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(105) X.36003 - High explosive shell exploding in a building in Amiens
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > Tom Aitken > (105) X.36003 - High explosive shell exploding in a building in Amiens |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549636 |
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| Description | Amiens under shell-fire, France, during World War I. This photograph appears to have been taken just moments after a large shell has exploded. Smoke and dust are billowing out from buildings further up the street. A hose-pipe lies in the road, probably left after tackling an earlier fire. The Germans used a huge gun mounted in a railway wagon, to shell Amiens from their lines some 16 miles (25 kilometres) away. [Original reads: 'No1. A high explosive shell exploding in a building in Amiens and . . . See No 2.'] |
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| Description | Tom Aitken was a newspaper photographer from Glasgow who was assigned in December 1917 as a war photographer along with David McLellan and Armando Consolé. McLellan's work also features in the National Library of Scotland’s Haig Papers. War photographers held a hybrid position during World War I, being part of yet not ultimately responsible to the military. |
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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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