In the French Foreign Legion

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The New York Times Mid-Week Pictorial from Thursday, September 30, 1915 is a torn out page from the magazine. The page features three photographs. The top is a photograph of [Some American members serving in the Foreign Legion of the French Army]. It is a photograph of a group of military men, seven standing and three seated, in their Legion uniforms. The image on the bottom left is of a soldier, Corporal A.Z. Peschkoff, and three American women nurses. The third image, on the bottom right, is of men in the Foreign Legion standing by their tents and fire pits in camp. The bottom of the page has the name of the article in larger letters, [In the French Foreign Legion.] The back of the magazine page has half of a painting of a battle. Underneath the painting is the title, [In Pace].

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