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John Warwick Brooke
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > John Warwick Brooke > (52) D.1155. - Raiding party getting clear of a sap and racing towards the Boche trenches |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74547528 |
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| Description | The photograph has been taken looking along a trench, over the tops of the helmets of the soldiers waiting their turn to climb out. One man is heaving himself over the edge while three others are out and running towards the German lines. The men carry no kit except their rifles with bayonets fixed. This demonstrates how very exposed the troops were, not only in running across the open ground, but also in the difficulty of climbing out of the trench. [Original reads: 'THE GREAT BRITISH ADVANCE IN THE WEST. The raiding party getting clear of a sap and racing towards the Boche trenches.'] |
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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 | Photographs by named photographers. |
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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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