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A Channel steamer
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts a flock of seagulls flying around a steamer on the English Channel. A clear blue sky peeks through soft and billowing white clouds. The Channel is calm and conducive to a safe crossing.ART93359.001
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A [illeg.] near Fincourt
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts an encampment with six First Aid vehicles approaching on a road that disappears into the horizon. Pictured are telegraph poles and two groups of different-sized tents divided by the road. The ...ART93359.013
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A night march to the line
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts an officer on horseback leading a troop of soldiers wearing tin helmets and bearing arms. Another officer walks down the side of the troop formation as if inspecting them for the last time bef...ART93359.004
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Another batch of Jerrys
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts a mounted Australian officer with his bayonet rifle stowed on his back, leading a groupe of German soldiers, or 'Jerrys', along a road lined with bomb damaged trees. Standing on the side of th...ART02656.004
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Bringing in the wounded under the white flag
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts a First Aid team of five soldiers, attending to a wounded soldier on the edge of muddied crater on the battlefield, under the protection of a white flag. The wounded soldier has been put onto ...ART02656.003
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Captain L. E. Evans MC
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Portrait of Captain L. Ernest Evans, 1st Australian Imperial Force, Australian Engineers, 15th Field Company, who was awarded the Military Cross for his distinguished service against the enemy on the ...ART02654
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Caught in the beams
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts a night battle scene with a lone aeroplane against a black night sky caught in the beams of six searchlights. One searchlight crew can be seen centre right of the image by the side of the road...ART93359.011
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French 75s defending Mount Rouge
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts 7 French 75 mm guns along a ridge pointing up a mountain (which is referenced in the title as Mt Rouge). Three to five gunners are depicted with each 75 mm gun and a commander stands just to t...ART93359.006
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Members of the British Labour Company
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts members of the British Labour Company are briefed by an Australian officer in a task toward the construction of defence lines in Amiens. Some bear shovels of pick axes, but their heads are hun...ART02656.008
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No run, no Aussie mail
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
A caricature study, depicting an Australian soldier wearing the characteristic slouch hat and puttees, sitting cross-legged on the edge of a stone wall. His face is cocked to the side, and he gazes ou...ART02656.001
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Not titled [Ammunition store]
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts a camouflage canopy over an ammunition store dug-out in the middle of what appears to be a baren landscape. Text overleaf: "Reinforced concrete M.G. Dugout with reinforcement nearing completio...ART02656.005
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Not titled [Landscape sketch]
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts a faint pencil sketch of landscape. Above the horizon line are indistinguishable formations that could be planes, explosions or even clouds.ART93359.012
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Not titled [Sketch of a truck]
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
A very faint pencil sketch of what appears to be a truck, with a faint pencil border.ART93359.007
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Shopping in the Rack Areas
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts two French women from the local village with a horse and wagon, selling their food to four Australian soldiers. One soldier is pictured crouching filling his slouch hat with what look like pot...ART02656.006
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Sketchbook containing 21 pages of drawings from Kearton's service in France between 1916-1918
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Cloth-covered sketchbook with elastic closure. Comprises of 21 pages; 13 of these are blank. Cover bears the text "1st Army Troopers Company Engineers, A. I. F." William Frederick Keaton enlisted at t...ART02656
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Sketchbook of France, 1916-1918
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Cloth-covered sketchbook with elastic closure. Comprises of 26 pages; 11 blank leaves. Cover bears the text "1st Army Troopers Company Engineers, A. I. F." William Frederick Keaton enlisted at the age...ART93359
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The ammunition donkey
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
During the First World War, donkeys were used in the transportation of ammunition to the front. The donkey is often represented as the symbol of stupidity and stubbornness. However, a donkey is notori...ART02656.002
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The ammunition lorry convoy
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts a bleak and barren landscape with a road along a ridge. Bunker holes can be seen at various intervals in the side of the ridge face. Along the top of the ridge is a winding road, along which t...ART93359.003
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The Bunker Road villas
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts a road along a ridge with bunker and funk holes along the face of the hillside. The debris on the side of the road suggest that these have been abandoned long ago and that the fighting has mov...ART93359.005
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The company's camp at Monkton, near Steenwerck
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts an established camp with buildings, fenced areas and a road along the immediate foreground. The camp - covered in snow - is quiet and unpopulated. There is a solemnity to this image, but it is...ART93359.002
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The company's camp near Bouzincourt, after the capture of Péronne
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts an encampment on the edge of a forest. Bouzincourt is a village in the Picardie region of northern France. The name of the village is derived from the words of forest (bosquet) and the typical...ART93359.010
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The feeling on a rum issue
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
This is a caricature illustration of a Supply Reserve Depot with an enormous bottle of rum being levered onto its side to enable the pour of the battalion's rations. The letters 'S.R.D.' are printed a...ART02656.009
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The morning after the stunt
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts wounded and war-weary soldiers trapsing through a muddy battlefield, wearing tattered coats and scarves. Some of the men wear hesian sacks wrapped around their boots. There is wooden sign imbe...ART02656.007
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The Parment Wood near La Houssaye
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts a lush and green woodland. In the foreground is dense shrubbery and flowers, suggesting it is either spring or summer. A road leads from the bottom left corner into the centre of the wood, on ...ART93359.008
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The village beggar
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts a beggar woman bent over from the weight of the child on her back; her hair is pulled back loosly in a bun, she wears clogs and an anguished war-weary expression on her face, with another chil...ART93359.015
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The weekly fair, Escarbotin
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
In the foreground of this village fair are two well-to-do men; one wears a black bowler hat, a fur coat and smokes a cigar as he looks down into a wooden slat box with straw and three piglets. Nearby ...ART93359.014
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Three of ours down
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts three Australian soldiers standing in the right corner of the image on the edge of a verdant landscape. A large plume of smoke emanates from a wreckage nearby. In the sky, a zeppelin is in fla...ART93359.009