A French private of the 415° régiments de marche du levant,  photographed in February 1919 in Beirut, Syria (Lebanon) when the regiment had just landed to take up occupation duties. 

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The man wears the Croix de Guerre with citation star and the fourragè designating a unit-wide  award of the same decoration.  He would have earned these distinctions during the recently ended Great War.

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Real Photo Postcard (Trimmed)

Unkown Photographer

Beirut Syria (Lebanon)

February 1919