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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Allies > Chinese > (1) C.1436 - Chinese students on a visit to the British Western Front |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/75209726 |
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| Description | Chinese students. According to the existing caption they are on a visit to the British Western Front. They see German culture as practised in a town destroyed by Germans just before the British forced them to evacuate it. They are posing informally for the camera along with a large group of soldiers. Directly behind them is a building that has been bombed or shelled. What is left of the building looks extremely precarious. The caption is deliberately sardonic. There is no evidence of any sort of culture, or 'kultur' here, the place is devastated. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ON THE WESTERN FRONT - CHINESE STUDENTS ON A VISIT TO THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT. They see German 'kultur' as practised in a town destroyed by Germans just before the British forced them to evacuate it.'] |
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| Description | Photographs of Chinese visitors and the Chinese Labour Corps. |
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| Description | Photographs of various nationalities allied to the British. |
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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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