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(21) L.471 - French & British soldiers who have been wounded in the same battle treated at a British casualty clearing station
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (21) L.471 - French & British soldiers who have been wounded in the same battle treated at a British casualty clearing station |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548596 |
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| Description | A motley line of soldiers are sitting on a rickety bench. They are sporting an assortment of bandages and are being tended by two nurses and another soldier. They are sitting in front of an assortment of tents, on rough and stony ground. There are more orderlies standing around in the background. Clearing stations were the first port of call for wounded soldiers. Here wounds were assessed and the soldiers sent on to the appropriate hospitals. Allied soldiers were treated at the nearest station, regardless of nationality, would have been a minor consideration during the tense and chaotic period surrounding battle. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. French & British soldiers who have been wounded in the same battle treated at a British Casualty Clearing Station.'] |
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| Description | Formerly a photographer with the 'Daily Mirror’, a newspaper which led the field in pictorial journalism, McLellan was appointed as an official war photographer in December 1917 along with Tom Aitken whose work also features in this collection. McLellan is especially noted for his work capturing the huge scale of operations on the Front. McLellan was one of five official photographers working on the Western Front, for the propaganda department during the last two years of the war. The photographers were driven to the site the authorities wanted them to photograph, which meant that most of their material was also largely censored. This did not, however, mean that the photographer did not get to know the people in the picture. |
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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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