29th Infantry Batallion advancing over "No Man's Land" through the German barbed wire and heavy fire during the Battle of Vimy Ridge

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29th Infantry Batallion advancing over "No Man's Land" through the German barbed wire and heavy fire during the Battle of Vimy Ridge

Item ID number:

3192389

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

Apr. 1917

Reference:

Accession number: 1964-114 NPC, Box number: 1272

Item no. (creator):

O-1162

Type of material:

Photographs

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3192389

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29th Infantry Batallion advancing over "No Man's Land" through the German barbed wire and heavy fire during the Battle of Vimy Ridge
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Date(s):

Apr. 1917

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Place:

Vimy Ridge, France,

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 photograph
Negative Film B/W - cellulose nitrate

Language of material:

English

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Photographer: Castle, William Ivor, 1877-1947

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General Note:

Described as part of the Lest We Forget project., Described by the MSTRSLID project., This is the retouched version of the original photograph (mikan # 3233066), used in the Canadian War Records Office exhibitions of battle photographs, with added shell bursts and dead soldiers in the foreground. The bodies are believed to have originated from official photograph O-1188 (Mikan no. 3233067).

Citation/reference note:

The link between the retouched or composite O-1162, intended for exhibition purposes, and O-1188, was documented by Dr. Laura Brandon, Historian of War Art at the Canadian War Museum, in her article: Words and Pictures: Writing Atrocity into Canada's First World War Official Photographs, JOURNAL OF CANADIAN ART HISTORY, vol. 31:2.

Availability of other formats note:

Slide no.: 4345, Slide no.: 4363

Restrictions on access note:

Slides made from photographs in the holdings of the National Photography Collection and copied from material in other repositories. Slides are located in the staff Art & Photography library, thus are not available for consultation. Please refer to original material, where available.

Source:

Government

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1982-023 NPC

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1964-114 NPC
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Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]
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Box [DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE 1964-114] 1272

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Copy negative [1964-114 NPC] PA-001020

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Credit: W.I. Castle/Canada. Dept. of National Defence/Library and Archives Canada/PA-001020
Restrictions on use: Nil
Copyright: Expired

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29th Infantry Batallion advancing over "No Man's Land" through the German barbed wire and heavy fire during the Battle of Vimy Ridge

29th Infantry Batallion advancing over "No Man's Land" through the German barbed wire and heavy fire during the Battle of Vimy Ridge