British Western Front
(98) X.33010 - Strecher bearer party
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > British Western Front > (98) X.33010 - Strecher bearer party |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549386 |
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| Description | Stretcher bearers, Western Front, during World War I. Stretcher bearers in a roadway. Most are bearing armbands with the letter 'SB' for 'stretcher bearer', one has a red cross instead. Many of the men look strained; they saw the worst of injuries, often working in the most dangerous of conditions. Men who were badly wounded in the course of an attempted advance might lie where they fell for hours, often until dark fell and the stretcher bearers could attempt to look for survivors. [Original reads: 'A strecher [sic] bearer party.'] |
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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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