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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
ON THE BATTLEFIELD
COLONIAL TROOPS
page 2
Salonique
Annamite soldier, French Colonial Marine Inf., Cochin China
Salonika Campaign
NARA165-BO-0680
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
US National Archives Record Group 165:
Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952;
Series: British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918
(Photo Section British War Museum).
Salonique
Annamites of French Colonial Marine Infantry landing at Salonika
Salonika Campaign
NARA165-BO-0681
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
US National Archives Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952;
Series: British Photographs of World War I, 1914 - 1918
(Photo Section British War Museum).
Members of Chinese Labour Corps leaving Tsingtau for France 1918
Thousands of Chinese coolies were recruited to go to France for the reconstruction of Europe.
Initial training was conducted in Canada.
Then they traveled to Jamaica via Panama Canal, a stop over in New York City and then on to France.
Source: 'With the Chinks, by Daryl Klein, 2nd Lieutenant in the Chinese Labour Corps' 1919.
Chinese Labor Corps recruits leaving for Canada on their way to France 1914
Chinese recruits undergoing training in Canada 1914
Mesves
Indo-chinese ready to work on construction of American hospital, Mesves Bulcy, Nièvre, France
11-21-18
NARA111-SC-032502-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Mesves
Chinese prisoner coming out of the prison dugout, Mesves Bulcy, Nièvre, France
11-21-18
NARA111-SC-032514-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Mesves
Barracks for Indo-chinese at Mesves Bulcy, France
11-21-18
NARA111-SC-032529-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
German Prison Camp
Photograph shows Indian troops who were captured in Europe in a German prison camp during World War I.(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2014 and the Sunday Oregonian July 2, 1916)
between ca. 1915 and ca. 1916
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C