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Back at the waggon lines after Polygon Wood
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Depicts men of either 1st or 2nd Division, Australian Infantry, at waggon lines behind the Front, eating, resting and being served food in a war damaged landscape. Discarded webbing with a bayonet and...ART02270
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Battery Commander's dug-out, Hill 60
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Depicts two soldiers in uniform, seated in the interior of a dug-out. The one sitting on the right is probably Major R F Manton, DSO, Commanding of 15 Bty, AFA. A lit candle , tins of food and small s...ART02299.002
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Battery Commander's dug-out, Hill 60
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Depicts two soldiers in uniform, seated in the interior of a dug-out. The one sitting on the right is probably Major R F Manton, DSO, Commanding of 15 Bty, AFA. A lit candle , tins of food and small s...ART02299.009
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Battle of Menin Road
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
The Battle of Menin Road was an offensive operation, part of the Third Battle of Ypres on the Western Front, which saw the first involvement of Australian units (1st and 2nd Divisions AIF) in the Thir...ART03327
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Brigadier General Charles Brand
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Brigadier General Charles Henry Brand, CB, CMG, DSO, MID, extensive service with the Australians during the war in South Africa, 1899-1902. After the outbreak of war in 1914 he was appointed brigade m...ART03181
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Brigadier General Harold Elliott
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Portrait of Brigadier General Harold Edward 'Pompey' Elliott, CB, CMG, DSO, DCM, Commanding 15th Brigade (earlier also 7th Battalion and 1st Brigade), 1st Australian Imperial Force. Elliott was at the...ART03182
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Brigadier-General James Heane
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter
Official war artist James Quinn was instructed to paint the portrait of Brigadier-General James Heane CB(M) CMG DSO as part of an ongoing series of portraits that acknowledged senior military leaders ...ART03345
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Bringing up the ammunition, Flanders, Autumn 1917
Art
Maker: Power, H Septimus
Australian soldiers with teams of six horses pulling linked half limbers loaded with boxes of machine gun ammunition. The horses are struggling through the mud as they cross a small river.ART03333
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Bringing up the guns
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Commissioned to produce a large-scale battle scene, Septimus Power drew from his experince on the Western Front as an official war artist from September to December 1917 to create Bringing up the guns...ART03334
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Camouflaged tents, Dickebusch
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Charcoal and watercolour sketch depicting bell tents with rows of sandbags around them, chimney pipes protruding from doorways, and camouflage patterns on canvas at the encampment at Dickebusch. There...ART02924
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Camp scenes
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
This scene shows the encampment of the 1st Australian Division Artillery, 2nd Battery. The view is of the camp with tents and horse lines amid the trees.ART03325
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Captain Percy Lay
Art
Captain Percy Lay, MC, DCM, MM, 8th Battalion Australian Imperial Forces, served through the Gallipoli campaign as a private. He reached France with the Battalion early in 1916 and fought with it on t...ART03184
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Church ruins at Ypres
Art
Maker: Boyd, Penleigh
Depicts a church ruin with a group of soldiers in a dug-out shelter.ART50238
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Cloth Hall at Menin Gate
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Watercolour, gouache and charcoal sketch depicting a view of the ruins of Ypres with the Menin Gate in the foreground and Cloth Hall in the background. Ypres was the scene of almost constant fighting...ART02452
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Cloth Hall, Ypres
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Progressively destroyed by German artillery fire from 1914, the great medieval Cloth Hall in Ypres, was in ruins when the Australians fought nearby in the final months of 1917.ART02884
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Coming back from Passchendaele
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Depicts a group of weary Australian soldiers from either the 2nd or 3rd Australian Division walking along the road in Passchendaele. The soldiers are carrying personal and military equipment, one has ...ART02255
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Cook house
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
The cook house for the 1st Division Train, was situated in a wrecked building, with a tent at the left. Three soldiers are sitting near a thatched house peeling vegetablesART03323
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Craterland
