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Snow-spattered Tommies
Snow-spattered Tommies
A snow-covered British working party, pausing for the camera before they move off. They are all wearing steel helmets and many of them are holding shovels. They are all standing on a muddy road in front of a brick building. The nickname 'Tommy' entered into general usage after the Rudyard Kipling poems, 'Tommy' and 'To Thomas Atkins' (1892), which pay homage to the sturdy character of the aver…
Contributors
- Ernest, British official photographer Brooks
Subject
- Clothing
- Helmets
- Military personnel
- Mud
- Shovels
- Snow (precipitation)
- Workers
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Contributors
- Ernest, British official photographer Brooks
Subject
- Clothing
- Helmets
- Military personnel
- Mud
- Shovels
- Snow (precipitation)
- Workers
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Rights
- Available under Creative Commons license; Attribution, Non-commercial, ShareAlike
Issue date
- 2005
- 1914 - 1920
- 1914/1920
- 2005
Identifier
- 74546102
Extent
- 1 online resource
Is part of
- http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1219
Year
- 2005
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-04-06T12:18:00.616Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-05-31T08:45:23.984Z