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French Soldiers Working at Fortifications, 1917

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Here’s another in a long line of images from my WWI news photo service photographs.  So far as I can determine what we see here is a group of French soldiers engaged in redoubt or perhaps trenchwork construction.  To the right we see a crudely-marked Red Cross, perahps for a not-front-line position.  The photo is stamped “Committee on Public Information, Washington, Copyright 1917” and has a dated stamp for “Dec 21 1917”. Fo rmore information on this series see the long threads on World War I and particularly World War I Photography (which is our sales site).

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