Tuesday, 1st October 1918 - Canada's Hundred Days - 55

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61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery

60th Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery

Lieutenant Abner Gladstone Virtue - 61st Fld Bty

Sgt. W. Merrifield

By Rkonigs - I took this picture.
Previously published: Facebook, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45056003

© IWM (Art.IWM ART 2473)
James McBey Damascus October 1918.
extended title: He organised the forces of the King of the Hedjaz against the Turks, 1917
One can perhaps attribute McBey's position as a successful and respectable outsider in the art world to his being self- taught, a characteristic that has sometimes
irritated the establishment. It seems entirely in keeping with this impression we have of the artist that, while recording everything he saw as he went through
Palestine and Syria with the British Expeditionary Force between 1917 and 1918, he also chose to paint the portrait of another outsider, Lawrence of Arabia, albeit one
who was rapidly becoming a celebrity.
Note: This artwork was relocated in August 1939 to a less vulnerable site outside London when the museum activated its evacuation plan.
Wellington House commission, transferred to Dept and Ministry of Information and then to the Imperial War Museum

Private Henry Pratt 475183 Canadian Machine Gun Corps Died 1 October 1918

© IWM (Q 11764)
5th Battle of Ypres. A prisoner with a man of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, 29th Division by the side of the Menin Road at Gheluvelt, 1 October 1918.

© IWM (Q 11765)
5th Battle of Ypres. A pill box and 5.9 inch howitzer captured by 29th Division at Clapham Junction, 1 October 1918.

© IWM (Q 11766)
5th Battle of Ypres. The Menin Road passing the site of Gheluvelt as it appeared three days after its capture by the 29th Division, 1 October 1918. Note pill boxes and
Royal engineers telephone on the left.

© IWM (Q 11773)
5th Battle of Ypres. Captured machine guns, trench mortar, rifles and other booty outside a pill box at Gheluvelt. Captured by the 29th Division, 1 October 1918.

© IWM (Q 11774)
5th Battle of Ypres. Engineers of 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment, Pioneers of the 29th Division, and trench mortar battery personnel of the 29th Division
repairing a plank road to the left of Hooge, building inside of mine crater to make wheeled traffic possible, 1 October 1918.

© IWM (Q 11781)
5th Battle of Ypres. Engineers of the 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment (Pioneers of the 29th Division) and trench mortar battery personnel of the 29th Division
repairing plank road to left of Hooge, building inside of mine crater to make wheeled traffic possible, 1 October 1918.

© IWM (Q 11796)
Fifth Battle of Ypres. Royal Artillery limbers and pack mules of the 29th Division on the Menin Road at Hooge, 1 October 1918. Note a crater in the foreground.