An Onlooker in France 1917-1919

Chapter 10 Howitzer in Action.

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from Arques to the station at the foot of Cassel Hill was always lined on each side by lorries, guns, pontoons and all manner of war material. A gloomy road, thick wi

to the Somme, and the little "H?tel Sauvage" stood for the "Godbert," the "Cathedral" and "Charlie's Bar" all in one. The dining-room, with its long row of windows showing the wonderful view, like the Rubens landscape in the National Gallery, was packed every night for the most part with fighting boys from the Salient, who had come in for a couple of hours to eat, drink, play the piano and sing, forgetting their misery and discomfort for the momen

e was that of the Somme. One look from the eyes of Suzanne, one smile, and t

hat time. Whether the marriage ever came off I know not. Certainly not before the end of the war, a

room across the courtyard and can see Beach Thomas by his open window, in his shirt-sleeves, writing like fury at some terrific

iness; his face drawn very fine, and intense sadness in his very kind eyes; also Percival Phillips-that

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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)”