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Brigade de Fusiliers Marins information


Brigade des Fusiliers Marins
Active
  • August 7, 1914 - November 1915
CountryFrance
BranchFrench Navy
Fusiliers Marins
TypeBrigade
Size1st and 2nd Fusiliers Marins Regiment
Part of32nd Army Corps
Engagements
  • World War I
Battle of the Yser
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Pierre Alexis Ronarc'h

The Brigade des Fusiliers Marins was a unit of the French Navy which fought alongside the Belgium Army in 1914-1915 and which held their ground as they suffered heavy losses in October 1914 at Diksmuide to halt the advance of the German army and protect Dunkirk.[1]

  1. ^ "La Bataille du Nord..." The Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge. March 20, 2024. Retrieved March 20, 2024.

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