moroccans

They look like they might be some of the Algerian soldiers.

Original Agence Meurisse photo on Gallica site, with caption
"Entre Villeroy et Neufmoutiers : marocains soignant avec sollicitude un blessé allemand"
Outside Villeroy and Neufmoutiers: Moroccans care with concern for a german casualty


Publication date 1914

Thanks for finding the source photo artolog. We'll add some of this information to the caption the next time we update.

Moroccans

Other Bain/LOC photos of Turcos, taken early in World War I (1914):

From Wikipedia: The tirailleurs from Algeria subsequently served in the Crimean War, the Second Italian War of Independence, the French intervention in Mexico and the Franco-Prussian War (1870), as well as in various French colonial campaigns in Tunisia, Indochina, Morocco, Madagascar and Algeria itself. During the Crimean War the Algerian tirailleurs acquired the nickname of "Turcos" (Turks) by which they were widely known over the next hundred years. The name reportedly arose from comparisons between the Algerian troops and the Turkish allies serving alongside the French and British forces at the siege of Sebastopol.[2] The Turks (from Turkey) were allies of the Germans in WWI.

Cropped from original Agence Meurisse photo shown at Bibliotheque Nationale de France's Gallica site, with following caption:
"Neufmoutiers : marocains examinant leur butin de guerre "
[Neufmoutiers: Moroccans examining their spoils of war]






Pub. Date 1914

artolog: Thanks for linking us to the original Agence Meurisse photo. We will include this info. next time we update.

This could be either of two French communes with Ribecourt in their name. They are in close proximity to each other, and are both in same region as the other Bain Collection photos. They are Ribécourt-Dreslincourt and Ribécourt-la-Tour.

Original Agence Meurisse photo (Meurisse catalog number at right and bottom of Bain negative), published in 1914, at Gallica site has a different caption:

A Ribecourt : une patrouille de premiers cuirassiers et de spahis marocains



Pub. Date 1914

Information on the First Moroccan Spahi cavalry regiment, organized in 1914, at
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1er_R%C3%A9giment_de_Spahis_Marocains

artolog: Thanks for providing us with the source, date, and original caption for this photograph. We'll include this information next time we update the description.

see also

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spahi - Light cavalry regiments in the French Army.

Hi, George!

Bain collection has two copies of this same Agence Meurisse photo. Here is the other one:


From Meurisse photo at Gallica site (pub. date 1914), caption is:
"les Spahis Marocains traversant la forêt de Compiègne"
[Moroccan Spahis crossing the forest of Compiègne ]

gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b90418526

artolog: Thanks for linking us to the other copy of this image, and to the original caption and date. We'll include some of this info next time we update.