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After the battle, 1918
Art
Maker: Macqueen, Kenneth
Unidentified location showing the aftermath of a battle. Soldiers lay deceased with the rifles bayonneted into the ground next to them. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts P...ART93957
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Among the poppies
Art
Maker: Boyd, Penleigh
The crumpled body of a young fallen soldier lying near a tree amongst a tangle of poppies. He lies with arms outstretched, his slouch hat and rifle abandoned on the grass beside him. This work is one ...ART50232
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Any orders today, Sire?
Art
Depicts the dejected figure of Kaiser Wilhelm II slumped in his throne, overshadowed by the huge winged figure of Death, a skeleton wearing a robe and carrying a sickle. This cartoon was published in ...ART02418
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Apres le combat (After the combat)
Art
Maker: Lepere, Auguste Sagot
Dead bodies are gathered up after the fighting. This print is plate 13 from the first portfolio of 18 woodcuts, 'La guerre de 1914', published by Sagot, Paris, 1915.ART50258
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Attack by 4th Australian Infantry Brigade at Bloody Angle, Anzac May 1915
Art
Maker: Silas, Ellis
Soldiers attacking up a ridge with considerable shellfire on top of the ridge. Other soldiers lying in a trench injured, with dead soldiers in the foreground. Bloody Angle was located between Pope's H...ART02437
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Bomb damage, 19 February 1942
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
The wreckage of the Post Office and Post Master's house in Darwin. The damage was caused through bombing by the Japanese on 19 February 1942. The postmaster and his daughter along with other post of...ART22723
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Burying the meat, Shell Green
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A pencil sketch of two soldiers dragging a dead body by his feet across Shell Green, Gallipoli. Shell Green was the only flat ground within the Anzac enclave, but it was under direct observation from ...ART03605.014.004
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Charge of the Light Horse at Quinn's Post, May 1915
Art
Maker: Silas, Ellis
Soldiers attacking, others lying dead and wounded at Quinn's Post, Gallipoli.ART90800
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Dans des faubourgs de Londres (In the suburbs of London)
Art
Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A body of a girl lies among the smoking ruins of a bombed house. London was bombed many times. Coutin 1987 (48D). This work was published in 'L'Opinion, 23 October 1915, pp. 328-9 (48A). There is a dr...ART50147
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Dead bodies on barbed wire: illustrating the poem 'Trench idyll', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
Art
Maker: Nash, Paul
Hand-coloured woodcut illustrating the poem 'Trench idyll', the sixth illustration in a book of poems by British poet and novelist Richard Aldington (1892-1926), published by Beaumont Press, London, 1...ART20002.006
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Dead man's patch
Art
Maker: Silas, Ellis
A signaller on the left is carrying messages through the line of attack; two dead figures lying on the ground centre of image. The landscape is rocky and hilly.ART90811
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Dead Viet Cong youth, 15 -17 years old, 5 May 1967
Art
Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Dead Viet Cong youth, aged 15 to 17 years old, at the 8th Field Ambulance, Nui Dat, Vietnam, 5 May 1967. He was one of two brothers killed in action. This boy used a single shot rifle.ART40453
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Debout, les morts! (Arise, the dead!) 1915
Art
Maker: Abel-Truchet, Louis
A man on a horse riding through a cemetery during the First World War where wooden crosses mark the graves, urging the dead to awake and arise. A town is seen in the background. Louis Abel-Truchet wa...ART92967
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Debout, les morts! (Wake the dead)
Art
Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A German soldier dances through a cemetery with hats on top of wooden crosses. The man is trying to arouse the dead buried in the graveyard. He is possibly holding a tambourine above his head. This wo...ART50129
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Der Englische Rechenfehler (England's miscalculation)
Art
Maker: Liebermann, Max
An illustration from an issue of "Kriegszeit" in October 1914. "Kriegszeit" was a pro-war journal produced from 1914-1916 by the Berlin art dealer Paul Cassirer. This image by Liebermann has a quote ...ART50227
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Devant les remparts de Verdun (In front of the ramparts at Verdun)
Art
Maker: Jonas, Lucien-Hector
Dead German soldiers lying in front of the French ramparts at Verdun in France during the First World War. A French soldier with his rifle is looking over the parapet from where he has been shooting ...ART92978
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Devant Verdun: leur consolation (In front of Verdun: their consolation)
Art
Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
Innumerable graves mark those of German soldiers killed at Verdun. The Crown Prince stands and places his hand on the shoulder of Bethmann-Hollweg who kneels in prayer, and consoles him with the remar...ART50141
