page_title: Bernard Meninsky
section_title: World War I
hierarchical_section_title: Bernard Meninsky / World War I
caption_attribution_description: English: The Arrival image: A group of soldiers in distinctive khaki bonnets make stand on the platform of a railway station, having arrived on leave. Each carries a small pack on their back and many of the men carry a tin mug in their hands.
context_page_description: Bernard Meninsky was a figurative artist, painter of figures and landscape in oils, watercolour and gouache, draughtsman and teacher.
context_section_description: During World War I, Meninsky served in the Royal Fusiliers, fighting with General Edmund Allenby in Palestine. The Ministry of Information commissioned Meninsky in May 1918 to produce a series of paintings based around the 'arrival of a Leave Train from the Front' at a London railway terminus. He was naturalised as a British Citizen in 1918 but had a nervous breakdown and was discharged from service after six months as a Ministry of Information war artist.
caption: The Arrival (1918) (Art.IWM ART 1186)
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