Spahi Collection

Military honours for dead of R101
French homage to Britains dead in the great airship R101 disaster: the moving final scene at Beauvais - Spahis saluting the coffins, borne on French artillery wagons

Spahi cavalryman on a camel, Algeria, North Africa
Spahi cavalryman on a camel, Sahara Desert, Algeria, North Africa. Date: 1922

Spahi soldier from Senegal
COLONIAL Spahi from Senegal Date: 1889

Soldiers and others at Creil station, northern France, WW1
Soldiers and others at Creil station, northern France, during the early stages of the First World War. One of the men (centre) is an Algerian Spahi. Date: 1914

WW2 - Free French Spahis riding through the desert dunes - North Africa. Date: circa 1943

Tunisia - A Spahi reconnoitering
Tunisia - A Spahi (a term given to a soldier of a French colonial cavalry unit) reconnoitering. Date: circa 1910s

Tunisian Spahi Officer with his pet Gazelle - Tunisia. Spahis were light cavalry regiments of the French army recruited primarily from the indigenous populations of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco

WWI - Camp of Moroccan Spahis (Colonial Cavalry Unit)
French Moroccan troops ( Spahis - a term given to French colonial cavalry units) and their makeshift camp - Ribecourt, Northern France, site of the Battle of Cambrai - WWI. Date: circa 1910s

Lord Raglans Head Quarters, with Lord Raglan, Marshal Palis
Lord Raglans Head Quarters, with Lord Raglan, Marshal Pelissier, Lord Burghersh, Spahi & Aide-de-camp of Marshal Pelissier. Allied leaders and their aides-de-camp standing on steps. Date 1855

Algerian soldier on horseback
An Algerian soldier (known as Spahis), member of a light cavalry regiment of the French Army, recruited from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. Date: circa 1920s

Spahis exercising - Algeria
Spahis were light cavalry regiments of the French army recruited primarily from the indigenous populations of Algeria. Here they are doing sword exercises

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