Algerians

A group of Spahis, Algerian soldiers, cooking their meal near a village in Oise, Northern France, 1917

Many Algerians fought and died on the European battlefields. Autcochrome color picture made by Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud.

This is the first picture of a slideshow with 250 colour photographs of the Great War. Click on the picture to see the next in this series or click here to go back to the summary page.