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"Inconnu"
Bone, Sir W. Muirhead, 1917, Publisher's print
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33580
Title
"Inconnu"
Description
Accompanying text reads:
"The grave of some officer of man whose body could not be identified is a common sight in this war, in which an unusually large percentage of casualties are caused by shell-fire and bombs, and some of the dead remain for a long time out of reach in No Man's Land. Some of the unknown are buried by their comrades, and some by their enemies, the graves bearing such inscriptions, in English, French, or German, as "Two unknown Germans buried here", "Unknown. He died for his country," or "Here rests an English soldier." The grave seen here was at the edge of a little wood near Estrees."
Artist / maker
Bone, Sir W. Muirhead
Date
1917
Size
14.7 x 21.6 cm
Type
Publisher's print
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Crown Copyright
You can find more information on
War Graves for WW1 Dead on The Western Front
on The Great War, 1914-1918 website.
Muirhead Bone was Britain's first official war artist and also a driving force behind the foundation of the Imperial War Museum. Find out more about the history and collections of the museum from the
Imperial War Museum
website.
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Muirhead Bone and World War One
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