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5 - A British soldier with a disfiguring wound due to a piece of exploded time-fuse lodged at the back of his cheek. The photograph was taken before it was extracted by massage and a cosmetic plate applied, sculpted by Captain Francis Derwent Wood, 3rd London General Hospital.
Horace W Nicholls - © IWM (Q 30449) |
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17 - A student, having been discharged from the British Army due to ill health following a period of service in Egypt and France, resides at Keble College, University of Oxford. The student poses in front of his discharge certificate which is hanging over the mantle-shelf.
Horace W Nicholls - © IWM (Q 30292) |
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18 - A young woman and an old man work together to sew the canvas which covers pipes between the decks of a ship in a naval dockyard. They are both working with their arms stretched above their heads, but the woman is standing on a box or step to give her a bit more height.
Horace W Nicholls - © IWM (Q 20086) |
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19 - A young woman and an old man, both workers at Chilwell munitions factory, transport shells across the factory floor. Each is pushing a sack barrow. Rows of shells can be seen behind them. The original caption reads: "Eighteen and eighty doing their bit".
Horace W Nicholls - © IWM (Q 30029) |
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26 - Construction of artillery wheels for gun carriages in the wheelwrights' shop of the Coventry Ordnance Works during the First World War.
Horace W Nicholls - © IWM (Q 30122) |
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39 - Munition workers in a shell warehouse at the National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire. This was one of the largest shell factories in the country.
Horace W Nicholls - © IWM (Q 30018) |
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40 - Portrait of Alice Isaacs, Lady Reading, wife of Rufus Issacs, British Ambassador to the United States, at her desk.
Horace W Nicholls - © IWM (Q 30414) |
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41 - Private Norman A. Veitch, 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment , a POW returned from Germany. The private was taken prisoner on the 27th May 1918, then sent to work on railway buildings behind the German lines until rendered too sick to continue work.
Horace W Nicholls - © IWM (Q 31277) |
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