African chasseur & his wounded horse
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Photograph shows and African cavalry soldier with his dying horse, probably in France during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Date from similar image in Gallica Digital Library website.
Image copied by Bain from a photograph by Agence Meurisse with French caption: "A Soissons: chasseur d'Afrique assistant à l'agonie de son cheval tué pendant le bombardement." Translation: At Soissons: African Chasseur at the agony of his horse killed during the bombing. (Source: Gallica Digital Library website and Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
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