The author joined the French Foreign Legion in 1914 at the age of fifteen and a half after an adventurous few years at sea. He enlisted at Algiers under the name of Cornelis Jean de Bruin and was sent to Fort St. Therese at Oran and thence to Sidi Bel Abbes, the headquarters of the Legion in Algeria.
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2 comments:
Great link.. thanks
Cheers
Robin
Glad you liked it!
I was doing FFL
research and stumbled
on that one.
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