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A billet, Bray-sur-Somme
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Maker: Lindsay, Daryl Ernest
Depicts a Billet with damage to the roof, two soldiers stand at the corner of the building with several soldiers in a tent beside the Billet.ART02980
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A deserted oasis
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Maker: McBey, James
Depicts soldiers and camels from the Australian Camel Corps camped at an oasis that has been deserted by its original inhabitants. In the background are buildings that have fallen into disrepair. This...ART03036
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Again and again
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Maker: Tunks, Bruce
Depicts an impressionistic and evocative landscape over which the names of deceased soldiers are written, along with a geographical cross section of a landscape. The work makes reference to the shapin...ART90642
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A helping hand
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers The Kia Ora Cooee
Depicts a nurse giving a digger, a Lighthorseman in civil dress, a helping hand on crutches. This work was used as a illustration in the 'Kia-ora Coo-ee'. David Barker (1888-1946) was a painter, etch...ART94749
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ANZAC alphabet EF
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Maker: Henderson, James Webster Scott
Drawings of ANZAC alphabets E F. The caption underneath reads: 'E is for eye-wash, a wonderful lotion, employed by the man who is keen on promotion; F is the fool who got caught in the trap, by pullin...ART00024
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A raid on enemy machine gun positions
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Maker: Hornby, Lester G.
Depicts a small group of soldiers crawling through barbed wire and over crops in a field in Marne, France, during the First World War. Inscribed on a piece of paper for merely attached to the drawing ...ART50026
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Armierungssoldat - Sapper
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Maker: Heckel, Erich Paul Cassirer, Berlin
Depicts a head and shoulder portrait of a German soldier. Another soldier views the scene from behind. The print was published by Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1920. The work's black and white contrasts and ...ART19837
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Aubigny
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Near Aubigny; an improvised plank bridge over a river, with three trucks parked near the Aubigny end.ART03371
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Australian Artillery going into action at Harbonnieres
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Depicts a team of horses with the Australian 1st Division Artillery pulling 18 pounder guns up a hill on a road near Harbonnieres on the Western Front and soldiers on horseback riding into action. Po...ART03336
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Balloon view of the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts a view of the 3rd General Hospital at Wandsworth, South-West London, from a balloon. The hospital is a large permanent building, surrounded by temporary pavilion wards laid out in Nightingale ...ART19782
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Blue Bonnets over the border, Palestine
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Maker: McBey, James
Depicts a column of 52nd Division troops marching into Palestine with a military band playing bagpipes and drums at the foot of the Herodian colum. The band are most probably playing the march, 'Blue...ART50006
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Bombed cathedral ruins
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Interior of ruined church, roof missing, piles of rubble on floor, (possibly interior of Abbey).ART19762
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Boom, racer and troop horse
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a bay horse "Boom", Australian Light Horse unit facing right, his tail slightly raised and wearing a headstall.ART02805
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Breakwater, Port Said
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts figures standing on a breakwater at Port Said which juts out from the shore into the sea, at the entrance to the Suez Canal, statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps on end of breakwater. Boats are besi...ART02827
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Cambrai
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Maker: Brangwyn, Frank
Depicts soldiers standing before burning buildings in the city of Cambrai. This work by Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) is one of a series of 6 lithographs showing sites where Canadian soldiers had fought,...ART19834
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Canadians entering Cambrai
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Maker: Brangwyn, Frank
Depicts Canadian soldiers advancing through the ruins of buildings in the city of Cambrai. This work by Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) is one of a series of 6 lithographs showing sites where Canadian sold...ART19833
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[Cargo for Blighty]
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts nurses at work aboard a hospital barge on a canal. The barges were manned by British Army Medical Corps orderlies and Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service nurses (QAIMNS, QAs). ...ART02919
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"Certeif!...ce n'est pas mon vieux bon Dieu!..." [Curses!...this can't be the good God I've always known!..."]
