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Description: | Photographs taken on various fronts - Western Front, Palestine and the Home Front, and covering a variety of subjects: Home Front - munitions works (including Sheffield), Woolwich, the State Opening of Parliament in 1917, scenes in London Docks, troops (Royal Field Artillery, Royal Flying Corps and Australian soldiers) preparing to embark at Southampton for the war in France, Roehampton hospital, training at Tadworth camp, the Army Service Corps at Aldershot and Blackheath, training for the Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps, and their aircrft; Western Front - troops arriving in France and at training camps, medical scenes (dressing stations, Red Cross, ambulances, hospitals, St John's Ambulance Brigade), mechanical transport repair shops, petrol works, repairing uniforms and boots, veterinary scenes, members of the Labour Party visiting the Western Front in February - March 1918, before and after scenes of towns on the Western Front, refugees and scenes of repatriation at hostels and hospitals in France; Palestine - scenes of towns and local inhabitants; Ireland during the First World War; also Zeppelins, women at war, personalities, including the visit of Prince Arthur of Connaught at Tokyo and HM King George V on various visits, and photographs of posters, medals and cartoons. The collection also includes oddments such as photographs of paintings of historical figures and events. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | British official photographer | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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