Original Photos - Page 20

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Class of 1917 recruits in training at Reuil. They wear the fatigue uniform of a zouave unit.

Recruits peeling potatoes

Class of 1917 recruits in training at Reuil. They wear the fatigue uniform of a zouave unit.

Recruits exercising

Two soldiers making trench rings in their spare time in front of their shelter.

Making trench rings

An entrenched rolling kitchen and its cooking crew.

Fortified "roller"

Soldiers in their small funk-hole shelters.

Trench shelters

A section prepares to depart for the front line trenches near Soisson.

Getting ready to depart

A group of telephonists laying out telephone wire.

Laying wire

A telephonist stands perches on top of a German 77 mm gun in 1918.

Triumphant telephonist

Erecting an army theater at Champetre.

Army theater

Barbed-wire can be seen stretched across a trench to defend against infiltrators.

Top wire

Soldiers setting up barbed-wire entanglements for a support position behind the front lines.

Erecting wire-entanglements

A group of soldiers dashes through a gap in the French wire.

En Attaque

Artisan-soldiers crafting trench rings made of aluminum at Beavraignes, early 1915. Source: bleuhorizon.canalblog.com

Making trench rings

A 58 mm gun crew on the summit of Vauquois, early 1915.

58 mm mortar

Unknown regimental band, December 1915.

Regimental band