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Welcome to my blog! My first project will be a WWII Goumier. I have already been working on it for a few weeks and will try to post pix this weekend. Here is some info from Wikipedia:

Goumier is a term used for Moroccan soldiers, who served in auxiliary units attached to the French Army, between 1908 and 1956. The term was also occasionally used to designate native soldiers in the French army of the French Sudan and Upper Volta during the colonial era.
The word originated in the Maghrebi Arabic word qum (قم), which means "stand up". Later a goum was a unit of 200 soldiers. Three or four goums made up a tabor. An engine or groupe was composed of three tabors.
Each goum was a mix of different tribes. Initially they were recruited predominantly from the Chaouia regions of Sidi Boubaker, Ouled Said, Settat, Kasbeth Ben Ahmed, Dar Bouazza, and Sidi Slimane.
The designation of "goumiers" was originally given to tribal irregulars employed as allies by the French Army during the early 1900s in southern Algeria. These mounted allies operated under their own tribal leadership and were entirely distinct from the regular Muslim cavalry (Spahi) and infantry (Tirailleur) regiments of the French Armee d'Afrique.

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There are a few decent pictures of WWII Goumiers on the internet. I will soon be receiving a book from France that should have some nice pictures in it which I will post here.