Street in Bapaume, April 1917

Depicts a street scene in Bapaume of ruined buildings. A bottle water tiller can be seen to the right with a wheelbarrow in the background. The town of Bapaume saw major fighting between the Germans and the Allies in August 1918, resulting in the destruction of the town as depicted in this work. Australian forces moved into the town in September 1918. Daryl Lindsay was the youngest member of the talented Lindsay family that included the artists Lionel, Norman, Percy and Ruby. Lindsay enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces in 1915. He served in France as a Private in the Army Service Corps, as a driver, and at the Divisional Headquarters with official war historian and correspondent C E W Bean in 1917. Early in 1918 Lindsay began working as an Official Medical Artist attached to the Queen's Hospital at Sidcup in Kent, England, for which he received the rank honorary lieutenant. Here he produced medical illustrations for plastic surgery.