Kepi Collection

The Thirteen Days Of Leandre, Two Sketches
A pair of sketches, one displaying a scene in which a military tailor is trying to force close a jacket that is clearly too small, on a poor man who risks being suffocated

Portrait of a French soldier, WW1
Portrait of a French soldier during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Lieutenant De Malherbe, early aviator
Lieutenant De Malherbe, early French aviator and pioneer. 1911

Cartoon, Delivering a letter, WW1
Cartoon, showing a French gendarme rather officiously delivering a letter to a colonel, feeling rather self-important to be part of the war effort. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Stoicism, WW1
Cartoon, Stoicism -- a French aviator impresses two fashionable women with his toughness during a bombardment. Date: 1915

Cartoon, French aviator in a bar, WW1
Cartoon, a French aviator with two admiring women in a bar. Oh, he has some little wings! Yes, just like Cupid! Date: 1915

Man in military uniform standing by a coach
Man in military uniform (possibly Italian or French) standing by a coach. Date: circa 1930s

The Needle Worker, WW1 knitting & sewing booklet
Front cover of monthly magazine, The Needle Worker, from the Great War period featuring a photograph of a Belgian kepi cap - the knitting pattern for which was inside. Date: c.1915

How the War Affects Hat Fashion, WW1
The Effect of Mars upon Venus - how the war is affecting the fashion of ladies headgear. On the left is a feminine translation of a kepi, the cap worn by French troops

Military personnel, World War I
A French and British soldier pose together for a photograph. c. 1916

Frenchwoman with returning soldier

Group of soldiers and civilians at a training camp
A group of soldiers and civilians at a training camp, posing for their photo outside a tent. The soldiers are dressed in a variety of uniforms, and two are holding bicycles, while one holds a spade

Group of soldiers at a training camp
A group of soldiers at a training camp, posing for their photo outside a tent

Allied March-Past after the capture of Monastir; First World
Photograph showing General Sarrail, with kepi hat raised, saluting a unit of Russian soldiers as the Allied army of the Balkans held a march-past to celebrate the capture of the town of Monastir, 1916

Franco-Prussian War: French Infantry
A Group of French soldiers, three of whom wear uniforms with the kepi or cap. One soldier is in turkish dress of a zouave and one black soldier is also in eastern dress with a turban

Qui Va La? by Will Owen
A French soldier in the traditional red pantalons of early World War One asks, Who Goes There? as he is disturbed by some rabbits frolicking in the snow

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