French Foreign Legion (1903) – Part one

I don’t know when my intrigue started with the French foreign legion? Maybe all little boys had a fascination with it? I’m not sure. Unlike The Alamo, Zulu and other war movies that inspired me as a kid and as a manchild I never recall seeing any FFL movies. However, from as young as I can remember I always wanted FFL soldiers and a desert fort for them. When I came to Australia, 40 years ago this past October, my grandma gave me a bread loaf bag full of 1/72 scaled soldiers. It was a mixed lot of US civil war, WW2, Napoleonics and French foreign legion plastic soldiers. Maybe that’s where my fascination came from. I vaguely remember reading a book or comic too which featured a weathered white fort with FFL troops manning the parapets in navy blue uniforms with white legionnaire hats, you know the ones with the flaps on the back to project their necks from the sun. Very cool. I acquired a 3d printed fort (in sections) from the now gone OTP miniatures back in 2019 and had always…

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