Led in Parties of Six

The Machine Age · 21 August 1918

Led in Parties of Six

A gas barrage leaves a field of blinded men, and an old painter watches

On the twenty-first of August, 1918, near a dressing station at Le Bac-du-Sud, on the road between Arras and Doullens, John Singer Sargent sat on the grass and watched blinded men come in.

The full story hangs in the app's archive.