Photos WW1 French & Allied Forces

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Horse-drawn Romanian ambulance wagons on their way to Cașin, 1917

 

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French soldiers warm themselves at a fire in a destroyed church, St. Michele, France - 1916

 

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Greek, French, British, ANZAC and Colonial POW’s in a Ottoman Prison, Izmir. 1916

 

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OTD in 1918, Chasseurs Alpins, this is probably Leith,Scotland. They went to Murmansk , with the anti-Bolshevik expedition.

 

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Two French officers dressed in blackened greatcoats and face coverings for use during night patrols, 1915.

 

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Italian infantry advance across the broken ground and barbed wire barriers on Monte Cucco di Plava on the Isonzo Front, 1917.

 

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Italian infantry of the 35th Division on the move on the Macedonian Front, 26 December 1916.

 

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Chauchat model 1915 light machine gun. Haut-Rhin, France. 21 March 1917

 

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French troops playing cards in a trench on the Western Front, 1916 - Colourised by Histoire de Couleurs.

 

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French trench raiders.

 

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French infantrymen take a German soldier prisoner during a daylight trench raid, circa 1915-18

 

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Blind French veterans wounded during the war learn to weave baskets 1918.

 

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French Dragoons escorting German prisoners in the Nord department of northern France. Late August, 1914

 

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American in French Foreign Legion jokes with Sengalese Guard. Moyet, a member of the French Foreign Legion, secured his transfer to the American forces when they arrived. After being with the American forces for sometime, Moyet tired of the training and again returned to the Foreign Legion , with which he is now connected. He is shown joking with the Sengalese guard of the observation balloons in Paris. Moyet is an American and joined the Foreign Legion at the start of the war. 1917 - ca. 1919

 

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Schneider tank and her crew

 

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Schneider tank and her crew
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French soldiers use coffins to keep their meals from the mud at a field kitchen.

 

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A French Colonial 75 mm artillery gun in action near Sedd el Bahr at Cape Helles, Gallipoli during the Third Battle of Krithia, 4 June 1915.

 

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“METS Z'Y EN”, after being in action. The tank was hit by more than 150 armor piercing bullets but was able to return to French lines without difficulty - Gouy-les-Groseillers; 18 April, 1918