Original French Pre - WWI Algerian Tirailleurs Zouave Style Uniform Top With Vest - Regiment Marked Stocks The medal for combatants was

The medal for combatants was manufactured from captured bronze cannon barrels

with lots of checkering intact

Under this fire and with pressure on their front and flank

Showing use it bears numerous small dents with some scrapes

partially printed

Original French Pre - WWI Algerian Tirailleurs Zouave Style Uniform Top With Vest - Regiment Marked Stocks The medal for combatants wasOriginal 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