This is an illustration as part of a series in response to Siegfried Sassoon's 'Memoir of an Infantry Officer.' This one was representing the contrast between the frontlines and those at home who are monitoring the progress/ 'success' of points during the war,
'When Mametz Wood was reported as captured he a moved a little flag an inch forward after breakfast. For him the wood was a small green patch on a piece of paper. For the Welsh division it had been a bloody nightmare...'