Not sure where these poilu are fighting, but the fellow in the back appears to have swapped his regulation Kepi for a bowler and shaved off his moustache.
Vintage Saturday: A 1914 Hotchkiss
Ammunition
Testing 7.65mm French Long Ammo (Reed’s and Buffalo Arms)
I am on the search for suitable ammunition for the Mle 1935A and Mle 1935S French pistols, as well as my MAS-38 submachine gun. They are chambered for the 7.65mm French Long cartridge, aka […]
Bolt Action Rifles
Converting the Lebel to 7.5mm: The M27 Lebel
Get your “Only Dropped Once” shirt here, and do your part to push back against the stereotype of the French soldier! In the aftermath of World War One, the French military instituted a plan to […]
Semiauto Rifles
MAS 49/56 manual
Not a huge addition for you today, but we do have two slightly different versions of the French 1974 MAS49/56 manual. The French have had a thriving experimental arms program for decades, and the MAS49 […]
I’m not sure these guys are French. Note the Mauser in the background. I’m wondering if these aren’t Mexican troops.
and I wonder if the guy in the bowler might not be a civilian. Look at his jacket.
Steve
That hat is a trilby, not a bowler.
And now I feel like we’re ganging up on you. Sorry.
No problem – they might well be Mexican troops (I don’t have any more info on the picture), and I claim no expertise whatsoever on hats. 🙂
I think they are Mexicans. Maybe fighting the Americans at Vera Cruz in 1914.
Dfinitely 1914-vintage Mexican Army…and the guy in the hat is a correspondent, if I’m not mistaken. Monterrey or Vera Cruz would be my guess.
That’s Rick Blaine. He was played by Bogart in some movie somewhere, as I recall. Here he is caught in an action with some anti-fascist partisans, to whom he had been delivering black market munitions. That sort of thing used to happen to him a lot, which is why he got out and went to Paris, where he met this chick who broke his heart.
That sort of thing happened to him a lot, too, though in this case it drove him to buy a gin joint somewhere in Morocco.
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This same photo (albeit a lower quality image) can be found on the Wikipedia page for the Ten Tragic Days, which took place during the Mexican Revolution. These are Mexican rebels fighting in Mexico City, Mexico in 1913. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decena_tr%C3%A1gica
Hi,
The uniforms don’t look French. Perhaps is it a Mexican army Hotchkiss ?
LG