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Second-line of Gurkhas coming up under shell-fire to consolidate trench taken by first-line. A handwritten...

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Second-line of Gurkhas coming up under shell-fire to consolidate trench taken by first-line. A handwritten note under this caption reads: 'A definite 'fake': it is a photograph of practice manoeuvres. Dr Girdwood was expressly forbidden to describe it as a real scene of action. [signed] M.C. Seton'. 1915.
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India Office Official Record of the Great War'. Illustrator: Girdwood, H.D 44308 Source/Shelfmark: Photo 21/(48) The photographs appear in a variety of sizes, shapes and colours including shades of blue, green and brown. They record scenes of military life as experienced by the Indian and British armies in France during the First World War. The battle scenes are not real but staged from maneouvres.

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