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(70) N.513 - Padre decorating the altar in his 'Church' in the line
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > Tom Aitken > (70) N.513 - Padre decorating the altar in his 'Church' in the line |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549120 |
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| Description | Army chaplain in his chapel, Western Front, during World War I. This photograph shows an army chaplain arranging wildflowers in a vase for the altar in his little chapel. Three other vases of flowers stand on the altar, flanking a simple cross and the chalice and paten used for the sacrament, which are hidden below a cloth. Also on the altar, there is the chaplain's stole, a scarf-like vestment worn by Catholic or Anglican priests when administering the sacraments. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. A Padre decorating the altar in his "Church" in the line. This little hut which serves as a Church is in a clump of trees barely 200 yards from the front line.'] |
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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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