The lost “Bayeux Tapestry” of the First World War – a battlefield panorama painted by British veterans of the conflict – has gone on display to mark the centenary of the Armistice after being rediscovered in the vaults of a museum. ‘It represents the teardrops of a whole generation from North Staffordshire and as such it reminds us of the sacrifice these men made’ Staffordshire historian Levison Wood Members of the 5th Battalion of the North Staffordshire Regiment, who were skilled in the ceramic crafts of the Potteries, created the 70-wide canvas in 1923 to remember 960 of their fallen comrades. The panorama of the battlefields where they fought on the Western Front was last seen in 1985, but has been found hidden in more than half a million items in the stores at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent.
Lost ‘Bayeux Tapestry’ of the First World War found in museum vaults in Stoke-on-Trent A byplane flies over a First World War battlefield as depicted in the Staffordshire tapestry. (Photo: Stoke-on-Trent City Council)
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