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(6) C.755 - Prisoners
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Germans > (6) C.755 - Prisoners |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74546782 |
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| Description | A wide dry-dirt road cuts diagonally across the picture. It is bound on either side by flat fields and a small farmstead is visible in the background. It is a very pretty rural scene with hay ricks in the fields. Along the road for as far as the eye can see is a line of prisoners walking roughly four-abreast. There are uniformed and mounted soldiers spaced at intervals along the edges of the line. Another group of soldiers are watching them pass. The photographer's shadow can be clearly seen at the bottom of the picture. The first part of this caption is handwritten and only the second part is typed. This is quite unusual for this collection of photographs although there does not appear to be any obvious reason for it. GHQ stands for General Headquarters although, with very little information attached to the photograph, it is difficult to tell where this is and who is there. [Original reads: 'Photos for GHQ.' 'Prisoners.'] |
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| Description | Photographs taken in Germany, by Germans or of Germans. |
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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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