Painted by Alfred Bastien in 1918 This soldier, wearing a helmet and a gas mask haversack, is on observation duty in an outpost in France. Through a loophole in the sandbags, he checks for enemy movement. Seconded from the Belgian Army to the Canadian War Memorials Fund in 1917, artist Alfred Bastien was assigned to paint the Royal 22e Régiment (also known as the Royal 22nd Regiment) in 1918. This work is dated 1918, which suggests the soldier depicted is a Canadian with that same regiment.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Alfred_Bastien" class="extiw" title="w:en:Alfred Bastien"><span title="painter (1873-1955)">Alfred Bastien</span></a>
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