This popular composite photograph  depicts British soldiers bidding farewell to their relatives outside Victoria Station. The photograph, an extremely skillful and expressive example of the art of photomontage, was made up of at least twenty different photographs. Although a fictional image, the familiarity of the scene ensured that it achieved widespread publication and popularity in Britain during and after the First World War.

Francis James Mortimer 1874-1944 was a British journalist and photographer. Early in his career he was a pictorialist and was a member of the Linked Ring Brotherhood.
 
Editor of The Amateur Photographer and a founder member of The London Salon, Mortimer also worked closely with the London Camera Club and became President of the RPS. The sea was his favourite subject and he often risked his life, tied to a ship‘s mast, to get the most dramatic shots of crashing waves. He also resurrected the combination printing of the 1850s, producing dramatic, if impossible, images.