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AWM93 18/7/5 PART 3 - [Australian War Memorial registry file:] Publication and purchase of cartoons by Will Dyson
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RCDIG1066883
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A reputation befouled
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Maker: Daily News
Depicts the cartoon published in the London 'Daily News', 26 October 1915, commenting on the execution of Edith Cavell, a British nurse accused by the Germans of being a spy. The slumped and bloodied ...ART02419
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AWM93 18/7/5 PART 1 - [Australian War Memorial registry file:] Publication and purchase of cartoons by Will Dyson
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RCDIG1066881
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France, 1917
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Maker: Lindsay, Daryl Ernest
The work depicts a transportation line of the 22nd Australian Army Service Corps [3rd Division] with two planes flying above. The work is in a loose watercolour style similar to that of Will Dyson's -...ART93182
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War to save German culture
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"War to save German Culture" was subtitled 'Goethe, Beethoven, Wagner - in humble chorus - "How, Oh Saviour Krupp, how can we ever thank thee!"'. Will Dyson has depicted the figure of Krupp seated on ...ART19898
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A view of the Somme Valley above Corbie. It was while flying low over these trees that von ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A view of the Somme Valley above Corbie. It was while flying low over these trees that von Richthofen was killed in front of the clearing on the right. Lieutenant Will Dyson, the Australian Official A...E02405
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AWM93 18/7/5 PART 2 - [Australian War Memorial registry file:] Publication and purchase of cartoons by Will Dyson
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RCDIG1066882
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Kaiser and Germania
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Depicts two figures, either Kaiser Wilhelm II and Emperor Franz Josef or 'Germania' and Wilhelm. The thin, elderly figure on the right may also represent the declining Austro-Hungarian empire gazing ...ART02292
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The cook
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Depicts the figure of a battalion cook, his pipe in his mouth, leaning in the doorway of a kitchen. Dyson had a "fascination with eccentric A.I.F. cooks" and greatly admired the AIF support units who ...ART02304
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Company awaiting relief, the Caterpillar, near Ville-sur-Ancre
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Depicts a number of soldiers in uniform, wearing helmets, resting on the road side awaiting relief. The 'caterpillar' in the title refers to the name of a sunken road south of Ville. Dyson inspected V...ART02250.003
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Coming out on the Somme
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This work is from Dyson's early battlefield observations. It shows exhausted Australian troops, draped in waterproof sheets, plodding through the rain and mud as they reach Montauban, a ruined village...ART02276
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Jack and his offsider
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Depicts two soldiers, wearing long coats and tin helmets, with one standing and one seated. The two soldiers are waiting for their rations. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to v...ART02263
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The Siege lamp, High Wood
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Depicts a uniformed soldier, wearing a tin hat, and holding a lit match standing in a war damaged landscape about to light a siege lamp. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visi...ART02243
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Old German front line outside Pozieres
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Depicts an image of the war damaged landscape of the German frontline near Pozieres, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, trav...ART02213
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Opposite my billet, Rue d'Au
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Depicts a view of the back of a man, wearing a cloak and hat, looking up towards the face of a young woman, who peers out of a loft window at him. The window is above an old barber's shop with a tiled...ART02203
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Writing to catch the home mail
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Depicts two soldiers from the 4th Australian Division sitting near billets writing letters in the Somme during winter 1917. One is wearing a greatcoat and scarf. Will Dyson was the first Australian of...ART02397
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Near Henencourt
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Depicts a landscape with trees and people on a road, near Henencourt, France in 1918. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling ...ART02342
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Going up to the line near Vaux
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Depicts war damaged landscape near Vaux, the Somme with a line of soldiers with full kit returning to the front line, in the summer of 1918. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to ...ART02272
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Sunrise at Gueudecourt
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Depicts a war damaged landscape at Guedecourt, France, at sunrise with remnants of buildings and smashed trees. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the Fi...ART02232
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Evening, Crucifix Corner near Flers
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Depicts a badly war damaged landscape in the evening, with debris in the foreground and smashed trees in the background. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front duri...ART09928
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German prisoners near Messines
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Depicts a standing Australian soldier guarding two German soldiers seated on the ground. One of the seated soldiers wears a German Field Cap, while the soldier on the right has a bandaged head and han...ART02214
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An assortment of war trophies. They were collected for the Australian War Museum by the 13th ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An assortment of war trophies. They were collected for the Australian War Museum by the 13th Infantry Battalion, the Commanding Officer of which, Lieutenant Colonel D. G. Marks DSO MC, appears on the ...E02242
