Army Group North (, GAN) was a grouping of French field armies during the First World War, which was created on 13 June 1915, from (GPN) which had been formed on 4 October 1914. On 6 July 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)
1 July 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)
1 July 1916 from North to South : 6th Army (général Émile Fayolle) 10th Army (général Victor d'Urbal)
15 February 1917 from North to South : 3rd Army (général Georges Louis Humbert) 1st Army (général Émile Fayolle)
Commanders Général Ferdinand Foch (4 October 1914 – 27 December 1916) Général Louis Franchet d'Espèrey (27 December 1916 – 10 June 1918) Général Paul Maistre (10 June – 6 July 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. (, OCLC 891408727) Les Armées Françaises dans la Grande Guerre. Tome X. Premier volume, p. 13 et s. Ministère de la Guerre 1923–1924