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A beat case embossed with an image of two wounded Tommies budgeted the White Cliffs of Dover

Trench art is any decorative item fabricated by soldiers, prisoners of state of war, or civilians^{[ commendation needed ]} where the manufacture is directly linked to armed conflict or its consequences. It offers an insight not but to their feelings and emotions most the state of war, only also their environs and the materials they had available to them.^[ane]

Non limited to the World Wars, the history of trench art spans conflicts from the Napoleonic Wars to the present day. Although the practice flourished during World War I, the term 'trench art' is also used to depict souvenirs manufactured past service personnel during World War 2. Some items manufactured by soldiers, prisoners of war or civilians during earlier conflicts take been retrospectively described as trench art.

Categorisation [edit]

There are iv broad categories of trench art:

Items made past soldiers [edit]

Ii chestnut leaves, engraved by a French soldier with the names of his children "Andrée" and "Eléonore" while waiting in the trenches.

There is much evidence to bear witness that some trench art was made in the trenches, past soldiers, during war.

In With a Machine Gun to Cambrai, George Coppard tells of pressing his uniform buttons into the clay floor of his trench, then pouring molten lead from shrapnel into the impressions to cast replicas of the regimental crest.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Chalk carvings were also popular, with gimmicky postcards showing carvings in the rocky outcrops of dug-outs.^{[ citation needed ]}

Many smaller items such as rings and knives were made by soldiers either in forepart line or support trenches, especially in quieter parts of the line.^{[ citation needed ]}

Wounded soldiers were encouraged to piece of work at crafts every bit part of their recuperation, with embroidery and unproblematic forms of woodwork being common. Once more from With a Machine Gun to Cambrai, George Coppard recalls that, while recuperating from wounds at a private firm in Birkenhead, "one kind old lady brought a supply of coloured silks and canvas and instructed us in the art of embroidery. A sampler which I produced under her guidance so pleased her that she had it framed for me."

An example of therapeutic embroidery during Earth State of war I is the piece of work of British armed services in Arab republic of egypt, who were photographed sewing and embroidering for Syrian refugees. There was also the Bradford Khaki Handicrafts Club,^[ii] which was funded in Bradford, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, in 1918, to provide occupational therapy and employment for men returning from the trenches in France.

Items made by POWs and internees [edit]

The second category consists of items fabricated past prisoners of state of war and interned civilians.

POWs had good reasons to brand decorative objects: free time and limited resource. Much POW work was therefore done with the express intention of trading the finished article for food, coin or other privileges.

Reference to POW work is made in the recollections of A B Baker, W.A.A.C., contained in the book Everyman at War, published by Purdom in 1930: "Part of my work had to practice with prisoners quartered in a military camp near to our own. Those Germans were friendly men. They were clever with their hands, and would give me little carvings which they had made."

Items made by civilians [edit]

Chromed metallic trench fine art ashtray made from a 25 pounder vanquish casing, 1942

The third category is items made by civilians,^{[ commendation needed ]} which mainly means civilians in and around the disharmonize zone, but would likewise include items fabricated by sweethearts at home.

In 1914, the Usa set upward the Commission for Relief in Belgium, headed past Herbert Hoover. It shipped staple foodstuffs, mainly flour, in the printed cotton flour sacks typical of the menstruum. As cheers, the Belgians would embroider and paint in the designs, elaborating them with dates and flags and ship them back to the U.s.a.. Examples of these are now in the Herbert Hoover Museum, simply some were sold to soldiers in Paris or given as gifts.

Civilians in France, in the zones occupied past troops, were quick to exploit a new market. Embroidered postcards were produced in what quickly became a cottage industry, with civilians buying the surrounds and embroidering a console of gauze. These postcards depicted regimental crests or patriotic flags and national symbols in affluence, and millions were produced over the form of the war.

At war'south end, when civilians began to reclaim their shattered communities, a new market appeared in the form of pilgrims and tourists. Over the ensuing 20 years mountains of discarded debris, shell casings, and castoff equipment were slowly recycled, with mass-produced boondocks crest motifs being stuck onto bullets, shell casings, fuse caps, and other paraphernalia to be sold to tourists.

Commercial items [edit]

The quaternary category is purely commercial product.^{[ citation needed ]} After the war, tonnes of surplus materials were sold by the government and converted to souvenirs of the conflict.

Ship breaking, particularly if the transport had been involved in significant events such as the Battle of Jutland, resulted in much of the wood from the ship being turned into miniature barrels, letter racks, and boxes, with small brass plaques attached announcing, for case, "Fabricated of teak from HMS Shipsname, which fought at the Battle of Jutland".

Gallery [edit]

Pair of shell cases with the names of ii French villages totally destroyed and not rebuilt later
WWI trench fine art with etchings of a horse and horse shoes on an 80 mm beat out casing.
Expended 18 pound artillery beat casings.

Run into also [edit]

Outsider art
Visual arts and design

References [edit]

^ "Personal Treasures: WWI Trench Art". New Zealand Ground forces Museum . Retrieved 22 April 2015.
^ "Bradford Khaki Handicrafts Social club". trc-leiden.nl.

External links [edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Trench art.

Trench fine art of World War I
The UK Trench Art Site
Trench art of WW1
WW1 Trench Art
(in French) https://spider web.archive.org/web/20090708124947/http://www.artisanat-de-tranchees.fr/accueil-22.html
(in French) http://www.souvenirsdelagrandeguerre.com