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In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood

This Eastertide call into mind the men,

Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should

Have gathered them and will do never again.

by Edward Thomas

Flower Table 1928-9 Winifred Nicholson 1893-1981

Duncan Grant
Garden Path in Spring
1944

Bluebells at Lockeridge, Wiltshire. Philippe Benoit

Three British soldiers waiting in a trench. One stands leaning against the wall of the trench, another sits on a step resting one arm behind his head. The third stands up looking out over the broken landscape beyond. There are the remains of a grove of trees, some of which are beginning to show new buds, and rolling hills in the distance.

Paul Nash. Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917