This work was a commission from the Ministry of Information and was listed as complete on 15 July 1918. Art.IWMART1153, Paul Nash

This work was a commission from the ministry of information and was listed as complete on 15 july 1918. Image: the view across a battlefield undergoing heavy bombardment. The shattered landscape is disected by an angular duckboard path, along which a mule train is travelling, their small figues just visible in the distance. The animals rear and panic at a nearby explosion as the water from a flooded trench shoots up from the surface. In the sky there are large clouds of yellow and grey coloured smoke, with rubble flying high into the air in the foreground. Date: 1918 (First World War).