Bataille de Verdun: Le Bois des Corbeaux et le Morthomme

View of a badly war-damaged hilly landscape after the battle of Verdun in 1916, with smashed and burnt trees and a pathway in the foreground. The Germans commenced the year 1916 by launching a massive offensive, attacking the French salient around Verdun, 200 kilometres east of Paris. After a period of six months the French and German casualties exceeded half a million. Paul Mansard was a French artist. This etching was presented to the War Memorial by Sister Constance Adelaide Stone, MBE, RRC, a nurse, who enlisted in November 1914 and initially served with the No.2 Australian General Hospital and spent time in Egypt and Great Britain, before returning to Australia in July 1919. The work was one of a number of aquatints that she gave to the War Memorial in March 1935 as 'war mementoes of an Australian Army nurse'.