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Mounted sketches and paintings of Gallipoli, the East Mediterranean and the Western Front (1915-1917) / R.C. Perry.

  • Original object type: Artefact
  • Title: Mounted sketches and paintings of Gallipoli, the East Mediterranean and the Western Front (1915-1917) / R.C. Perry.
  • Description:

    "36. Ypres: The Cloth Hall." Painting includes legend: "Cloth Hall, Ypres, 19/7/17". On reverse: "36. Ypres: The Cloth Hall in 1917. Sketched from the shelter of a wall near the old Menin Gate. The holes in the Tower were not made by mice and there was usually something dead lying about The Grand Place; You crossed it at the double. The Hall was later flattened out and when re-building was begun apres la Guerre fini a company of sixty men was found under debris."

  • Date range: 19/07/1917
  • Depositing User: - libemu
  • Date Deposited: 03 Jun 2014 16:37
  • Last Modified: 03 Jun 2014 16:37