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(12) D.1200 - Some of our latest bag in prisoners
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Germans > (12) D.1200 - Some of our latest bag in prisoners |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548260 |
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| Description | German prisoners of war waiting in the 'cage', France. The sheer mass of confined, bored humanity evident in this image is quite overwhelming. The evidence of blankets and mud here, suggests that conditions as a prisoner of war were no worse and no better than those of the average soldier in his trench. John Warwick Brooke is thought to have taken this rather bleak photograph. Lance-Corporal Thomas Owen was taken prisoner on the Givenchy Road in April 1918 and he describes the equivalent German experience, 'I left that charnel house [hospital] for the near-by prisoners' cage, where I was questioned and had my papers examined and my letters from home confiscated'. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Some of our latest bag in prisoners.'] |
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| Description | Photographs taken in Germany, by Germans or of Germans. |
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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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