File talk:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2005-0169, Im Westen, farbige Kriegsgefangene aus Guinea (Afrika).jpg

Note: The picture bears the title "Guinea" (then a French colony, in Africa) not "New Guinea" (in Oceania, not a French colony at all) as the caption says. --User:G.dallorto (talk) 14:49, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

"New Guinea" was a German colony til 1914 and then Australia und Japan got it. In my opinion it makes no sense when people from "New Guinea" fight for Entente. I agree it's more likely that they are from Guinea than from New-Guinea. Additionally they look very West-African, I think. --Finn-Pauls (talk) 15:36, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

• These uniforms are of the "tirailleur sénégalais": Many were captured during the German invasion of France. (a recent English language work just came out about their treatment in captivity). Recruits came from across French West Africa (and a few From French Equitorial Africa), despite the name. Guinea may be a reference to the Guinea coast, and archaic term for Coastal West Africa from Sierra Leone to Gabon. Either way, they are French soldiers from Colonial Africa. T L Miles (talk) 20:10, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

•  Done: Bundesarchiv corrected their filedesc, filename corrected accordingly, removed {{Fact}}. --Achim (talk) 20:15, 5 October 2015 (UTC)