French Army, military and miscellaneous effects and equipment: tan leather belt, model 1903, individual shovel, model 1906, two-part riveted wooden and iron handle, two regulation serpents, one dated 1917 with leather sheath marked Laroche and the other dated 1921, tricolor braid for bugle, medical corps armband with Ministry of War stamp, four-chevron badge in gold canetille on horizon blue background for two years' presence at the front, French gas mask dated 1939, wear and tear, worn/used effects, France 3rd Republic period.

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