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(564) D.891 - Ration party going up to the trenches
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > John Warwick Brooke > (564) D.891 - Ration party going up to the trenches |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74547494 |
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| Description | Hot food being delivered in the trenches, Western Front, during World War I. This photograph shows two pairs of men carrying lidded food containers along a trench. The containers are carried on poles on their shoulders, which appears difficult in the narrow trenches. This was theoretically how the soldiers were given hot food. In practice it was often impossible, especially during shelling. 'Tommy’ is 'Tommy Atkins’, a fictional hero figure representing the average British soldier. In reality food in the trenches was often scarce and far from fresh. As a result stomach illnesses were commonplace. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT. How Tommy is fed. A ration party going up to 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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