Will Longstaff

He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force at the outbreak of the First World War and was injured in the Gallipoli campaign.

In October 1915 he joined a remount unit and served in France and Egypt before being evacuated to England in 1917.

Upon his appointment as an Official War Artist in 1918 he produced numerous works during the final campaigns of the Western Front.

Beginning the late-1920s, he made return trips to the battlefields of Belgium and France and painted haunting images in a spiritualist style.

Among these later works is Menin Gate at Midnight (1927), arguably his most famous, which depicts the ghostly figures of soldiers marching past the monument.