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Description: | image: A scene of men stacking artillery shells in a shell dump. The space is filled with men who stand in the form of a
human chain passing the shells along the line to be stacked in a pile at the end.
When Roberts had finished working for the Canadian War Memorials Fund, he was commissioned by the British War Memorials
Committee to complete this work. However, Roberts did not return to France but made preparatory sketches at Bramley Dump (IWM ART 1164 and
1889) and completed it once the war had ended. He explains this in a letter to Albert Yockney, Secretary to the Committee, in December
1918: 'I have arranged with Major Read to go to Bramley Dump near Reading on Wednesday. We have decided on Bramley because I shall be able
to see some of the smaller types of shell there, some of which I wish to paint in my picture.' (IWM War Artists Archive: Cat. No. IWM WW1
277/6)
Ministry of Information commission (Scheme 2). Commission administration transferred to Imperial War
Museum
Access | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 01/3(4-15) Royal Artillery Western Front 1914-1918 Royal Field Artillery British Army 1914-1918 Military Personnel British Army munitions / manufacture Uniforms Western Front Artillery First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Roberts, William (RA) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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