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Spahis of Algeria at Furnes (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Wystan said:
    Other Bain photos of Spahis, posted earlier:
  • Art Siegel said:
    An almost identical shot of the same scene elsewhere in the LOC collections:
    On Their Way to the Battlefields of the World War (LOC)

Convoy of Spahis at Frane le Port [i.e., Francport] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • bior said:
    According to Wikipedia, a Spahi is a "light cavalry regiments of the French army recruited primarily from the indigenous populations of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco." (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spahi)
  • Art Siegel said:
    I think this is actually Le Francport, a small village in the vicinity of the other October, 1914 French battle pictures in the Bain Collection. Also sometimes written as Le Franc-Port. (It was ultimately the site of the armistice in 1918 and the surrender of Germany after World War II). I cannot find a "Frane Le Port" (as in the negative caption) or a "France Le Port" (the Flickr caption). However, there is a picture in the Bibliotheque National de France's Gallica online photo collection of Moroccan Spahis at Le Franc-Port: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9041734x
  • Arden said:
    retired at last and artolog: Thank you for finding the date on the negative. bior: thank you for the information about the Spahi regiments. There seem to be quite a few images of the Spahi soldiers in the Bain News Service Collection. It seems probable, artolog, that this image shows Francport as you say, and not "Frane Le Port" which appears in the caption. It looks like some of the French language place names were not correctly written by the Bain captioners. Thank you for helping us fix them.
  • Wystan said:
    Other Bain/LOC photos of Spahis:

Spahi Convoy in Forest of Compiegne (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • George Oates said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spahi - Light cavalry regiments in the French Army.
  • Art Siegel said:
    Hi, George!

    Bain collection has two copies of this same Agence Meurisse photo. Here is the other one:
    Convoy of Spahis in Forest of Compiegne (LOC)

    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
  • Anne (LOC P&P) said:
    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.