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Camp near Pozieres on the Somme, February 1917

Lantern slide, World War One, Western Front (1914-1916), 1917.

Located on the Bazentin-Pozieres Road, the camp consisted of rows of prefabricated Nissen huts. Made from a half-cylindrical skin of corrugated steel, the hut was named after its inventor, Major Peter Norman Nissen of the 29th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Cheap and easy to mass-produce, Nissen huts were also portable.

From a box of 50 lantern slides.

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 1978-11-157-29-19

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum, Out of Copyright

Location

National Army Museum, Study collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1978-11-157-29-19