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Tom Aitken

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First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > Tom Aitken > (60) N.488 - Funeral of British Red Cross Nurse who was killed during the German Air Raid on Red Cross Hospital

(60) N.488 - Funeral of British Red Cross Nurse who was killed during the German Air Raid on Red Cross Hospital
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/74549100
Description	Funeral procession for Red Cross nurse, Western Front, during World War I. This is one of three photographs attributed to Tom Aitken which show the funeral of a British Red Cross nurse who died during a German air raid on a hospital. The funeral procession is shown walking down a road, with the coffin on a wheeled cart pulled by two soldiers. Nurses follow behind. The kilted Scottish soldier at the front appears to be a bugler as the instrument can just be seen at his right side in two of the photographs. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Funeral of British Red Cross Nurse who was killed during the German Air Raid on Red Cross Hospital.']

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:	Processions Funerals Nurses Coffins Clergy Soldiers Kilts Black-and-white prints (photographs) Propaganda War photography Photojournalism
Person / organisation:	British Red Cross Society [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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