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(418) D.3167 - Royal Engineers repairing a bridge in the Somme area after the German retreat
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > John Warwick Brooke > (418) D.3167 - Royal Engineers repairing a bridge in the Somme area after the German retreat |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74547038 |
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| Description | The bottom left of the photograph is a mass of tangled pieces of metal. There are four soldiers in amongst this tangle trying to salvage pieces. In front of this a little dingy with a soldier in it is moored to a large heavy iron strut. There are three soldiers on this makeshift gang plank who are working with pieces of rope from the boat. The river runs up the left of the picture and into the distance. In the background two soldiers are watching from the marshy foreshore. There is more tangled metal and the stripped stumps of trees. The Royal Engineers were a corps of men who specialised in problem solving and readying areas which had not been previously entered. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Royal Engineers repairing a bridge in the Somme area after the German retreat. This photograph gives [sic] a good idea of the devastation of this district.'] |
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| Description | John Warwick Brooke, of the Topical Press Agency, was the second British official war photographer to go to the Western Front in 1916. The demands placed on he and his colleague, Ernest Brooks, were heavy. They had to take as many photographs as possible, with as much variety as possible, a difficult task for two men covering an army of over two million. Despite this, Warwick Brooke managed to take what would become some of the most memorable images of World War I. As an officially appointed photographer, Warwick Brooke was assigned to the Western Front to follow the progress of the British Army. During his time there, between 1916 and 1918, Warwick Brooke is estimated to have taken over 4,000 photographs. |
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| Description | Black-and-white photographs mainly of the Western Front during the First World War. Official British war photographers took many of them for propaganda purposes. Unless otherwise stated, titles are the photographs' original captions. From the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928). The Haig Papers also contain Douglas Haig’s diaries. |
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| Shelfmark | Acc.3155 |
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