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Tom Aitken

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First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > Tom Aitken > (54) N.472 - B.R.C.S. hut at a convalescent depot

(54) N.472 - B.R.C.S. hut at a convalescent depot
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/74549088
Description	Recreation hut for convalescents, Western Front, during World War I. This photograph shows a long wooden hut with a corrugated iron roof and a veranda along one side. It has a sign identifying it as a Recreation Room run by the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St John. Convalescent soldiers are standing along the veranda and two nurses are in the foreground. The Order of St John, which had its origins in the medieval period as a chivalric order, had founded the St John's Ambulance Brigade in 1888. They worked alongside the Red Cross throughout the war. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. The B.R.C.S. Hut at a convalescent depot.']

Form / genre:	Images > Pictures > Photographs > Photographic prints
Dates / events:	1917-1918 [Probable date/event depicted] World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front [Date/event depicted]
Places:	Europe > France (nation) [Place created]
Subject / content:	Huts Iron (metal) Corrugating Roofs Signs (declatory or advertising artifacts) Recreation centers Porches Nurses Medical aspects of war Black-and-white prints (photographs) Propaganda War photography Photojournalism
Person / organisation:	British Red Cross Society [Subject of text] Grand Priory in the British Realm of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem [Subject of text] Aitken, Thomas (Tom) Keith, 1879- [Photographer] Great Britain. Army [Depicted] Haig, Douglas Haig, Earl, 1861-1928 [Former owner]
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Tom Aitken
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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.

Dates / events:	1917-1918 [Probable date/event depicted]
Places:	Europe > France (nation) [Place created]
Person / organisation:	Aitken, Thomas (Tom) Keith, 1879- [Photographer] Great Britain. Army [Depicted]
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First World War 'Official Photographs'
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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.
Shelfmark	Acc.3155

Form / genre:	Images > Pictures > Photographs > Photographic prints
Dates / events:	World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front [Date/event depicted]
Subject / content:	War photography Black-and-white prints (photographs) Photojournalism Propaganda
Person / organisation:	Haig, Douglas Haig, Earl, 1861-1928 [Former owner]
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