'Reading' WW1 Photographs

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One of the challenges of the Bottesford Parish WW1 Centenary Project is to interpret the photographs donated for addition to the digital archive. The untutored eye can easily miss the significance of apparently minor details for dating and providing information about what and whom is depicted. We are very fortunate that one of our volunteers, Jonathan D’Hooghe, has wide experience in ‘reading’ 1st World War photographs. The slides in the gallery are a selection of images we used to raise discussion at Project Meetings in the light of Jonathan’s expert comments.