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(68) N.508 - Handley-Pages setting out to bomb the Germans
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > Tom Aitken > (68) N.508 - Handley-Pages setting out to bomb the Germans |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549116 |
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| Description | Handley-Page bombers on a mission, Western Front, during World War I. This photograph is attributed to Tom Aitken. The photographer had clearly been taken in one of the bombers as this photograph has been shot from one aeroplane, looking down on a second. Part of the wing fuselage of the higher plane can be seen at the edge of the picture. This photograph appears to have been censored as the word 'stopped' is written in blue pencil on the back. Handley-Page 0/100 bombers had been used from 1916, but these two aeroplanes are probably the 0/400 which was put into production early in 1918. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Handley-Pages setting 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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