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(85) L.601 - War torn cars at a depot awaiting repair
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (85) L.601 - War torn cars at a depot awaiting repair |
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| Description | Vehicles in scrap yard for recycling, Western Front, France, during World War I. Two soldiers are checking vehicles in a huge scrap yard. They are probably members of the Army Service Corps, which dealt with transport. The truck just behind them has a chalk mark on its side which reads, ' Checked 24/5/16'. Many have a cross in a circle, possibly a scrapping mark. The yard is beside a railway line and a station sign can be partially seen, reading, ' RO--N --G'. A pale, possibly chalky, cliff stands in the background. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Motor Transport work in France. War torn cars at a depot awaiting repair. These will be renovated and issued again for transport work.'] |
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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 | 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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