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Drowned soldier at Anzac as Icarus
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Cliffs along coastline, with drowned body floating in the sea. The body has a red cross on torso a symbol of the military medical service. With this image Nolan has used a number of references. On the...ART91309
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First 'Zero' Japanese fighter brought down on Australian mainland
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
The wreckage of an aircraft shot down over the mainland in Darwin on 19 February 1942. This aircraft is not actually a Zero as it is referred to by the artist but instead is a Aichi D3A carrier based...ART21687
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[Gallipoli landscape at sunset with drowned figure]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Gallipoli landscape at sunset with drowned figure.ART91262
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[Gallipoli soldiers]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Gallipoli soldiers: one running, wearing plumed hat and carrying rifle; one dead, referring to links between Anzac's and Homeric soldiers. Nolan had initially been wanting to do a series of work on th...ART91208
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Harvest and crop
Art
Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Two Somali men haggling with another two men weilding knives over the skull of a fellow Somali.ART90106
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I'm not afraid to die Padre
Art
Maker: Percival, Cecil
A soldier comforts a dying man. The injured man is saying 'I'm not afraid to die Padre, if I'd been afraid of death I'd never have been here'. Cecil Percival, was a cartoonist and illustrator. He con...ART13387
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In memoriam
Art
Maker: See, Pamela
The work presents a contemporary response to public rituals of remembrance and the notion of commemoration in Australia. The vertical rows of paper-cut poppies form strong visual links to the RSL popp...ART96790
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Intelligence personnel searching Japanese dead
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Two Australian intelligence personnel are pictured searching the decaying bodies of dead Japanese. Dargie noted, "The most gruesome task for Intelligence Personnel is the searching of dead bodies of ...ART23152
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Japanese dead
Art
Maker: Drysdale, Russell
Illustration for the wartime publication 'Soldier superb: the Australian fights in New Guinea'. Depicts the remains of human skeletons. On verso; sketch of a soldier climbing a ladder. First publishe...ART28309.010
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Japanese dead from suicide raid
Art
Maker: Friend, Donald
Donald Friend accompanied the Australian forces which landed on the island of Labuan, off the coast of Borneo, in June 1945. The first drawings Friend produced on Labuan depicted the devastated lands...ART22857
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La borne (The milestone)
Art
Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
Depicts a dead German soldier, lying face down, on the ground, next to a mile post on which is inscribed 'Verdun 11 kil'. Behind this German soldier are piles of bodies of other dead soldiers. The Ge...ART50154
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La seance fut secrete (It was a secret meeting)
Art
Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A Deputy, walking over the bodies of French soldiers, gives German soldiers an account of a meeting of the United Chamber. Coutin 1987 (131D). This work was not published, but was intended for publica...ART50136
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Le chevalier de la mort [Knight of death]
Art
Maker: Neumont, Maurice Louis Henri
The Kaiser rides a horse over a crowd of angry and tormented soldiers and civilians who cry out and raise their fists. He talks to the Crown Prince who rides an ass, and wears a three-cornered hat wi...ART92110
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L'ecole des neutres III (The neutrals' lesson) III
Art
Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
The dead bodies of women and children lie on a beach, the victims of a German torpedo attack. Coutin 1987 (44D). This work was published in 'L'Opinion', 25 September 1915, pp. 232-233 (44A). There is ...ART50139
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L'ecole des neutres (The neutrals' lesson)
Art
Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
Bodies of civilians washed up on a shore; a wrecked ship in the distance. The submarine war took many civilian and military victims. Coutin 1987 (12D). This work was published in 'L'Opinion', 13 Febru...ART50138
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Les Prussiens massaceurs (The Prussian massacre)
Art
Maker: Lepere, Auguste Sagot
Prussian soldiers brutalise peasants; one hits a peasant with the end of a gun, another swings a person in the air. Dead bodies lie on the ground. This woodcut is plate 12 from the first portfolio of ...ART50260
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L'explosion de la mine (Mine explosion)
Art
Maker: Lepere, Auguste Sagot
A dead German soldier lies in a trench after a mine explosion. This print is plate 14 from the first portfolio of 18 woodcuts, 'La guerre de 1914', published by Sagot, Paris. From the second (publishe...ART50259
