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[By Murray Dewhurst in Auckland].

I'm having lots of fun since my last post experimenting in the Hahnemühle Grey Book. I thought this WW1 memorial statue with overhanging pohutukawa tree would make an interesting frame for a sketch of the Devonport main street.

I was more focused on the building in the background so I didn’t realise the statue itself would reveal itself as interesting. I overheard a local refer to the statue as 'The untidy soldier' and that sparked my interest enough to look it up online when I got home.

Turns out this guy is one of only a handful of World War One memorials actually sculpted by a kiwi. Almost all the others dotted around New Zealand were sculpted by Italian artists!

That got me thinking – maybe all of our sculptors never returned from war? Keep in mind there were only just over a million people living in New Zealand at the time and something like 10 per cent of them were killed in that war (well, something like that), so who knows, it is possible.

Anyway, it turns out that the sculptor of the Untidy Soldier, Frank Lynch was a genuine old digger who had served himself. I've learned that what he wanted to portray was the fact that kiwi soldiers were best known not for parade ground 'spit and polish', but their bravery in battle. For sure he succeeded, he does look tough and a bit scruffy, his boot laces are undone, as is his jacket and he holds his 'lemon squeezer' hat in his hand rather than where it's supposed to be - on his head.

Sadly this was Frank Lynch's first and last war memorial commission.

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