Ruins in Bapaume, March 1917

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Accession Number ART02962
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 35.5 x 24 cm [sight]
Object type Work on paper
Physical description black watercolour with black pencil on paper
Maker Lindsay, Daryl Ernest
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Albert Bapaume Area, Bapaume
Date made 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Unlicensed copyright

Description

Depicts a street scene of ruined buildingsin the Bapaume, Bapaume Albert Area, Western Front. 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.