51225: Nurses on a British ambulance train near Doullens with their pet canaries

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posted on 2024-05-09, 12:56 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

The canaries were kept not only to cheer the wounded but also to give warning of gas attacks.

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Identifier

1312.jpg | CXTIWMPHOTOS_Q_008739.jpg

Subject

Medical | Transport | Women

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Unknown

Date

Unknown

Spatial

Doullens, France

Source

Photograph

Medium

Photographic paper

Type

Photograph

Contributor

Everett Sharp

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The Imperial War Museum

Collection ID

Q 8739

Repository Name

Imperial War Museum Photographic Archive

Repository Address

Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ, UK

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Photographs Medical Transport Women

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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