24th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment
The 24th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment (''24e régiment de tirailleurs sénégalais'', 24e RTS), was a Senegalese Tirailleurs, Senegalese tirailleurs regiment of the French Army, French army which saw combat in the Battle of France during World War II. History Interwar Period The regiment was created in 1923 and based at Perpignan and Sète, inheriting the colors and traditions of the 23e Regiment d'Infanterie Coloniale. From 1925-27 elements of the regiment participated in the Rif War in the French protectorate in Morocco, French Protectorate of Morocco, seeing action at Bab-Taza, M'sila, El Hadar, and Fès el Bali. Second World War Following the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 the regiment was dispatched to Alsace, where it occupied positions along the Maginot Line during the so-called Phoney War as a component of the 4th Colonial Infantry Division (''4e division d'infanterie coloniale'', 4e DIC). Following the Battle of Sedan (1940), German breakthrough at Sed ...
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French Army
The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (, , ), is the principal Army, land warfare force of France, and the largest component of the French Armed Forces; it is responsible to the Government of France, alongside the French Navy, French Air and Space Force, and the National Gendarmerie. The Army is commanded by the Chief of Staff of the French Army (CEMAT), who is subordinate of the Chief of the Defence Staff (France), Chief of the Defence Staff (CEMA), who commands active service Army units and in turn is responsible to the President of France. CEMAT is also directly responsible to the Ministry of Armed Forces (France), Ministry of the Armed Forces for administration, preparation, and equipment. The French Army, following the French Revolution, has generally been composed of a mixed force of conscripts and professional volunteers. It is now considered a professional force, since the French Parliament suspended the Conscription in France, conscription of soldiers. Acc ...
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Aubigny, Somme
Aubigny (; Picard: ''Aubignin'') is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Demography Places and monuments * Church Sainte-Colombe (1821). * British Cemetery Aubigny (8).JPG, Church Sainte-Colombe. Aubigny (6).JPG, Cemetery entrance. Sport and Leisure In Aubigny, teams are playing '' balle à la main'' which is a traditional sport in Picardy. See also *Communes of the Somme department The following is a list of the 771 communes of the Somme department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Communes of Somme (department) {{Amiens-geo-stub ...
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Infantry Regiment Großdeutschland
The Infantry Regiment ''Großdeutschland'' (; ) was an élite German Army ceremonial and combat unit which saw action during World War II. Originally formed in 1921 it was known as the ''Wachregiment Berlin''. Renamed ''Infanterie-Regiment Großdeutschland'' in 1939, the regiment served in the campaigns in France and the Low Countries. It then served exclusively on the Eastern Front until the end of the war. It was destroyed near Pillau in May 1945. ''Großdeutschland'' is sometimes mistakenly perceived to be part of the Waffen-SS, whereas it was actually a unit of the regular German Army (''Heer''). In 1942 it was expanded into the Großdeutschland Division, the best-equipped division in the Wehrmacht, which received equipment before all other units, including some Waffen-SS units; however it remained a regiment within the division and was renamed to ''Grenadier-Regiment Großdeutschland''. It received its final name, ''Panzergrenadier-Regiment Großdeutschland'', in 1943. ...
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Erquinvillers
Erquinvillers () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. See also *Communes of the Oise department The following is a list of the 680 Communes of France, communes of the Oise Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2025):

Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe is an Overseas departments and regions of France, overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre Island, Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and two Îles des Saintes—as well as many uninhabited islands and outcroppings. It is south of Antigua and Barbuda and Montserrat and north of Dominica. The capital city is Basse-Terre, on the southern west coast of Basse-Terre Island; the most populous city is Les Abymes and the main centre of business is neighbouring Pointe-à-Pitre, both on Grande-Terre Island. It had a population of 395,726 in 2024. Like the other overseas departments, it is an integral part of France. As a constituent territory of the European Union and the eurozone, the euro is its official currency and any European Union citizen is free to settle and work there indefinitely, but is not part of the Schengen Area. It included Saint Barthélemy and C ...
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Afro-Caribbean People
Afro-Caribbean or African Caribbean people are Caribbean people who trace their full or partial ancestry to Sub-Saharan Africa. The majority of the modern Afro-Caribbean people descend from the Africans (primarily from West and Central Africa) taken as slaves to colonial Caribbean via the trans-Atlantic slave trade between the 15th and 19th centuries to work primarily on various sugar plantations and in domestic households. Other names for the ethnic group include Black Caribbean, Afro- or Black West Indian, or Afro- or Black Antillean. The term West Indian Creole has also been used to refer to Afro-Caribbean people, as well as other ethnic and racial groups in the region, though there remains debate about its use to refer to Afro-Caribbean people specifically. The term Afro-Caribbean was not coined by Caribbean people themselves but was first used by European Americans in the late 1960s. People of Afro-Caribbean descent today are largely of West African and Central African ance ...
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Moïse Bebel
Hospice Moïse Jean Louis Victor Gilles Bebel (21 May 1898 – 10 June 1940) was a French Army officer, born in Guadeloupe, who served during the Second World War. He was executed along with his men in a massacre of tirailleurs during the Battle of France. Life Born in 1898 in Trois-Rivières, Guadeloupe, Bebel aspired to be a soldier from a young age. He graduated from the Saint-Maxient non-commissioned officer school and quickly rose through the ranks, from second lieutenant to captain. By the time of the Second World War, Bebel was an acting commandant in the 24th regiment of Senegalese skirmishers. He fought in the Battle of France and was taken prisoner on 9 June 1940 while fighting near Erquinvillers. The following day, Bebel was executed by German soldiers along with fifty of his men, becoming one of the 150 tirailleurs massacred in Erquinvillers and its surrounding villages between 9 and 10 June. The murder of Bebel and his men has been compared to the death of fellow ...
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16th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment
The 16th Senegalese Tirailleurs Regiment (''16e Régiment de Tirailleurs Sénégalais'', 16e RTS) was a Senegalese Tirailleurs regiment of the French Army. It saw combat in the Battle of France during World War II. History The regiment was created in 1919 and was based in Montauban from 1922-1940. In March 1939 the unit was sent to Tarn-et-Garonne to handle the influx of refugees fleeing the nationalist victory in the Spanish Civil War. During the German invasion of France in 1940 the 16e RTS was a component of the 4th Colonial Infantry Division (''4e Division d’Infanterie Coloniale'', 4e DIC). In mid-May 1940 the division held positions along the Somme River. The German 2nd Motorized Infantry Division succeeded in securing bridgeheads across the Somme in the Amiens sector, and on 23 May the 4e DIC launched a series of attacks aimed at reducing these bridgeheads. The 16e RTS attempted to retake the village of Fouilloy but was repulsed. In June 1940 the Germans launched Fall ...
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Lieuvillers
Lieuvillers () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. See also *Communes of the Oise department The following is a list of the 680 Communes of France, communes of the Oise Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2025):

Angivillers
Angivillers is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. Population See also *Communes of the Oise department The following is a list of the 680 Communes of France, communes of the Oise Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2025):

Villers-Bretonneux
Villers-Bretonneux () is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Geography Villers-Bretonneux is situated some 19 km due east of Amiens, on the D1029 road and the A29 motorway. Villers-Bretonneux borders a particularly flat landscape towards the east, which can be considered as the western boundary of the Santerre plateau and the eastern boundary of the Amiénois. The territory of the commune is crossed by the old national road 29 (current RD 1029), perfectly rectilinear road following the route of the ancient Roman road linking Amiens to Saint-Quentin in the Aisne. The agglomeration is located at the crossroads of the D 23 linking Corbie to Moreuil. Villers-Bretonneux station is located on the railway line from Amiens to Laon via Tergnier. History Prehistoric era Polished flints from the Neolithic era indicate that a human presence has been in the commune for a long time. Antiquity Roman coins, remains of dwelling and a sandstone ...
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Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fourth-most populous city in the European Union and the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, Fashion capital, fashion, and gastronomy. Because of its leading role in the French art, arts and Science and technology in France, sciences and its early adoption of extensive street lighting, Paris became known as the City of Light in the 19th century. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an official estimated population of 12,271,794 inhabitants in January 2023, or ...
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