Bringing up the ammunition, Flanders, Autumn 1917

Place Europe: Belgium, Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres
Accession Number ART03333
Collection type Art
Measurement Framed: 183.5 cm x 274 cm x 14 cm; Unframed: 153 cm x 244.5 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil on canvas
Maker Power, H Septimus
Place made United Kingdom: England
Date made 1920
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Australian soldiers with teams of six horses pulling linked half limbers loaded with boxes of machine gun ammunition. The horses are struggling through the mud as they cross a small river.