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U.S. Stevedore regiment, Bassens Docks, Bordeaux, April 1918.

Labour battalions have been a form of alternative service or unfree labour in various countries in lieu of or resembling regular military service. In some cases they were the result of some kind of discriminative segregation of the population, while in some others they have been a conscious choice.