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(33) C.2053 - Queen interested in an aeroplane
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Royal visits > (33) C.2053 - Queen interested in an aeroplane |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74546136 |
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| Description | Queen Mary inspecting a biplane, France, during World War I. Queen Mary (1867-1953) is standing in front of a biplane talking with two officers whilst looking at it. In the background stands more officers and engineers beside their planes. The Queen at the time was Mary of Teck, more familiarly called Queen Mary. Royal visits were seen as an important way of boosting both civil and military morale. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. The Queen interested in an aeroplane.'] |
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| Description | Photographs of royal visits to the Western Front. Royal visits were seen as an important way of boosting morale. |
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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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