1802: Saint-Dominique (4 cies); a detachment is maintained in the East of the island until 1809.
• 1802 - 1810: the Meeting (a detachment).
• 1805 : Large army: participation in the Battle of Austerlitz. The artillery of the regiment causes very heavy losses at the enemy insofar as its guns break the ice of the lake on which it took refuge. That is worth name to him, on decision of the emperor Napoleon i, of Régiment of Austerlitz .
• 1806 - 1808: Large army. The regiment is distinguished in 1807 with Friedland where its gunners cause great devastations among the Russian troops. During an inspection, the Muller general declares " then; The species of men is superb, the regiment is ordered, of brilliant held well and well discipliné".
• 1808-1813: War of Spain: Somosierra (1808); Uclès, Almonacid (1809); Ciudad Rodrigo (1810); Head office of Tarragone, Chiclana (1811).
• 1809: Armed with Germany: Eckmühl, Essling, Wagram, Znaïm.
• 1812: Large army: Moskowa; Krasnoe; Beresina.
• 1813: Lützen; Bautzen; Dresden; Leipzig.
• 1814: Countryside of France: Craonne; Laon; Defense of Paris.
• 1815: Countryside of Belgium: Waterloo. The regiment is laid off in November 1815.

Of 1815 with 1848

• 1823: Forwarding of Spain (1st with 8th cies): Corogne; Trocadero.
• 1828-1833: participation in the Forwarding of Morée to support the Greek insurrectionists at the time of the War of Greek independence. Catch of the castle of Morée. Sit of Coron.
• 1832: Head office of Antwerp (2nd and 10th with 14th batteries).
• 1832 - 1854: Algeria (15th battery).

Second Empire and War of 1870

March 16th, 1854, the 8th Regiment of Artillery is transformed into 17th Artillery Regiment with Horse . But following the decree of February 14th, 1854, the 8th Regiment of Assembled Artillery is formed in Toulouse on March 16th. It takes it again round of the garrisons quickly: Toulouse (1854-1857), Rennes (1857-1861), Douai (1861-1865), Metz (1865-1868), Fère (1868-1870). Then the rate/rhythm accelerates: Vincennes on September 6th, 1870, Rennes on September 11th, Saint-Omer on March 11th, 1871, then Saint-Omer and Surface-S-Lily on April 28th, 1871.

Its campaigns for this period:

• 1854-1855: Countryside of the Crimea: Alma (1854); Head office of Sébastopol (1st with 4th, 7th, 8th, 15th bies).
• 1857: Forwarding of Kabylie (1st, 5th bies).
• 1859: Countryside of Italy (6th, 9th with 13th bies): Montebello; Magenta; Solférino.
• 1870-1871:
• Armed with the Rhine (5th with 9th bies): Borny; Rezonville; Saint-Privat.
• Armed with Châlons (3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th bies): Mouzon; Bazeilles; Sedan.
• Defense of Paris (13th, 16th bies).
• Defense of Longwy (2nd bie) and Soissons (1st bie (a)).
• Armed with the Loire (18th with 25e bies): Beaune-The-Rolande; Patay.
• Armed with the East (20th, 21e, 23e (a)): Villersexel.

Of 1871 with 1914

September 1st, 1883, it becomes the 8th Regiment of Field artillery . From 1883 to 1887 its deposit is in Châlons-sur-Marne, of 1887 to 1894 the regiment stations with Nancy, Toul and Châlons. From 1894 to 1914, it is tightened on Nancy.

First World War

It is articulated in 3 groups of active equipped with the Canon of 75mm. Here places and dates where it made countryside during this war.

