Gassed
image: a side on view of a line of soldiers being led along a duckboard by a medical orderly. Their eyes are bandaged as a
result of exposure to gas and each man holds on to the shoulder of the man in front. One of the line has his leg raised in an exaggerated
posture as though walking up a step, and another veers out of the line with his back to the viewer. There is another line of temporarily
blinded soldiers in the background, one soldier leaning over vomiting onto the ground. More gas-affected men lie in the foreground, one of
them drinking from a water-bottle. The crowd of wounded soldiers continues on the far side of the duckboard, and the tent ropes of a
dressing station are visible in the right of the composition. A football match is being played in the background, lit by the evening
sun. Date: 1919 (First World War).
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