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English: Washing, Western Front, during World War I. In this photograph, a British soldier can be seen washing his face with water in a small bucket, which he has apparently filled at the nearby stream or water-filled ditch. He has laid his uniform jacket and helmet on a fallen tree but the ground is so muddy that he is still wearing his waders.

'Tommy' entered into general usage after the Rudyard Kipling poems, 'Tommy' and 'To Thomas Atkins' (1892), which pay homage to the sturdy character of the average British soldier.
[Original reads: 'A Tommy making his toilet.']

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Author National Library of Scotland
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  • World War One official British photographs
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  • nls:dodid 74549360
  • nls:derivative 74408129
  • nls:dodprojectid 74462370
  • Photographic prints
  • Flanders
  • France
  • Black-and-white prints (photographs)
  • Buckets (vessels)
  • Ditches
  • Propaganda
  • Soldiers
  • Streams
  • War photography
  • Washing (cleaning)
  • Photojournalism
  • 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
  • washing
  • cleaning
  • face
  • bucket
  • mud
  • wet
  • trees
Camera location46° 44′ 23.5″ N, 4° 44′ 45.93″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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