British Western Front
(101) X.33018 - Bombarding the German trenches
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > British Western Front > (101) X.33018 - Bombarding the German trenches |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549396 |
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| Description | This photograph of British mortars bombing the German trenches looks over the devastated landscape of shattered trees and shell-pocked earth, apparently extending to the horizon. This typifies the desolation of 'No Man's Land', the area between the trenches of the two sides. At the end of the war, the French had to face the task of restoring this trenched and cratered landscape. Hidden in the mud were remains of shells, miles of wire, wrecked equipment and the bodies. Eighty years after the end of the war, remains are still being found. [Original reads: 'Bombarding the German trenches.'] |
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| Description | Photographs, all taken on the British Western Front, that are not attributed to a particular photographer. |
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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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