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18-02-11, 08:44 PM
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Unknown African Troops......WW2
From the Life Magazine files, a photograph of two African soldiers in wartime. Can someone identify the cap badge..........
Jo http://images.google.com/hosted/life...c1f13076e1d725
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18-02-11, 09:03 PM
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Unidentified African Troops - World War 2
On the basis of the machine gun - French Hotchkiss mle 14 - and the crown on the cap badge together with the presence of Life photographers - I would hazard a guess at Morocco. Not a Kingdom, more a Sultanate under French colonial influence. So that may be a Sultan Muhammad V crown on the badge?
Mike
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20-02-11, 08:06 AM
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Flatdog is definately right. Judging by their uniforms this was taken during the war but pre 1943 (maybe during the expedition to Ethiopia).
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22-02-11, 06:25 PM
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Thanks Mike, Clay and Piron,much appreciated.
Cheers Jo
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