b'99720720 its furniture more or less intact, though war-worn. All the ARTHUR STREETON VISITS MONASHS HEADQUARTERStapestries and the pictures have, however, been stolen, and AT LA CATEAU IN NOVEMBER 1918 most of the plate-glass mirrors in the beautiful state rooms ARTHUR ERNEST STREETON (1867-1943), have been used for revolver practice. As most of the glass in the windows of the chteau has gone, it is rather cold and La Cateau, cheerless. It is from the same chteau that Lord French in watercolour, 1914 fought the battle of Mons.signed and endorsed A. STREETON / LA CATEAU 1918Arthur Streeton, along with other members of the Chelsea at lower right, Arts Club, including Tom Roberts, joined the Royal Army 36 x 54cm; framed 59 x 76cm overall. Medical Corps (British Army) at the age of 48. He worked at PROVENANCE the 3rd London General Hospital in Wandsworth and reached A gift from Streeton to Monash as a token of gratitude;the rank of corporal. He was made an Australian Official War the family, by descent. Artist with the Australian Imperial Force, holding the rank of Honorary Lieutenant, and he travelled to France on 14 May NOTES 1918 attached to the 2nd Division, and receiving his movement Geoffrey Serle, John Monash, 1982 at page 499 order on 8 May 1918. He worked in France, with a break in For Streeton, one of the great honours of his life had beenAugust, until October 1918. Expected by the Commonwealth dining in the Corps mess at Le Cateau in November 1918;to produce sketches and drawings that were descriptive, Monash had put him on his left hand and told him not to riseStreeton concentrated on the landscape of the scenes of war for anyone. and did not attempt to convey the human suffering. Unlike the War Letters of General Monash, at page 280 more famous military art depicting the definitive moments France, 12 November 1918 of battle, Streeton produced military still life, capturing the The march into Germany has already commenced. I lefteveryday moments of the war. He explained what was at that Eu yesterday morning by motor, and journeyed 120 milestime an unconventional point of viewa perspective which to Le Cateau, where I have temporarily established mywas based in experience: True pictures of battlefields are headquarters. The journey took me across the whole lengthvery quiet looking things. Theres nothing much to be seen, of our battlefields from Villers-Bretonneux to here (Le Cateau),everybody and thing is hidden and camouflaged.passing the formidable and forbidding desert of eighty odd$50,00080,000miles devastated by the war. Le Cateau is on the fringe of the territory which has barely been touched by fighting, and every mile takes one more and more into the country which more nearly resembles English pasture land, with hedgerows and woods.The chteau which I now occupy had as its last occupant Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, he who was to marry the Luxembourg Princess. It is spacious and still has most of'