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PHOTOGRAPH: POSTER - 'THE GUERRE IS OVER'

1993
Overview

Colour 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!'

Historical information

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.

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-43-1993.306
Item type
Width
120 mm
Height or length
190 mm
Inscriptions and markings

Greg Manzie, Glyde Gallery, Clyde St, Mosman Park

Year
Statement of significance

Social history of W.W.I.

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