gouache: Ypres Cathedral as seen from the foot of the Cloth Hall Tower by Ernest Proctor
Maker and role
Ernest Procter (b.1886, d.1935): Artist
Production date
1914-1918
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Gouache of Ypres Cathedral as seen from the foot of the Cloth Hall Tower by Ernest Procter. Procter was the son of a staunch Quaker which explains his choice to become an orderly with the Friends Ambulance Unit attached to the Red Cross as a conscientious objector. He appears on the Joint War Committee List of Personnel published Jan 1917 and was in France before that date. A record card exists and he is listed in 'For Dauntless France'. Members of the FAU staffed three motor convoys working with the French army, Sections Sanitaires Anglaises Nos 13, 14, 19 with 77 cars and 143 drivers. They also helped staff hospital ships and hospitals in France and Belgium
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Ypres cathedral from the foot of the Cloth Hall Tower, 1918: title, signed and dated
Catalogue Number
1531/2
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Friends Ambulance Unit
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1939-1945
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