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Lieutenant Alfred Bastien
Canadian Gunners in the Mud, Passchendaele
1917
Oil on Canvas
Canadian War Museum
LL/54849
Bastien depicts a group of gunners struggling to release one of their guns from the mud. The focus on the gun, rather than on the soldiers, underlines the importance of this weapon to success on the battlefield.
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