Royal visits
(39) C.2082 - Queen inspecting a Belgian hospital
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Royal visits > (39) C.2082 - Queen inspecting a Belgian hospital |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74546476 |
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| Description | Queen Mary visiting a hospital in Belgium. As she walks through the grounds of the hospital she is surrounded by army officials. Duckboards have been laid down to create a pathway through what appears to be a vegetable patch. Wounded soldiers wearing pyjamas are lined up along the pathway to welcome her. Most of them are supported by crutches. The man nearest the camera has lost part of his left leg. [Original reads: 'BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE WESTERN FRONT. The Queen inspecting a Belgian hospital.'] |
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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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