File:Two boys greasing their feet (4688531192).jpg

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English: Cold feet, Western Front, during World War I. This photograph shows two young members of one of the Labour Corps, probably the South African Native Labour Contingent (SANLC). They are sitting in the snow by one of the Labour Camp huts. They have their boots off and according to the original caption are greasing their feet, presumably to give some relief against the cold.

This image perhaps gives a glimpse of how strange and alien Europe must have appeared to many of the Labour Corps men, and how far away home must have seemed. For the South Africans, for example, it was a six-week sea voyage from their home port to France.
[Original reads: 'Two boys greasing their feet.']

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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 74549616
  • nls:derivative 74408983
  • nls:dodprojectid 74462370
  • Photographic prints
  • Black-and-white prints (photographs)
  • Feet (animal components)
  • Propaganda
  • Sitting
  • Snow (precipitation)
  • Soldiers
  • War photography
  • Treating (health care function)
  • 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
  • SANCL
  • South African Native Labour Contingent
  • Labour Corps
  • Labor Corps
  • grease
  • feet
  • boots
  • cold
  • winter
  • south africans
  • south african
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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