Army Group East (France)

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'''Army Group East''' () ('''G.A.E''') was a grouping of French [[Field Army|field armies]] during [[World War I]], which was created on June 22, 1915 from the '''Groupe provisoire de l'Est''' ('''G.P.E''') which existed since January 1915.

== Composition ==

=== July 1, 1915 ===
from North to South :
* [[3rd Army (France)|3rd Army]] ([[Maurice Sarrail|général Sarrail]])
* [[8th Army (France)|Détachement d'armée de Lorraine (DAL)]] ([[Georges Louis Humbert|général Humbert]])
* [[7th Army (France)|7th Army]] ([[Louis de Maud'huy|général de Maud'huy]])

=== February 15, 1917 ===
From West to East :
* [[8th Army (France)|8th Army]] ([[Augustin Gérard|général Gérard]])
* [[7th Army (France)|7th Army]] ([[Marie-Eugène Debeney|général Debeney]])

=== May 25, 1918 ===
From West to East :
* [[2nd Army (France)|2nd Army]] ([[Auguste Hirschauer|général Hirschauer]])
* [[8th Army (France)|8th Army]] ([[Augustin Gérard|général Gérard]])
* [[7th Army (France)|7th Army]] ([[Antoine Baucheron de Boissoudy|général de Boissoudy]])

== Commanders ==
* Général [[Augustin Dubail]] (July 1, 1915 - March 31, 1916)
* Général [[Louis Franchet d'Espèrey]] (March 31, 1916 - December 27, 1916)
* Général [[Édouard de Curières de Castelnau|de Castelnau]] (December 27, 1916 - December 1918)

== Sources ==
* [http://bit.ly/2XMRLcT 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)
* Victor Giraud, Histoire de la Grande Guerre, Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1920, 777 p.

[[Category:Military units and formations of France in World War I]]
[[Category:Military units and formations established in 1915]]
[[Category:Army groups]]
[[Category:Army groups of World War I]]

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