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Depicts three German prisoners in retreat, two wearing helmets, walking along Wytschaete Road , through a war damaged landscape. This work relates to the July 31st Offensive. Behind them on the road are motor vehicles and, to the right, hessian screens for camouflage. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling to France in December 1916, remaining there until May 1917, making records of the Australian involvement in the war. He was formally appointed as an official war artist, attached to the AIF, in May 1917, working in France and London throughout the war. His commission was terminated in March 1920.
Depicts three German prisoners in retreat, two wearing helmets, walking along Wytschaete Road, through a war damaged landscape. This work relates to the July 31st Offensive. Behind them on the road ar
Depicts three German prisoners in retreat, two wearing helmets, walking along Wytschaete Road , through a war damaged landscape. This work relates to the July 31st Offensive. Behind them on the road a
Depicts three German prisoners in retreat, two wearing helmets, walking along Wytschaete Road , through a war damaged landscape. This work relates to the July 31st Offensive. Behind them on the road a
Depicts three German prisoners in retreat, two wearing helmets, walking along Wytschaete Road, through a war damaged landscape. This work relates to the July 31st Offensive. Behind them on the road ar
Depicts three German prisoners in retreat, two wearing helmets, walking along Wytschaete Road, through a war damaged landscape. This work relates to the July 31st Offensive. Behind them on the road ar
Depicts a war damaged landscape with a roadway winding through it. Dyson wrote that this scene depicted, 'Caterpillar Gully, Mametz Road, Somme, 1917'. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war
