page_title: Marching regiment
section_title: World War I
hierarchical_section_title: Marching regiment / Early Unites de marche of the French Army / World War I
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Revue du régiment de marche de la légion étrangère à la fin novembre 1918, place Stanislas à Nancy, 54, France.
context_page_description: A regiment de marche is a French temporary, regiment created for a specific campaign or other military purpose.
  Clayton describes a "batallion de marche" as comprising the 'fit trained personnel' of all the battalions from a two to three battalion regiment. This creation of a provisional unit may be undertaken because of manpower shortages on mobilisation if new drafts of conscripts and volunteers had not yet arrived.
  Marching battalions may also be created from:
  units which have become disorganized, by drafting soldiers from depots, garrisons or discharged from hospitals; or from contingents of new recruits not yet formed into regular units or from reservists;
  foreign contingents and Troupes coloniales.
  Other designations used are marching battalions or Marching Squadrons, or marching brigades comprising several regiments.
context_section_description: Less than a year from the beginning of first world war, the government decided on 25 January 1912, to constitute 40 Marching Battalions, as in 2 Marching Battalion by military region. They were formed of new recruits, reserve soldiers in the depot of garrisons and the wounded medically refit for service. 
  Marching Regiments were equally created from the troupes d'Afrique (French: troupes d'Afrique), such as the 4th Marching Tirailleurs Regiment. 
  The 1st Foreign Regiment 1ᵉʳ RE of Sidi Bel-Abbès and the 2nd Foreign Regiment 2ᵉ RE of Saida, garrisoned in Algeria, mounted four demi-battalions destined constitute the principal formations of the future regiments:
  The 2nd Marching Regiment of the 2nd Foreign Regiment, (French: 2ᵉ Régiment de Marche du 2ᵉ Régiment Etranger), 2ᵉR.M.2ᵉR.E (1914 – 1915).
  The 2nd Marching Regiment of the 1st Foreign Regiment, (French: 2ᵉ Régiment de Marche du 1ᵉʳ Régiment Etranger), 2ᵉR.M.1ᵉʳR.E (1914 – 1915).
  The 3rd Marching Regiment of the 1st Foreign Regiment, (French: 3ᵉ Régiment de Marche du 1ᵉʳ Régiment Etranger), 3ᵉR.M.1ᵉʳR.E (1914 – 1915).
  The 4th Marching Regiment of the 1st Foreign Regiment, (French: 4ᵉ Régiment de Marche du 1ᵉʳ Régiment Etranger), 4ᵉR.M.1ᵉʳR.E (1914–1915).
  The Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion (RMLE) was created on 11 November 1915 by fusion of the 2nd Marching Regiment of the 1st Foreign Regiment (2ᵉRM 1ᵉʳRE) and the 2nd Marching Regiment of the 2nd Foreign Regiment (2ᵉRM 2ᵉ RE). The Marching Regiment participated to Battle of the Somme (French: bataille de la Somme) in 1916 and to Second Battle of the Marne (French: seconde bataille de la Marne) in 1918.
caption: Revue of the Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion RMLE, in November 1918, at Nancy.
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