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(11) N.389 - French Troops moving up into action
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > Tom Aitken > (11) N.389 - French Troops moving up into action |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549000 |
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| Description | French soldiers marching to the front line, France, during World War I. Dressed in their heavy army overcoats and carrying their long rifles, a group of French soldiers travels to the fighting. Note the protective coverings that the soldiers have placed on their rifles, so as to protect their weapons from adverse weather and ground conditions. This photograph looks a more 'natural' photograph, compared to many of the obviously 'staged' photographs that exist in Earl Haig's personal collection of World War I images. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. French Troops moving up into action.'] |
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| Description | Tom Aitken was a newspaper photographer from Glasgow who was assigned in December 1917 as a war photographer along with David McLellan and Armando Consolé. McLellan's work also features in the National Library of Scotland’s Haig Papers. War photographers held a hybrid position during World War I, being part of yet not ultimately responsible to the military. |
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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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