British Western Front
(132) X.34030 - R. E. Officers at Lunch
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > British Western Front > (132) X.34030 - R. E. Officers at Lunch |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549498 |
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| Description | Five Royal Engineer officers having lunch off salvaged tables in the middle of the rubble of a shelled building. It is an interesting illustration of the class-ridden society of the period, as they are being served by a soldier, who is a conscious or unconscious parody of a civilian waiter with a cloth over his arm. The majority of officers, who were from middle- or upper-class families, would have been used to servants at home and would have regarded this servant relationship with a fellow soldier as normal. Contemporary attitudes are well illustrated, for example, by the relationship of Lord Peter Wimsey and his ex-soldier servant Bunter, in the stories of Dorothy L Sayers. [Original reads: 'R. E. Officers at Lunch.'] |
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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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