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(27) L.484 - Camp waste utilized to produce food
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (27) L.484 - Camp waste utilized to produce food |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548608 |
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| Description | Frontline pig farm, France, during World War I. This image is dominated by the pigs snuffling about in the foreground. They have been caged in with a high wire fencing which has internal subdivisions of flimsy wooden barriers. There are both officers and soldiers standing inside the pens - they seem to be talking to one another. The uniforms in amongst the pigsty do seem a little incongruous. This perhaps was one of the better jobs amongst the quartermaster duties, although finding enough resources to raise the pigs may have proved vexing. Fresh, nutritious and tasty food was incredibly rare at the Front. The number of troops to be provided for was large and they were scattered across France and Belgium. This proved to be a further logistical nightmare. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. A British Army Piggery in France. Camp waste utilized to produce food.'] |
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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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