British Western Front
(127) X.34010 - Types of men who are fighting for you
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > British Western Front > (127) X.34010 - Types of men who are fighting for you |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549478 |
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| Description | Two corporals, Western Front, during World War I. The unknown photographer who took this image of two young corporals appears to have been trying to show physical opposites. One man is quite short and burly and appears slightly older and possibly married. The other is tall and painfully thin and seems to have a bandaged wrist and injured hand. Both these superficially different men appear to be seasoned campaigners. Both have their rifles well protected against the mud and are well wrapped against the weather themselves. The thinner man has a non-regulation woollen scarf as well as one of the leather jerkins issued from late in 1916. [Original reads: 'Types of men who are fighting for you. Note the first signs of winter.'] |
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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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