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(90) L.634 - Baupaume Billy, a famous army carrier pigeon now used for breeding
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (90) L.634 - Baupaume Billy, a famous army carrier pigeon now used for breeding |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548770 |
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| Description | A pigeon is sitting in a bowl of straw. Only the hand is visible of the soldier holding the bowl. Some of the pigeons which survived many missions became quite famous. 'Cher Ami' was even awarded the French 'Croix de Guerre' after returning to Headquarters with news of the location of a 'Lost Battalion' of the US army. Some of the best pigeons were kept for breeding as it was essential to keep the numbers up. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. British army carrier pigeons in France. "Baupaume Billy" a famous Army Carrier Pigeon now used for breeding.'] |
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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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