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(43) D.939 - Cavalry reconnaissance party
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Cavalry > (43) D.939 - Cavalry reconnaissance party |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548538 |
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| Description | This image has an other-worldly atmosphere to it. It is believed to have been the work of the official war photographer John Warwick Brooke. The soldiers and their horses are standing in the middle of jagged piles of wood, which appear to have been a shelter of some sort. They are standing surrounded by broken of trees and shrouded in mist. Reconnaissance and transport by horse was such a major success that recently an experiment by the Germans to poison horses has been uncovered. Sugar cubes, used as treats, were found which had been contaminated with the anthrax virus. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE RECENT BRITISH ADVANCE ON THE WESTERN FRONT. A cavalry reconnaissance party.'] |
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| Description | Photographs depicting cavalry. |
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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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