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Belgian Congo 2 Franks 1943. Minted in USA with mistake "BELGIHS"

What did the Colonial Uniform for White Officers look like in ww1?

A classroom in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1961. Note the racial diversity; I have no idea whether this was typical.

Soldiers in the Belgian Congo - 1910

Sabena plane on the runway at an airport in the Congo - c. 1960

'A Belgian territorial agent addresses two indigenous inhabitants in the Belgian Congo' - c. 1950

Uniforms of the Force Publique & Belgian legation in Peking in the Belgian Royal Museum of the Army and Military History in Brussels

Belgian Minister of the Colonies, Louis Franck, on a visit to the Congo - c. 1920s

'Tintin in the Congo', volume of comics depicting Belgian cartoon character Tintin on an adventure in the Belgian Congo - 1946

Anti-Belgium Demonstrations Over Congo Crisis - 1961

Banknote issued by the Banque Belge pour l'Étranger in the Belgian concession in Tientsin (Tianjin) - 1921

Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumamba and Belgian Prime Minister Gaston Eyskens sign the act of independence for the Belgian Congo - 30 June 1960

Memorial monument in honour of the troops of the African campaigns 1885-1960

'Belgium fights on', WWII poster featuring both an African and European soldier - c. 1939-1945

Belgian Minister of the Colonies inspects cotton grown in the Congo - c. 1922

'Trouble in the Congo', newsreel reporting on the Léopoldville riots in the capital of the Belgian Congo - 1959

Station Chief with his soldiers and their wives in Katanga, Belgian Congo - c. 1912-1914

Pictorial map of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi - 1950

'The eve of sovereigns! When is the peoples' eve?', cartoon showing Belgium's King Leopold II taking a knife to the Congo - 1884

Girls in pith helmets pictured after Sunday mass, Belgian Congo - 1953

'Colonie Belge 1885–1959', painting by Belgian Congo-born artist Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu depicting the conditions of colonial rule - created c. 1970-1973

People queue at a polling station in Kingulu in the Belgian Congo to vote for the government that will lead the territory when it gains independence from Belgium - May 1960

Ferry on the Lovoi River in the Belgian Congo - 1915