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(108) D.1303 - Making use of a yoke to fetch water for the battery
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > John Warwick Brooke > (108) D.1303 - Making use of a yoke to fetch water for the battery |
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| Description | Like some figure from the Orient, this British soldier is making his water-fetching duties slightly easier by using a yoke. The soldier behind him, though, prefers to use the more traditional method of carrying water cans. On each side of the path lies a sea of mud. The job of bringing regular fresh water supplies to his fellow soldiers was probably one of the most important duties that a soldier could perform. Without a supply of fresh water, the troops on the Western Front would have become even more susceptible to the already appalling living conditions. Diseases such as typhoid, dysentery and diarrhoea would have become rife if fresh water had not been regularly brought forward to the troops. [Original reads: 'GREAT BRITISH ADVANCE IN THE WEST. Making use of a yoke to fetch water for the battery.'] |
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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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