Soldiers may well have identified with the detailed gun pit

Does "Soldiers may well have identified with the detailed gun pit in the Canadian piece" mean "As the Canadian piece is a more realistic and descriptive piece, soldiers may feel sympathy with the realistic details of the gun pit depicted in it (it would remind them of their own gun pits during the war)"?

Context:
The British First World War painter Percy Wyndham Lewis created two very different renditions of the same subject. He received commissions from both the British and the Canadians, executing A Canadian Gun Pit (1918) for Canada and, slightly later, completing a similar, slightly smaller but more typically vorticist work, A Battery Shelled (1918–1919), for the British. Both drew on a visit of December 1917 to Vimy Ridge in France, the site of a crucial Canadian victory the previous April. Lewis suggested that the Canadian commission demanded a representative work; it is certainly descriptive, like most of the large Canadian canvases. The other piece reduces soldiers to automatons in a scene of overall destruction – far more in keeping with British hopes for more avant-garde work. Soldiers may well have identified with the detailed gun pit in the Canadian piece, but the British work showed what war did to them.