
Over the Top, Neuville-Vitasse, c. 1918
Oil on canvas
height: 140.5 cm (55.3 in); width: 229.6 cm (90.3 in)
Canadian War Museum
Bastien depicts an attack by the 22nd Battalion at Neuville-Vitasse, a German-fortified village in occupied France, in late August 1918. Major Georges Vanier, later the Governor General of Canada, maintained that he was the officer holding the pistol leading the assault…
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