• 1914: Lorraine (E. Nancy, Vic-S-Pail) from August 15th to 18th; Morhange from August 19th to 21st; Large Crowned (NO Lunéville) from August 21st to September 16th; The Sum (Bray) from September 25th to October 20th; Artois (SO. Arras) of October at November 2nd; Flandres (N.Ypres) from November 8th, 1914 to April 18th, 1915.
• 1915: Artois (NR. Arras) from April 20th to July 8th; Champagne from September 1st to December 24th.
• 1916: Lorraine (E. Nancy) from February 13rd to March 13rd: Verdun (left bank) from March 24th to April 17th; The Sum (. Bray) from June 1st to August 15th, then from November 17th to December 12th.
• 1917: Lorraine (. Nancy) from December 29th, 1916 to January 16th, 1917; Way of the Ladies (NR. Oeuilly) from March 29th to June 12th; Woëvre (O. Flirey) from June 28th to October 6th.
• 1918: Verdun from January 29th to March 23rd; Picardy (O. Amines) in reserve from April 28th to May 30th; Matz (O. Ressons) from June 6th to 13rd, in the west of Soissons from June 19th to August 12th; in the North-East of Vic-s-Aisne from August 16th to 25th; The Wing (Coucy) from September 1st to 15th; Flandres (Roulers) from October 7th to 17th; The Lily (Deinze) from October 21st to 31st; The Scheldt (NR. Audenarde) from November 3rd to 11th.

Inter-war period

With IIIe Groups 8th and two other groups of the 264 {{E}}, it is made up the Régiment of Artillery of Walk 8/264 with Mailly from March 5th, 1919 to May 31st, 1919. But on June 1st, 1919, the 8th Regiment of Field artillery is recreated. It is with Nancy, Toul and Lunéville in 1919, then Nancy and Toul in 1920. Then the regiment leaves in occupation to Germany.

• 1919: occupation of the the Saar from June 21st to July 28th.
• 1920: occupation of Frankfurt from April 3rd to 30th.
• 1921: occupation of Crefeld from May 12th to September 20th.
• 1923-1924: Occupation of the Ruhr (Duisburg) from January 11th, 1923 to January 26th, 1924.

March 1st, 1923, the regiment becomes the 8th Regiment of Artillery Divisional . It stations in Nancy of 1923 to 1940.

Its campaigns for this period:

• 1925-1927: Syria (2nd and 4th bies) of August 1925 in April 1927; Damas; Djebel Druze from March in September 1926. These two batteries pass to the 19 {{E}} on their return in April 1927.

Second world war

Marketing year 1939-1940:

• 1939: Face of Lorraine (O. Sarreguemines) from August 27th to November 15th; Operations on Blies, forest of Warndt from September 9th to October 2nd; Delme from December 1st to March 26th, 1940.
• 1940: Sarre (E.Saint-Avold) from March 30th to May 18th; Face of Aisne (E. Compiegne) from May 22nd to June 10th; Crépy-in-Valois from June 11th to 12th; Reprocess Center: channel of Ourq (O. Meaux) on June 13rd; The Seine (Fontainebleau) June 14th and 15th; The Loire (Châteauneuf) from June 16th to 18th; Salbris on June 19th; Indre on June 20th, Nontron on June 24th.

It is dissolved in Clermont-Ferrand in July 1940.

Reconstituted on January 1st, 1945 in a structure with three groups, it is with Saint-Mihiel in April 1945. Some elements take part at the end of the May campaign in Germany: the 1st Group with Offenburg; the 2nd Group with Rastadt then with Emmendingen on June 5th; from July to October the 3rd Group and the staff of I/8 are with Offenburg and Kehl. July 17th, the 2nd Group makes movement on Strasbourg.

Of 1945 at our days

• on April 15th, 1946, the 8°RA is tiny room to a Group, the 1/8ème RA. In June 1946, it is in Lambach, Drachenbronn, Langensoultzbach. May 2nd, 1947, it is with the Drouot district in Nancy.
• the 8th RA is reconstituted on April 1st, 1949 in a battery of command and 4 groups. From April 1st to October 1st it is thus distributed: the battery of command and IV/8ème in NANCY; I/8ème with HAGUENAU; II/8ème with the FERE; III/8ème in Mill-the-Metz. Then of October 1st, 1949 at 1955, only II/8ème changes garrison into settling with VERDUN.

