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Three waves

Raemaekers, Louis, 1919, Chromolithograph
Three waves
Three waves
Three waves
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Item no
33442
Title
Three waves
Description
"They were like bees out of a hive, the more one shot down the more seemed to come .... The enemy relied yesterday on the power of his artillery and the weight of his infantry assault. What wire was not cut by his guns was attacked by the snippers [sic] of his assault troops, standing in front of the wire, spaced by their officers, and mown down repeatedly by our fire. The supporting waves advanced over the bodies of their dead and wounded, and other masses came behind them, and the German commanders were ruthless in the way they sacrificed life in the hope of overwhelming our defence by sheer weight of numbers. " - Philip Gibbs, in a dispatch dated 22nd March 1918."
Artist / maker
Date
1919
Size
23.9 x 34.1 cm
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.