Stretcher bearers
Art ART03605.054.001 First World War, 1914-1918Depicts a team of four stretcher bearers carrying a wounded soldier at shoulder height, returning from the the Hindenberg outpost line of attack.
Stretcher bearers Accession Number: ART92170
Description
Depicts several soldiers in uniform, some wearing tin helmets, and stretcher bearers carrying an injured soldier through a war damaged landscape with trenches in a First World War battlefield. George Benson (1886- 1960) studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, from 1903 to 1904 and worked with the poster designer, Harry J Weston. He was subsequently engaged in cartoon work and verse illustrations for various magazines including the 'Bulletin', Australian 'Punch' and 'Sporting and Dramatic News'. Benson enlisted in September 1914, with the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade, serving in Egypt and Gallipoli. He served in France in 1916 with the British Expeditionary Force, later undertaking a camouflage course in England and being appointed an official war artist working as Officer in Charge of Camouflage attached to the 4th Division AIF in France in 1918. Following the war he undertook work with the Australian War Records at St. John's Wood in London. Benson returned to Melbourne in 1919 and his commission was terminated in 1920.
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Accession Number
ART92170
Classification
Art
Object Type
Work on paper
Physical Description
Medium: pencil and watercolour on paper mounted on cardboard
Measurement
sheet: 25.6 x 35.8 cm
Medium
pencil and watercolour on paper mounted on cardboard
Date Made
1918
Place Made
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Acquired c.1920
Copyright
Copyright unknown
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