French Gaulist Forces, 12 August 1943

French Gaulist Forces 12 August 1943

Equatorial Africa: 1/,2/,3/,4/,5/,6/,7/,8/Camarun Colonial Tirailleur Regiment 1/,2/,3/Chad Senegalese Tirailleur Regiment 1/,2/Bangui Senegalese Tirailleur Regiment 1/,2/Congo Senegalese Tirailleur Regiment 1/Gabon Senegalese Tirailleur Regiment 8th March Battalion 9th March Battalion 12th March Battalion Pool Independent Battlaion 29th Armored Company 3rd Armored Car Company 4th Armored Car Company 1/,2/,3/,4/,5/Colonial Artillery Regiment, AEF 1st,2nd & 5th - 75mm Battalions 3rd & 4th - 75mm Mountain Battalions Nomad Group 2 Cavalry Squadrons Ennedi, Kanem, Tibesti, Bourkou I and Bourkou II Companies In Lybia and Egypt: 1st French Division: 1st Brigade: 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade (2 mot bns, 2 (mot) AT Companies, 1st mot (47mm) AT Co) Pacific Naval Infantry Battalion New Caladonia Infantry Battalion 22nd North African (mot) Infantry Battalion 1 (mot) AT Company 2nd Brigade: 1st March Battalion 3rd March Battalion 11th March Battalion 1st (mot) Foreign Legion Battalion 2 (mot) AT Companies 21st mot (47mm) AT Co 1/,2/1st (mech) Artillery Regiment (2 mot 75mm bns) 1 (mot) Munition Supply Company 2 Engineer Companies 1st Signal Battalion (2 cos) 2nd French Division: Chad March Battalion 21st March Battalion 2nd (mot) Infantry Company 1st Spahis Regiment 1 Light Armored Battalion 1 Armored Car Battalion 1 (mot) Infantry Battalion Armored Car Battalion (2 companies) 6/Colonial Artillery Regiment (1 (mot) bn) Sahara Group Tropolitania (2 infantry cos) Camel Corps (3 cos)

1 Free French Corps in Egypt: 1st Somali Chasseur Regiment (3 bms) 2nd (mot) Infantry March Battalion Armored Car Platoon 1st Parachute Battalion 83rd Parachute Battalion Somalian Colonial Coastal Artillery Regiment (3 75mm gun bns) Somalian Coast: 1st Senegalese Tirailleur Battalion 2nd Senegalese Tirailleur Battalion 3rd Senegalese Tirailleur Battalion 4th Senegalese Tirailleur Battalion 5th Senegalese Tirailleur Battalion 3rd Madagascar Tirailleur Regiment Colonial Armored Company Colonial Armored Car Platoon East Africa (Madagascar): 1/,2/,3/1st Madagascar Tirailleur Regiment 1/,2/2nd Madagascar Tirailleur Regiment Madagascar Tirailleur Battalion Madagascar/Senegalese Tirailleur Battalion 2nd March Battalion 10th March Battalion Colonial armored Platoon Diego-Suarez Colonial ARtillery Detachment (2 75mm bns) Levant: Levant (?) Infantry Division 1st Infantry Regiment (Syria)(2 bns) 2nd Infantry Regiment (Syria)(2 bns) 4th Infantry Regiment (Syria)(2 bns) 5th Infantry Regiment (Syria)(2 bns) 12th Infantry Regiment (Syria)(2 bns) 22nd Mixed (mot) Infantry Regimetn Alpine Chasseur Battalion 2 Foreign Legion Battalion Orient Brigade 24th (mot) North African Company 2nd Cavalry Regiment (Beirut) 63rd Armored Battalion 1st Parachute Battalion 2/,3/,4/8th Artillery Regiment (75mm bns) 5/8th Artillery Regiment (105mm gun bn) Aleppo Engineer Battalion Regional Signals Battalion (3 Companies) 102nd (mot) Transportation Company 104th (mot) Transportation Company Coastal Division: 4 Companies Special Troops of the Levant: 1st-8th Levant Battlaions 1st,2nd, & 3rd Lebanon Chasseur Battalions Special Artillery Battalion (1-5th & 10th Btrys) 1-5th Armored Car Platoons 1-4th (mot) Cavalry Squadrons

2 3rd & 4th Heavy Cavalry Squadrons 19-21st, 27th & 28th Northern Syrian Cavarly Squadrons 23-26th Djezireh Cavarly Squadrons 12-17th Cherkess Cavalry Squadrons 4 (mot) Cherkess Cavalry Squadrons 1st Libanan Chasseur à Cheval Squadron 2nd Alouiten Heavy Cavalry Squadron 1-6th & 8th Drus Light Cavalry Squadrons 2 signals Companies 1st, 2nd, & Lebanon (mot) Transportation Companies 1st & 2nd (non-mot) Transportation Companies

Pacific Garrisons: 1st Pacific Infantry Battalion Naval Infantry Battalion

Drawn from captured German intelligence documents.

Records of Headquarters, German Army High Command, national Archives Microcopy No. T-78, Roll 444, American Historical Association Commit- tee for the Study of War Documents, Washington, DC., 1960