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Although painted some years after the event, this scene was the work of an eyewitness who served through the entire conflict and was typical of the devastated landscape of the Western Front during the First World War (1914–1918). ‘Warrington Road’ was a track in the Ypres Salient, running from Shrapnel Corner on the Lille Road out of Ypres, past Zillebeke Lake, to the mid-point on the road between Hell-Fire Corner and Zillebeke village. Like ‘Regent Street’, and ‘Rotten Row’ in Plugstreet (Ploegsteert) Wood, it demonstrates the troops’ habit of giving nicknames to well-travelled routes. Little more than duckboard walkways through featureless, muddy landscapes, such ‘roads’ were often the only way to pass, even at the risk of being shot at by snipers.
Title
Warrington Road, 1917
Date
c.1926
Medium
oil on paper
Measurements
H 55 x W 71.1 cm
Accession number
NAM. 1992-12-45
Acquisition method
gift from Mr Adrian T. Cooper, 1992
Work type
Painting
National Army Museum
Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, Greater London SW3 4HT England
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