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I really doubt the photo captioned 'Portuguese riflemen in a trench 1918' is correct. They appear to be early war French soldiers, wearing kepis and with epee bayonets on their rifles. The article states that the Portuguese troops were equipped from British stocks, and the other photo of POWs shows what I recognise as Portuguese WW1 troops; very similar to British uniforms, nothing like French. I can't read the original caption on the photo page, can someone translate?Yorkist (talk) 16:59, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I see what you mean about the uniforms. The caption states it's trenches in Flanders on the Lys - which fits - and that it was scanned from an old Portuguese history. If it's inaccurate, it looks like it's inaccurately labeled in the original... Shimgray | talk | 17:44, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed it does appear to be a case of inaccurate labelling. The uniform details as mentioned by Yorkist all point to those being French soldier of 1914 or early 1915, but certainly not Portuguese in 1918 on the Western Front. Would sourcebooks about WW1 uniformology be enough to override an incorrect original label though? Don Durandal (talk) 09:22, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
