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CWM/LMS/Home/Photographs/Box 3
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| Summary: |
Groups include: Indian cavalry charging, a troop of Hodson's Horse near Querrieu, France; men from South African Native Labour Corps stirring soup, waiting to have a bath, preparing dinner and digging sand in Black Labour Camp, Dannes, France; Chinese labourers on the British Western Front, Battle of Flanders; labourers from Manipur with issue of soap and cigarettes. People include: General Smuts; Chinese labourer with toy junk made from lumber. Events include: General Smuts inspecting South African Native Labour Unit in France; Battle of Flanders. Activities include: Chinese labourers baking, paving roads' felling timber for road and railway construction, and working alongside British troops. Places include: Dannes; Caestre; Arras; Querrieu; Flanders. [France] Prints taken by/Recieved from: Official photographs by John Warwick Brooke, issued on behalf of the Press Bureau, some via Central News. Photographs taken in September 1916, March, April and July 1917.
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| Previous numbers: |
D.137, D.139, D.928, D.929, D.931, D.934, D.933, D.1157, D.1158, D.1159, D.1162, D.1955, D.1956, D.1957, D.1959, D.1960, D.1961, D.1962, D.1963, D.1964, D.2193
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| Extent: |
16 silver gelatin prints
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| Access status: |
Open
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| Copyright: |
Crown Copyright (expired) |
| File number: |
16
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| Originals: |
Original negatives held at the Imperial War Museum No.s Q4105, Q4107, Q4876-7, Q4879, Q4881-2, Q5103-5, Q5108, Q5891-3, Q5895-5900, Q6129.
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| Format: |
Archive
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