12th Foreign Infantry Regiment

12th Foreign Legion Infantry Regiment (12e Régiment Étranger d'Infanterie)
Active	November 6, 1939 - 1940
Country	France
Branch
Type	Infantry
Size	3,000 men

The 12th Foreign Infantry Regiment (French: 12e Régiment étranger d'infanterie, 12e REI) was an infantry regiment of the French Foreign Legion which existed from 1939 to 1940 at the beginning of the World War II.

History

The regiment was sent from its training camp at La Valbonne straight into action at Soissons, Picardy on 11 May 1940.^[1] After fighting its way out of encirclement it was broken as a unit by 6 June 1940.^[2] By the Armistice the remaining men, only 300 of the 2,800 men that had completed training, had reached Limoges in central France.^[3]

See also

11th Foreign Infantry Regiment

Notes

References

• Geraghty, Tony (1986). March or Die: France and the Foreign Legion. London: Grafton Books. ISBN 0-246-11975-6. 
• Boyd, Douglas (2006). The French Foreign Legion. England: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-3939-7. 

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