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English: This photograph is one of a series attributed to Tom Aitken which show different processes in the construction of a new railway bridge by Royal Engineers. This view shows some of the men sawing huge baulks of timber to the correct length to make the vertical piles of the bridge.

Many of the men working on this type of project would have been time-served engineers in civilian life.
[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Our R.E. busy completing a railway bridge over a waterway in France.']

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  • World War One official British photographs
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  • nls:dodid 74549128
  • nls:derivative 74407699
  • nls:dodprojectid 74462370
  • Photographic prints
  • France
  • Black-and-white prints (photographs)
  • Engineers
  • Propaganda
  • Sawing
  • Timber (lumber)
  • War photography
  • Photojournalism
  • Piles (structural elements)
  • World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front
  • organization:library nationallibraryofscotland
  • owner:name nationallibraryofscotland
  • nls:source solrxml
  • ww1
  • wwi
  • world war one
  • great war
  • 1914-1918
  • great
  • war
  • The Great War
  • First World War
  • World War I
  • royal engineers
  • bridge
  • construction
  • wood
  • timber
  • piles
  • Combat Engineers
  • RE
  • Soldier
  • Soldiers
  • Sappers
  • Pile Driver
  • Saw
  • Two-Man Saw
Camera location44° 50′ 25.04″ N, 5° 58′ 35.62″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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