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title: 6e régiment d'infanterie battle-honour label (Éditions Delandre, about 1914-1917)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sixth-regiment-campaign-cinderella/
description: A stamp-sized label shows an eighteenth-century infantryman and a soldier of the First World War era flanking a column topped with a cockerel and…
section: Collection
---

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# 6e régiment d'infanterie battle-honour label (Éditions Delandre, about 1914-1917)

A stamp-sized label shows an eighteenth-century infantryman and a soldier of the First World War era flanking a column topped with a cockerel and inscribed with the regiment's name and four battle honours, among massed colours. The tell is the pairing of two uniforms and the honours list: the old regiment's prestige is pasted onto the present-day soldier.

## Text on the object

Original (French) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
6e R' d'Infanterie
BAUTZEN
ALGER
SEBASTOPOL
SOLFERINO

[artist's signature at lower left illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
6th Infantry Regiment / Bautzen / Algiers / Sebastopol / Solferino
```

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