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(102) L.656 - Red Cross Barge Nurses during a quiet spell in France take tea in a barge
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (102) L.656 - Red Cross Barge Nurses during a quiet spell in France take tea in a barge |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548796 |
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| Description | This photograph shows a group of Red Cross nurses, and a soldier, relaxing on the deck of a barge. One nurse has a dog on her lap, another is handing out cups of tea. Several have large paper parasols to shade them from the sun. In the background the canal bends to the right past a village. This polite tea party seems out of place in a war zone with army trucks in the background. It would seem better suited to the lawn of a country house and suggests the middle-class origins of many of the Red Cross volunteers. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Red Cross Barge Nurses during a quiet spell in France take tea in a barge.'] |
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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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