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Gordons preparing wire entanglements to take up to the line
Gordons preparing wire entanglements to take up to the line
Dressed in their regimental kilts and with puttees on their lower legs, these Gordon Highlanders are uncoiling some belts of barbed wire so as to make a new line of defence. These soldiers would have been part of a working party. It is unlikely that these defences are in the frontline, since none of the soldiers are carrying weapons. Deadly coils of barbed wire such as these, with no-man’s lan…
Contributors
- John Warwick Brooke
Subject
- Great Britain. Army. Gordon Highlanders
- Barbed wire
- Coils (spiral objects)
- Kilts
- Military uniforms
- Puttees
- Soldiers
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Contributors
- John Warwick Brooke
Subject
- Great Britain. Army. Gordon Highlanders
- Barbed wire
- Coils (spiral objects)
- Kilts
- Military uniforms
- Puttees
- Soldiers
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
- 74548090
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
- 2014-04-06T13:22:37.151Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-05-31T08:46:05.932Z