Historical information

The original art piece was painted by Australian artist Will Longstaff after he attended the unveiling ceremony of the Menin Gate memorial at the entrance of the Belgian town of Ypres in 1927. It was purchased in 1928 for 2000 guineas and presented to the Australia Government by British Philanthropist Lord Woolavington
The memorial is inscribed with the names of 54,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in Flanders with no known grave, over 6000 are Australians.

Significance

The image commemorates those soldiers with no marked graves who died on the Western Front during the First World War.

Physical description

Dark wooden frame with gold gilt inner edge containing cream mount over a dark blue print with large cream coloured arched monument in distance.