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(215) D.2065 - Going up to the attack at Zonnebeke
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > John Warwick Brooke > (215) D.2065 - Going up to the attack at Zonnebeke |
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| Description | Soldiers moving across a muddy and uneven dip in the ground. A small group of uniformed men are sitting at the edge of this scene. They are surrounded by equipment and scattered debris. The group of men marching past are all in uniform and are heavily laden with arms and equipment. One man just stepping out of the shot is wearing a kilt. In 1927 the Menin Gate, a memorial to the Allied soldiers who fought there, was unveiled by the King of Belgium. The English poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), in his poem 'On passing the new Menin Gate', famously referred to the Gate as a 'sepulchre of crime.'] Sassoon experienced the war first-hand and was deeply affected by it for the rest of his life, with the result that his war poetry is vehemently anti-war in tone. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT. THE BATTLE OF MENIN ROAD. Going up to the attack at Zonnebeke. Welsh troops behaved magnificently at the storming of this village and gained a line of their objectives.'] |
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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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