Can anyone identify these aircraft

I believe that you’re right, Lynx815. I should look beyond the end of my nose!

The low wing monoplane appears to be a Bloch MB 95 rather than an MB 81. There is a drawing on the web showing both: same structure from the front of the rear cockpit going aft, going forward the 81 has the stretcher cabin, the 95 has the second (front) cockpit.

I don’t know if the original photograph of the Potez is any better than the copy posted. If it is, almost certainly the answer to your question is on the rudder!

That thought did cross my mind but that picture, as posted, is the only one I’ve got so I’m unable to read what it says.

I fear that the shape of the tail doesn’t tally with any of the pre-war Corsaire variants.

The low wing monoplane could be a Mauboussin M.123 or another one of a long line of similar aircraft built by this manufacturer numbered M.120 to M.129.

Richard

I don’t know if the original photograph of the Potez is any better than the copy posted. If it is, almost certainly the answer to your question is on the rudder!

Thanks for the rapid response. I checked on the internet and there is drawing of a 2-seat Bloch MB-81, so well done there.
The Potez 25 series also looks right although I haven’t found a picture/drawing of that shows that particular cockpit arrangement

I wonder whether both photographs were taken in the Middle East? The Free French operated five squadrons of Potez 25 TOEs in the Levant during the early years of the war. But there were also at least six squadrons operating the type in Indochina and Africa at about the same time.

I think I would like a little longer skid on that Potez.

You just beat me to it, Chris!

2nd one looks like version of Potez 25.

Chris

The first photograph looks like a Bloch MB-81, but I’ve never seen a picture of it with two cockpits. The MB-81 was designed and built as a flying ambulance/evacuation aeroplane, with a side opening compartment, to take a stretcher and casualty, below where the forward cockpit appears in the picture posted. Some survived to be operated by the Free French until as late as 1942. As there are references to the type having served a communications flight in the middle east, maybe the conversion was undertaken in the field?