British Western Front
(158) X.35029 - Ammunition going up on pack mules
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > British Western Front > (158) X.35029 - Ammunition going up on pack mules |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549588 |
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| Description | A line of mules carrying ammunition for field artillery. Each animal has a pair of panniers, loaded with eight rounds of what appears to be 18-pound (8 kilos) shells for a field gun. There appears to be one man for every pair of mules, the two animals being tethered together. Mules were better able to cope than many of the horses in the extremely muddy conditions which can be seen in this photograph. The poet Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) described them as, 'The quivering-bellied mules', a reminder of how difficult it must have been to control animals in these conditions. [Original reads: 'Ammunition going up on pack mules.'] |
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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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