WWI - French Colonial Army: Tirailleurs

            Left to right, a Moroccan tirailleur, an Algerian tirailleur, two  Senegalese Tirailleurs   and two Indochinese Tiraillurs.

The Tirailleurs were a light infantry military corps enlisted in the colonies.
The Algerian  were arroulated in Algeria and Tunisia, the Senegalese  were enlisted in the Sahel area, the Indochinese  in Indochina, i.e. in present-day Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia,
in addition, Moroccan Tiraillurs were also enlisted.
In the First World War, the colonial units were used on the Western and Macedonian front.

African troops were frequently used in combat, and suffered heavy casualties, out of 152,000 Algerian  employed.
35,000 died, while out of 135,000 Senegalese  employed on the western front, 30,000 died.

At the beginning of the war the colonial troops fought with the old traditional uniforms, then starting from 1916 the
modern uniforms, similar to those of the French army but in mustard color rather than horizon blue.
   

Taken on: March 2, 2021

Groups appears in: • World War I • La Grande Guerre, la guerre de 14-18

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