2-717-222 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

French troops on the march, First World War, 1914-1918, (c1920). '"The Most Rapid Marchers in Europe": French infantrymen in their new "tricolour grey" uniform...long reputed to be the most rapid marchers in Europe,...here shown on their way to the firing-line, with their long coats buttoned back to give freedom of movement to their legs.' From "The Great World War - A History" Volume IV, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]