Title
Recapture of guns, Bullecourt
(circa 1918)
Artist
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Details
- Date
- (circa 1918)
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- charcoal
- Dimensions
- 67.3 x 100.6 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. "M. Napier Waller". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased 1918
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 5838
- Copyright
- © Courtesy Trustees of the Waller Estate
- Artist information
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Napier Waller
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About
'A historic and exceptional incident on a Bullecourt sector. It was exceptional because it is seldom that an artilleryman gets to close grips with the enemy. In April, 1917, the Germans captured a number of the guns of the 1st Division, Australian Artillery. The infuriated gunners immediately counter-attacked, and in the most unorthodox manner. Not only the gunners, but every man available - cooks (with huge meat knives, axes, etc.), drivers, and orderlies - rushed in admidst the greatest disorder, a howlin, cursing, but determined rablle, and not only succeeded in recapturing their guns, but also in securing a large number of prisoners'.
Mervyn Napier Waller, 1918
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
War sketches in black and white, watercolour and oil, Anthony Horderns' Fine Art Gallery, , 03 Dec 1918 -
Mad through the darkness: Australian artists and the Great War, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 Apr 2015–11 Oct 2015
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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The Chaplain, War sketches on the Somme Front, 'Ex-Bombardier Waller and his war pictures', pg. 32-39, Melbourne, 1918, 52 (illus.), 53. titled 'Recapture of guns, Bullecourt Front'
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