Sapeur French Foreign Legion, 1900.
Landsturm infantrymen.
Like most Landsturm units, these men are armed with obsolete or captured weapons, in this case French 8mm Lebel rifles, complete with their 1886 Epee bayonets.
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Carabine de chasse Lebel-Africaine
Rifle practice, destroyer Janissaire in the background
Two French soldiers operating a periscope rifle in the First World War. c. Apr 1 1915
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Mle 1886 M93 Lebel rifle
Designed by a French commission following general Boulanger’s demands in 1885, based on the previous Gras-Kropatschek rifles. Adopted c.1886, manufactured starting c.1887 by all major French national factories.
8x50mmR Lebel 8-round tubular magazine +1 chambered +1 in the lift, bolt action repeater.
France’s military rifle for a good 60 years, named after colonel Nicolas Lebel who submitted the jacketed bullet idea, the Mle1886 rifle was the first smokeless powder rifle in full military service, one of the first repeating rifles in full military service and later the first one to use spitzer bullets.
Sep 29 1914 IWM Q 53264 “French troops holding the bank of a canal” September 29 1914.
Production date
1914-09-29IWM Q 53264
Production date: 1914-09-29
A cyclist if the 23rd infantry regiment, 1908 maneuvers,
Cycliste des 18 chasseurs
French soldiers equipped with M2 gas masks in France, 1917.