95e regiment of infantry of line

The 95e Régiment of Infantry is a unit of the French Army .

Creation and various denominations

  • 1734 : Creation (Regiment Am with the service of France)

  • 1791: 95e regiment of infantry
  • 1792: Dissolution
  • 1794: 95e half-brigade of battle , formed of the battalions according to:
    • 1st battalion, 48e Regiment of Infantry.
    • 2nd battalion, Volunteers of the Hollow one.
    • 8th battalion, Volunteers of the Haute-Saône.

  • 1798 : 95e half-brigade of Infantry of Line (formed by the detachments of the 22e, 29e, 51e, and 94e half-brigades of Infantry of Line)

  • 1803: 95e regiment of infantry of line
  • 1820: 20th regiment of light infantry
  • 1854: 95e regiment of infantry of line
  • 1871: 95e regiment of infantry

Garrisons, campaigns and battles

  • 1794: Edenkoben and Kehl
  • 1795 : Heidelberg
  • 1800 : Kehl, Eckerswihr, Erbach, Delmensingen, Old man-Brisach, and Reichenau
  • December 2nd 1805: Battle of Austerlitz : 95e RIL (1903 men) within Ier army corps, the 2nd division of infantry, 2nd brigade, under the command of the brigadier general Werlé

  • 1806 : Jena and Lubeck

  • 1807: Friedland
  • 1808 : Durango and Espinosa
  • 1809 : Essling and Wagram
  • 1810 : Ximena and Cadiz
  • 1811 : Cadiz, Tariffed, and Albuhera
  • 1812: Cadiz, Miranda, and Saint-$petri
  • 1813: Dantzig and Dresden
  • 1813: Vittoria, Collar of Maya, and Collar of Aran
  • 1814: Bayonne
  • 1815: Ligny and Waterloo

Chiefs of police

  • 1794 : Gudin (?) - Chief-of-Brigade

  • 1798: Veinnet (Jean) - Chief-of-Brigade
  • 1799: Grandjean (Balthazard) - Chief-of-Brigade
  • 1803: Pechaux (Marc-Nicolas-Louis) - Colonel
  • 1810: Ronzier (Pierre-François-Gabriel) - Colonel
  • 28.06.1814 - 08.1814: Garnier (Jean-Baptiste) - Colonel
  • 1815, Hundred Days: Garnier (Jean-Baptiste) - Colonel

…

  • 1914: Colonel ''' Goybet '''
  • Henon - Colonel
  • Hook - Colonel
  • Base - Colonel
  • Michel - Colonel
  • févier 1916: of Bélenet - Colonel
  • May 1940: Grelot - Colonel

Wars of the Revolution and the Empire

1815 to 1848

Second Empire

1870 to 1914

First World War

Assignments:
  • 8th Army corps and ''' 16 {{E}} Division of Infantry ''' of August 1914 in November 1918

1914

1915

1916

  • February 24th 1916 (Evening): the 95e IH arrives at dimension 347. It has just made 56 kilometers in thirty-six hours. The recognitions sent in front of the village of Douaumont by 95e IH meet neither the works which had been announced by the staff, nor troops that the regiment was to raise. There are no more troops between the 95e and the enemy: they all are in escape or captive. The colonel de Bélenet , which orders the 95e IH, receives from the Balfourier general, which orders the 20th Body, the order to go in Douaumont. It establishes its 3rd battalion in the elements of distinct which exist in front of the village, its 1e battalion in the north of the village, dimensions 378 and 347, its 2nd battalion reserves some between Fleury and Thiaumont. The other regiment of the brigade, the 85 {{E}}, occupies on the left the sector which goes from the east of Louvemont to dimension 378. It has itself the 51e division on its left. On the right 95e is the Chéré brigade (2nd and 4th battalions of hunters, and the 418e regiment of infantry) .

  • February 25th 1916: As of the small day, the German bombardment on the village of Douaumont and its neighborhoods. the soldiers of the 95e regiment of infantry have the impression to be alone, abandoned remainder of the Army, holocausts chosen for the safety of Verdun. About the middle of the afternoon, the bombardment ceases and the attack occurs. Masses, spouted out of the wood of Haudremont, submerge the unhappy 1e battalion but break against our machine-guns and our fires of salvo, with us . The Germans are flattened, terrent themselves. And the bombardment begins again. It is of short duration, this time. The smoke which covered the fort dissipates and, to feel this force so near, that reassures our men. They all are at their stations, attentive with the attack that this calm predicts. Suddenly, a cry: “Here they are! ”…

I said that the 3rd battalion occupied the trenches around the village. These trenches formed a right angle. On the largest branch, parallel with the street and vis-a-vis dimension 347, 9th, 10th and 11th companies. On smallest, vis-a-vis the fort, the 12th company or, more exactly, a group of the 12th company: the 4th section that I order in the capacity as lieutenant, the 3rd section under the orders of the Durassié adjudant. With us, the section of machine-guns of the 3rd battalion, under the orders of the Delarue captain. Delarue and Durassié are always alive. And alive also about fifteen men who were with us this day … Perte of the village of Douaumont that occupied the 3rd battalion of 95e IH.

  • February 26th 1916: the 95e regiment of infantry was to be raised in the morning of the 26 by the 110e, but colonel de Bélenet, “the giant of Apremont”, decided to delay the changing. Until the night, in order not to compromise defense. When the regiment left, in the night of the 26, it left behind him 800 killed men, but it had saved Verdun.

1917

1918

Inter-war period

  • Saturday November 3rd 1934,10h: Auction of 24 horses reformed, on the place of the Fairground to Bourges, coming from 95e IH and the 105e regiment of artillery.

Second world war

Assignments:

  • 5/10/1940 with Desvres: 95e IH - Colonel GRELOT (7th Army, the 9th Division of Motorized Infantry - 9th DIM)

Decorations

Famous facts

Upright deaths

It is in this unit that on April 8th, 1915, to Verdun, the adjudant Jacques Péricard launches a famous apostrophe to his men exhausted or wounded in order to revive their courage: “Upright deaths! ”, which makes it possible to save a just conquered and threatened position. It is published in the monthly Larousse of May. A song going back to 1873 carried already this title. Bars, president of the League of the patriots, with the agreement of the adjudant, in fact a mystical account in a novel left in 1916.

This apostrophe, which was for a long time already in garrison a cry of contempt to badly-bearing and work dodgers, has been also the title of the Mémoires of the warrant officer, become lieutenant at the end of the war and for summer included in multiple works:

  • the song Verdun! One does not pass! (towards Bold the guy, upright, upright deaths! );
  • a Gaumont film carried out by Pouctal Henri and Perret Leonce, Upright deaths;
  • an engraving of the painter Lucien Jonas;
  • a painting of Frans Masereel (1917);
  • a part of Laylo Nabusi.

Without relationship with the war, Debout deaths is also:

It also became the currency of the 3 {{E}} regiment of marines

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