"The sketches for 'A Shell Dump, France' (IWM ART 2273) were made retrospectively in December 1918 at Bramley Dump near Reading." image: a squared up preparatory sketch for 'A Shell Dump, France'. Gunners are lined up along duck-boarded walkways, passing artillery shells to one another in a long chain. Some men also carry wooden boxes and there is a sign stating '9th Div' in the background.