recto: Division Headquarters, Ypres. "G" clerks & draughtsmen's room; verso: Memorial page from "Scotch Collegian" [page 6]

Place Europe: Belgium, Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres
Accession Number ART92337.005
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 16.2 x 22.1 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description ink on paper adhered to sketchbook sheet; ink on paper adhered to sketchbook sheet
Maker Lothian, John George
Place made Belgium: Flanders, West-Vlaanderen, Ypres
Date made 1917
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Unlicensed copyright

Description

recto: An interior view of the 3rd Division Head Quarters at Ypres, where Lothian was stationed during 1917.
verso: A list of names of former Scotch College students who died in the First World War. The list is superimposed over a scene of a cross on a hill near the sea with a hat a rifle placed over the grave, and a starry night sky. A ghostly angelic figure hovers over the grave.