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(445) D.586 - Out from the trenches, one has a rest, the other cleans his rifle
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > John Warwick Brooke > (445) D.586 - Out from the trenches, one has a rest, the other cleans his rifle |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74547412 |
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| Description | Two soldiers are set against a background of the muddy wasteland of the Front, with devastated trees on the skyline. One is half sitting, half lying in the mud with his rifle on the ground beside him. It is not clear if he is injured or just exhausted. Beside him another soldier is standing, trying to clean the mud off his rifle. In this photograph John Warwick Brooke, the likely photographer, has captured the mud and exhaustion of the trenches. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON THE FRONT IN FRANCE. Out from the trenches, one has a rest, the other cleans his rifle.'] |
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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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