High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Régiments de marche de volontaires étrangers, also known as RMVE or Regiments of Foreign Volunteers were temporary formations of the French Foreign Legion organized from Foreign volunteers during the Second World War. These regiments were formed on 16 September 1939: On September 16 1939, the war minister decided to form special corps of foreign volunteers independent of the Foreign Legion, presumably to avoid the sort of conflict that had occurred in 1914. To make certain that these unit of foreign volunteers would be in no way confused with the "real" Legion, which wanted to distance itself from them, they were assigned numbers superior to 20 from February 1940 and so became the 21E, 22E and 23E régiment de marche des volontaires étrangers (RMVE).