Longatte, May 1917

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Accession Number ART02965
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 16.2 x 31.6 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description watercolour over black pencil on paper
Maker Lindsay, Daryl Ernest
Place made France: Picardie, Somme, Albert Bapaume Area, Longatte
Date made 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Depicts a landscape scene at Longatte, Albert Bapaume 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.