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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Allies > Chinese > (2) D.1119 - Chinese students starting for the trenches on the Western Front |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548444 |
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| Description | Chinese students at the Western Front, France, during World War I. This group photograph of five Chinese students with an army officer was most likely taken by the British official photographer, John Warwick Brooke. Shortly after World War I ended, around 1,600 Chinese students travelled to France as part of the Work-Study Movement. In the spirit of the new Republic, their aim was to study and examine Western culture and technology. Despite being in the midst of internal troubles, China declared war on Germany in August 1917. Their economic and military contribution to the Allied war effort, however, was minimal. This was mainly due to an emphasis placed on resolving urgent internal issues. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON THE FRONT IN FRANCE. Chinese students starting for the trenches on the Western Front (left to right) Tee Tong Chang, Tim Po Woo, Pow Kan Liang, Chung Ching Wang, Sih Gung Cheng.'] |
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| Description | Photographs of Chinese visitors and the Chinese Labour Corps. |
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| Description | Photographs of various nationalities allied to the British. |
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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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