Photograph taken in 1961 in Ain Sefra of two M8 automitrailleuses on parade. Unit 2e REI.Registration number of the M8 in front is 838662.Of the other only the name “Venus” is visible.Part of a serie of photographs taken during the same parade within an album of a German legionnaire.
Saint Louis Senegal, 26th of December 1941,an Officer of the Foreign Legion wrote to his wife far away in Nice France: “Christmas past well. Each Legionnaire received his part.All of them got a bottle of wine which is very difficult to get here.At the company we set up a Christmas tree…” The officer is Capitaine
The illustration shown below was made using both water colour and inkt was painted and drawn on a French military postcard, more specific a Carte en Franchise Modèle A2.These cards were almost blank on one side, besides some small print. It depicts an accentuated landscape with a Ksar in the middle and in the front
TROUPES DU GROUPEde l’A.O.F.1ère Brigade ANNEXE IVModèle No 1 Article 8 de l’instruction ministerielledu 2 Février 1909, modifié par l’article 9 del’instruction du 29 Juillet 1926 (voir 3o modification du décembre 1930 BREVET DE CHEF DE SECTION La commission d’examen certifie qu’au point de vue de l’instruction militaire théorique et pratique et de l’aptitude au
Op 11 december 1941 stelde Capitaine Pierre Clément van het 4e DBLE in Saint Louis Senegal een certificaat op voor Sergent-chef Versteege.Hierin verzekerde hij dat Sergent-chef Versteege deel uit had gemaakt van het 11e REI en het recht had zich strijder in de oorlog van 1939-1940 te noemen en tevens het dragen van het Croix