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ARMS & UNIFORMS OF THE COLONIAL ERA (1)
the items shown in the pictures below are all on display in the Belgian Royal Museum of the Army and Military History in Brussels.

The pictures shown below have been taken by the author in order to provide some (extra) information about the "real thing",
thus assisting fellow-wargamers in painting, modelling and building their miniature armies.

Corporal of the "Force Publique du Congo" (Belgian Colonial askari). Note: the sash was originally red but has faded.	Uniform of a Second Lieutenant of the "Force Publique du Congo" (Belgian Colonial white officer).	Uniform of the Vice-Governor General of the Belgian Congo.
Uniforms of (left) the Vice-Governor (centre) Governor & (right) military administrator of the Belgian Congo.	Private in summer uniform (Belgian legation in Peking).	Standard-bearer of the Guards to the Belgian envoy in Peking.
Fully armed native tribesmen of the Congo.
"The man himself": King Leopold II of Belgium (and lord & master of the Congo...).	Belgian armed paddle-steamer. The name is not mentioned on the model, but it was a gift to the museum from the Belgian princesses, daughters of King Leopold II.
The uniform of General Tombeur, Commander in Chief of the Force Publique during WW1.	Askari of the Force Publique in khaki uniform during WW1.	Close-up of an askari of the Force Publique in khaki uniform during WW1.