• the 8th Artillery Regiment is recreated on May 16th, 1964 with Commercy.
• 1991 : Participation in the War of the Gulf. A section of mini-planes of tactical recognition without pilot (M.A.R.T.), in the course of experimentation with the regiment, is setting-up in the few days which precede the terrestrial action then is conveyed for the theater of operation. The mission lasts from February 8th to April 1st, 1991. The regiment having been strongly solicited to provide its personnel engaged to other units of division (the 10th Armor-plated Division), it is called upon personnel coming from the 403ème Régiment of Artillery of Chaumont. It is during this operation that the requirement in the slow drone is consolidated to acquire in real-time the information by images. The lesson drawn from the success of this experiment will direct the choice towards the Crécerelle drones which will equip thereafter the 6th Group with the 7th Artillery Regiment, then the 7th Artillery Regiment until its transformation into 61ème Régiment of Artillery.

• 1999: It belongs to the 7 {{E}} Armor-plated Brigade

Feat of arms carried to the flag of the regiment

• ''' AUSTERLITZ 1805 ''' (it is the only artillery regiment where figure this inscription)
• ''' FRIEDLAND 1807 '''
• ''' SEBASTOPOL 1854-1855 '''
• ''' SOLFERINO 1859 '''
• ''' LORRAINE 1914 '''
• ''' VERDUN 1916 '''
• ''' SOISSONNAIS 1918 '''

The 8th RA today

Missions

Organization

• 4 batteries of shooting.
• 1 battery of the operations including/understanding of the acquisition and observation aids (teams of observation in the depth) sophisticated.
• 1 battery of command and logistics.
• 1 basic battery and of instruction.
• 1 unit of infantry of reserve (UIR).

Materials

• Guns of 155 mm AMX AUF1
• Mortars of 120mm
• Vehicles of observation of artillery (VOA).
• VAB equipped with specific materials, for the topographic needs (SAW) and for the data transmission (ATLAS).

See too

Internal bonds

• List of the French regiments

External bonds

Famous personalities having been used for the 8th RA

History of the garrisons, combat and battles of the 8th RA

Old Mode

Revolution and Empire

• 1793: Countryside of the Vendée.

• 1794: With the Armed with North: Sit of Wood-The-Duke.
• 1801: Naval action of Algeciras.
• 1802: Saint-Dominique (4 cies); a detachment is maintained in the East of the island until 1809.
• 1802 - 1810: the Meeting (a detachment).
• 1805 : Large army: participation in the Battle of Austerlitz. The artillery of the regiment causes very heavy losses at the enemy insofar as its guns break the ice of the lake on which it took refuge. That is worth name to him, on decision of the emperor Napoleon i, of Régiment of Austerlitz .
• 1806 - 1808: Large army. The regiment is distinguished in 1807 with Friedland where its gunners cause great devastations among the Russian troops. During an inspection, the Muller general declares " then; The species of men is superb, the regiment is ordered, of brilliant held well and well discipliné".
• 1808-1813: War of Spain: Somosierra (1808); Uclès, Almonacid (1809); Ciudad Rodrigo (1810); Head office of Tarragone, Chiclana (1811).
• 1809: Armed with Germany: Eckmühl, Essling, Wagram, Znaïm.
• 1812: Large army: Moskowa; Krasnoe; Beresina.
• 1813: Lützen; Bautzen; Dresden; Leipzig.
• 1814: Countryside of France: Craonne; Laon; Defense of Paris.
• 1815: Countryside of Belgium: Waterloo. The regiment is laid off in November 1815.

Of 1815 with 1848

• 1823: Forwarding of Spain (1st with 8th cies): Corogne; Trocadero.
• 1828-1833: participation in the Forwarding of Morée to support the Greek insurrectionists at the time of the War of Greek independence. Catch of the castle of Morée. Sit of Coron.
• 1832: Head office of Antwerp (2nd and 10th with 14th batteries).
• 1832 - 1854: Algeria (15th battery).

