British Western Front
(135) X.34053 - Rifle inspection after being relieved from the front line
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > British Western Front > (135) X.34053 - Rifle inspection after being relieved from the front line |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549508 |
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| Description | Rifle inspection, Western Front, World War I. A line of men standing with their rifles on their shoulders waiting while a young officer and a sergeant walk along the line inspecting the rifles. Other men can be seen walking away in the distance. Cleaning rifles was essential at the end of a duty in the front-line trenches. The degree of mud can be seen on the clothes, boots and waders of the men in this photograph. [Original reads: 'Rifle inspection after being relieved from the front line.'] |
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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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