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(379) D.2863 - Wiring a ditch
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > John Warwick Brooke > (379) D.2863 - Wiring a ditch |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74546932 |
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| Description | A soldier wearing his uniform, a tin helmet and a few bits of equipment is standing in the middle of a criss-cross of barbed wire. He is holding a huge spiral of it up in front of him and is winding it off the stick it is wrapped around. He is standing in a ditch with a field on the other side of the fencing and a lush, huge bush behind him. He is quite intent on his work. Barbed wire was relatively cheap and easy to manufacture and required very little training to use. As a result it was an effective weapon to use either to slow up running soldier or spoil a decent area which would then take time to clear up. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. "Wiring a ditch". Every possible means of hanging up the Germans is used.'] |
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| Description | John Warwick Brooke, of the Topical Press Agency, was the second British official war photographer to go to the Western Front in 1916. The demands placed on he and his colleague, Ernest Brooks, were heavy. They had to take as many photographs as possible, with as much variety as possible, a difficult task for two men covering an army of over two million. Despite this, Warwick Brooke managed to take what would become some of the most memorable images of World War I. As an officially appointed photographer, Warwick Brooke was assigned to the Western Front to follow the progress of the British Army. During his time there, between 1916 and 1918, Warwick Brooke is estimated to have taken over 4,000 photographs. |
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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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