WWI Doughboys borrowed by the Brits in Belgium... Used .303s

[A. F Medic]

Four guys. Three rifles.

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[browningautorifle]

Top pic, note the 1907 sling on the #1 Lee...I don't blame him personally.

[A. F Medic]

I get the feeling that the soldier on the rifle is up to some funny stuff and hid the center guy's rifle

[browningautorifle]

Guys in the field doing stuff to each other!!!??? Say it ain't so !

[Thunderbox]

Bottom photo is surely Brits or Empire troops? - they've got puttees, leather jerkins and British webbing..

[A. F Medic]

Bottom photo is surely Brits or Empire troops? - they've got puttees, leather jerkins and British webbing..

Came from a web site that was dedicated to US soldiers serving with the Brits. Another image had said that the GIs were in Belgium. THanks...

[browningautorifle]

Agreed.

[BushyFromOz]

How do we know its belgium?



Would seem americans attached to AIF (not british or empire) units in their "training phase" would be equipped with enfields

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200807/r268557_1125858.jpg

For the caption to the pic

[gsimmons]

Notice the Lewis before they were taken away,and they inflicted the chouchat on the AEF.

[BushyFromOz]

Im sure the AIF kept that lewis