British Western Front
(118) X.33074 - Huge stack of provisions being loaded into trains
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > British Western Front > (118) X.33074 - Huge stack of provisions being loaded into trains |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549442 |
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| Description | Loading food supplies on a train, Western Front, during World War I. This photograph shows men loading crates of food into a train. One man is standing on a huge stack of crates, sliding boxes down a makeshift chute. Other men are taking the boxes on sack-barrows and putting them on the waiting train. There is no indication of where this was taken, but it is probably near the docks where the supplies were stored before being sent to the Front. These men are likely to have been members of the Army Service Corps, who were responsible for the distribution and transport of supplies. They received very little recognition but without these men, war on such a large scale would have been impossible. [Original reads, 'A huge stack of provisions being loaded into trains.'] |
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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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