Army Group North (France)

situation of the Army Group North in 1917

Army Group North (French: Groupe d'armées du Nord, GAN) was a grouping of French field armies during the First World War, which was created on June 13, 1915, from French: Groupe Provisoire du Nord (GPN) which had been formed on October 4, 1914. On July 6, 1918, GAN was renamed Groupe d'armées du Centre (GAC).

Composition

October 1914

• 2nd Army (général Philippe Pétain)
• 10th Army (général Louis de Maud'huy)
• Détachement d'Armée de Belgique (DAB) (général Victor d'Urbal)

July 1, 1915

from North to South :

• Belgian Army (general Félix Wielemans)
• 36th French Army Corps (général de division Alexis Hély d'Oissel)
• 2nd British Army (General Horace Smith-Dorrien)
• 1st British Army (General Douglas Haig)
• 10th French Army (général Victor d'Urbal)
• 2nd French Army (général Philippe Pétain)

July 1, 1916

from North to South :

• 6th Army (général Émile Fayolle)
• 10th Army (général Victor d'Urbal)

February 15, 1917

from North to South :

• 3rd Army (général Georges Louis Humbert)
• 1st Army (général Émile Fayolle)

Commanders

• Général Ferdinand Foch (October 4, 1914 – December 27, 1916)
• Général Louis Franchet d'Espèrey (December 27, 1916 – June 10, 1918)
• Général Paul Maistre (June 10 – July 6, 1918)

Sources

• The French Army and the First World War by Elizabeth Greenhalgh
• Cartographie 1914 - 1918
• 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)
• Les Armées Françaises dans la Grande Guerre. Tome X. Premier volume, p. 13 et s. Ministère de la Guerre 1923–1924