Army Group Centre (France)
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Army Group Centre (French: Groupe d'armées du Centre, G. A. C.) was a grouping of French field armies during World War I, which was created on June 22, 1915. The army group covered the Western Front roughly between Rheims and Verdun.
Composition
[edit]July 1, 1915
[edit]from North to South :
- 6th Army (général Pierre Joseph Dubois)
- 5th Army (général Louis Franchet d'Espèrey)
- 4th Army (général Fernand de Langle de Cary)
February 15, 1917
[edit]From West to East :
- 4th Army (général Pierre Roques)
- 2nd Army (général Adolphe Guillaumat)
Commanders
[edit]- Général Édouard de Castelnau (June 22, 1915 – December 12, 1915)
- Général Fernand de Langle de Cary (December 12, 1915 – May 2, 1916)
- Général Philippe Pétain (May 2, 1916 – May 4, 1917)
- Général Émile Fayolle (May 4, 1917 – December 1, 1917)
- Général Paul Maistre (July 6, 1918 – December 1918)
Sources
[edit]- The French Army and the First World War by Elizabeth Greenhalgh
- Philippe Pétain et Marc Ferro (Avant-propos), La Guerre mondiale : 1914–1918, Toulouse, Éditions Privat, 2014, 372 p. (ISBN 978-2-708-96961-2, OCLC 891408727)