On the Menin Road, Near Ypres: BRCS and order of St John Motor Ambulances | Imperial War Museums

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Object description

image: four motor ambulances drive along a road that runs across the composition. In the foreground German prisoners carry a wounded man on a stretcher across a bridge over a large flooded shell hole, whilst a man of the Royal Army Medical Corps and another man stand to the right amongst shattered tree stumps. The whole foreground is a scene of devastation.

History note

Imperial War Museum commission

Inscription

David A. Baxter

Object details

Category

Related period

First World War (content)

Creator

Baxter, David A

Materials

Support: paper

medium: Watercolour

Dimensions

Support: Height 713 mm, Width 1523 mm

Catalogue number

Art.IWM ART 3238

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