NAM.1965-05-48-3-2

Study of a First World War soldier, a preliminary sketch for the oil painting, ‘The Second Battle of Ypres (Frezenberg)’, by William Barns Wollen, 1917 (c). Page from a sketchbook of 29 sheets of charcoal and white wash drawings by William Barns Wollen, signed ‘W B Wollen’ on the front inside cover 1917 (c). Study for the oil painting, ‘The Second Battle of Ypres (Frezenberg)’. The sketch is of a wounded Canadian infantrymen of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry defending the Frezenberg Ridge at the 2nd Battle of Ypres in 1915. In the finished oil painting he can just be seen in an entrenched position, behind an officwer and to the left of a soldier throwing a grenade. Associated with Battle of Frezenberg, World War One, Western Front (1914-1918), 1915.

Ypres, 2nd Battle of, 1915 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918), Frezenberg, Battle of, 1915 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)