9th Motorized Division

9th Motorized Division
9th Motorized Division
9e division d'infanterie motorisée
	Unit insignia
Active	1873 - 1962
Country	France
Branch	French Army
Type	Motorized infantry
Engagements	World War I; World War II Battle of France; ; Cold War Algerian War; ;
Commanders
Commander (May 1940)	Général Henri Didelet

The French 9th Motorized Division originally known as the 9th Infantry Division, was a French Army division active during World War I, World War II and the Algerian War.³

Battle Of France 1940

The division's structure during the Battle of France in May 1940 was as follows:²¹

Infantry
- 13th Infantry Regiment (13e RI)¹²
- 95th Infantry Regiment (95e RI)¹²
- 131st Infantry Regiment (131e RI)¹²

Artillery
- 30th Divisional Artillery Regiment (30e RADT)¹²
- 230th Heavy Divisional Artillery Regiment (230e RALDT)¹²

Reconnaissance
- 2nd Divisional Reconnaissance Group (2e GRDIm)¹²
- 18th Corps Reconnaissance Group (18e GRCA) — attached from the 16th Army Corps (16e CA)¹²

Support Units
- Divisional Signal, Engineer, and Supply companies

The division was an active division which had existed during peacetime. It was a fully motorized infantry division.)¹

Algerian War

The 9th Infantry Division was recreated within the 1st Military Region (Île-de-France, Paris region), with headquarters in Versailles, as part of the Valmy Plan (by calling up the contingent during the Algerian War and recalling the liberated classes).⁴ It arrived in Algeria in June 1956.

It took part in operations in the Orléansville area, west of Algiers.⁵ It formed part of the Algiers military division (which became the Algiers army corps in 1958 and then the 23rd Army Corps in 1962).⁶ It was dissolved on 31 December 1962.⁵

The division was part of the Algiers Corps Area in 1960, during the Algerian War.⁷

References

Sumner, Ian (1998). The French Army 1939-45 (1) The Army of 1939-40 & Vichy France. Men-at-Arms. Osprey Publishing. p. 7.
Dildy, Douglas C. (2015). Fall Gelb 1940 (2): Airborne assault on the Low Countries. Campaign. Osprey Publishing. p. 30.
Horne, Alistair (1969). To lose a battle; France 1940. Boston, Little, Brown. p. 399.
Sicard, Jacques (September 2000). "Les grandes unités d'AFN et leurs insignes, 1954-1962". Militaria Magazine (182): 30–38.
Sicard 2000.
Thierry Sarmant; Philippe Schillinger; Michel Hardy (2000). Inventory of series H, sub-series 1 H1091-4881: Algeria 1945-1967 (PDF). Vol. I – General introduction. Château de Vincennes: Army Historical Service. pp. 40, 46. ISBN 2-86323-129-4. ISSN 1269-7397..
Shrader, Charles R. (1999). "Appendix A: Major French Combat Forces in Algeria in 1960". The First Helicopter War: Logistics and Mobility in Algeria 1954-62. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 237–238.

[Osprey_MAA_315-1] Sumner, Ian (1998). The French Army 1939-45 (1) The Army of 1939-40 & Vichy France. Men-at-Arms. Osprey Publishing. p. 7.

[Osprey_Campaign_265-2] Dildy, Douglas C. (2015). Fall Gelb 1940 (2): Airborne assault on the Low Countries. Campaign. Osprey Publishing. p. 30.

[3] Horne, Alistair (1969). To lose a battle; France 1940. Boston, Little, Brown. p. 399.

[4] Sicard, Jacques (September 2000). "Les grandes unités d'AFN et leurs insignes, 1954-1962". Militaria Magazine (182): 30–38.

[FOOTNOTESicard2000-5] Sicard 2000.

[6] Thierry Sarmant; Philippe Schillinger; Michel Hardy (2000). Inventory of series H, sub-series 1 H1091-4881: Algeria 1945-1967 (PDF). Vol. I – General introduction. Château de Vincennes: Army Historical Service. pp. 40, 46. ISBN 2-86323-129-4. ISSN 1269-7397..

[Shrader-7] Shrader, Charles R. (1999). "Appendix A: Major French Combat Forces in Algeria in 1960". The First Helicopter War: Logistics and Mobility in Algeria 1954-62. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 237–238.

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