Title

'Les heros s'amusent : redescendus de Douaumont a Verdun, deux coloniaux du regiment du..., 1916. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

'Les heros s'amusent : redescendus de Douaumont a Verdun, deux coloniaux du regiment du Maroc don’t l'un, un clairon, a eu le pied gauche gele avant la releve, se sont deguises en maire et mairesse pour recevoir et feliciter les vainqueurs', 1916. From "Collection de la Guerre IV. L'Illustration Tome CXLVIII. La Guerre Juillet, Aout, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, Decembre 1916". (The heroes are having fun; from Douaumont to Verdun, two colonials from the Morocco regiment, one of whom, a bugler, had his left foot frozen before the relief, disguised themselves as mayor and mayoress to receive and congratulate winners'

Date

1916

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A58_218

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

47,5Mb (1,4Mb) / 16,7in x 11,0in / 5015 x 3308 (300dpi)

Keywords

Morocco Moroccan standing female women woman people fun male group man men music arts country French France musician art guy color photography war front location century Colonial photograph print first world war wartime concept pretence photo pretending victor looking at camera B&W dressed up full length Lorraine posture full-length arm in arm arms linked publication Colour World War I WWI black & white black and white B W mayor white and black World War One 1910s 20th century bugler Meuse The Print Collector 1st World War colonialism mayoress TGN Verdun Western Front WW1 direct gaze photograph portrait Unknown L'Illustration