21eme Regiment de Ligne

"The Regiment" pages will contain details on the structure of the Regiment, including photos and service records of all the current members of the Regiment

Events 2012

5-7th May Woollaton Hall, Nottingham
19-20 May Sheffield Triples English Institute of Sport

25-27 May "Fort Amherst" the venue has now been changed to South Park Hunton Court (just south of Maidstone).
30th June-1st July Salisbury, Wiltshire
25-27th August Military Odyssey
1-2nd September Borodino.

Commanding Officer

Chris Perko
Algrave Hall
Hassock Lane North
Shipley
Derbyshire DE75 7JB

The Adjutant

Chris Durkin
7 Lowcroft Crescent
Chadderton
Oldham OL9 9UU

Position of the Regiment

20th May
1790 Regiment Guyenne at Lyon (November)
1792: Journal militaire arrived Besancon.
1793 besieged at Landau
1794 At Nice, General Kellerman formed a Polish battalion with men found in the 21e Demi-brigade (9 companies of 3 officers and 70 men)(1 April)
1796 Entry into Milan.
1798: Garrison at Amiens, 2nd battalion Nantes (formed march 97)
1799 1st battalion from bridgehead at Cassano to Luco-Verderio.
1800 3rd battalion made prisoner 7th May at Peschsira re-entered France not to serve for 6 months, envoyed to Tours.
1801 140 men formed part of the battailon expeditionaire on the Ile de Re boarding the frigate l'Africaine. (31st January)
1802 Detachment at Saint Domingo
1803 Pre 1803 at the Bruges/Ostend Camp, (3 and 4 battalions at Flessingue 'til july 1804 then to Bruges)
1804 3rd and 4th battalion to Cologne.
1805 Crossed the Danube at Pressburg. One battalion at Bruick, other in villages Regelbrun, Arbestal, Collesbrunn, Willfersnauer and Schadendorf until 5 January 1806. (Decree of 1805 or 1804 formed at Juliers 9 battalions from 51, 85, 30, 61, 111, 21, 22, 39, 96, 69, 76, 27, 59 Line, 6,5, 9 and 25 Leger.
1806 Towards the River Necker occupied Kunzeslaw and Kupferzell until 26th June.
1807 Division at the Hohenstein camp until 5th June.
1808 End of January: rotation through the villages of Drossen, Stenberg, Bibereichs, Landsberg, Friedeberg, Zielenstic, Driezen in the east of Austria.(Depot at Juliers)
1809: Division Nusdorf (between Klosterneuberg and Vienna).
1810 Division at Hannover, Regiment at Halberstadt.
1811 Stade
1812 Division at Thorn.
1813 Reviewed at Juliers.
1814:Reduction of the regiments, 21eme absorbed 3 and 5/151 Ligne, later 1/4 Tirailleurs. Stationed at Cambrai. (12 May)
1815 Lille.

Waterloo 1985

Boulogne 1991 on the Video page.