What Nationality?

[vollketten]

I came across this picture in a newspaper from 1918 and was hoping someone here may be able to tell me what nationality the soldier is.

It looks like it started as a real photograph of a soldier which was then touched up with the gas mask etc. From the helmet and captions I am thinking maybe French but I do not know my uniforms well enough to know. Any ideas?

I just reviewed my post. Sorry there isn't much to go off. Any help would be appreciated.

[truthergw]

The text surrounding the picture is English. The labels are a bit strange. Most seem French but a couple are English. I think it is a drawing. It may be based on a photograph. Do you know which paper it is from?

[ATNOMIS]

French/ Belgium looks like adrian helmet.

Simon

[vollketten]

The text surrounding the picture is English. The labels are a bit strange. Most seem French but a couple are English. I think it is a drawing. It may be based on a photograph. Do you know which paper it is from?

The Newspaper was American (New York) from August 1918. It looks like a drawing on top of an original photograph to me. What about the gas mask?-any idea of the nation of origin?

I thought this might be an interesting one.