British Western Front
(60) X.32032 - Feeling fit after the bath
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > British Western Front > (60) X.32032 - Feeling fit after the bath |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549292 |
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| Description | Five British soldiers standing in the snow outside a building with the sign, 'Div[isiona]l Baths' . There appears to be a fairly large town in the background, so these soldiers were probably on a rest period away from the Front. Often men had only two or three baths in a month. Baths were a luxury after life in the trenches. The soldiers were not only dirty and smelly, but usually covered in lice, which were a constant irritation and could carry Trench Fever. [Original reads: 'Snow at the front. Feeling fit after the bath.'] |
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| Description | Photographs, all taken on the British Western Front, that are not attributed to a particular photographer. |
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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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