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(563) D.886 - Close view showing the new food container which is strapped on the back and taken to the trenches
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > John Warwick Brooke > (563) D.886 - Close view showing the new food container which is strapped on the back and taken to the trenches |
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| Description | Soldier carrying a food container, during World War I. This rather striking image was most probably taken by the British official photographer, John Warwick Brooke. Although the original caption places emphasis on the food container featured in the photograph, it is in point of fact an interesting portrait of the man carrying the supplies. The container strapped to his back is being filled, with what looks like water, by another uniformed man. '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. Supplies of food and water reached the men fighting at the Front by means of the communication trenches that connected the reserve and support lines with the front line. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE WESTERN FRONT. HOW TOMMY IS FED. A close view showing the new food container which is strapped on the back and taken 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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