British Western Front
(167) X.35066 - Keeping warm while waiting for lunch
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > British Western Front > (167) X.35066 - Keeping warm while waiting for lunch |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549626 |
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| Description | Soldiers keeping warm, Western Front, during World War I. This photograph shows five soldiers sitting around a camp fire built up with bricks. They are wearing 1916 winter-issue sleeveless leather jerkins over their uniforms and trying to warm their hands at the fire. The only visible cap badge appears to belong to the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment). During the cold winter weather, cold or tepid rations would not have been appetising. The soldiers often appear to have heated or cooked the rations up themselves. However, the tins, possibly of meat, heating over this fire, are a reminder of the problem of food poisoning from partly warmed rations. [Original reads: 'Keeping warm while waiting for 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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