List of French Foreign Legion units

XIX century

• French Foreign Legion - March 9, 1831
• 2nd Foreign Legion - February 3, 1836
• 1st Foreign Regiment - April 1, 1841
• 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment – April 1, 1841
• Foreign Brigade
• Mounted Companies – 1881
• Saharan Companies of the French Foreign Legion, Saharan Companies and Squadrons of the French Foreign Legion – – 1901
• 1st Marching Regiment of the 2nd Foreign Regiment - 1907
• 1st Marching Regiment of the 1st Foreign Regiment - 1913

  World War I

• 2nd Marching Regiment of the 2nd Foreign Regiment - end of August 1914
• 2nd Marching Regiment of the 1st Foreign Regiment - September 1914
• 3rd Marching Regiment of the 1st Foreign Regiment - – September 1914
• 4th Marching Regiment of the 1st Foreign Regiment - November 5, 1914
• Marching Regiment of the Foreign Legion - November 11, 1915

  Interwar period

• 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment, ex-RMLE – November 15, 1920
• 4th Foreign Infantry Regiment – November 15, 1920
• 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment - 1921
• Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion in Indochina - August 2, 1930
• 5th Foreign Infantry Regiment - September 1, 1930
• Foreign Legion Command - successive appellations and designations IILE, GALE, COLE, ITLE, GLE and COMLE - April 1, 1931.
• Communal Depot of the Foreign Regiments - successive appellations and designations DCRE and DCLE – October 13, 1933.
• 2nd Foreign Cavalry Regiment - July 1, 1939

  World War II

• Marching Regiments of Foreign Volunteers - September 29, 1939, became the 21^e, 22^e, 23^e RMVE
• 6th Foreign Infantry Regiment - October 1, 1939
• 11th Foreign Infantry Regiment - November 6, 1939
• 97th Reconnaissance Group of the Infantry Division - GRD 97 – December 1, 1939
• 12th Foreign Infantry Regiment – February 24, 1940
• 13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion – became the 13^e DBLE on November 12, 1940
• 21st Marching Regiment of Foreign Volunteers – - first called 1^er RMVE – September 29, 1939
• 22nd Marching Regiment of Foreign Volunteers first called 2^e RMVE – October 24, 1939
• 23rd Marching Regiment of Foreign Volunteers – first called 3^e RMVE – May 1940

  Decolonization

Indochina War

• Disciplinary Company of the Foreign Regiments in the Far East – June 1, 1946
• Passage Company of the Foreign Legion of the Far East- May 1, 1947
• Armored Train of the Foreign Legion - 1948
• Parachute Company of the 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment - Para Co. 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment - April 1, 1948 - later designations: 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion
• 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment – later names and designations: 1st Foreign Parachute Battalion - 1948 and - 1955 – July 1, 1948
• 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment – successive appellations and designations, 2^e BEP and 2^e REP – October 9, 1948.
• 3rd Foreign Parachute Regiment - successive appellations and designations, 3rd Foreign Parachute Battalion – November 1949
• Foreign Air Supply Company – January 1, 1951
• 1st Foreign Parachute Heavy Mortar Company – September 1, 1953

  Algerian War

After 1962

• 61st Mixed Legion Engineer Battalion – 61^e BMGL - 1963
• 5th Mixed Regiment of the Pacific 5^e RMP – October 1963.
• 5th Heavy Weight Transport Company – 5^e CTGP – May 1, 1965.
• Foreign Legion Detachment in Mayotte successive designations and appellations DLEC and DLEM – August 2, 1973.
• 6th Foreign Engineer Regiment – 6^e REG – July 1, 1984.
• 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment – 1^er REG – July 1, 1999.
• 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment – 2^e REG – July 1, 1999.
• Foreign Legion Recruiting Group – GRLE – July 1, 2007.

  Current Legion units

• Foreign Legion Command; officially Commandement de la Légion étrangère – COMLE.
• Foreign Legion Recruiting Group
• 1st Foreign Regiment
• 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment
• 1st Foreign Engineer Regiment
• 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment
• 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment
• 3rd Foreign Infantry Regiment
• 4th Foreign Regiment
• 13th Demi-Brigade of the Foreign Legion
• Foreign Legion Detachment in Mayotte
• French Foreign Legion Music Band – 1831