#spahis

[postcard-from-the-past]

Spahis and Goumiers escorting the Sultan in Marrakech, Morocco

French vintage postcard

[redarmyscreaming]

Spahis near, on Sd.Kfz. 251 Ausf D, August 1944

[thisdayinwwi]

Apr 19 1916 Georges Chevalier takes these 105-year-old colour autochrome photos, A 8 111 & A 8 113, of Spahis ( French colonial soldiers from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco )

These are not colourizations.

France, D'Arles à Uzès , Le Brigadier de Toulouse, fils de Parents Toulousains, le Spahi de Paris, parents originaires de Nancy, le plus grands des deux : de Constantine, et l'autre de Biskra

Tarascon, France    19 avril 1916 Source: Albert-Kahn Museum / Department of Hauts-de-Seine

[cuirassier]

Ottoman Spahis, 16th and 17th c., plate by R. Knotel

[scrapironflotilla]

A French officer reading the communique to Spahis at Recy, 20 July 1915.

[hippography]

Escorte de Spahis. 

J. Boussuge, à Fort-National. Cliché Imbert.

[poor-bloody-infantry]

© IWM (Q 78090) Spahis relaxing in a camp at Coudun, some playing the flute, others with drums, 22 June 1916.

[redarmyscreaming]

JACKET OF A NCO OF SPAHIS OF THE 4th REGIMENT OF SFAX IN TUNISIA, model 1879, Third Republic