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(365) D.2836 - Engineers making camoflage at the front
![D.2832Not only is camoflage [sic] made at depots, but our engineers make it at the front](https://deriv.nls.uk/dcn4/1474.4.jpg)
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > John Warwick Brooke > (365) D.2836 - Engineers making camoflage at the front |
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| Description | A team of engineers making strips of camouflage. Lengths of netting have been placed over makeshift posts, and the men are carefully attaching pieces of cloth or fibre. There are six men working on the strip in the foreground, with more men and netting in the background. The camouflage on the left of the photograph looks ready for use. Camouflage, from the French word 'camoufler' meaning to disguise, or protective concealment, was used to disguise military positions and equipment. By using a gradation of colour from dark to light, the item under concealment lost its definition and blended into its surroundings. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Engineers making camo[u]flage at the front. They are then able to get the exact size they require.'] |
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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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