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(27) X.27006, Bringing in an injured man

X.27006 - Bringing in an injured man
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X.27006 - Bringing in an injured man
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Description:Two soldiers help their wounded comrade, during World War I. Two soldiers are staggering under the weight of their comrade who is sitting balanced on their linked arms. He seems to be a little distressed and his comrades look quite serious but there is no look of horror on their faces. This action shot, unfortunately, has no photographer attributed to it. The blur in the photograph and the angle of the soldiers walking towards the camera gives this scene an immediacy and spontaneity which is rarely found amongst this formal photographic collection.
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Full description: Two soldiers help their wounded comrade, during World War I. Two soldiers are staggering under the weight of their comrade who is sitting balanced on their linked arms. He seems to be a little distressed and his comrades look quite serious but there is no look of horror on their faces. This action shot, unfortunately, has no photographer attributed to it. The blur in the photograph and the angle of the soldiers walking towards the camera gives this scene an immediacy and spontaneity which is rarely found amongst this formal photographic collection.

This scene would have made an ideal propaganda statement. Two soldiers have put themselves out to help a less fortunate comrade who, in turn, does not appear to be too badly hurt. The reality of the scene with its sense of action and the depressing mud and scenery would perhaps not have met with the sanitised standards of the propaganda office.

[Original reads: 'Bringing in an injured man.']
Form / genre: Images > Pictures > Photographs > Photographic prints
Dates / events: World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front [Date/event depicted]
Places: Europe > Belgium > Flanders (region) [Place created]
Europe > France (nation) [Place created]
Subject / content: Black-and-white prints (photographs)
Propaganda
Soldiers
War casualties
War photography
Photojournalism
Person / organisation: Great Britain. Army [Depicted]
Haig, Douglas, Sir, 1861-1928 [Former owner]

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British Western Front
Description:Photographs, all taken on the British Western Front, that are not attributed to a particular photographer.
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Places: Europe > Belgium > Flanders (region) [Place created]
Europe > France (nation) [Place created]
Person / organisation: Great Britain. Army [Depicted]

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First World War 'Official Photographs'
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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Form / genre: Images > Pictures > Photographs > Photographic prints
Dates / events: World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front [Date/event depicted]
Subject / content: Black-and-white prints (photographs)
Propaganda
War photography
Photojournalism
Person / organisation: Haig, Douglas, Sir, 1861-1928 [Former owner]

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