We’ve got plenty of men. The company's filing status is listed as Active and its File Number is L19000115637. John Nash (seated on ground) as a Private soldier with a bombing section of the Artists Rifles, possibly the same section he commanded as a Corporal at the time of the attack (detail, National Portrait Gallery x127172, Creative Commons licence). ( Log Out /  cit., p. 48. [2], The smaller of two studies by John Nash for ‘Over the Top’ in the Imperial War Museum, this was entitled ‘The Counter Attack’. Here John also painted ‘Oppy Wood, 1917’, while Paul began one of his most famous war paintings ‘The Menin Road’. It is held by Imperial War Museum, London. Letter 15 January 1974 to Joseph Darracott, Keeper, Art and Design History, Imperial War Museum, quoted in Rothenstein, op. The others move to the right without looking back. 3, (London, 1948)], It was in fact pure murder and I was lucky to escape untouched. The others move to the right without looking back. The Artists Rifles, in reserve (part of the 190th Infantry Brigade of the Royal Naval Division) behind the northern part of the salient, were ordered up to the front line to make a counterattack, led by A and B Companies. William’ Fraser’s letters cover his naval training in the latter part of 1918. The work was commissioned by the Ministry of Information and painted in a rented seed-shed at Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire. ( Log Out /  So you see I have very special memories as I was in charge of about fourteen men of the Bomber section… It was bitterly cold and we were easy targets against the snow and in daylight… I think the vivid memory of the occasion helped me when I painted the picture and provoked whatever intensity of feeling may be found in it… [5]. Nash was one of the 12 that survived spared. [8] Captain C. H. Dowden, 190 Brigade War Diary, UK National Archives, WO95/3117. Over the top painting Inc. & Renovations . Private Bright Fraser ended his war in captivity having spent most of his service life as a cook behind the lines. © IWM (Art.IWM ART 3907). The remainder of my platoon, now only four men – two of whom were wounded – and myself, took cover in a shell hole. The Brothers Two: The War Letters of William & Bright Fraser 1st Artists' Rifles at Marcoing, 30th December 1917, https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Over_the_Top_(painting)?oldid=2360973. Lee was on the right of the attack, with a platoon of about fifteen men; after about thirty yards, they walked into heavy German machine gun fire which especially caught the men on his left. The painting measures 79.8 × 108 centimetres (31.4 × 42.5 in). We had to ‘hole up’ in craters and shell holes till nightfall and then got back to our original line. 323. http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80000322. The blue square indicated B Company of the Artists’ Rifles.

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