2-710-810 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The French Army Officer in the Making', (1919). Scene from the First World War, 1914-1919: 'A Company of the Ecole Militaire of St. Cyr, which corresponds to our Military College at Sandhurst [jn Berkshire]....In this photograph the men are seen to be carrying the rifle high up on the shoulder in the French fashion, with the lock resting on the shoulder and the gun-trigger pointing inwards.' From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. I, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]