Historical information

COPY OF MENIN GATE HELD AT CLUNES R.S.L. MENIN GATE WAS UNVEILED ON SUNDAY JULY 24th 1927. A MEMORIAL TO THE ARMIES OF BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD THERE 1914 - 1918. AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE KNOWN NO GRAVE. WILL LONGSTAFF WAS SO MOVED HE MADE THE PAINTING WHICH WAS UNVEILED JULY 27th THE PAINTING IS NOW HANGING IN AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL IN CANBERRA.

Physical description

.1 FRAMED COPY OF PAINTING "MENIN GATE AT MIDNIGHT"

.2 DOCUMENT ENTITLED "THE GHOSTS OF MENIN GATE - THE STORY OF CAPTAIN WILL LONGSTAFF'S GREAT ALLEGORICAL PAINTING"

3. FRAMED COPY OF PAINTING "MENIN GATE" BY WILL LONGSTAFF

Inscriptions & markings

.3 BRASS PLATE ATTACHED TO THE WOODEN FRAME BELOW THE IMAGE INSCRIBED -"MENIN GATE AT MIDNIGHT, COPYRIGHT, RESERVED BY WILL LONGSTAFFWPRESENTED TO THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA BY LORD WOOLLAVINGTON A SECOND BRASS PLATE IS ATTACHED TO THE FRAME AT THE RIGHT HAND SIDE INSCRIBED "PRESENTED TO THE MAYOR CR N. C. FOULKES AND COUNCILLORS OF THE BOROUGH OF CLUNES JULY 1929
.1 BRASS PLATE ATTACHED TO THE WOODEN FRAME BELOW THE IMAGE INSCRIBED "MENIN GATE AT MIDNIGHT"