British Western Front
(173) X.36098 - Shell-destoyed train
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > British Western Front > (173) X.36098 - Shell-destoyed train |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74549730 |
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| Description | Carriages of a wrecked (freight?) train lying in a shell-hole beside bits of broken rail. There seems to be a group of people surveying the scene towards the top right of the picture. This picture has no 'Official Press' stamp. [Original reads: 'A shell-destroyed Train - Jct. of C' and C2o.'] |
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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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