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The Hall of Remembrance was a series of paintings and sculptures commissioned, in 1918, by the British War Memorials Committee of the British Ministry of Information in commemoration of the dead of World War I.
Although Holden's plans for the building have been lost, Muirhead Bone described the structure as a "kind of Pavilion", surrounded by a garden, with a main gallery leading to an oratory with a dedication to the "coming Brotherhood of Man for which we all pray." The centre piece of the Hall were to be four 'super-pictures', each 20 feet long by 7 feet high and each on the theme of cooperation between Britain and its various allies.Merion Harries & Susie Harries (1983). 071812314X, Michael Joseph, The Imperial War Museum & Tate Gallery. 071812314X William Orpen was offered the commission for the Britain and its Italian allies picture but refused, as he did not want to leave the Western Front for a trip to Italy. Augustus John accepted the commission to produce the Anglo-French super-picture but the painting, Junction of Our Lines with the French never materialised. John Singer Sargent was tasked with depicting Anglo-American cooperation but failed to find an appropriate scene whilst visiting the Somme and instead presented the picture known as Gassed. The fourth super-picture, of troops from the Empire, was never commissioned.
File:Sargent, John Singer (RA) - Gassed - Google Art Project.jpg| Gassed by John Singer Sargent
File:Irish Troops in the Judaean Hills Surprised by a Turkish Bombardment, 1919 Art.IWMART2746.jpg| Irish Troops in the Judaean Hills Surprised by a Turkish Bombardment by Henry Lamb
File:The Menin Road.jpg| The Menin Road by Paul Nash
File:Landing Survivors from a Torpedoed Ship Art.IWMART1234.jpg| Landing Survivors from a Torpedoed Ship 1918 by Walter Bayes
File:Nash, John (RA) - Oppy Wood, 1917. Evening - Google Art Project.jpg| Oppy Wood, 1917. Evening by John Nash
File:Lewis, Percy Wyndham - A Battery Shelled - Google Art Project.jpg| A Battery Shelled by Wyndham Lewis
File:The Royal Field Artillery in Macedonia, Spring 1918 by Darsie Japp.jpg| The Royal Field Artillery in Macedonia, Spring 1918 by Darsie Japp
File:Heavy Artillery Art.IWMART2274.jpg| Heavy Artillery by Colin Gill
File:In the Gun Factory at Woolwich Arsenal, 1918 Art.IWMART1984.jpg| In the Gun Factory at Woolwich Arsenal by George Clausen
File:The Harvest of Battle Art.IWMART1921.jpg| The Harvest of Battle by C R W Nevinson
File:The Old German Front Line, Arras, 1916 Art.IWMART2282.jpg| The Old German Front Line, Arras, 1916 by Charles Sims
File:Divers at Work Repairing a Torpedoed Ship (Art.IWM ART 2245).jpg| Divers at Work Repairing a Torpedoed Ship by John Laviers Wheatley
File:David Young Cameron - Battlefields of Ypres (CWM 19710261-0118).jpg| The Battlefields of Ypres—After by David Young Cameron
File:A Two Year-old Steel Works, 1918 - erected during the War for Messrs. Steel, Peech and Tozer, Ltd., Phoenix Works, sheffield Art.IWMART1216.jpg| A Two Year-old Steel Works, 1918 by Charles Holmes
File:A 'camouflage tree' was an observation post made from a hollow metal cylinder, camouflaged as a dead tree. Art.IWMART2283.jpg| Erecting a Camouflage Tree (1919) by Leon Underwood
File:A German Attack on a Wet Morning, April 1918 Art.IWMART1986.jpg| A German Attack on a Wet Morning, April 1918 (1918) Harold Sandys Williamson:
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