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Title

A visit to the front, August 1916 [graphic material]. 

Arrangement structure

Date(s)

1916

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

1 album (70 photographs). b&w.

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Album documents the visit of Lieutenant-General Sir Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia and defence, to the troops in France, August 1916. This includes crossing the English Channel aboard H.H.S. Tartar, visiting Paris, touring captured trenches, visiting the town of Arras. Includes prominent individuals; Lord Rothermere, Pres. Poincaire, Sir Max Aitken, Brig.-Gens. Garnet Hughes and J.F.B. Seely. Individual captions included. NPC holds original negative for forty of the photographs.

Conditions of access

Graphic (photo)
90: Open
Other accession no.
1982-224 NPC

Terms of use

Copyright: Expired.

Source

Private

Related control no.

1982-224 NPC

MIKAN no.

158045