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(46) X.35006 - Canadians digging in and waiting for the next wave to pass them and go forward
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Allies > Canadian and Newfoundland > (46) X.35006 - Canadians digging in and waiting for the next wave to pass them and go forward |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549204 |
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| Description | Canadian troops and a tank on the Western Front, during World War I. This photograph gives some sense of how treacherous and fraught fighting in World War I could be. The Canadian soldiers in the picture look very exposed: the long grass will obscure German machine-gunners from view but there are no obvious natural barriers to protect the Canadians from speculative machine gun fire. The small dug-out in the right foreground is the best protection they can manage until tank reinforcements arrive. The Whippet, or Mark A tank, introduced by Britain in 1917, was intended as a lighter, more mobile model than earlier tanks. The mobility of the Whippet was one of the keys to the Allies' success at Cambrai in November 1917. [Original reads: 'Canadians digging in and waiting for the next wave to pass them and go forward. A whippet tank is seen returning from the wood in which were many enemy machine-gun nests. These were put out of action by larger tanks.'] |
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| Description | Photographs from the Haig series that are connected with Canadian troops and the Newfoundland Regiment of the British Army. |
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| Description | Photographs of various nationalities allied to the British. |
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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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