Original French Pre - WWI Algerian Tirailleurs Zouave Style Uniform Top With Vest - Regiment Marked Antique Winchesters four overseas service sleeve stripes

four overseas service sleeve stripes

It is marked M"re d'Armes / S"t Étienne on the right side of the frame

Purchased at a recent large military auction

Blade Shape: Shinogi Zukuri

Original French Pre - WWI Algerian Tirailleurs Zouave Style Uniform Top With Vest - Regiment Marked Antique Winchesters four overseas service sleeve stripesOriginal Item: Only One Set Available. This is a fantastic example of the Algerian Tirailleurs Zouave Style jacket with vest. A tirailleur, in the Napoleonic era, was a type of light infantry trained to skirmish ahead of the main columns. Later, the term "tirailleur" was used by the French Army as a designation for indigenous infantry recruited in the French colonial territories during the 19th and 20th centuries, or for metropolitan units serving in