A crude shelter for soldiers in the left-hand corner contrasts with the ruins of the Cloth Hall in Ypres, which the Canadians defended during the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915. The cloud of smoke suggests that an artillery shell has just exploded in the town.
Painted by Lieutenant Cyril Henry Barraud
Beaverbrook Collection of War Art
CWM 19710261-0021
Canada and the First World War
