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(81) N.538 - They have a good time in their leisure hours
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > Tom Aitken > (81) N.538 - They have a good time in their leisure hours |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549142 |
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| Description | Uniformed women stand outside their tents, which are pitched in a wooded area. This is very obviously a posed photograph showing the women looking relaxed and cheerful. It is believed to have been taken by Tom Aitken, and was probably intended for propaganda or even recruitment purposes within Britain. Female volunteers became increasingly vital as the war progressed, particularly in the nursing and administrative fields. Although the wartime work of women within Britain has been more celebrated, female volunteers also did invaluable work close to the front line. The Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps was just one of a number of British women's corps which served in the nursing and administrative fields during World War I. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Members of the Q.M.A.A.C. encamped in a big forest in France. They have a good time in their leisure hours.'] |
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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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