The Great War: Life in the Trenches, 1914-1918

The Great War: Life in the Trenches, 1914-1918

Courcelette from the Cemetery (1919), David Milne

A – “Canada’s Answer”: Mobilizing for War

B – Battles

• Second Battle of Ypres, 1915• Beaumont Hamel, at the Somme, 1916• Vimy Ridge, 1917• Passchendaele, 1917• Amiens, the Last One Hundred Days, and Armistice, 1918

 C – A Modern War?

• Old Strategies, New Technologies• A New World Or Old Ideals? The Mythology of Sacrifice

Goals of Talk

Map of the Western Front

Valcartier Training Camp, Quebec

Canada’s Answer (1918), Norman Wilkinson

Second Battle of Ypres, 22 April to 25 May 1915 (1917), Richard Jack

Gas Attack, Liévin (1918), A.Y. Jackson

“The brooding soldier,”St. Julien (1923), Frederick Chapman Clemesha

Sir Sam Hughes, Minister of Militia 1911-1916

General Arthur Currie, Commander, Canadian Corps,

1917-1918

Canadian Gunners in the Mud, Passchendaele (1917), Alfred Bastien

Canadian 4th Division, Passchendaele, 14 November 1917

Charge of Flowerdew’s Squadron (ca. 1918), Alfred Munnings

Over the Top, Neuville-Vitasse (1918), Alfred Bastien

Trench Map, Beaumont Hamel, 1916

Armentiers, France, 1915

No Man’s Land, Vimy, 1917

Dug Out on the Somme (1919), Mary Riter Hamilton

Olympic with Returned Soldiers (1919), Arthur Lismer

War in the Air (1918), C. R. W. Nevinson

Major O. M. Learmonth, the Victoria Cross (1918), James Quinn

Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele

For What? (1918), F.H. Varley

The Conquerors [The Victims] (1920), Eric Kennington

No. 3 Canadian Stationary Hospital at Doullens (1918), Gerald Moira

Vimy Ridge Memorial (1925-36): The Spirit of Sacrifice and the figure of Canada