British Western Front
(65) X.32038 - Digging a hole in the ice to get water for cooking purposes
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > British Western Front > (65) X.32038 - Digging a hole in the ice to get water for cooking purposes |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549302 |
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| Description | Breaking the ice to get water, Western Front, during World War I. One man using the back of an axe to break a hole in the ice over a frozen river or canal. Other soldiers are standing watching, with buckets to collect water. This is one of a series of photographs showing how the army coped with the severe winter conditions. [Original reads: 'Digging a hole in the ice to get water for cooking purposes.'] |
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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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