Smiling and warm

Labour Corps, Western Front, during World War I. This is one of a series of photographs, several of which have been attributed to John Warwick Brooke, which appear to show members of the South African Native Labour Contingent (SANLC). In this instance a group of black South Africans are shown seated around a brazier outside a wooden hut. The SANLC were discriminated against because of the racis…