Transcriber’s Note:

Photographs have been moved to fall on paragraph breaks. Since the full page illustrations were included in the pagination, this may mean that the page sequences are slightly disturbed where this occurs.

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Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s [note] at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of issues encountered during its preparation.

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LEGIONNAIRE BOWE

This matricule (aluminum wrist-tag) is No. 11,436—Foreign Legion. Chevron and device on left sleeve denote a grenade-thrower of two years’ trench service—one bar for first year and one for each added six months. Note bullet scar on left eyebrow.

SOLDIERS
OF THE LEGION

TRENCH-ETCHED

LEGIONNAIRE BOWE

PRESS OF

PETERSON LINOTYPING CO.

CHICAGO, 1918

Copyrighted, 1918, by

JOHN BOWE

THIS AMERICAN CITIZEN’S BOOK IS

AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

TO HIS COMRADE IN ARMS,

THE FRENCH POILU

SOLDIERSOF THE LEGION

SOLDIERS
OF THE LEGION