Jun 12 1917 At Leuilly-sous-Coucy, France, a French photographer takes this photo, IWM Q 78452, of a Malagasy soldier with their rations of bread
12 June 1917-06-12 www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
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This Day In WWI
Queen Ranavalona III dies on May 23 1917. She was one of last vestiges of Kingdom of Madagascar, a pre-colonial state, on what is now the island nation of Madagascar. When France took over the region it exiled the Queen first to Réunion and then Algeria en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranaval...