Second Empire and War of 1870

March 16th, 1854, the 8th Regiment of Artillery is transformed into 17th Artillery Regiment with Horse . But following the decree of February 14th, 1854, the 8th Regiment of Assembled Artillery is formed in Toulouse on March 16th. It takes it again round of the garrisons quickly: Toulouse (1854-1857), Rennes (1857-1861), Douai (1861-1865), Metz (1865-1868), Fère (1868-1870). Then the rate/rhythm accelerates: Vincennes on September 6th, 1870, Rennes on September 11th, Saint-Omer on March 11th, 1871, then Saint-Omer and Surface-S-Lily on April 28th, 1871.

Its campaigns for this period:

• 1854-1855: Countryside of the Crimea: Alma (1854); Head office of Sébastopol (1st with 4th, 7th, 8th, 15th bies).
• 1857: Forwarding of Kabylie (1st, 5th bies).
• 1859: Countryside of Italy (6th, 9th with 13th bies): Montebello; Magenta; Solférino.
• 1870-1871:
• Armed with the Rhine (5th with 9th bies): Borny; Rezonville; Saint-Privat.
• Armed with Châlons (3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th bies): Mouzon; Bazeilles; Sedan.
• Defense of Paris (13th, 16th bies).
• Defense of Longwy (2nd bie) and Soissons (1st bie (a)).
• Armed with the Loire (18th with 25e bies): Beaune-The-Rolande; Patay.
• Armed with the East (20th, 21e, 23e (a)): Villersexel.

Of 1871 with 1914

September 1st, 1883, it becomes the 8th Regiment of Field artillery . From 1883 to 1887 its deposit is in Châlons-sur-Marne, of 1887 to 1894 the regiment stations with Nancy, Toul and Châlons. From 1894 to 1914, it is tightened on Nancy.

First World War

It is articulated in 3 groups of active equipped with the Canon of 75mm. Here places and dates where it made countryside during this war.

• 1914: Lorraine (E. Nancy, Vic-S-Pail) from August 15th to 18th; Morhange from August 19th to 21st; Large Crowned (NO Lunéville) from August 21st to September 16th; The Sum (Bray) from September 25th to October 20th; Artois (SO. Arras) of October at November 2nd; Flandres (N.Ypres) from November 8th, 1914 to April 18th, 1915.
• 1915: Artois (NR. Arras) from April 20th to July 8th; Champagne from September 1st to December 24th.
• 1916: Lorraine (E. Nancy) from February 13rd to March 13rd: Verdun (left bank) from March 24th to April 17th; The Sum (. Bray) from June 1st to August 15th, then from November 17th to December 12th.
• 1917: Lorraine (. Nancy) from December 29th, 1916 to January 16th, 1917; Way of the Ladies (NR. Oeuilly) from March 29th to June 12th; Woëvre (O. Flirey) from June 28th to October 6th.
• 1918: Verdun from January 29th to March 23rd; Picardy (O. Amines) in reserve from April 28th to May 30th; Matz (O. Ressons) from June 6th to 13rd, in the west of Soissons from June 19th to August 12th; in the North-East of Vic-s-Aisne from August 16th to 25th; The Wing (Coucy) from September 1st to 15th; Flandres (Roulers) from October 7th to 17th; The Lily (Deinze) from October 21st to 31st; The Scheldt (NR. Audenarde) from November 3rd to 11th.

Inter-war period

With IIIe Groups 8th and two other groups of the 264 {{E}}, it is made up the Régiment of Artillery of Walk 8/264 with Mailly from March 5th, 1919 to May 31st, 1919. But on June 1st, 1919, the 8th Regiment of Field artillery is recreated. It is with Nancy, Toul and Lunéville in 1919, then Nancy and Toul in 1920. Then the regiment leaves in occupation to Germany.

• 1919: occupation of the the Saar from June 21st to July 28th.
• 1920: occupation of Frankfurt from April 3rd to 30th.
• 1921: occupation of Crefeld from May 12th to September 20th.
• 1923-1924: Occupation of the Ruhr (Duisburg) from January 11th, 1923 to January 26th, 1924.

March 1st, 1923, the regiment becomes the 8th Regiment of Artillery Divisional . It stations in Nancy of 1923 to 1940.

