FOB014 French Cavalry Trooper (Mounted) First Legion-Normandy Waffen-SS 31181 - Confederate Infantry in

31181 - Confederate Infantry in Slouch Hat

Born a slave

Despite beginning 1917 as an unsuccessful farmer

This senior officer is wearing the classic ‘green beret’ which began to be worn by some U

whether its design was based on the firearms the indigenous warriors encountered – a spent musket could be easily turned around and used as a club if need be – or its design was organic and purely coincidental

FOB014 French Cavalry Trooper (Mounted) First Legion-Normandy Waffen-SS 31181 - Confederate Infantry inEven in 1940, France still had thousands of horse mounted Cavalrymen. They fought many gallant delaying actions against the advancing German infantry and armour.