ICM 1/35 French Infantry (1914) (35682)

French infantry in 1914 went to war in the most visually distinctive uniform of any major belligerent — the famous blue greatcoat and red trousers of the pre-war French Army, a uniform designed for the parade ground rather than the battlefield that became tragically conspicuous against the earth tones of the trenches and open fields. The 1914 poilu fought the war of movement in the opening weeks of the conflict, the Battle of the Marne, and the race to the sea before the war of attrition settled in, wearing an infantry kit that is visually unmistakeable and deeply evocative of the conflict's tragic early chapters. A striking and historically important figure subject from ICM's extensive WWI range.

France's 1914 soldiers in their famous blue and red — the poilu at the moment the Great War began.