An Onlooker in France 1917-1919

Chapter 3 Men resting. La Boisselle.

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r-bikes, lorries or any old thing in or on which they could get a lift. After dinner they would stand near the station and hail anything passing, till they found something t

e cathedral, belfry and the theatre are, of course,

front of the theatre. He said he would. When we were looking at it he said: "Yes, I suppose it is one of th

Charlie's Bar" was always full of officers; mirth ran high, also the bills for drinks

out in the blackness with their electric torches, and led the unknowing away to blackened side-streets and up dim stairways-to what? Anyway, for an hour or

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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)”