Discover the equine art of WWI, the CWGC’S latest exhibition and the connection between gin and a Spitfire
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WWI equine art, gin and spitfires, plus CWGC’S latest exhibition
Charge of Flowerdew’s Squadron. This is Munnings’s only battle painting and depicts the Canadian Cavalry Brigade charging at Moreuil Wood on 30 March 1918
LEFT: Alfred Munnings was admitted to the Royal Academy in 1919 on the strength of his war paintings
Captain Prince Antoine of Orleans and Braganza. Antoine was from an aristocratic French family and won a Military Cross after enlisting in the British Expeditionary Force
Felling a Tree in the Vosges. Munnings’s paintings also depicted behind-the-lines work, including these lumberjacks of the Canadian Forestry Corps
Munnings had a great affinity with horses and referred to them as his “supporters, friends”