21st Marine Infantry Regiment

21e Régiment d'Infanterie de Marine
Regimental insigne
Active	17 janvier 1901
Country	France
Branch	French Army
Type	troupes de marine
Role	Infantry
Part of	6th Light Armoured Brigade
Garrison/HQ	fréjus, France
Motto	Croche et tient
Colors	Red and blue
Anniversaries	Bazeilles
Battle honours	Bomarsund 1854 Saïgon 1859 Puebla 1863 Tuyen-Quang 1885 Champagne 1915 Somme 1916 L'Aisne 1917 Reims 1918 Colmar 1944 Leimersheim 1945 Indochine 1945-1954 AFN 1952-1962
Insignia
Beret badge of the Troupes de Marine
Abbreviation	21e RIMa

The 21st Marine Infantry Regiment (French: 21e Régiment d'Infanterie de Marine, 21e RIMa)is a unit of the French Army from descendant of the 2e RIMa and the second RIC garrison. It is one of the oldest and most decorated regiments of the troupes de marine.

Contents 1 Creating and different names 2 Campaign Morocco 2.1 World War 2.2 Between the two world wars 2.3 World War II 3 After War 4 Foreign Missions 5 Commanders 5.1 21st Regiment of Colonial Infantry 5.2 21st Marine Infantry Regiment 6 Decorations 7 Battles inscribed on the flag 8 Badge 9 Traditions 10 Notes and references 11 Sources and bibliography

Creating and different names

• 1899: Creation of 2e RIMa (2nd Marine Infantry Regiment to garrison).
• 1901: the 2e RIMa becomes 2e RIC (2nd Regiment of Colonial Infantry to garrison).
• January 17, 1901: creation of 21e RIC (21st Regiment of Colonial Infantry).
• July 1940: the regiment was wiped out.
• 1 September 1940: 21st RIC new creation under the military armistice.
• November 8, 1942: Dissolution.
• 1 November 1944: 4th Regiment of Senegalese infantrymen became the 21e RIC.
• March 22, 1955: new dissolution.
• May 16, 1955: creation of the new 21e RIC.
• 1 December 1958: Becomes the 21e RIMa (21st Marine Infantry Regiment ).

• History garrisons fighting and battle of the 21e RIMa below:

Campaign Morocco

• He becomes the 21e RIC January 17, 1901 in Paris.
• A brief stint at Morocco allows him to justify its colonial vocation.

World War

• In 1914 he was stationed in Paris and belongs to the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Colonial Infantry Division colonial.
• The 21e RIC is engaged primarily in Champagne, on the Somme and Chemin des Dames and get 4 quotes.
• On 24 November 1918, he received the fodder the colors of the Military Medal.

Between the two world wars

Over the past twenty years of peace in the 21e RIC find the steps, shooting practice and stay in camp with the 23e Regiment of Colonial Infantry with whom he crossed the hardships of WWI. The two regiments brothers also loads garrison duty that they belong instead of Paris requires: honor guard, parades, handed decorations, funeral of General Foch and Joffre.

From 1920 until the outbreak of war in 1939, the 21st RIC occupy quarters in Paris on the following:

• State staff, rank and company off the 2nd Battalion Clignancourt.
• 1st Battalion: Ivry and Saint-Denis.
• 3rd Battalion: Bicêtre.
• The frames of the regiment also describe the pace stays overseas. These are departures for the Levant, Madagascar, the AOF, the Algeria, the Morocco, the China, the foreign military missions to the Czech and Polish. Some months, it is up to 30 officers who left the regiment for the colonies.

World War II

• July 1940: missing in action by total destruction of the regiment, dashed with his commanding officer, Colonel Cazeilles nevertheless he saves his flag.
• 01/09/1940: recreating the 21e Regiment of Colonial Infantry of the Armistice Army.
• 08/11/1942: dissolution.
• 1/11/1944: the 21e RIC is recreated on the basis of the 4th regiment of Senegalese riflemen (bleaching of the 4th RTS) in the 9th Colonial Infantry Division's First Army of General de Lattre de Tassigny . The Battle of the potash mines of Alsace, the Colmar Pocket, the release of Ensisheim by Leimersheim by Rastatt are all new claims to fame .
• General Vial ordered the 1st Company of the 21st UC in 1944-1945. At the head of his unit during the attack on the city Sainte-Barbe in Alsace on February 3 1945, he was seriously wounded and lost view.

After War

• 1 November 1949 to April 8, 1955 he passed the state of autonomous battalions BM/21e RIC (battalion walk).

• After the liberation of France and the German campaign is available in French Indochina where the regiment discovered the rice paddies of Indochina.

• Again dissolved March 22, 1955, he recreated 16 May 1955 as the 21e RIC.

• On 1 December 1958 he became the 21st Infantry égiment Navy (French Forces in Germany), then the djebels of Algeria)

• After the campaigns in Indochina and Algeria, where he won 2 new quotes.

• While stationed in Sissonne in the Aisne since 1963 it belonged to the 8th Infantry ivision until 1980.

• While stationed in Fréjus in 1980, since 1981 it belonged to the 31e Brigade who had squads of AMX 10 RC with 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment, the brigade was disbanded in 1984.

