Take a moment to reflect on the service and sacrifice of our fallen soldiers as you piece together this puzzle, featuring a detailed section of Will Longstaff’s painting Menin Gate at Midnight.

The product:

• Premium boxed puzzle
• Full-colour image printed on premium quality card
• 1,000 pieces
• Finished jigsaw size: 58.4 cm (h) x 73.6 cm (w) x 0.2 cm (d), Box size: 22.5 cm (h) x 35.1 cm (w) x 4.5 cm (d) 
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• Recommended for ages 12+
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The story:

The Menin Gate Memorial is dedicated to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who died in battles around Ypres, and bears the names of 55,000 men with no known grave, including more than 6,000 Australians.

Australian artist and former serviceman Will Longstaff attended a ceremony at the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1917. Profoundly moved by what he witnessed, that night, unable to sleep, he returned to Menin Road, and later claimed to have had a vision of spirits of the dead rising out of the soil around him. On returning to his studio in London he painted Menin Gate at midnight in a single session. Commemorating soldiers killed on the Western Front during the First World War who have no known grave, Menin Gate at midnight has achieve the status of a national icon. The painting retains its ability to provoke an emotional response and to communicate the scale of the loss of life and the devastation of war.

The original artwork is held in the Memorial's National Collection - view it here.

Artwork credit: Will Longstaff. Menin Gate at Midnight. 1927. Oil on canvas. 137x 270 cm. Australian War Memorial, Canberra. ART09807.

Note: The original artwork has been cropped to fit the puzzle.