[Cargo for Blighty]

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Accession Number ART02919
Collection type Art
Measurement framed: 40 x 50 cm; unframed: 30.4 x 40.4 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on artist board
Maker Leist, Fred
Place made Belgium, France
Date made 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Depicts nurses at work aboard a hospital barge on a canal. The barges were manned by British Army Medical Corps orderlies and Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service nurses (QAIMNS, QAs). The converted barges, which were painted grey and draped with Red Cross flags, were used for conveying sick and wounded soldiers from the Western Front.

Fred Leist was appointed an official war artist in September 1917, attached to the 5th Division AIF and worked twice in France between September to December 1917 and from June to August 1918.

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