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(70) L.577 - Dug-outs for aeroplanes
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (70) L.577 - Dug-outs for aeroplanes |
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| Description | R.A.F. aircraft dugouts, France, during World War I. This rather odd contraption on the left of the photograph is, according to the attached caption, the entrance-way to an aircraft dugout. Aircraft bases, although not always immediately behind the front line would have made excellent static targets. Here, however, the soldiers look relatively relaxed and calm. The R.A.F. was formed on 1st April 1918 as an amalgamation of the Royal Navy Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps. It is, however, now difficult to know when the captions were added to these photographs. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Dug-outs for aeroplanes. Many of the R.A.F. Squadrons are very near the line in France & to protect machines from bombs or shells, piles of sandbags are used.'] |
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| Description | Formerly a photographer with the 'Daily Mirror’, a newspaper which led the field in pictorial journalism, McLellan was appointed as an official war photographer in December 1917 along with Tom Aitken whose work also features in this collection. McLellan is especially noted for his work capturing the huge scale of operations on the Front. McLellan was one of five official photographers working on the Western Front, for the propaganda department during the last two years of the war. The photographers were driven to the site the authorities wanted them to photograph, which meant that most of their material was also largely censored. This did not, however, mean that the photographer did not get to know the people in the picture. |
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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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