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    Archibald Nicoll

    Aotearoa New Zealand, b.1886, d.1953

    Becordel AD 1916

    • Purchased 1996
    • Oil on canvas board
    • 840 x 1045mm
    • 96/03
    • 1930
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    Tags: arches, battles, buildings (structures), churches (buildings), religious buildings, ruins, towers (single built works)

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    Image: uploads/2021_02/96_0320.jpg
    A French postcard showing the same church. This card was produced some time between the end of the war in 1918 and the reconstruction of the church in the mid-1920s.
    A French postcard showing the same church. This card was produced some time between the end of the war in 1918 and the reconstruction of the church in the mid-1920s.

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    Becordel AD1916

    Becordel AD1916

    The Canterbury artist Archibald Nicoll enlisted with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in December 1914 and arrived at the front lines of the Battle of the Somme on the 20th August 1916 as a member of the NZEF's 4th Reinforcements Field Artillery Unit.

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    A date to remember

    A date to remember

    At 11.11.11 on 11.11.11, the time and date will be a perfect same-numbered palindrome, reading the same backwards as forwards, an event which can only happen on one day every 100 years.

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