British Western Front
(107) X.33037 - Some officers studying a map of newly captured ground
Thumbnail gallery: Grid view | List view
Universal Viewer | 
Mirador | Large image
Images and transcriptions on this page, including medium image downloads, may be used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence unless otherwise stated. 
| First World War 'Official Photographs' > British Western Front > (107) X.33037 - Some officers studying a map of newly captured ground |
|---|
| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549408 |
|---|---|
| Description | Officers examining a map, Western Front, during World War I. Five officers gathered around a map. Some of the men are using shovels to sit on, as if they were shooting sticks. The cap and collar badges of three of the men are visible and show the Stafford knot and crown of the South Staffordshire Regiment. Much of the mapping during the war was undertaken by the Royal Engineers. In the late nineteenth century, they had been involved in the Ordnance Survey mapping of Great Britain and had been responsible for surveys in India and Canada. [Original reads: 'Some officers studying a map of newly captured ground.'] |
More information
|
|
| Description | Photographs, all taken on the British Western Front, that are not attributed to a particular photographer. |
|---|---|
|
More information
|
|
| 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. |
|---|---|
| Shelfmark | Acc.3155 |
|
More information
|
|