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David McLellan
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (1) L.1007 - Prisoners being brought in by British troops |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/75171410 |
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| Description | German prisoners, France, during World War I, probably August 1918. Lines of German prisoners are walking up a street guarded by British soldiers. The Germans appear relaxed, some even smiling, perhaps glad that, for them, the war is over. The man watching from the street corner appears to be a civilian. The devastation of this town suggests that the local inhabitants were the true losers. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Prisoners being brought in by British troops.'] |
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| Description | Formerly a photographer with the 'Daily Mirror’, a newspaper which led the field in pictorial journalism, McLellan was appointed as an official war photographer in December 1917 along with Tom Aitken whose work also features in this collection. McLellan is especially noted for his work capturing the huge scale of operations on the Front. McLellan was one of five official photographers working on the Western Front, for the propaganda department during the last two years of the war. The photographers were driven to the site the authorities wanted them to photograph, which meant that most of their material was also largely censored. This did not, however, mean that the photographer did not get to know the people in the picture. |
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| Description | Photographs by named photographers. |
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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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