The 2nd Company of the French Foreign Legion’s 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG) made a joint trip to reach the summit of Mont Ventoux, the highest mountain in the Provence region of Southern France. See images.
3e REI: 2024 Jaguar Course
See some nice images from the international Jaguar Course, a two-month jungle warfare course organized by the French Foreign Legion’s 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment (3e REI). The annual course is designed primarily for platoon leaders (both NCOs and officers) from France, as well as allied nations around the world.
PHOTOS: Foum El Hassan Post in Morocco in the early 1940s
A new part of the PHOTOS series. See a rare set of pictures showing the Foum El Hassan Post, home of the former Automobile Mounted Company, 4th Foreign Infantry Regiment (CMA/4e REI) in southern Morocco in the early 1940s. No other similar set showing the Foum El Hassan Post’s interior is publicly known.
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2e REG: A platoon in New Caledonia in 2024
A platoon of the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG) of the French Foreign Legion is currently deployed to New Caledonia, a special overseas collectivity of France located east of Australia, in the Pacific Ocean.
13e DBLE: 4th Company in Djibouti in 2024
In February 2024, the 4th Company of the 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade (13e DBLE) deployed to Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, a former homeland of this regiment. The company will remain there for four months.
Captain Pierre Bourgin (1924 – 1959)
On the 1st of March 1959, in the Souk Ahras region of northeastern Algeria, a French Foreign Legion paratrooper platoon was engaged by local insurgents. Advancing in the lead was a popular officer, Captain Pierre Bourgin. As soon as the first shots were fired, he was fatally wounded. In him, the Foreign Legion lost one of its rare poets. The following article was written in his memory.
2e REP: 2024 Mountain Course for 2e CIE
The officers, NCOs, and legionnaires with the 2nd Company, 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP) have just completed their month-long mountain training in France.
General Vittorio Tresti passed away
General Vittorio Tresti, a former commanding officer of the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment (3e REI) and one of the few commanding officers who started their famous careers with the Foreign Legion as simple legionnaires, passed away on February 15, 2024. He was 85 years old.
VIDEO: 2024 1er REG, 2e REG Legionnaires
As the 40th anniversary of the activation of the French Foreign Legion’s first engineer regiment approaches in early July, the Legion has recently released a new official video clip to introduce viewers to its combat engineers of the 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment (1er REG) and the 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment (2e REG).
Andrew J. Mitchell: French Foreign Legion Insignia – 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment
In early 2024, a new English-written book dedicated to the French Foreign Legion was released: the long-awaited Collecting French Foreign Legion Insignia, Volume III – Part 2, 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment. The new book is another original work of our friend, Andrew J. Mitchell, an Irish amateur historian and a Foreign Legion insignia collector.
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130 years ago: A forgotten campaign in West Africa ended
In February 1894, the last elements of the French Foreign Legion left the Slave Coast in West Africa where they had successfully participated in two expeditions aimed at a local kingdom’s ruler and his forces. Not only did the legionnaires face heat, disease, and supply problems, but they also had to fight local female warriors, Amazons…
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