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(191) D.1634 - Dressing station
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > John Warwick Brooke > (191) D.1634 - Dressing station |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74547116 |
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| Description | A shed runs down the left of the photograph. The shed is made of sandbags and has a very large opening with no door. The roof is made of a sheet of wood and there are duckboards laid along the front of the shed. There is all sorts of equipment leaning up against the front of the shelter as well as a canvas stretcher. The ground around is packed dirt and very rough. There is a soldier leaning up against the end of the shed while another six squat down in the doorway. Dressing stations were the first port of call for injured soldiers at the Front. It was here that the patient was assessed and either patched up or sent further behind the lines to field hospitals. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT. Portuguese in the trenches. A dressing station.'] |
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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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