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French soldiers and their army car near the frontline

Autochrome color picture made in 1917.


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Picture Walk

Two French soldiers walking through a deserted village.
Autochrome Color picture made in 1917.



Picture Hospital Staff

Doctors, nurses and soldiers posing in front of an French Army Hospital.
Picture made in 1917.



Picture Train

Train, riddled by bullits.
French Army picture made in 1917.



Picture Time Off

French and British soldiers strolling through the old city of Bergues, Northern France.
Picture made in 1917.



Picture Time Off (2)

Another picture of French and British soldiers in the city of Bergues, Northern France.
Picture made in 1917.



Picture Railway

French Engineering Corps working on a railway.
This railway is meant for the artillery, to transport ammunition and guns.
Picture made in the vicinity of Soissons, Northern France, 1917.



Picture Heavy Gun

A French 370 mm gun, camouflaged and mounted on a sort of bogie.
Picture made near Steenkerke, in Flanders (Belgium), 1917.



Picture Sailors

These French sailors are navy gunners.
Armies often made use of heavy ships artillery, mounted on train undercarriages.
To handle these guns the navy had specialised gunners.



Picture Provisioning

French soldier getting provisions.
Picture made in the French city of Reims, 1917.



Picture Hole

A shell hole in the tower of the church of Saint-Jean des Vignes, in Soissons, Northern France.
Picture made in 1917.



Picture More Holes

A French soldier looks through a hole in the wall of a building.
Note the destroyed advertising for Michelin tyres. Picture made in the Belgian village of Woesten, 1917.



Picture French line

The French line near Het Sas (the lock) in the Belgian village of Boesinghe.
Picture made in 1917.



Picture Oriental

An Indo-Chinese soldier of the French army.



Picture Red Cross

Ambulances with red crosses near the village of Boesinghe in Flanders (Belgium).
Picture made in 1917.



Picture Photographer

An official French army photographer looking for a place to install his apparatus.
Picture made in the ruins of Reims, Northern France, 1917.



Picture Bar

A barge with an estaminet (bar, café), moored on a bank of the river Yser.
There is soldier holding a fishing rod, near the entrance to the barge.
Picture made near Rexpoede, Northern France, 1917.



Picture Toilet

A French soldier makes his toilet at a public fountain in a street in Reims, Northern France.
Picture made in spring 1917.



Picture The General's Tent

In a wood in Northern France, safely away front the frontline, the general has his billets in a tent. A soldier stands guard.
Picture made in 1917.



Picture MP's

A Belgian military policeman (left) and a French collegue.
Picture made in a French military camp near the Belgian village of Woesten, 1917.



Picture Debris

Debris in the half destroyed cathedral of Soissons, Northern France.
Picture made in 1917.



Picture Hospital Camp

A French hospital camp on the banks of the river Yser.
Picture made near the village of Roesbrugge, Northern France, 1917.



Picture Healing Sun

Convalescing French soldiers brought into the sun. They have umbrella's.
Picture made near the villae of Roesbrugge, Northern France, 1917.



Picture Truck

French truck, 1917.



Picture Constructing a Bridge

French engineers contructing a bridge.
Picture made near the village of Boezinghe in Flanders (Belgium), 1917.



Picture Repairing a Bridge

French soldiers repairing a bridge near the battlefields of Flanders.
Picture made in 1917.



Picture Floating Bridge

Floating bridge over the river Aisne, Northern France.
Picture made in 1917.



Picture Mailman

A French military postman.
Picture made in the city of Reims, 1917.



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Sources: Many pictures come from our own collection. Others were found in books, and some elsewhere on the Internet - RR.