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The Western Front during the First World War

The images available from this page were primarily selected for the Archives Centre's online educational resource, The Churchill Era. For further information about the historical background to these documents and the key events and individuals connected with the Western Front during the First World War, and paricularly the role of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, please visit www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/education/churchill_era/exercises/haig/ where you will also find additional images of documents and illustrations.

Photographs

The London Scottish on the march to the Somme, 1916. Reference: Bickersteth Papers, BICK 1/4 Reference: Bickersteth Papers, BICK 1/4.
Photograph of the London Scottish on the march to the Somme, 1916.
Asquith at a parade with Churchill. Reference: Churchill Press Photographs, CHPH 1A F2/22.
Asquith at a parade with Churchill.
Aerial photographs of battlefield before and after shelling, July-October 1917. Reference: Churchill Papers, CHAR 15/71. Crown copyright.
Aerial photographs of battlefield before and after shelling, July-October 1917.
Churchill at parade of Allied troops at Lille, October 1918. Reference: Churchill Press Photographs, CHPH 1A/F1/13
Churchill at parade of Allied troops at Lille, October 1918.

Documents

  • Letter from Haig to Churchill commenting on Churchill's drafts of a chapter from "The World Crisis" dealing with the events of 1917-18.
  • Further notes by Haig on Churchill's "The World Crisis", 1926