Cavalry
(6) C.1540 - Cavalry waiting for the order to move up
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Cavalry > (6) C.1540 - Cavalry waiting for the order to move up |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74546126 |
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| Description | Ten soldiers are sitting in a curve on the top of a hollow. They are fully equipped and armed, wearing heavy trench coats and helmets. They look relaxed but no-one is smiling. Their horses are lined up behind them. Whilst many photographs were deliberately taken as propaganda, some, like this, provide us with a more honest account of war and the people involved. World War I was the last to deploy large numbers of cavalry, the horse in war was redundant after the invention of planes and tanks. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Cavalry waiting for the order to move up.'] |
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| Description | Photographs depicting cavalry. |
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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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