File:Dominion journalists visit messenger dog depot in France (4688607132).jpg

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English: The value of war photography is not restricted to capturing the conditions and consequences of battles; it also records the more curious or obscure details of life during wartime. This is one such detail, a field of lines of individual kennels, each housing a messenger dog. From this photograph it appears that the dogs had more spacious living conditions than many of the men at the front.

Messenger dogs were found mainly at Battersea dogs home and trained initially at the War Dog Training School in Shoeburyness, England, before being taken to the main messenger dog kennels at Etaples, France. From there, dogs were allocated to sectional kennels behind the front lines. Each sectional kennel had on average 48 dogs and 16 handlers.
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Dominion Journalists visit messenger dog depot in France.']

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Author National Library of Scotland
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  • World War One official British photographs
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  • Photographic prints
  • France
  • Black-and-white prints (photographs)
  • Dogs
  • Journalists
  • Kennels (animal housing)
  • Messengers
  • Propaganda
  • Visiting
  • War photography
  • Photojournalism
  • World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front
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  • owner:name nationallibraryofscotland
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  • great war
  • 1914-1918
  • great
  • war
  • The Great War
  • First World War
  • World War I
  • Kennel
  • War Dog
  • War Dogs
Camera location46° 42′ 38.41″ N, 1° 43′ 05.48″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo
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