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What did the Colonial Uniform for White Officers look like in ww1?

Did it look like the ones in the Young Indy Series or something else similar?

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2024/05/11
09:44 UTC

A classroom in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1961. Note the racial diversity; I have no idea whether this was typical.

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2023/11/28
20:46 UTC

Soldiers in the Belgian Congo - 1910

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2023/05/28
00:39 UTC

Sabena plane on the runway at an airport in the Congo - c. 1960

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2023/04/13
06:07 UTC

'A Belgian territorial agent addresses two indigenous inhabitants in the Belgian Congo' - c. 1950

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2023/03/22
06:49 UTC

Belgian Minister of the Colonies, Louis Franck, on a visit to the Congo - c. 1920s

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2023/02/22
05:26 UTC

'Tintin in the Congo', volume of comics depicting Belgian cartoon character Tintin on an adventure in the Belgian Congo - 1946

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2023/02/04
03:52 UTC

Anti-Belgium Demonstrations Over Congo Crisis - 1961

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2023/01/06
05:11 UTC

Banknote issued by the Banque Belge pour l'Étranger in the Belgian concession in Tientsin (Tianjin) - 1921

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2022/12/18
07:14 UTC

Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumamba and Belgian Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens sign the act of independence for the Belgian Congo - 30 June 1960

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2022/12/06
04:53 UTC

Memorial monument in honour of the troops of the African campaigns 1885-1960

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2022/11/20
04:52 UTC

'Belgium fights on', WWII poster featuring both an African and European soldier - c. 1939-1945

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2022/11/06
06:36 UTC

Belgian Minister of the Colonies inspects cotton grown in the Congo - c. 1922

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2022/10/06
06:16 UTC

'Trouble in the Congo', newsreel reporting on the Léopoldville riots in the capital of the Belgian Congo - 1959

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2022/09/26
06:26 UTC

Station Chief with his soldiers and their wives in Katanga, Belgian Congo - c. 1912-1914

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2022/09/15
08:21 UTC

Pictorial map of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi - 1950

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2022/09/01
07:21 UTC

'The eve of sovereigns! When is the peoples' eve?', cartoon showing Belgium's King Leopold II taking a knife to the Congo - 1884

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2022/08/23
07:27 UTC

Girls in pith helmets pictured after Sunday mass, Belgian Congo - 1953

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2022/08/15
11:15 UTC

'Colonie Belge 1885–1959', painting by Belgian Congo-born artist Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu depicting the conditions of colonial rule - created c. 1970-1973

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2022/08/02
10:32 UTC

People queue at a polling station in Kingulu in the Belgian Congo to vote for the government that will lead the territory when it gains independence from Belgium - May 1960

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2022/07/22
10:30 UTC

Ferry on the Lovoi River in the Belgian Congo - 1915

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2022/07/06
10:05 UTC

'Skulls for decoration of a chieftains grave', Belgian Congo - 1907

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2022/06/24
10:53 UTC

King Baudouin arrives in Léopoldville (Kinshasa) to declare the Belgian Congo independent from Belgium - 30 June 1960

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2022/06/18
10:06 UTC

Chain gang in the Congo Free State - 1905

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2022/06/13
10:36 UTC

'Belgian officials at the gathering of the chiefs', Belgian Congo - 1915

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2022/06/02
10:22 UTC

British traveller watching a slave being beaten in the Congo - 1898

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2022/05/31
11:02 UTC

Striking mine workers are massacred at Élisabethville (Lubumbashi) in the Belgian Congo - 1941

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2022/05/28
10:59 UTC

Congo Harvest - Wealth Of The World (1950)

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2022/05/24
11:12 UTC

Paul Frère in his Ferrari during a race, Leopoldville, 1958

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2022/05/21
00:22 UTC