Camp Coëtquidan (''Camp de Coëtquidan'') is a French military educational facility located in the

Morbihan Morbihan ( , ; br, Mor-Bihan ) is a department in the administrative region of Brittany, situated in the northwest of France. It is named after the Morbihan (''small sea'' in Breton), the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastli ...

department of Brittany in France. It forms a part of the commune of

Guer Guer (; ) is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in north-western France. It is located at the edge of the famous Brocéliande Forest, which is the setting of the Round Table novels in Brittany. It is southwest from Rennes, the r ...

and covers an area of approximately 64 km². Logo de l'académie militaire de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan

It comprises: *

École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr The École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr (ESM, literally the "Special Military School of Saint-Cyr") is a French military academy, and is often referred to as Saint-Cyr (). It is located in Coëtquidan in Guer, Morbihan, Brittany. Its motto is ...

(ESM) *

École militaire interarmes The ''Combined Arms School'' or ''Joint military school'', known as École Militaire Interarmes or EMIA, is a military school of the French Army intended to train officers who have risen from the ranks. It was founded in 1942 and based in a rural ...

(EMIA) (inter-services military school) * 4e bataillon de l'École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr.

World War I

Beginning in June–July 1917 the camp was temporarily transferred to the

American Expeditionary Forces The American Expeditionary Forces (A. E. F.) was a formation of the United States Army on the Western Front of World War I. The A. E. F. was established on July 5, 1917, in France under the command of General John J. Pershing. It fought alon ...

for use as an artillery training center. Field artillery brigades trained there included the

3rd Third or 3rd may refer to: Numbers * 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3 * , a fraction of one third * Second#Sexagesimal divisions of calendar time and day, 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute'' Places * 3rd Street (d ...

( 3rd Division), 51st ( 26th Division), 55th ( 30th Division), 56th ( 31st Division), 57th ( 32nd Division), 60th ( 35th Division), 61st ( 36th Division), 64th (39th Division), 67th ( 42nd Division), 158th ( 83rd Division), and the 160th ( 85th Division).

World War II

During the war, Coëtquidan was the main army camp used by the Polish Army formed on French soil in September 1939. It furnished the Polish Independent Highland Rifle Brigade that operated in Norway and then briefly in Brittany under General Bohusz-Szyszko in April–June 1940. It also furnished the 1st Grenadier Division that operated on the Lorraine front under General Duch in May–June 1940. In addition it began the training of armoured units that would be sent to the

Bollène Bollène (; Provençal: ''Bouleno'') is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Geography Bollène is a commune located in the north of the Vaucluse department next to the juncti ...

area in the south of France before being used to form the 10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade that operated in the

Marne Marne can refer to: Places France *Marne (river), a tributary of the Seine *Marne (department), a département in northeastern France named after the river * La Marne, a commune in western France *Marne, a legislative constituency (France) Nethe ...

– Côte-d’Or area under General Maczek in June 1940.Barbarski, ''Op. cit''., p.11, 13–14

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