Photos of the Real 13th Demi Brigade of The French Foreign Legion

Photos Of The Real 13th DBLE

* For More Photos of the Real 13th DBLE see the Photos in the Yearbook Section of the Website on the 13th Handbook Webpage.

13th DBLE Pair Victory Parade, May 8, 194513th DBLE 3rd Battalion Legionnaire w/ Standard, Libya 1942 (Note The French Leather Gear with British Khaki Drill)13th DBLE On The Way to Norway, Onboard The SS Providence, March 1940. (Note The Alpine Gear, Complete with Skies)
13th DBLE 1st REI Veteran, March 2, 1940. Sidi Bel Abbes. (Note the M1915 Helmet Insignia on the M1926)
13th DBLE Unit Guidon, Libya 1942A 13th DBLE LT, North Africa 1942
Lt. Col. Magin-Vereney Presenting a Detachment of the 13th to a British General, Spring 1940
On the way to Norway Spring 1940
On the way to Norway Spring 1940
Catching Up On the on How the War's Going, On the way to Norway, Spring 1941
13th DBLE Machine Gun Squad, April 13, 194113th DBLE With Colonial Unit of Koenig's Free French Brigade, Bir Hakeim, 194213th DBLE in a 3-Ton Ford, Bir Hakeim, April 1942
13th DBLE Sergeant, Bir Hakeim, April 194213th DBLE Private, Bir Hakeim, April 194213th DBLE Corporal, Bir Hakiem, April 1942
13th DBLE Officer Being Decorated, Damascus, Summer 194113th DBLE Officer On The Phone, Trenches at Bir Hakeim, May-June 194213th DBLE De Gaulle Review, London, July 1940 (Note The Alpine Uniform)
13th DBLE Another De Gaulle Review, Palestine, May 194113th DBLE And Another De Gaulle Review, Rome, June 28, 1944 (Note The British & American Uniform-Gear Mix)13th DBLE Yet Another De Gaulle Review, 1945
13th DBLE Ski-Scouts and Motorcyclists Line Up On a Stop Over in Britain On The Way to Norway, 194013th DBLE Legionnaires Prepare to Fire a Light Gun After pushing Germans near the Swedish Border, after defeating them at Bjervik and Narvik, Norway 194013th DBLE Scouting Column, "Jock Colonnes", 3rd Battalion In Bren Gun Carriers, Bir-Hakeim 1942
13th DBLE After taking Strasbourg and Colmar, Press On Towards Italy via an 8,000 foot pass, April 1945
Libya, 1942. Bren Gun Carriers of the 13th DBLE
Embarking for Norway, Final Review in Brest, France, 1940
Koenig's driver was Susan Travers, a young Englishwoman later admitted as the only woman to serve in with the Legion, as a legionnaire. At Bir Hakeim she won a Croix de Guerre after driving through a minefield and three concentric rings of enemy machine-gun fire. Her only anxiety: that the car would break down and she would be blamed. Among others, she was also Colonel Amilkhvari's lover.
General Koenig, On top of his American "Woody" after leading the escape from Bir Hakeim.
13th DBLE on Parade, Late War EuropeTwo of the Nicest 13th DBLE Photos We've Found to Date. Handmade Battleworn Guidon and bearer with US Uniform and GearAnother Close up of a 13th DBLE Legionnaire in the same parade as the previous photo. Note the Free French Shoulder Insignia and Beret Devices and Badge.
13th DBLE Charging Through The Desert, 194213th DBLE Dodge in the desert, 1942. 1st REI on parade in Algeria, early war. Many of these legionnaires became the founding members of the 13th.
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Photo of 1st REI Colors from the Same Parade, 1939.13th DBLE on Parade in Dijon, 1944. Advancing along a road near Narvik, 1940.
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13th DBLE Machine Gun Team, Narvik, 1940.