Canadian Gunners in the Mud

Alfred Bastien · 1917

Why it's great

Canadian gunners push and pull an artillery piece through deep mud at Passchendaele in late 1917, one of the worst battles of the war. Alfred Bastien, a Belgian painter working for the Canadian War Memorials, painted this.

🏛️ Part of history

World War I (1914–1918) — Canadian gunners push and pull an artillery piece through deep mud at Passchendaele in late 1917, one of the worst battles of the war.

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About the artist

Alfred Bastien

1873–1955 · died in Uccle

Alfred Bastien was a Belgian painter born in 1873. He painted huge panoramas, then during World War I he was a war artist for the Canadian War Memorials, making large paintings of the front at Passchendaele. He lived in Brussels and died in Uccle in 1955.