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[skipman]

My French is pretty basic, so am not certain what these are, but should be of interest to some. Many documents here, possibly unit diaries?

Edit. Meant to add this http://www.memoirede...DGR__GR_26_N_II

Click on + icon to open list of units in Journaux des marches et operations des Corps



For example http://www.memoirede...005/viewer.html


Mike

[skipman]

More here http://www.bdic.fr/j...ollections.html

I can't seem to get any images. Perhaps not available yet, but again, looks interesting. The text (translated by google) says;

" The digitization of trench newspapers button which makes the very genesis of the CID, "Library-Museum of War", founded in 1917 to collect all possible traces, the causes, developments and consequences of World War. Early in the conflict, a couple of Parisian industrial, Louise and Henri Leblanc, meets every imaginable material on the events, including sources from the opponent, acquired in Switzerland. On August 4, 1917, he donated his collection of the State, and the Library-Museum created and is assigned as a work function that is both scientific and popular education. In 1921, 430 newspapers from the front or prisoners already gathered within it. In partnership with the BNF, the CID has posted 102 French titles, representing nearly ten thousand pages, to realize this shared digitization program. "

Mike

[skipman]

I wish I was fluent in French

1er régiment d'infanterie territoriale
2e régiment d'infanterie territoriale
3e régiment d'infanterie territoriale
4e régiment d'infanterie territoriale
5e régiment d'infanterie territorial

2e régiment d'infanterie
3e régiment d'infanterie
5e régiment d'infanterie
    
    
Groupe vosgien n° 0 : J.M.O.
Groupe vosgien n° 1 : J.M.O.  • 3 septembre 1915-31 mars 1916 • 26 N 808/1
Groupe vosgien n° 1 bis : J.M.O.
Groupes vosgiens n° 2 et 3 : J.M.O.
Groupe vosgien n° 5 : J.M.O.
    
1er escadron du train des équipages militaires
2e escadron du train des équipages militaires
3e escadron du train des équipages militaires
4e escadron du train des équipages militaire

etc, etc, etc........

Mike

[ian.sumner]

Journaux des marches et operations des Corps are unit war diaries. Most have survived - the major exception are those of the squadrons of the Aviation Militaire, some of which were destroyed due to enemy action in 1940, others were taken back to Berlin, where they were destroyed in 1945, while what was left was taken back to Moscow. Most of the latter have, I think, been returned to France, but there are still very few survivors. Access is free (National Archives please note).

The page you link to covers unit war diaries only. If anyone wants to check out formation war diaries as well, then there is a search page at http://www.memoirede...earch-form.html

On the BDIC page, click on Liste des titres en ligne towards the bottom of the page. This will take you to a list of trench newspapers whose pages have been digitised and put on the web. Clicking each title will take you to that newspaper's page, where you click on an icon on the right (usually - it hasn't been done consistently ), which takes you the page images. Sometimes quirky to use, but nevertheless an immensely useful resource.

Best wishes

Ian

[skipman]

Many thanks Ian. I notice the units who served at Gallipoli seem to be missing?

Mike

[MJames]

Mike,

It depends on what Gallipoli units one is interested in - look at the section of Journal de Marches et Operations (JMOs) entitled 'Grandes unites d'Orient et commandment des armees allies en Orient', reference numbers 26/N/75 onwards. These are the larger units (Armees & Corps) and once the component regiments have been identified, they can be looked up in the regimental JMOs.

Martin

[SteveMarsdin]

Here are all the French government sites:


ian mentioned about the trench newspapers but there is also a selection of letters and postcards written by poilus which can be quite interesting.

[Watkins]

skipman, on 16 June 2012 - 06:53 AM, said:

I wish I was fluent in French

1er régiment d'infanterie territoriale
2e régiment d'infanterie territoriale
3e régiment d'infanterie territoriale
4e régiment d'infanterie territoriale
5e régiment d'infanterie territorial

2e régiment d'infanterie
3e régiment d'infanterie
5e régiment d'infanterie


Groupe vosgien n° 0 : J.M.O.
Groupe vosgien n° 1 : J.M.O.  • 3 septembre 1915-31 mars 1916 • 26 N 808/1
Groupe vosgien n° 1 bis : J.M.O.
Groupes vosgiens n° 2 et 3 : J.M.O.
Groupe vosgien n° 5 : J.M.O.

1er escadron du train des équipages militaires
2e escadron du train des équipages militaires
3e escadron du train des équipages militaires
4e escadron du train des équipages militaire

etc, etc, etc........

Mike

skipman, on 16 June 2012 - 06:53 AM, said:

I wish I was fluent in French

1er régiment d'infanterie territoriale
2e régiment d'infanterie territoriale
3e régiment d'infanterie territoriale
4e régiment d'infanterie territoriale
5e régiment d'infanterie territorial

2e régiment d'infanterie
3e régiment d'infanterie
5e régiment d'infanterie


Groupe vosgien n° 0 : J.M.O.
Groupe vosgien n° 1 : J.M.O.  • 3 septembre 1915-31 mars 1916 • 26 N 808/1
Groupe vosgien n° 1 bis : J.M.O.
Groupes vosgiens n° 2 et 3 : J.M.O.
Groupe vosgien n° 5 : J.M.O.

1er escadron du train des équipages militaires
2e escadron du train des équipages militaires
3e escadron du train des équipages militaires
4e escadron du train des équipages militaire

etc, etc, etc........

Mike

If you find specific documents that you want translated I will happily help. I'm not going to tackle all the archives though