Attacking Gallery

The Canadians at Ypres - William Barnes Wollen

'The Canadians at Ypres 1915' - This depicts the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at Bellewaerde Ridge on 8th May 1915. At that time the Regiment was part of the 80th Brigade, 27th Division, British Expeditionary Force. The Stonewall Brigade was under the command of General Snow. Original painting is in the PPCLI Regimental Museum at the Museum of the Regiments in Calgary, Alberta, Canada Date: 1915

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Panjdeh incident - Russian encounter with Afghan forces at Pul-i-Khishty (Brick Bridge)

Panjdeh incident - Russian encounter with Afghan forces at Pul-i-Khishty (Brick Bridge) . The 'incident' of 1885 was a diplomatic crisis between the British Empire and the Russian Empire caused by Russian expansion south-eastwards towards the Emirate of Afghanistan and the British Raj (India). After nearly completing the Russian conquest of Central Asia (Russian Turkestan) Russian forces captured an Afghan border fort. Seeing a threat to India, Britain came close to threatening war but both sides backed down and the matter was settled by diplomacy. The effect was to stop further Russian expansion in Asia, except for the Pamir Mountains and to define the north-western border of Afghanistan. Date: 1885

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The storming of the trenches round Loos by Fortunino Matania

The Storming of the Trenches round Loos: British Soldiers Rushing the German Positions, September 25 1915. "Faster, Boys! Give Them Hell!" British Infantry stroming an enemy trench near Loos during the Allied advance in Artois, September 25-27. Illustration by Fortunino Matania in The Sphere. Date: 1915

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