Landrécies, 25 August 1914

Landrécies, 25 August 1914.

Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right 'W B Wollen 1915', by William Barns Wollen (1857-1936), 1915, exhibited at the Royal Academy 1915 No 664.

The street-fighting in the outskirts of Landrécies, a town north-west of Le Cateau in Northern France, took place during the night of 25-26 August 1914, in the early part of World War One (1914-1918).