The Menin Road (painting)
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The Menin Road is a large oil painting by Paul Nash completed in 1919 that depicts a First World War battlefield. Nash was commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee to paint a battlefield sc
The Menin Road
The Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, sometimes called "Battle of the Menin Road", was the third British general attack of the Third Battle of Ypres in the First World War. The battle took place from 20
The Menin Road (painting)
…proposed, national Hall of Remembrance, which was never built. He decided to depict a section of the Ypres Salient, that had been devastated during the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, at the top of the Bassevillebeek Spur, where the British called a cluster of German pill boxes Tower Hamlets. Nash originally intended to call the…
A British Vickers machine gun crew during the battle
An Australian Battalion have tea and food in the first support trench on the evening before the battle on Westhoek Ridge, 19 September 1917
The British front line and the German defences in the area east of Ypres, mid-1917
German troop dispositions opposite 1 ANZAC Corps, 1 Sept 1917.