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(96) L.643 - Extraordinary predicament of a householder behind our lines in France who was sleeping in this house during a German air raid, and after the bomb had dropped & demolished the house, was able to step onto the road from the attic window
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (96) L.643 - Extraordinary predicament of a householder behind our lines in France who was sleeping in this house during a German air raid, and after the bomb had dropped & demolished the house, was able to step onto the road from the attic window |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548784 |
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| Description | Bombed house, France, during World War I. This striking image shows a bombed house. The house appears to have collapsed totally except for the attic. The roof, with the slates almost complete, is resting at road level. A woman is leaning out of the attic dormer window taking to a British army officer. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Extraordinary predicament of a householder behind our lines in France who was sleeping in this house during a German air raid, and after the bomb had dropped & demolished the house, was able to step onto the road from the attic window.'] |
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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 | Photographs by named photographers. |
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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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