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Marcel Augis (Pseudonym of H. Dupont) was one of a number of French and Belgian artists who trod the battlefields of the Western Front during the Great War. They recorded the battles and battlefields and everyday life of the Allied troops. The resutling prints would have been sold to soldiers returning home after the War or subsequently purchased on the many battlefield remembrance tours that took place in the 1920s.
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Marcel Augis was a French artist, travelling up and down the front line during the Great War 1914-1918, recording the devastation of the battlefields. Many of his works would have been sold to soldiers returning home after the War or subsequently purchased on the many battlefield remembrance tours that took place in the 1920s and 1930s.