1st Foreign Parachute Regiment

1st Foreign Parachute Regiment
1er Régiment étranger de parachutistes
Regimental insigne
ActiveApril 1, 1948 – May 31, 1949
July 1, 1948 – September 1, 1955
February 25, 1955 – April 30, 1961
Country France
Branch French Army
TypeAirborne Infantry
Part ofCo. Para du 3ème REI attached to III/1er RCP (1948–1949)

previously, the 1er BEP in:

Garrison/HQCamp de Jeanpierre (1959)
Zéralda, Algeria
Nickname(s)Jeanpierre's Regiment
Jeanpierre's Legionnaires
Motto(s)Marche ou crève[1]
ColorsGreen and Red
MarchContre les Viets
AnniversariesCamerone Day
EngagementsFirst Indochina War

Algerian War

  • Battle of Algiers
  • Bataille des Frontières
Suez Crisis
Algiers putsch of 1961
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Pierre Paul Jeanpierre
Hélie Denoix de Saint Marc
Abbreviation1er REP

The 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment (French: 1er Régiment Etranger de Parachutistes, 1er REP) was an airborne regiment of the Foreign Legion in the French Army which dated its origins to 1948. The regiment fought in the First Indochina War as the three-time reconstituted 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion, the Suez Crisis and Algerian War, but was dissolved along with the 10th Parachute Division and 25th Parachute Division following the generals' putsch against part of the French government in 1961.