Horse-drawn transports, possible an artillery train, passing the ruined Cloth Hall, Ypres, 1917

Oil on paper with chalk and charcoal overdrawing, oil is very thin, singed and dated, by Capt Charles Gilbert Holiday, Royal Field Artillery, 1917.
Horse-drawn transports, possible an artillery train, passing the ruined Cloth Hall, Ypres, 1917.
A study of humans and animals, struggling on through the devastation, the blues and greys and reflected light suggesting wet, possibly freezing conditions.
Associated with World War One, Western Front (1914-1918).