![Institution des Invalides de la Legion Etrangère à Puyloubier Master corporal Sapper,3rd REI,parade dressing w/axe and white apron Stock Photo - Alamy Institution des Invalides de la Legion Etrangère à Puyloubier Master corporal Sapper,3rd REI,parade dressing w/axe and white apron Stock Photo - Alamy](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/RE267J/institution-des-invalides-de-la-legion-etrangre-puyloubier-master-corporal-sapper3rd-reiparade-dressing-waxe-and-white-apron-RE267J.jpg)
Institution des Invalides de la Legion Etrangère à Puyloubier Master corporal Sapper,3rd REI,parade dressing w/axe and white apron Stock Photo - Alamy
Why, when on parade, does a group of French Foreign Legionaires precede the main body of troups equipped with axes and wearing what appears to be an apron? - Quora
![Paris. France. July 14, 2012. Pioneers of the French foreign legion during the parade on the Champs Elysees. – Stock Editorial Photo © joukoff.gmail.com #151847324 Paris. France. July 14, 2012. Pioneers of the French foreign legion during the parade on the Champs Elysees. – Stock Editorial Photo © joukoff.gmail.com #151847324](https://st3.depositphotos.com/7723768/15184/i/1600/depositphotos_151847324-stock-photo-paris-france-july-14-2012.jpg)
Paris. France. July 14, 2012. Pioneers of the French foreign legion during the parade on the Champs Elysees. – Stock Editorial Photo © joukoff.gmail.com #151847324
![French Foreign Legion Pioneers are a traditional company of the FFL and they wear buffalo leather aprons and axes, as they used to before. Were they butchers before, why were aprons needed, French Foreign Legion Pioneers are a traditional company of the FFL and they wear buffalo leather aprons and axes, as they used to before. Were they butchers before, why were aprons needed,](https://preview.redd.it/uheub0p2wvy61.jpg?auto=webp&s=ff3c08e49e5f245ff074920f14def0bb0db7eddf)
French Foreign Legion Pioneers are a traditional company of the FFL and they wear buffalo leather aprons and axes, as they used to before. Were they butchers before, why were aprons needed,
![French Foreign Legion perform during the Bastille Day military parade down the Champs-Elysées avenue in Paris, on July 14, 2019. Photo by Julie Sebadelha/ABACAPRESS.COM Stock Photo - Alamy French Foreign Legion perform during the Bastille Day military parade down the Champs-Elysées avenue in Paris, on July 14, 2019. Photo by Julie Sebadelha/ABACAPRESS.COM Stock Photo - Alamy](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2DDJY9R/french-foreign-legion-perform-during-the-bastille-day-military-parade-down-the-champs-elyses-avenue-in-paris-on-july-14-2019-photo-by-julie-sebadelhaabacapresscom-2DDJY9R.jpg)
French Foreign Legion perform during the Bastille Day military parade down the Champs-Elysées avenue in Paris, on July 14, 2019. Photo by Julie Sebadelha/ABACAPRESS.COM Stock Photo - Alamy
![Pioneers of the Foreign Legion, with beard, ax, and traditional leather apron 451 x 300 : r/MilitaryPorn Pioneers of the Foreign Legion, with beard, ax, and traditional leather apron 451 x 300 : r/MilitaryPorn](https://i.redd.it/imnwm6n2cub81.jpg)
Pioneers of the Foreign Legion, with beard, ax, and traditional leather apron 451 x 300 : r/MilitaryPorn
Unseen Waterloo- The Conflict Revisited - A beard and an axe. French sappers were beasts of men, hand chosen from the ranks of Grenadiers. They carried an axe and wore leather aprons.
![Tom Antonov on X: "They wear the leather apron and the axe in memory of the old regiments in charge of carrying out the sapping operations during sieges. The wearing of a Tom Antonov on X: "They wear the leather apron and the axe in memory of the old regiments in charge of carrying out the sapping operations during sieges. The wearing of a](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6AkSmXXIAIDpj5.jpg)