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The same Agence Meurisse photo on Gallica site bears the following caption: Compiègne : un cuisine allemande capturée par les Français à la bataille de Vic-sur-Aisne "Compiègne: a German kitchen captured by the French at the battle of Vic-sur-Aisne" As Bain's photo bears Meurisse's negative number at upper right, Meurisse is the source. gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b9041923t

Thanks artolog for finding the matching image on the Gallica site. We will add the name of the location and the battle to the image description when we update.

LOC -- The word is "French."

Thanks Wystan. We will fix the title.

Awesome!!!

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.