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(120) L.720 - Staff of a Field Ambulance in France

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(120) L.720 - Staff of a Field Ambulance in France

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(120) L.720 - Staff of a Field Ambulance in France
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DescriptionMen of a Field Ambulance unit. About 80 men are lined up, with the officers and the unit's mascot dog in the foreground. The unit cyclist stands to the left and their eight horses are lined up at the back. Bicycles were often used as one of the most efficient ways of transporting messages to and from different units. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Staff of a Field Ambulance in France.']
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David McLellan
DescriptionFormerly 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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DescriptionBlack-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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