British Western Front
(142) X.34073 - Wiring party going up over a shell swept area
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > British Western Front > (142) X.34073 - Wiring party going up over a shell swept area |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549530 |
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| Description | A line of men walking across a bare slope, carrying all the gear needed to set up a new barbed-wire line. Many of the men are carrying tall metal posts shaped like corkscrews. These were used in the later part of the war as they could be screwed into the ground more quietly than straight posts could be hammered in. Wiring was a very dangerous job as the new wire was usually being placed in No-Man's Land between the trenches. The men doing the wiring were therefore very vulnerable to enemy fire and needed to work as quietly as possible and usually under cover of darkness. [Original reads: 'A wiring party going up over a shell swept area.'] |
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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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