Portrait of a German prisoner during the Battle of Menin Road Ridge
20 September 1917. Lieutenant Ernest Brooks

Q 2860

This photograph of a German prisoner, captured near Potijze during the Battle of Menin Road Ridge, was taken by Ernest Brooks.

Brooks took many of the Imperial War Museum’s most iconic photographs. Formerly of the Daily Mirror, he was the first and longest-serving official photographer. Initially appointed as official photographer to the Royal Navy during the Dardanelles campaign, Brooks transferred to the Western Front in 1916 to cover the Battle of the Somme. He remained there, interspersed with brief deployments to Italy and the Grand Fleet, until the end of the war.