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  From our 'War Picture of the Week' Archive  

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Click to visit our archive with War Pictures of the Week Poppies in a trench near the Somme
(Painting by Mary Riter Hamilton)   

Shortly after the war Mary Riter Hamilton, a Canadian painter, 46 years old, went to the former Western Front and started painting.

For three years she lived and worked alone in a tin hut, amid Chinese workers clearing the front of war debris. She made 300 paintings. We show a selection.

In the western world poppies have become synonym with remembrance. We have some articles with disturbing thoughts on this subject:

  Reasons for Remembrance, written by Merrick Godhaven (and accompagnied by The Great War, written and sung by Philip Jeays).

  Endorsing propaganda - a letter to an university paper, written by Prof. Michael P. Carroll (University of Western Ontario, Canada).


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