Spahis 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

Algerian cavalry in West Flanders, 1914
French Algerian cavalry - spahis drawn up in the market square at Furnes, West Flanders, Belgium, November 1914. Belgian people taking a keen interest. 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

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

Zouave & officer of the Saphis i. e. Spahis
Zouave & officer of the Saphis i.e. Spahis. Zouave, full-length portrait, seated, facing right and Spahi officer, full-length portrait, standing, facing left. 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

German Prisoners escorted by Spahis
German prisoners escorted by Spahis, Algerian and Senegalese Cavalry units, who fought on the allied side during the First World War

Spahis, 1915
Reading a comunique to the Spahis, Recy, near Chalon, Marne on the French front during World War I in July 1915

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

Mounted French Spahis guarding German prisoners; First World
Photograph showing French Algerian Spahis on horseback guarding German soldiers captured during the Battle of the Somme, 1916

French Occupy Rheinland
French occupy the Rheinland as stipulated in the Treaty of Versailles. Spahis in Wiesbaden

Charging Spahis
Spahis (native cavalry) of the French Armee d Afrique in a charge, led by a sabre- wielding officer

Spahis French Africa
Spahis (native cavalry) of the French Armee d Afrique perform a fantasia

Battle of Worth 1870
Battle of Worth : Bavarians against Spahis in a woodland setting

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