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(560) D.871 - Supply train steaming into a railhead
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > John Warwick Brooke > (560) D.871 - Supply train steaming into a railhead |
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| Description | A convoy of trucks is parked in line, along the length of a road. They have been awaiting the arrival of a train, which has just pulled into the railhead. The system of distributing supplies across the Front often started with the goods arriving by boat. They were then loaded on to a train and either transported directly to one of the large storage areas set up at the Front or distributed further. 'Tommy’ entered into general usage after the Rudyard Kipling poems, 'Tommy’ and 'To Thomas Atkins’ (1892), which pay homage to the sturdy character of the average British soldier. During his time at the Front, Warwick Brooke managed to capture many different aspects of life, from daily life in the trenches to the work that went on behind the lines. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE WESTERN FRONT. HOW TOMMY IS FED. The supply train steaming into a railhead.'] |
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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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