April 5, 2024
WWI British RAMC Trench Art Painting YPRES BATTLE 1917
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ORIGINAL WORLD WAR I TRENCH ART PAINTING - HAND PAINTED - NOT A COPY OR PRINTSee the other WWI Trench Art Drawings and Paintings of places in Nord/Calais, France I have listed by this artist. ARTIST: Lance Corporal Hugh F. Ward, 77621, 97th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC), 30th Division, B.E.F. Ward served in the 97th Field Ambulance (a mobile medical unit, not a vehicle) during WWI and painted scenes of his war service. Many scenes show field hospitals or aid stations. In WWII he as a sergeant in the British Home Guard and turned his creative attention to poetry about the war.SIGNED: initialed "H.W." in lower right cornerSUBJECT: View across No Man's Land between Ypres and Messines in 1917. Ward painted this while he was here before, during, and after the Battle of Messines.DATE: circa 1917MEDIUM: Original hand painted watercolor on paper. True trench art done on the spot at the Western Front, so it is small.SIZE: 3.5" x 5"; lightly mounted on larger brown paper with title written. It is lightly glued in two corners and would be easy to remove from the brown paper.CONDITION: Very good. See scans. BACK: blankSOURCE: From the archives of the World War History & Art Museum (WWHAM) in Alliance, Ohio. Our web page should be launched in April or May and our Grand Opening is planned for Memorial Day weekend, 2011. Look
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