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(475) D.655 - Three officers having a chat - wearing trench waders
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > John Warwick Brooke > (475) D.655 - Three officers having a chat - wearing trench waders |
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| Description | Mud-splattered officers wearing trench waders enjoying a chat. This image shows three mud-splattered officers wearing trench waders enjoying a light-hearted chat. The fact that their feet are not visible on the ground gives an indication of how deep the mud was. As shown by this image, it was not just the enemy that front line soldiers had to fight against: it was also the terrible conditions and subsequent illnesses. The combination of mud, rats, lice and rotting corpses ensured that disease was rife and the stench overpowering. 'Trench Foot’ and 'Trench Fever’ were just two of the infections that stemmed directly from the appalling living conditions. In his autobiography, 'Goodbye to All That’, Robert Graves describes in graphic detail what life and death was like in the trenches, and highlights the large number of suicides that took place. Siegfried Sassoon also wrote about the suicides - and suicides by proxy - that took place in the Allied trenches. [Original reads: 'Three officers having a chat - wearing trench waders.'] |
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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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