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts a wounded man on a stretcher being carried by four German prisoners of war while under armed escort of an Australian soldier. They are walking along a duckboard track past shell holes filled w...ART02925
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Dead beat, the tunnel, Hill 60
Art
Depicts an exhausted Australian soldier wearing full kit and greatcoat, sleeping in a tunnel during the Third Battle of Ypres. Indistinct figures of two other soldiers seen in the background. Dyson, a...ART02210
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Dickebusch Church
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts the ruins of a church at Dickebusch in Belgium. The figure of a man, possibly a soldier, can be seen walking past in front of the damaged building. Fred Leist was appointed an official war art...ART02914
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Divisional headquarters, Dickebusch
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour sketch depicting a farmhouse 3 miles (5 Kilometres) south west of Dickebusch, used as headquarters for 5th Division AIF during the Third Battle of Ypres (?). On the verso is a pencil sketc...ART02886
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Dr Doyle, 8th Battalion, making out honours recommendations in the Swan area, Ypres
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Depicts a portrait of Dr. Doyle, seated on a duffle bag or pack, writing names down on a note pad. Dyson noted that this work was of 'Doctor Doyle of the 8th Battalion making out recommendations for h...ART09923
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[Dug Out]
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Maker: Hawkins, Weaver
Depicts a drawing of a dugout entrance, a piece of hession hangs to the right of the entrance. In the foreground on a chair are some cups and a panikin. A church can be seen in the background of the d...ART19999
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Dump at Sercus
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts two General Service wagons, drawn by horses, being loaded with boxes and crates outside church; Third Battle of Ypres, Western Front.ART02897
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First Australian artillery going into the 3rd Battle of Ypres
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
This work shows a team of six horses, three mounted and three led, struggling through thick mud pulling a heavy 18 pounder gun on the limber. Six other soldiers on foot are helping to haul the gun, al...ART19842
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First Australian Division Artillery going into the 3rd Battle of Ypres
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Features the 1st Australian Division Artillery during the Third Battle of Ypres on the Western Front. 18-pounder guns are pictured being brought forward by teams of six horses, other guns already in p...ART03330
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General Sir William Birdwood
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter Quinn, James Peter
Major General Sir (later Field Marshal Lord) William Riddell Birdwood (of ANZAC, Bt), GCB, GCMG, CIE, DSO, was selected from the Indian Army 1914 to command the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. ...ART03338
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General Sir William Birdwood
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter
Major General Sir (later Field Marshal Lord) William Riddell Birdwood (of ANZAC, Bt) GCB, GCMG, CIE, DSO, was selected from the Indian Army 1914 to command the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. H...ART03339
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Going into action
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
A 1st Australian Division Artillery battery moves into position through the mud, with mules and horses pulling an 18-pounder gun and half limber wagon. Two soldiers on foot are wearing cape groundshe...ART03329
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Heavy going in Flanders mud
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
This drawing shows a horse team from the 1st Australian Division Artillery, consisting of six horses (three ridden, three led), pulling a half limber wagon and 18-pounder field gun through the mud at ...ART03315
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Hitchi-Koo machine (delousing fumigator)
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Charcoal and watercolour sketch depicting the preventative health services delousing fumigator (Hitchi-Koo machine). Two soldiers are loading the bank of three autoclave ovens with discarded clothing ...ART02908
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Home comforts in the tunnels, Hill 60
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Depicts members of the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 1st Australian Tunnelling Company showing two men sitting in dug out in a tunnel, furnished with camp beds and boxes for tables and seats. The dug...ART02280.005
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Horse artillery lines
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Here artist Septimus Power shows three lines of horse shelters, with a group of horses standing under the foreground shelter. A single horse outside the shelter is being attended by a lighthorseman at...ART03314
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Horse artillery lines
