Official photographs of the First World War Series D

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 o...

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Archive & Special Collections CWM/LMS/01/10/3/016 Open

Order number: CWM/LMS/Home/Photographs/Box 3
Date(s) of creation: c.1914 - c.1918
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id CWM.LMS.01.10.3.016
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWM/LMS/Home/Photographs/Box 3
callnumber CWM/LMS/01/10/3/016
callnumber_txt CWM/LMS/01/10/3/016
callnumber-sort CWM/LMS/01/10/3/016
prefix_number 016
scb_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
title Official photographs of the First World War Series D
scb_date_creation c.1914 - c.1918
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 16 silver gelatin prints
format Archive
description 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.
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Crown Copyright (expired)
scb_file_number 16
scb_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.
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWM
hierarchy_sequence CWM.00LMS.0001.0010.003.00016

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