French Foreign Legion Information

On September 13, 2024, the French Foreign Legion’s 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment (3e REI) commemorated the 106th anniversary of the 1918 Battle of Vauxaillon. The Battle of Vauxaillon, which to...

http://foreignlegion.info/2024/09/17/3-rei-2024-fourragere-day/

Watch a short, interesting French Army documentary showing legionnaires from the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP) during their deployment to French Guiana (France’s overseas department i...

http://foreignlegion.info/2024/09/11/2rep-1st-company-guiana-2024/

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. The documents were issued for Legionnaire...

http://foreignlegion.info/2024/09/06/documents-1921-1929-1st-foreign-regiment-certificates/

On Monday, September 2, 2024, the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI) officially commemorated the 121st anniversary of the 1903 Battle of El Moungar, an important part of the French conquest o...

http://foreignlegion.info/2024/09/05/2e-rei-2024-el-moungar-day/

Miss France 2024, Eve Gilles, visited Mayotte in late August, including the military base of the former Foreign Legion Detachment in Mayotte (DLEM), a unit which right now is transforming into a ...

http://foreignlegion.info/2024/09/04/5re-miss-france-2024-in-mayotte/

See a short video showing young legionnaires of the 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (2e REI) who are trained in close combat. The C4 (High Intensity Combats’ Hand-to-hand Combat) course is the Fr...

http://foreignlegion.info/2024/08/29/2-rei-c4-close-combat-course/