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(30) C.2040 - Queen and her party witnessing some explosions
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Royal visits > (30) C.2040 - Queen and her party witnessing some explosions |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74546720 |
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| Description | Queen Mary with a small party, watching an explosion in the distance. They appear to have paused momentarily to watch this spectacle, and are standing by the roadside at the edge of a grassy field. The party consists of a group of uniformed men and a woman in civilian clothes, possibly a lady-in-waiting. A parked car is just visible on the road. In the distance there are more fields and trees. It is unclear whether this is a controlled explosion or part of the fighting. Whilst royal visits to the Western Front were conducted well behind the front line, away from the fighting, visits to secure areas of the Front were sometimes organised. [Original reads: 'ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT. THE VISIT OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN. - The Queen and party witnessing some explosions.'] |
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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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