| Level | Item |
| Ref No | EHS/G/17/29 |
| Alt Ref No | O/0493 |
| Title | [Enemy gun, Monte Mosiagh] |
| Date | [1915-1919?] |
| Extent | 1 drawing |
| Description | Pencil sketch of a field gun [labelled an Austrian 4.2 howitzer] in a wood, with wreckage and detritus all around it. There are extensive annotations (with arrows) in Shepard's handwriting on the front, and the following on the back: "These guns had been pulled out of their pits, close to road, ready to move off, but the advance was so rapid that the enemy bolted leaving everything the whole place was strewn with material, ammunition, rifles, equipment, telelphone gear, petrol rock drill engines etc. one of the limbers had been smashed by a direct hit + the Austrians had brought up a farm trolley + hitched it to the gun E.H. Shepard Red Cottage Shamley Green Guildford". |
| Related Material | EHS/G/17/1. There is a sketch of Shepard in uniform attached to his letter to Florence Chaplin Shepard of 1st October 1917 [in EHS/C/.] |
| Format | Artwork |
| Exhibitions | EH Shepard: An Illustrator’s War exhibition at The House of Illustration, London, 9 October 2015 to 10 January 2016. |
| Kunstenaar in oorlogstijd. E.H. Shepard, tekenaar van Winnie-the-Pooh (Artist in wartime. E.H. Shepard, draughtsman of Winnie -the-Pooh) exhibition at Museum Huis Doorn in the Netherlands, August to December 2017. |