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(6) L.1112 - Bullets from a German anti-tank rifle and a British rifle, France, during World War I
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (6) L.1112 - Bullets from a German anti-tank rifle and a British rifle, France, during World War I |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548936 |
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| Description | The bullet on the left is taken from a Lee-Enfield rifle, while the bullet on the right is from a German anti-tank rifle. The Lee-Enfield rifle was a general weapon that was used by virtually all British infantrymen serving on the Western Front during 'the war to end all wars'. So the smaller bullet would have been used against personnel, while the larger bullet would have been fired at tanks. The Germans called their anti-tank weapons, Panzerbüchse ('tank rifle’) or T-Gewehr ('T-Rifle’, T for tank). To combat this threat posed by the armour-piercing bullets fired by the German special anti-tank units, the British gave their Mark IV tanks ever thicker armour. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. The Cartridge of an anti-tank rifle which is being used by the Germans, alongside a British cartridge.'] |
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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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