Photographers > David McLellan
(101) L.654 - Pure water being pumped into a water cart, to be taken to the troops
Thumbnail gallery: Grid view | List view
Universal Viewer | 
Mirador | Large image
Images and transcriptions on this page, including medium image downloads, may be used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence unless otherwise stated. 
| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (101) L.654 - Pure water being pumped into a water cart, to be taken to the troops |
|---|
| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548794 |
|---|---|
| Description | A view along a village street. Four soldiers are pumping water through a hose from a canvas cistern into a horse-drawn water tank. Only one horse is visible but its position to the right of the cart, and the details of the harness, suggest that the second horse of the pair is hidden from view behind one of the soldiers. Two of these soldiers bear the star cap badge of the Service Corps. The Service Corps undertook much of the movement of supplies to the Front. Without their contribution, war on this scale would have been impossible. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. De-poisoning & sterilising water for the troops in France. Pure water being pumped into a water cart, to be taken to the troops.'] |
More information
|
|
| 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. |
|---|---|
|
More information
|
|
| Description | Photographs by named photographers. |
|---|
| 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. |
|---|---|
| Shelfmark | Acc.3155 |
|
More information
|
|