"Drummers for French Artillerie de la Marine Infantry" Topic
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AuvergneWargamer | 04 Mar 2016 8:31 a.m. PST |
Bonjour, I'm smitten by another post about these chaps and I'd like to have some as well but need some help. I don't do plastic, no offence, and I see that Artillerie de la Marine Infantry seem to be mainly in greatcoats so as I'm partial to Calpe 28mm figures link I'm inclined to use their "Grenadiers" for those. Trouble is what about drummers?! Should I just use a Fusilier drummers (without epaulets) and should they be in post 1812 Napoleonic green livery anyway. A final question, does anyone know if each of these regiments had an Eagle and an Eagle Guard? Cheers, Paul |
AUXILIAPAL | 04 Mar 2016 9:14 a.m. PST |
Hello AuvergneWargamer The four régiments de le marine had an eagle and a 1812 patern banner. The Tricolore had the next written on it: L'EMPEREUR NAPOLEON AU 1ER REGIMENT DU CORPS IMPERIAL D'ARTILLERIE DE LA MARINE I will look further but I think that te regiments were composed in battalions in the way like line infantry regiments, that is with a majority of fusiliers companies and a grenadier company, but I don't know if they had integral voltigeurs comanies… |
AUXILIAPAL | 04 Mar 2016 9:50 a.m. PST |
Ok, I have found another batch of informations, but for the banner, I first must specify that my example is for the 1st regiment, the other were AU 2EME REGIMENT AU 3EME REGIMENT AU 4EME REGIMENT As for the composition, they were normally 6 companies for each battalion. Each composed of 150 to 200 men. They were no elite companies! No grenadiers and no voltigeurs. But the red épaulettes existed but were reserved for the NCO's. Roughly 1/3 of each batallion. The others had épaulettes without the fringes, and they were blue lined with red. As for the drummers, I found no informations, sorry. |
AuvergneWargamer | 04 Mar 2016 1:44 p.m. PST |
Hi Auxiliapal, Thanks for the information. That would make replicating the regiments using Calpe figures easier. Hope to find out more about the uniform details as well e.g. did they all have "Grenade" emblems on their cartridge pouches? Just found this useful image at:
Any more information would be much appreciated.
Cheers, Paul |
stephen1162 | 10 Mar 2016 9:38 a.m. PST |
Paul, could you kindly be more specific on where you found this useful image? thanks, stephen |
dibble | 18 Mar 2016 9:18 p.m. PST |
I was searching information on a related topic and found these articles that may be of interest to you. I have posted them on another site. If you can read French, then you are in luck but also their are some nice illustrations plus a photo of a the eagle and flag you that you asked about. Unfortunately,it is in rather bad shape. link Paul :) |
Prince of Essling | 20 Mar 2016 2:07 a.m. PST |
Background info on the regiments can befound in my post at nt TMP link |
AuvergneWargamer | 24 Mar 2016 9:20 a.m. PST |
Hi Stephen, Sorry for the late reply. The link was just from a google image search which gave this link to "pinterest.com". link Dibble – many thanks your link is fantastic! How do I do the colours for the Standard though? Cheers, Paul |
dibble | 24 Mar 2016 4:20 p.m. PST |
It would be very similar to this link Paul :) |
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