A new part of the DOCUMENTS series. Today we present four interesting documents issued by the 1st Foreign Regiment (1er RE) in North Africa in the 1920s.
Read moreDOCUMENTS: 1921-1929 1st Foreign Regiment certificates
DOCUMENTS: 1902-1913 1st Foreign Regiment certificates of Leg. Masquère
Another part of the DOCUMENTS series. Enjoy rare documents issued by the 1st Foreign Regiment (1er RE) in North Africa more than a century ago.
Read moreDOCUMENTS: 1902-1913 1st Foreign Regiment certificates of Leg. Masquère
DOCUMENTS: 1847 1st Foreign Legion Regiment honorable discharge certificate
A new part of the DOCUMENTS series. A very rare document is presented here; it is the oldest French Foreign Legion-related document currently available on our website. It was issued as early as 1847 to a Belgian legionnaire at the conclusion of his honest and faithful service in North Africa.
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DOCUMENTS: 1856 1er RLE 1st Foreign Legion Military service certificate
Today, we present another part of the DOCUMENTS series. It’s a rare military service certificate issued more than a hundred years earlier than the previous certificate, in mid-1856, shortly after the end of the Crimean War.
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DOCUMENTS: 1959 1er REP Honorable discharge certificate of SCH Rutecki
Besides the PHOTOS series, I would like to create more similar categories and share within them other interesting items related to the French Foreign Legion, often hidden in personal archives. Thus, the next category to appear will focus on historical documents of all kinds. Here is the first such document, the Honorable discharge certificate (Certificat de bonne conduite) of a member of the famous 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment (1er REP), very rare to see.
Read moreDOCUMENTS: 1959 1er REP Honorable discharge certificate of SCH Rutecki