An Onlooker in France 1917-1919

Author: Sir William Orpen

Chapter 1 TO FRANCE (APRIL 1917)

Word Count: 461 | Released on: 01/12/2017

us. Some old-time Tommies, taking everything for granted, smoked and laughed and told funny stories. Others had the look of dumb animals in pain, going to what th

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th men who knew they would run a big chance of never seeing England again, and were certainly going to suffer terrible hardships from cold, filth, discomfort and fatigue. There they stood, sat and lay-a mass of humanity which would be shortly bundled off the boat at Boulogne like so many animals, to wait in the rain, perhaps fo

things). It was an excellent lunch, and, as we were not to report at G.H.Q. till the next day, we walked about looki

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An Onlooker in France 1917-1919

Sir William Orpen Young Adult

“Sir, William Newenham Montague Orpen, KBE (1878-1931) was an Irish-born British portrait painter. He studied art at the Metropolitan School and at the Slade School in London where, at the time, great emphasis was put on the study of old masters. He was a fine draughtsman and a popular painter of the well-to-do in the period leading up to World War I. Orpen was made an official war painter of the First World War and in 1917 he travelled to the Western Front. He produced drawings and paintings of privates, dead soldiers and German prisoners of war along with official portraits of generals and politicians. (Excerpt from Goodreads)”