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Picture No 10821659
Date 1917
Description Erecting a Nissen hut in the snow 1917
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Buildings on the British front: putting up a Nissen hut in the snow, 1917. Devised by Major Peter Norman Nissen of the 29th Company Royal Engineers of the British Army in April 1916, Nissen huts proved popular during World War One as an easily portable and economical building.
Source Official photograph in The Illustrated London News, 20 February 1917, page 172
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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