Uniform of the Czechoslovakian Legion of the French Army from 1918 on display at the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna
The demands of the war required France to accept foreign nationals from other countries such as Poland, America and Czechoslovakia. In March 1916, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, later the first president of Czechoslovakia, secured a promise from the French government to expand the participation of Czechoslovaks on the Western Front.
The Adrian helmet bears the arms of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia. The Lion of Bohemia was emblazoned upon the flag the foreign legion formed in 1914.
Photographs taken by myself 2016