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(134) L.953 - One night's rations for a bombing squadron
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (134) L.953 - One night's rations for a bombing squadron |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548906 |
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| Description | Several hundred bombs are laid out in rows on the grass. According to the original caption these are the bombs for one night's bombing by an air squadron. It seems unlikely that they were usually laid out in this way, which would have been cumbersome for loading. It appears probable, therefore, that this was an arranged shot for propaganda purposes. The Allied bombing was concentrated on weakening enemy artillery and communications. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. One night's rations for a bombing squadron. All these bombs are dropped on German Munitions dumps, railways, etc. by a night bombing squadron in one night.'] |
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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 | Photographs by named photographers. |
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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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