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Montagnard woman accidentally shot by New Zealand troops, Hi Chi Minh's birthday 19 May 1967; verso: Montagnard woman accidentally killed by new Zealand troops
Art
Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Two on the spot sketches the artist made of a Montagnard woman lying on the ground, accidentally shot by New Zealand troops on Ho Chi Minh's birthday, 19 May 1967, in Nui Dat, Vietnam. (recto and vers...ART40476
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Night march of the captured and a circle of the dead
Art
Maker: Winters, Michael
In this work Winters depicts events told to him by Captain William Travers of the 2/1st Battalion. Travers led his company over three campaigns. His relationship with his men and the respect he felt f...ART92807
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Non Nobis
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts an illustration for the poem 'Non Nobis' written by C E W Bean for the 'ANZAC Book'. The work incorporates images of conifers or pines growing on a steep hillside, one of which has fallen over...ART00064
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[Skeletal head]
Art
Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Head of a skeleton. On 13 April 1978 Nolan stated that this work had been made in London about one month after he visited the concentration camps in Germany.ART91367
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[Skeletal head]
Art
Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Skeletal head in German concentration camp. On 13 April 1978 Nolan stated that this work had been made in London about one month after he visited the concentration camps in Germany.ART91368
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Sketch of dead soldier and mule for above incident [ART22222]
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a dead soldier and a mule. Muleteers under mortar fire at Damour, Syria. This sketch was intended as a preparatory study for a final painting of a scene from the Battle for Damour.ART22032
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SS guards burying dead, Belsen
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
Alan Moore witnessed the liberation of the infamous Belsen concentration camp in Germany. For three days he drew and photographed the skeletal survivors and their persecutors, including the SS troops ...ART27621
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Study for 'Sacrifice'
Art
Maker: Hoff, Rayner
Head study for 'Sacrifice'; a preliminary work for the central figure inside the Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park South, Sydney, the principal NSW State war memorial. Hoff's sculpture is the main focus of th...ART92622
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Study for 'These laid the world away...'
Art
Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
"Study for 'These Laid the World Away...'" is a figure study for a large sombre oil painting of a First World War battlefield still bearing the uncollected casualties of war - fallen Australian soldie...ART94135
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Taking of Mont St Quentin
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Maker: Percival, Cecil
Depicts Australian soldiers taking a German trench at Mont St Quentin with two dead German soldiers. In the centre front a soldier is about to throw a grenade into the entrance of the trench. Mont St ...ART03291
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The dance of Death 1914-1918 Death awed
Art
Maker: Smith, Percy
No. 3 from a portfolio of 7 etchings, titled 'The dance of Death', features Death as a tangible image hovering ominously over the battlefield. The concept of dance of Death imagery began as a medieva...ART50278
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The dance of Death 1914-1918 Death forbids
Art
Maker: Smith, Percy
No. 1 from a portfolio of 7 etchings titled 'The dance of Death', features Death as a tangible image hovering ominously over the battlefield. The concept of dance of Death imagery began as a medieval ...ART50276
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The dance of Death 1914-1918 Death intoxicated
Art
Maker: Smith, Percy
No. 7 from a portfolio of 7 etchings, titled 'The dance of Death', features Death as a tangible image hovering ominously over the battlefield. The concept of dance of Death imagery began as a medieval...ART50282
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The dance of Death 1914-1918 Death marches
Art
Maker: Smith, Percy
No. 2 from a portfolio of 7 etchings titled 'The dance of Death', features Death as a tangible image hovering ominously over the battlefield. The concept of dance of Death imagery began as a medieval...ART50277
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The dance of Death 1914-1918 Death ponders
Art
Maker: Smith, Percy
No. 6 from a portfolio of 7 etchings, titled 'The dance of Death', features Death as a tangible image hovering ominously over the battlefield. The concept of dance of Death imagery began as a medieval...ART50281
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The dance of Death 1914-1918 Death refuses
Art
Maker: Smith, Percy
No. 4 from a portfolio of 7 etchings, titled 'The dance of Death', features Death as a tangible image hovering ominously over the battlefield. The concept of dance of Death imagery began as a medieva...ART50279