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Bubbalicious
01-23-2007, 10:12 PM
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Senegalese soldiers have found billets in a shack near the frontline
Senegal was a French colony. Picture made in June 1917 in Saint-Ulrich, Northern France.

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When the Great War broke out, in 1914, French poilu's (common soldiers) still wore their Napoleontic uniforms with red trousers. They made perfect targets.
Real color picture (autochrome) made in 1914 by Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud, Commander of the Photography and Cinematography Section of the French Army.

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North-African Soldiers cooking their meal in a village in Oise, France, 1917
(Autochrome color picture by Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud)

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French poilu's (common soldiers) cook their meal outside the barracks.
Picture made in 1917, not far from the Western Front, near Soisson in the Aisne department, Northern France.


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