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ON THE BATTLEFIELD

COLONIAL TROOPS

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colonial tirailleur senegalais algerien spahi annamite guerre 14 1914 1918

Compagnie Algérienne. Souscrire, c'est hâter son retour avec la victoire

An Algerian soldier back in Algeria with his wife and child.

Jonas, Lucien, 1880-1947, artist

Paris : Devambez, Imp., [1918]

Translation of title:

Compagnie Algérienne.

To subscribe to [the loan] means victory, which will hasten his homecoming.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

colonial tirailleur senegalais algerien spahi annamite guerre 14 1914 1918

Paris

Paris.jpg

Turcos, wounded at Charleroi, in Paris

Photograph shows Algerian tirailleurs (infantry soldiers) in Paris, France during World War I.

Bain News Service, publisher

1914

Translation:

Turcos, wounded at Charleroi, arriving in Paris.

(Source: Gallica Digital Library website and Flickr Commons project, 2011

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

colonial tirailleur senegalais algerien spahi annamite guerre 14 1914 1918

Paris

Paris.jpg

Turcos, wounded at Charleroi, in Paris

Photograph shows Algerian tirailleurs (infantry soldiers) in Paris, France during World War I.

Bain News Service, publisher

1914

Translation:

Turcos, wounded at Charleroi, arriving in Paris.

(Source: Gallica Digital Library website and Flickr Commons project, 2011

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

colonial tirailleur senegalais algerien spahi annamite guerre 14 1914 1918

Paris

Paris.jpg

Turcos, wounded at Charleroi, in Paris

Photograph shows Algerian tirailleurs (infantry soldiers) in Paris, France during World War I.

Bain News Service, publisher

1914

Translation:

Turcos, wounded at Charleroi, arriving in Paris.

(Source: Gallica Digital Library website and Flickr Commons project, 2011

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

colonial tirailleur senegalais algerien spahi annamite guerre 14 1914 1918

Dinan

Dinan.jpg

Turcos, wounded at Charleroi, in Paris

Photograph shows Algerian tirailleurs (infantry soldiers) in Paris, France during World War I.

Bain News Service, publisher

1914

Translation:

Turcos, wounded at Charleroi, arriving in Paris.

(Source: Gallica Digital Library website and Flickr Commons project, 2011

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

colonial tirailleur senegalais algerien spahi annamite guerre 14 1914 1918
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colonial tirailleur senegalais algerien spahi annamite guerre 14 1914 1918
colonial tirailleur senegalais algerien spahi annamite guerre 14 1914 1918
colonial tirailleur senegalais algerien spahi annamite guerre 14 1914 1918

Compagnie Algerienne.

Souscrivez. Emprunt de la Libération

A man in Algerian dress on horseback.

Algeria and French West Africa sent 500,000 men to fight for France.

Romberg, Maurice, artist

Paris : Devambez, [1918]

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

colonial tirailleur senegalais algerien spahi annamite guerre 14 1914 1918

Dinan

Dinan.jpg

Dinan,

Convalescent Moroccan soldiers telling their war experiences to an AMERICAN RED CROSS worker

in the courtyard of what was before the war a convent and is now a hospital

assisted by supplies from the AMERICAN RED CROSS

September 1918

Photographer : Guerin

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress

colonial tirailleur senegalais algerien spahi annamite guerre 14 1914 1918
colonial tirailleur senegalais algerien spahi annamite guerre 14 1914 1918
colonial tirailleur senegalais algerien spahi annamite guerre 14 1914 1918
colonial tirailleur senegalais algerien spahi annamite guerre 14 1914 1918
colonial tirailleur senegalais algerien spahi annamite guerre 14 1914 1918
colonial tirailleur senegalais algerien spahi annamite guerre 14 1914 1918
colonial tirailleur senegalais algerien spahi annamite guerre 14 1914 1918

Alger

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Near Alger.

Temporary hospital. Fort de l'Eau. The play room

January 1918.

Photographer : French Official.

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

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