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(92) L.637 - Franco-British carrier ready to be released to carry a long distance message
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (92) L.637 - Franco-British carrier ready to be released to carry a long distance message |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548774 |
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| Description | Army carrier pigeon ready to fly, France, during World War I. A man in British army uniform is attaching a message to a carrier pigeon. He is holding the bird against his chest with his left hand. With his right hand he is tying the message to the bird's left leg. Carrier pigeons were often more reliable than the early forms of wireless as a way of sending intelligence from the Front. Dogs were also used to carry messages during World War I. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. British army carrier pigeons in France. A Franco-British carrier ready to be released to carry a long distance message.'] |
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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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