Original Artwork - Page 12

Paintings and drawings made during the war, mostly by the combattants themselves

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Josephe-Felix Bouchor

Meal-time

Observer

At a crossroads. Joseph-Felix Bouchor

Standing Guard

In front of troop shelters. Joseph-Felix Bouchor

Standing Guard

Stretcher-Bearer

An illustration showing attempts at deception, in this case a diversionary infantry attack to fool the enemy using paper cut-outs and known as a

Art of Deception: "Chinese Attack"

An illustration showing camouflaging techniques used on a steel observation post.

Camouflaging an observation post

An illustration showing camouflaging techniques. in this case, a real corpse is replaced with a paper-mache stand-in.

Camouflaging

Christopher Nevinson, 1914.

Returning to the Trenches

Trajectories of artillery shells. Felix Valloton, 1917.

Verdun, 1917

Georges Scot, 1917

Attack With Gas Masks On

Collecting the dead

Part of a series of sketches of soldier's killed while crossing through wire-entanglements. Henry Camus.

Tirailleur killed in barbed-wire

Part of a series of sketches of soldier's killed while crossing through wire-entanglements. Henry Camus.

Soldier killed in barbed-wire

Part of a series of sketches of soldier's killed while crossing through wire-entanglements. Henry Camus.

Soldier killed in barbed-wire