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‘The Dazzling Light’, 1918 (c). Print, Chromolithograph reproduction of an original by A Pearse, 1918 (c), published as part of a mounted set by S H and Company Limited, Clerkenwell, London, 1920 (c). Depicting a man asleep on a cliff edge with the sea below, and in the sky a troop of figures all with weapons dressed in armour and some are mounted. Associated with the battle of Mons, Western Front, World War One and the Boer War. The image is mounted onto thin card with the title and explanatory note printed below. From a collection of items relating to the career of George Arthur William Kennard. Kennard joined the Buffs Regiment and served with them in South Africa and World War One, and he may have later transferred to the Royal Artillery.

Mons, Battle of, 1914 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)