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(129) L.824 - R.A.F.Scouts in France flying towards the German lines in fighting formation
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (129) L.824 - R.A.F.Scouts in France flying towards the German lines in fighting formation |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548892 |
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| Description | Reconnaissance aircraft, France, during World War I. This striking image shows five reconnaissance aircraft in a night sky. If the original caption is correct in naming these planes as belonging to the Royal Air Force (RAF) then this photograph must have been taken after April 1918 when the RAF was established. The Royal Air Force was formed by amalgamating the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. R.A.F. Scouts in France flying towards the German lines in fighting formation.'] |
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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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