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Maker: Willette, Adolphe Leon
The Kaiser sits on a shore wrapped in a blanket, gritting his teeth. Sorrowing women and children cluster around him. In the sky, Christ, baring his wounds, holds two kneeling angels by the shoulder. ...ART92111
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Chateau at St Gratien
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts a view of the chateau at St Gratien which was used as headquarters for the 5th Division AIF. In the middle ground are several Australian soldiers and a tent. Albert Henry Fullwood was born in ...ART02496
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Cleaning harness
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts an unidentified saddler with either artillery or horse transport unit, working on harness traces, possibly oiling metal chain on end of trace, other traces draped over line between trees, leat...ART02880
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Coffee shop, Baghdad
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Depicts the interior of a coffee house in Baghdad, with a patron sitting on a divan being served with coffee. From Set 2 of a portfolio of 15 etchings based on sketches done on active service in Mesop...ART00082
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Compensation (back at the waggon lines)
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Maker: Vincent, Day, Brooks and Sons
Depicts a young Australian soldier with his horse talking to young French woman near waggon lines. In the background are other horses and waggons. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war arti...ART02274.001
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Complaints of the season
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Maker: White, Cyril Leyshon
Illustration of a smiling soldier with a cigarette in his mouth, a bandage over right eye and ear and sticking plaster on cheek. The title is a play on words (compliments of the Season), and the work ...ART00013.001
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Corps Headquarters grooms' mess in Chateau Heilly
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Depicts a number of soldiers and officers seated, resting and talking at the grooms' and other ranks' mess in the Chateau at Heilly, France, the Headquarters of 1 Anzac Corps. Will Dyson was the first...ART02409
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Die II. Kompanie wird heute Nacht abgelost [Second Company will be relieved tonight]
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Maker: Dix, Otto Felsing, Otto
This is plate 20 from the series 'Der Krieg (The War)' published by Karl Nierendorf in 1924 and printed by Otto Felsing. The series consists of fifty images assembled in five consecutive portfolios of...ART50210
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Die Sappenposten haben nachts das Feuer zu unterhalten [At night the men in the trenches have to keep firing]
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Maker: Dix, Otto
This image is plate 48 from the portfolio of 50 etchings comprising the series 'Der Krieg (The War)' published by Karl Nierendorf in 1924. The series consists of fifty images assembled in five consecu...ART50159
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Die schlafenden von Fort Vaux (Gas-Tote) [The sleepers of Fort Vaux - gas deaths]
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Maker: Dix, Otto
This image is plate 46 from the portfolio of 50 etchings comprising the series 'Der Krieg (The War)' published by Otto Dix in 1961. The series consists of fifty images assembled in five consecutive po...ART50158
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Dingbat's holiday
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour and gouache sketch depicting a batman (in Australian military slang 'dingbat' is a derogatory term that comes from 'ding' - a vicious dingo and 'bat' from batman which is an officers serva...ART02917
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Distant view, Ham-sur-Heure
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Watercolour and charcoal sketch depicting a view of the liberated village of Ham-sur-Heure, where the housing for the Australian Imperial Force Corps headquarters was located. The image depicts a road...ART02458
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[Donkey's Anatomy]; verso [Villers Bretonneux water point]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Four pencil drawings of a donkey and anatomical parts of the donkey including the head, the back half and the forelegs and chest in profile. Verso: A pencil drawing of the town of Villers Bretonneux. ...ART19796.009
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Don't stand looking at it. Take it to the salvage dump
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Maker: Davidson, Charles Lamb British Army Roberts & Leete
British First World War poster depicting a caricature of a heavily laden soldier standing near an old wooden cart wheel, that lies on the ground near him. The accompanying text encourages taking salva...ARTV00113
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Easter dawn and anti-Christ
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Depicts a caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II amid wreckage and chaos. One of his feet rests on a skull and the other on a broken column, symbolising the death of civilisation. He holds a sword and globe ...ART02233
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Effect of explosion of munition train, Solre-le-Chateau
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Watercolour, gouache and charcoal sketch depicting a series of water-filled craters with wreckage along the sides, the result of a German ammunition train explosion during in November 1918. Fullwood v...ART02457
