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(63) L.564 - French armoured cars and British transport going forward in France
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (63) L.564 - French armoured cars and British transport going forward in France |
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| Description | Two columns are advancing down this narrow, dirt road towards the camera - giving the scene an air of immediacy. One column comprises horses and some carriages, while the other is made up of small armoured cars with gun posts or boxes on the top. There are a few civilians, possibly from the steadying in the background, milling around the edge of the road. French armoured cars were built by the instantly recognisable Peugeot company. They began work in 1914 and the first cars arrived at the Front in late 1915. After the war France had 28 cars left, with most of them being sold to Morocco and Poland. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. French armoured cars and British Transport going forward in France.'] |
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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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