German medical orderly with a wounded Senegalese Rifleman POW, November 28, 1914. .
German medical orderly with a wounded Senegalese Rifleman POW, November 28, 1914. . This photograph, colourised by @in.colore.veritas and @colourbyrjm, was taken today 109 years ago at a German bandaging station in Etterbek, Belgium. . Some 192,000 Senegalese Riflemen (Tirailleurs Sรฉnรฉgalais) fought for France in the First World War, of whom 134,000 fought on the Western Front. Although the name would suggest they were all from modern-day Senegal, the Senegalese Riflemen were recruited from all over French Colonial West and Central Africa. . The Senegalese troops fought with distinction, often being deployed as stormtroopers, leading the French attacks and suffering heavy losses in doing so, but usually being very effective at conquering the German positions. For this reason, the Senegalese soldiers were notorious and feared among the Germans for their ferocity (accompanied by racial prejudices of Africans being barbarous savages). . The Senegalese Riflemen fough...