Its campaigns for this period:

• 1925-1927: Syria (2nd and 4th bies) of August 1925 in April 1927; Damas; Djebel Druze from March in September 1926. These two batteries pass to the 19 {{E}} on their return in April 1927.

Second world war

Marketing year 1939-1940:

• 1939: Face of Lorraine (O. Sarreguemines) from August 27th to November 15th; Operations on Blies, forest of Warndt from September 9th to October 2nd; Delme from December 1st to March 26th, 1940.
• 1940: Sarre (E.Saint-Avold) from March 30th to May 18th; Face of Aisne (E. Compiegne) from May 22nd to June 10th; Crépy-in-Valois from June 11th to 12th; Reprocess Center: channel of Ourq (O. Meaux) on June 13rd; The Seine (Fontainebleau) June 14th and 15th; The Loire (Châteauneuf) from June 16th to 18th; Salbris on June 19th; Indre on June 20th, Nontron on June 24th.

It is dissolved in Clermont-Ferrand in July 1940.

Reconstituted on January 1st, 1945 in a structure with three groups, it is with Saint-Mihiel in April 1945. Some elements take part at the end of the May campaign in Germany: the 1st Group with Offenburg; the 2nd Group with Rastadt then with Emmendingen on June 5th; from July to October the 3rd Group and the staff of I/8 are with Offenburg and Kehl. July 17th, the 2nd Group makes movement on Strasbourg.

Of 1945 at our days

• on April 15th, 1946, the 8°RA is tiny room to a Group, the 1/8ème RA. In June 1946, it is in Lambach, Drachenbronn, Langensoultzbach. May 2nd, 1947, it is with the Drouot district in Nancy.
• the 8th RA is reconstituted on April 1st, 1949 in a battery of command and 4 groups. From April 1st to October 1st it is thus distributed: the battery of command and IV/8ème in NANCY; I/8ème with HAGUENAU; II/8ème with the FERE; III/8ème in Mill-the-Metz. Then of October 1st, 1949 at 1955, only II/8ème changes garrison into settling with VERDUN.

• the 8th Artillery Regiment is recreated on May 16th, 1964 with Commercy.
• 1991 : Participation in the War of the Gulf. A section of mini-planes of tactical recognition without pilot (M.A.R.T.), in the course of experimentation with the regiment, is setting-up in the few days which precede the terrestrial action then is conveyed for the theater of operation. The mission lasts from February 8th to April 1st, 1991. The regiment having been strongly solicited to provide its personnel engaged to other units of division (the 10th Armor-plated Division), it is called upon personnel coming from the 403ème Régiment of Artillery of Chaumont. It is during this operation that the requirement in the slow drone is consolidated to acquire in real-time the information by images. The lesson drawn from the success of this experiment will direct the choice towards the Crécerelle drones which will equip thereafter the 6th Group with the 7th Artillery Regiment, then the 7th Artillery Regiment until its transformation into 61ème Régiment of Artillery.

• 1999: It belongs to the 7 {{E}} Armor-plated Brigade

Feat of arms carried to the flag of the regiment

• ''' AUSTERLITZ 1805 ''' (it is the only artillery regiment where figure this inscription)
• ''' FRIEDLAND 1807 '''
• ''' SEBASTOPOL 1854-1855 '''
• ''' SOLFERINO 1859 '''
• ''' LORRAINE 1914 '''
• ''' VERDUN 1916 '''
• ''' SOISSONNAIS 1918 '''

The 8th RA today

Missions

Organization

• 4 batteries of shooting.
• 1 battery of the operations including/understanding of the acquisition and observation aids (teams of observation in the depth) sophisticated.
• 1 battery of command and logistics.
• 1 basic battery and of instruction.
• 1 unit of infantry of reserve (UIR).

Materials

• Guns of 155 mm AMX AUF1
• Mortars of 120mm
• Vehicles of observation of artillery (VOA).
• VAB equipped with specific materials, for the topographic needs (SAW) and for the data transmission (ATLAS).

See too

Internal bonds

• List of the French regiments

External bonds