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Tom Aitken

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First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > Tom Aitken > (55) N.476 - Convalescent soldiers in France having a game of billiards in a recreation hut provided for them by the B.R.C.S.

(55) N.476 - Convalescent soldiers in France having a game of billiards in a recreation hut provided for them by the B.R.C.S.
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/74549090
Description	Convalescent soldiers watching a billiard game in a recreation hut on the Western Front. Recreation huts like this one were provided by the Red Cross to keep convalescent soldiers occupied before they were either sent back to the Front, or sent home. The Red Cross and other nursing bodies not only dealt with men wounded on the Front, but also with those who got influenza and other illnesses. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Convalescent soldiers in France having a game of billiards in a recreation hut provided for them by the B.R.C.S.']

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:	War casualties Convalescent hospitals Billiards Huts Recreation rooms Soldiers Black-and-white prints (photographs) Propaganda War photography Photojournalism
Person / organisation:	British Red Cross Society [Subject of text] Aitken, Thomas (Tom) Keith, 1879- [Attributed name] 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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