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A few people commented on the possibility that the photograph described as fallen British soldiers actually portrays fallen German soldiers. Some thoughts on this 
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Here& #39;s the thread in question: https://twitter.com/CarlaJeanStokes/status/1292835643072999424?s=20">https://twitter.com/CarlaJean...
Of course I think it& #39;s 100% possible that these are indeed German soldiers. I& #39;m definitely NOT a uniforms expert (other than being able to recognize helmets in a crowd).
I think it definitely takes a community to describe a photograph - particularly one that was taken 100 years ago. Archival description is a big job for any institution (let alone one with millions of photographs in their archives).
Many organizations simply don& #39;t have the resources to thoroughly describe their holdings, or to return to those descriptions on a periodic basis to check for the need for revision. This includes heavy hitters like LAC in Canada.
In a perfect world, we& #39;d have all the info we need to describe photographs. Even in a less perfect world, they& #39;d pair a photographic materials expert (me) with a uniform expert (someone else) and someone with a meticulous knowledge of day-to-day FWW events (someone else else).
This level of person-power almost never happens. Some museums open themselves up to crowd-sourcing information, which is exactly what we& #39;re doing here.
But we have other tools at our disposal, including comparing John Warwick Brooke& #39;s other photographs portraying the fallen that were taken in the same set as the one I originally linked.
I& #39;m going to post the links here, because as with the original in question, there isn& #39;t an option to download these, and I& #39;m going to respect the @I_W_M decision to disallow that.
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205076449">https://www.iwm.org.uk/collectio...
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205264012">https://www.iwm.org.uk/collectio...
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205239116">https://www.iwm.org.uk/collectio...
Regardless of the nationality of the fallen soldiers in the photograph - and I really wish the archival descriptions were as accurate as possible, AND I definitely strive for accuracy in my own work -
