PHOTOGRAPH: POSTER - 'THE GUERRE IS OVER'
1993Colour photograph of a poster showing a girl with an evening style dress, wearing a large red flower in her brown hair and a gold bangle around her upper right arm. She is holding hands, dancing with a man dressed in a Pierrot style costume/ The heading above the figures reads: The guerre is over so chuck off your khaki klobber - don mufti and come to the fancy dress ball 15th November at Flixecourt Hall.' Text in between the couple reads 'Bring your Mademoiselle!'
This poster was painted in water colour by Alan Morris Lewis, artist with the 6th Australian Field Ambulance. Flixecourt is a town in the Somme river valley, close to Villers-Bretonneux where some of the fiercest battles of WWI. were fought.
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Greg Manzie, Glyde Gallery, Clyde St, Mosman Park
Social history of W.W.I.
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