Ruined church in Belgium

Depicts the ruins of a church in Ypres. The town sustained heavy damage due to the intense fighting that took place there during the First World War. Captured by the Germans early during the war in1914, Ypres endured three major battles over the next few years, in which possession of the town changed hands between the Allies and the Germans. The most devestating for the town was the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917 (3rd Battle of Ypres), which obliterated the town through heavy artillery fire. This is one of 5 pen and ink reproductions of original pencil drawings by Sapper James Warren Stewart from his sketchbook. Whereabouts of the original sketchbook is unknown.