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Unidentified photographer
France: Lieut. Ernest Brooks, official photographer on the Western Front
1917
Photograph
Imperial War Museum
Photographs, Catalogue number: Q 24087
LL/78473
(Accessed: 10 November 2017)
Ernest Brooks, the first British official photographer to be appointed, seen in a trench on the Western Front. He is carrying a Goerz Anschutz plate camera. Brooks served as a photographer on the Western Front from March to 1916 to early 1919. He also covered the Dardanelles Campaign in 1915, the Italian Front and naval subjects. After the war he returned to press photography.
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