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El Burj
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Maker: Lambert, George
A landscape with dead trees, Turkish soldiers and dead animals. El Burj stands on a hill and fighting took place there during the bitter Judean winter, from 29 November to 1 December 1917, with the Au...ART11391.041
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Ferry Post, Ismailia
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape showing a bay with a dhow and feluccas, and various buildings and tents on the hills on the other side of the bay. There is a camel in the left foreground. Ferry Post was the Camel...ART02715
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First bombardment of Hazebrouch
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Depicts a soldier carrying an officer's valise on his shoulders as he walks along a road way in a French village. He walks along with women and children also carrying their belongings and bags. The wo...ART02291
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Flanders, 1917 (verso: two crayon drawings)
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts an atmospheric and war damaged landscapes and the remains of a battlefield on the Western Front. In May 1916 Louis McCubbin enlisted with 14th Battalion AIF. He served in France from 2 Nov 191...ART09450
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Forging ahead
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Maker: Pears, Charles
Depicts three unidentified ships steaming through swell in rough seas.ART50127
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Gefangen [Captured]
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Maker: Grosz, George
Depicts tired and exhausted German soldiers who have been captured as prisoners of war, walking down a road in a bedraggled fashion. A dead soldier lies beside the road and a landscape with houses and...ART19997
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"Get into khaki" We are doing our bit
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Maker: Burton, H M Unknown W A Gullick, Government Printer
Australian Army First World War recruitment poster. Encourages the viewer to enlist and help those already fighting. In the foreground on the left of the poster is an Australian soldier facing the vie...ARTV00152
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Ghezireh, kit stores
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts buildings surrounded by trees and flowering shrubs, with a palm tree (on the left of the image). Lambert stayed at the Ghezireh kit-stores while waiting to embark for England in 1918.ART02809
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'Gotha', Scottish camp, Reninghelst
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts searchlights around group of buildings at Reninghelst, 4 miles (6 1/2 Kilometres approx) south west of, searchlights focused on German aircraft on bombing raid on moonlight night; Third Battle...ART02889
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Granatloch [Grenade strike]
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Maker: Grosz, George
The dead bodies of five soldiers lie on a battlefield. Devastated houses and burnt trees are seen in the background. Grosz's lithographs document his shock and despair over the reality of war. His wor...ART19995
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Grease King
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts a bare-armed cook standing at improvised workbench, field kitchen and row of dixies on hearth behind, pots and implements hanging on tree, boxes stacked beneath bench cooking utensils, encampm...ART02895
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Gunners
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Maker: Gilbert, Charles Web Bowles, Leslie Gregory, E J
Web Gilbert made a number of bronze sculptures depicting Australian soldiers in action on the Western Front. In this work, two of the five-man detachment of an 18-pounder field gun are dead or wounded...ART12503
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Gun repair park
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting British 6 inch Howitzers and artillery pieces in a maintenance park with a tripod crane for lifting heavy components. There are three soldiers in the mid ground of the ima...ART03066
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Guns going forward
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Depicts Australian Artillery units on the battlefield, with two teams of six horses, drawing half limber and 18 pounder guns across the landscape , passing by shell holes while more shells explode in ...ART03595
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Hermon: Cavalry moving on Damascus
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Maker: McBey, James
Depicts a column of Lighthorse travelling through Lebanon into Syria through the Anti-Lebanon ranges. Mount Hermon is in the background. This work is from McBey's first Palestine set of etchings and d...ART50296
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Horse lines, Dickebusch
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts horses tethered under shelter with open sides and corrugated iron roof, unidentified men sitting in sunshine (horses are probably officers' riding horses); Third Battle of, Western Front.ART02888
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Horse lines on the Somme
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Power depicts a large number of horses being prepared for battle in the Somme area in France. He was a skilled draughtsman of horses as seen in this work.ART03335