• Currently the regiment is part of the 6th Light Armoured Brigade, the museum of naval troops installed in the 21e RIMa in Fréjus.

• The regiment turned resolutely towards the future, the 21e RIMA may be engaged in the theater Downtown Europe from which it receives a summons to the order of the brigade in Kosovo in 1999, it can be projected overseas or perform public service missions in the metropolis. It is also the guardian of the traditions of the Marines. With a last-generation equipment and amenities

Foreign Missions

For 25 years he has acquired an extraordinary experience in all theaters of the world:

• 1979: Chad
• 1980: Gabon
• 1981, 1982 1983: Lebanon
• 1984: Operation Manta in Chad
• 1985: Gabon Bangui
• 1986: New Caledonia - Central African Republic - Chad
• 1987: Chad and Central African Republic
• 1988: New Caledonia - Bangui
• 1989: Gabon - Guyana - Bangui
• 1990: Chad - Gabon - Daguet
• 1991: The Gulf (Division Daguet), and Chad Zaire
• 1992: Rwanda, Gabon, CAR
• 1993: Djibouti, Sarajevo (UNPROFOR) Chad Gabon Rwanda
• 1994: Republic of Cote d'Ivoire
• 1995: Sarajevo, Ex-Yugoslavia
• 1996: Former Yugoslavia (IFOR) and Central Africa
• 1997: Central Africa
• 1998: Chad
• 1999: Macedonia - Kosovo (K-For)
• 2000: Lebanon - Bosnia - Senegal
• 2001: Mitrovica - Kosovo - Senegal
• 2002: Kabul - Mazar-e-Sharif - Afghanistan Côte d'Ivoire
• 2003: Licorne in Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
• 2005: Kosovo Côte d'Ivoire
• 2006: Cote d'Ivoire New Caledonia
• 2007: Guyana Chad Senegal
• 2008: Chad Senegal Kosovo
• 2010: Afghanistan as part of the device OMLTs (Operational Mentoring Liaison Team).

Commanders

21st Regiment of Colonial Infantry

21st Marine Infantry Regiment

• 1980 - 1982: Colonel Accary ^[1]
• 1982 - 1984: Colonel Desmergers
• 1984 - 1986: Colonel Colonel Letourneur Letourneur ^[2]
• 1986 - 1988: Colonel Rey
• 1988 - 1990: Colonel Sonic
• 1990 - 1992: Col. Pellegrini
• 1992 - 1994: Col. Philip Tracqui.
• 1994 - 1996: Colonel Bonningues
• 1996 - 1998: Colonel Boré
• 1998 - 2000: Colonel Loeuillet
• 2000 - 2002: Colonel Marill.
• 2002 - 2004: Colonel Castre
• 2004 - 2006: Colonel Duhau.
• 2006 - 2008: Colonel Colonel Collignon Collignon ^[3]
• 2008 - 2010: Colonel De Mesmay.

Decorations

His tie is decorated with the Croix de Guerre 14-18 with four flippers, the Croix de Guerre 39-45 with three fins and of the War Cross of overseas operations with two fins and a star.

• Citations:
• 4 citations in the order of the Army 1914-1918 (1915, 1917, 1918)
• 3 citations in the order of the Army 1939-1945 (1940, 1944, 1945)
• 2 citations in the order of the Army in TOE Indochina (1948, 1950)
• 1 quote to the order of the brigade Kosovo Kosovo (1999)

Battles inscribed on the flag

It bears, stitched in gold letters in its folds, the following inscriptions:^[4]

• The gates somdats (Marsouins) fodder colors of the Military Medal with olive-colored ribbon of the Croix de Guerre (1914–1918) (1939–1945), then feed the colors of the Cross TOE(War Cross of overseas operations)

Badge

Traditions

's Day naval troops:

• It is celebrated to mark the anniversary of the battles of Bazeilles. This village was abandoned and taken over four times on orders, 31 August and 1 September 1870.

, And the Name of God, long live the colonial

• The Marines and the patron saint Bigor have God himself. This war cry ends the private ceremonies that are part of the lives of regiments. Its origin is a thanksgiving of the Reverend Father Charles de Foucauld, missionary, seeing happen to his aid the colonial units a day when he was in trouble with a local tribe.

Notes and references

1. ^ First commanding officer of the 21st RIMa in Fréjus, Col. Accary is now a brigadier general and first deputy mayor of Frejus.
2. ^ saluted with his left hand because of a disability in his right hand.
3. ^ ceases his functions in 2008 for the post of liaison officer at the African Center for Strategic Studies in Washington, United States.
4. ^ Decision 12350/SGA/DPMA/SHD/DAT 14 September 2007 relating to registration of names of battles on flags banners and military units of the Army, the military health service and fuel service armed forces of the Official Gazette, Number 27, November 9, 2007.

Sources and bibliography

• Erwan Bergot, La coloniale du Rif au Tchad 1925-1980, imprimé en France : décembre 1982, n° d'éditeur 7576, n° d'imprimeur 31129, sur les presses de l'imprimerie Hérissey.