History of the Regiment - Regimental Background
69eme Infanterie de ligne, Voltigeurs Napoleonic Re-enactment unit
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| 8.6 million Europeans lost their lives in the Great War, 300,000 Frenchmen in the early campagns of 1914. That’s more Frenchmen than went into Russia 100 years or so earlier. 5185 men from 69e and 269e were killed in the Great War. Thats more than double the number of men that marched into the Penninsular campaign. Many of the regimental songs literally were wiped out with the men in 1914/15, as they were passed down orally. A big thank you to Didier Texier who maintains a most authoritative source of information on the web of French units in the Great War, without who’s help we could not put this information together. For further information on 69eme and other units use his website below. www.chtimiste.com He has the daily journal of a 69eme soldier during those long years on line for you to read and appreciate, Antoine Grillot, of the 3e battalion, in charge of the battalion wagon train, rewritten by his great grandson. He survived the 1561 days of war and 69eme went back to Nancy barracks in January 1919 to be demobilised. Link to French war ministry archives of regimental marching notes of 69eme in 1914-1918 period. Click here. |
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