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
These are the temporary shelters for the 1st Division Artillery horses. Made of logs and thatched roofs, the railings are lined with nosebags, thus feeding and protecting the horses from the elements.ART03324
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Incendie des Halles d'Ypres
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Maker: Unknown
Ypres Cloth Hall, or Lakenhalle, was set on fire in November 1914 by German artillery shells. Cloth Hall was eventually reduced to rubble by 1917, but has since been restored. Belle smith, who served...AWM2018.617.7
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Labour battalion man
Art
Depicts an unidentified labourer, wearing waterproof cape, rubber boots and a scarf tied over a protective tin helmet, resting on a spade. He has a contemplative expression on his face. Dyson was a so...ART02301
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Laying the duckboards, France 1917
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Maker: Bell, George
Depicts soldiers from a Pioneer unit laying a duckboard track across muddy fields in a war damaged landscape, probably in the Ypres Salient, France in 1917. The soldiers are wearing sandbags around th...ART03592
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Lieutenant Colonel J H Peck
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Peck, CMG, DSO, General Staff 5th Division, working at AIF headquarters St Gratien. Peck (1886-1928), was born on 22 July 1886 in Sydney. He enlisted as a gunner ...ART02485
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Lille Gate, Ypres
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts the Gate in the walls around (on the south west side opposite the Menin Gate); Third Battle of, Western Front.ART02887
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Major General Joseph Talbot Hobbs
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Portrait of Major General (later Lieutenant General Sir) Joseph John Talbot Hobbs, General Officer Commanding 5th Division Australian Imperial Force on the Western Front during the First World War. Fr...ART02926
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Major General Sir John Gellibrand
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter
Official war artist James Quinn was instructed to paint the portrait of Major General (later Sir) John Gellibrand, CB(M) (later KCB), DSO and Bar as part of an ongoing series of portraits that acknowl...ART03346
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Major General Sir Joseph Hobbs
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter
Official war artist James Quinn was instructed to paint the portrait of Major General Sir Joseph Hobbs as part of an ongoing series of portraits that acknowledged senior military leaders in the Austra...ART03348
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Major General Thomas William Glasgow
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter
In 1918 official war artist James Quinn received instruction to complete the portrait of Major General (later Sir) Thomas William Glasgow KCB(M), CMG, CB(M), and DSO. William "Bill" Glasgow was one o...ART03341
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Menin Gate at midnight
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
'Menin Gate at midnight' was painted by Will Longstaff to commemorate those soldiers with no marked graves on the Western Front during the First World War; also known as 'Ghosts of Menin Gate'. Longst...ART09807
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Menin Gate lion
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Maker: Unknown
The Menin Gate lions were donated to the Commonwealth of Australia by the Burgomaster of Ypres in 1936. The lions each hold the Ypres Coat of Arms. The lions were given to the Australian government as...ART12510.001
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Menin Gate lion
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Maker: Unknown
The Menin Gate lions were donated to the Commonwealth of Australia by the Burgomaster of Ypres in 1936. The lions each hold the Ypres Coat of Arms. The lions were given to the Australian government as...ART12510.002
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Mess parade
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
A group of soldiers stand near a thatched cookhouse, holding their plates waiting for food.ART03320
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Not titled [Landscape, near Vierstraat]
Art
Double leaf landscape sketch torn from another sketchbook. Depicts the Ypres Sector at 4pm. Benson indicates that the view is from the right of the village Vierstraat. Benson notes that "A [sketch of]...ART03605.029.001
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One of our Battalion in the Front Line
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Maker: Hawkins, Weaver
Depicts a communications officer sitting at a small wooden table talking on a telephone. He sits outside a dugout in Ypres, where Hawkins was stationed during July 1915 before his evacuation from the ...ART19998
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Our pillbox, Westhoek Ridge, October
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Depicts three soldiers wearing tin helmets looking out across the battlefield at Westhoek Ridge. A wrecked pillbox appears in the background with two gun limbers near it. Will Dyson was the first Aust...ART02268