The Algerian Museum Online / Le musée de l'Algérie en ligne

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Algerian soldiers ('Spahis') cooking their meal in a village in Oise, France, 1917
(Autochrome color picture by Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud)

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Algerian soldiers in the village of Noyon, Northern France, during the First World War

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Algerians, serving in the French army during the First World War

American picture, made by photographers of the Underwood & Underwood Agency.
The caption reads that these soldiers are nicknamed Terrible Turcos.
The term Turcos was used not just for people from Turkey, but also for North-Africans.
On the reverse of this card there is another text:
"These soldiers are impetuous fighters, and the difficulty the French generals find in their employment
is to hold them back at times when to charge the enemy is foolhardy."

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Portrait of an Algerian Fusilier, 1916
(Autochrome color picture by Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud)

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An Algerian soldier on sentry duty, 1917

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Algerian soldiers of the First World War