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Members of the 2nd Battalion at the Menin Crossroads, 22nd October 1914. The Menin Crossroads was painted in 1925 by Fortunino Matania, an Italian born illustrator working on behalf of the British Ministry of Propaganda. The painting is set in the late afternoon of 22nd October 1914 in a moment of brief respite during heavy fighting around Ypres. The much-reduced 2nd Battalion APWO Yorkshire Regiment (as the regiment was called at the time) were tasked with defending the Menin Road for around three weeks. The scene is set with the battalion’s only two machine guns either side of the tree lined Ypres to Menin Road, with officers pausing to review the situation in the background, while the wounded are tended inside and outside the ruined house which serves as their temporary field hospital.
The Green Howards Regimental Museum
Richmond
Title
Menin Crossroads, 22nd October 1914
Date
1924–1925
Medium
oil paint
Measurements
H 108 x W 151 cm
Accession number
RICGH:GH400
Acquisition method
commissioned by the Regiment, 1923
Work type
Painting
The Green Howards Regimental Museum
Trinity Church Square, Richmond, North Yorkshire DL10 4QN England
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