POSTER: 'THE GUERRE IS OVER', FANCY DRESS BALL, ALAN MAURICE LEWIS

Poster advertising a fancy dress ball with a watercolour image of a woman with a dress and a red flower in her dark brown hair holding hands and dancing with a man dressed in a light blue Pierrot style costume with pink pom poms.

The heading at the top of the poster 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', and between the two subjects in the image there is a slogan reading 'Bring your Mademoiselle!!' in white lettering.

Frame: reframed on acid free backing board in a wooden frame with gold interior.

The poster was painted in watercolour by Alan Maurice Lewis, artist with the 6th Australian Field Ambulance. The Ball advertised in the poster was held only four days after the Armistice.

Flixecourt is a commune in the Somme, France, close to Villers-Bretonneux where some of the fiercest battles took place during World War One.