British Western Front
(79) X.32067 - Railway trucks under which a communication trench is dug
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > British Western Front > (79) X.32067 - Railway trucks under which a communication trench is dug |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549336 |
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| Description | Communications trench, Western Front, during World War I. A well-constructed communications trench. It has been dug to a depth of around two metres and the sides lined with horizontal poles, which are held in position with vertical poles braced across the trench. It appears to run under the railway trucks, possibly as a form of camouflage. Communications trenches ran between the front-line trenches and the reserve trenches. They allowed for the safer movement of troops, ammunition, supplies and injured. [Original reads: 'Railway trucks under which a communication trench is dug.'] |
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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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