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(65) N.498 - Air mechanics seeing that all's well before the Handley-Page sets out to bomb the Germans
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > Tom Aitken > (65) N.498 - Air mechanics seeing that all's well before the Handley-Page sets out to bomb the Germans |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549110 |
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| Description | Handley-Page bomber wing, Western Front, World War I. This shows mechanics standing on the left wing of a Handley-Page bomber, checking the wing before take off. The left propeller and the nose of the plane can be seen beyond the wing. The wings on a Handley-Page folded back when not in service, but here the wings appear to be extended. This is one of several photographs of this aircraft attributed to Tom Aitken, which has the word 'stopped' in blue pencil on the back. It may have been censored. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Air mechanics seeing that all's well before the Handley-Page sets out to bomb the Germans.'] |
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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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