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(103) D.1284 - Gordons preparing wire entanglements to take up to the line
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > John Warwick Brooke > (103) D.1284 - Gordons preparing wire entanglements to take up to the line |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548090 |
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| Description | Dressed in their regimental kilts and with puttees on their lower legs, these Gordon Highlanders are uncoiling some belts of barbed wire so as to make a new line of defence. These soldiers would have been part of a working party. It is unlikely that these defences are in the frontline, since none of the soldiers are carrying weapons. Deadly coils of barbed wire such as these, with no-man’s land in-between, guarded both sides of the frontline defences on the Western Front. With the trenches so well guarded, only an element of the unexpected could overturn the many advantages held by the defending army. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT. Gordons preparing wire entanglements to take up to the line.'] |
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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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