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(110) L.666 - Manchester Regiment on a road in France, marching past on their way to the line
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (110) L.666 - Manchester Regiment on a road in France, marching past on their way to the line |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548812 |
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| Description | This striking image shows the Manchester Regiment marching up a road through heavily wooded countryside. The men are being led by the Regimental Band. Five officers on horseback are watching them pass. One of the officers is reassuring his horse, another is holding the Regimental colours. On the other side of the road horse wagons are travelling in the opposite direction. Wilfred Owen, the World War I poet, was a lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment. This gallant but futile display on the way to the Front seems in keeping with many of his poems. [Original reads: OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. The Manchester Ret. on a road in France marching past on their way to the line.'] |
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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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