Poilu, 297e Régiment d’Infanterie
Field portrait of a fully equipped French infantryman from 297e Régiment d’Infanterie circa 1916. This regiment was formed at the outbreak of the Great War and participated in the fighting in the Alsace region at the end of 1914. Around the time this photo was taken, the regiment was fighting at Verdun, in particular in the area of Thiaumont.
Infantry of the French 22nd Division and British 20th Division (possibly the 12th Battalion, the Rifle Brigade) man a line of newly scraped rifle pits covering a road, near Nesle, France, during the Spring Offensive. 25 March 1918
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Somme, In late July 1916. The 23rd RI fighters in a trench. #Somme100
French Royal Infantry Regiment, 1740s.
Compagnies franches de la Marine serving on warships in France, around 1750.
2nd Btn, 89th. Infantry Regiment, (probably the men of the 5e Cie.) eating soup at the Police Station in Neuvilly en Argonne (Meuse) 7 December 1915
French Infantry at the foot of a mill, Winters 1914.
French infantry, color by Frédéric Duriez
Soldier of the 102th Infantry Regiment, 1914.
The soup in the lines of the 204th Infantry Regiment, Bois des Buttes, September 17, 1917.j