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(56) N.478 - Convalescent British soldiers in France having a rest in a recreation room in a hut provided for them by the B.R.C.S.
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > Tom Aitken > (56) N.478 - Convalescent British soldiers in France having a rest in a recreation room in a hut provided for them by the B.R.C.S. |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549092 |
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| Description | This photograph shows a lot of convalescent soldiers sitting at long tables which extend the length of the recreation hut. They are reading and writing letters. There have been attempts, presumably by the Red Cross nurses, to make the hut more cheerful by adding flowers and plants. This sort of photograph would have been useful to encourage the donation of funds and equipment to the Red Cross for their work with the troops. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Convalescent British soldiers in France having a rest in a recreation room in a hut provided for them by the B.R.C.S.'] |
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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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