New Members Form
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Access below link and complete and return membership form to Muswellbrook RSL Sub-Branch, in person or via email, or PO Box 350 Muswellbrook NSW 2333.
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Muswellbrook
RSL SUb-BRanch
Charity organisation supporting local Military Veterans and continuing to commemorate those that have served or are still serving.
BACKGROUND -
Will Longstaff painted "Menin Gate at Midnight" after he had attended the unveiling ceremony of the Menin Gate memorial at the entrance of the Belgian town of Ypres on 24 July 1927.
The scene is painted almost entirely in hues of blue, which helps to suggest a midnight scene. It is constructed on a simple, traditional, land-sky format: the pale memorial is placed boldly on the horizon, and before it marches a host of ghostly soldiers. In the immediate foreground, the cornfield is strewn with blood-red poppies. In the far distance, a small, silhouetted building with windows ablaze adds dramatic contrast to the still monument of Menin Gate.