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(184) D.1576 - Funny party resting after their sport making
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > John Warwick Brooke > (184) D.1576 - Funny party resting after their sport making |
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| Description | soldiers taking a rest from entertaining their comrades in traditional vaudeville style. Judging by the other photos in this 'Horse Show' series, the men on horses in the background would also have been entertaining the troops with jumping and horseback wrestling. Shows like this were a popular way of boosting the troops' morale, though photos such as this might well have been staged for propaganda purposes to maintain morale back home. The Charlie Chaplin lookalike, policeman and man dressed up as a woman, suggests that these soldiers were recreating the slapstick antics of Chaplin's famous music hall routine on the Western Front. Two clowns with white hats are also sitting in what looks like a bomb crater. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT. Horse show behind the lines - the funny party resting after their sport making.'] |
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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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