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(273) D.2179 - Three of the funny men who greatly amuse the men from the trenches
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > John Warwick Brooke > (273) D.2179 - Three of the funny men who greatly amuse the men from the trenches |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74547300 |
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| Description | Three actors are posing at the front of the composition and looking into the camera. The character on the left has a painted face. The gentleman in the middle is wearing 'civvies' and his companion on the right is dressed as a policeman. The field in the background has a safe-path made of logs laid across the mud into a tepee tent. There is a roofless building in the background. There were troupes of 'professionals' engaged in touring the front providing entertainment for off-duty troops. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. "THE JOCKS", A SCOTCH ENTERTAINMENT GROUP. Three of the "Funny men" who greatly amuse the men from the trenches.'] |
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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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