John
Nash
was born London
in 1893. On the outbreak of the First World War,
Nash joined the First Artist Rifles.
On one occasion Nash was one of eighty men ordered to cross No-Mans-Land
at Marcoing near Cambrai. Of these, only
Nash and eleven men returned. Afterwards Nash painted Over
the Top in memory of the failed attack. John's brother,
Paul Nash, was one of the best known artists
of the war. Unlike his brother, John favoured a painstaking naturalist
style of painting. John Nash died in 1977.
John Nash, Over the Top (1918)
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