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The Australian Official Correspondent, Mr C E W Bean, with Mr John Masefield, Lieutenant Will ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
The Australian Official Correspondent, Mr C E W Bean, with Mr John Masefield, Lieutenant Will Dyson, Australian Official Artist, and Mr Alexis Aladin, going over the old battlefield at Pozieres.E00509
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Mending the wires at Wolff huts, Pozieres
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Depicts several Australian soldiers mending communication wires and power poles in a war damaged landscape in Pozieres. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front durin...ART02260
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Cease firing, enemy aeroplanes above
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Depicts a group of officers standing near an 8-inch howitzer gun in a war damaged landscape. They have ceased firing and one officer looks upwards, and indication of an aeroplane firing overhead. The ...ART02230
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Back at the waggon lines comparing souvenirs
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Depicts four soldiers standing around looking at their souvenirs collected during the war, including bayonets and a small gun. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fron...ART02220
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The batman (Compree washing madame)
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Depicts an Australian soldier leaning against a doorway with a bundle of dirty laundry at his feet, talking to a civilian French woman and asking her if she will do his washing for him. Will Dyson was...ART02431
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Wintery day on the Somme
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Depicts a soldier in uniform, wearing a great coat, standing at the entrance of a dugout, with a kerosene lamp hanging near the door, looking out onto a snowy winter landscape on the Somme in December...ART02411
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Reporting at the Battery
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Depicts two soldiers entering the tent of an Officer in Charge after returning from Forward Observation Post, reporting back to their battery. The Officer in Charge has been woken at night and sits up...ART02277
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The Lagnicourt guns
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Depicts a number of Australian soldiers inspecting field guns and ordanance at rest on the battlefiled, at Lagnicourt. In April 1917 Germans attacked Lagnicourt and Noreuil, initially successful, but ...ART02247
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Evening at Flers
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Depicts a war damaged landscape with ruined buildings, destroyed trees and power lines and parts of machinery. Flers is near Guedencourt, in north-eastern France, near the Somme. Will Dyson was the fi...ART02217
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Near Mametz
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Depicts an unidentified soldier, wearing greatcoat and cape and carrying protective (tin) helmet, standing near the trunk of a war damaged tree near Mametz, on the Western Front. Will Dyson was the f...ART02207
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The Shack, Trone's Wood
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Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, sitting forlornly under the edge of a shelter. Beside him is a standing figure, wearing a protective rain coat. Will Dyson was the first Australian official wa...ART02420
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Chateau ramparts, Heilly
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Depicts a number of soldiers at the base of the ramparts for the chateau at Heilly in April 1918. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War,...ART02400
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Abandoned gun pit outside Flers
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Depicts an abandoned gun pit with sandbags, barbed wire and a wooden infrastructure, outside Flers about January 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during...ART09920
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Kaiser
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Depicts a caricature of a German officer; he is depicted as overweight, and wearing a helmet and greatcoat. The painting was 'removed from a house used as an Officer's Mess in Henencourt 1917', north ...ART00766
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On the road to Nieuport
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Depicts a war-damaged landscape with broken trees, destroyed artillery and an upturned, broken cart near Nieuport, Belgium. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front d...ART02205
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[Digger lying on his stomach] verso: [Reclining officer with spyglass]
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Depicts an image of an Australian digger in uniform lying on his stomach on the ground, observed from behind. On the verso is an image of an officer, seated on the ground, looking through a spyglass o...ART19710
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Unloading the wounded from ambulance at ACCS
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Depicts a field ambulance being unloaded by a number of men from the rear of the ambulance. Behind the ambulance are a number of hospital tents. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist...ART02264
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Peace at Martinpiuch
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Depicts a scene of a battlefield with war damaged trees in the left background, a damaged truck and a resting cannon. Martinpiuch is in north -western France, close to the Somme battlefield. Will Dyso...ART02204
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Exchanging furphies
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Depicts two soldiers, one standing and one seated, in front of a large tent. The seated soldier is pulling something out of a bag on the ground. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist...ART02259
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Looking for the battalion
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Depicts two soldiers with full kit walking along a road, within a war damaged landscape, somewhere along the Western Front, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the...ART02239
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Entrance to Mouquet Farm dugouts
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Depicts the entrance, with wooden poles, covered in snow to the Mouquet Farm dugouts in France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, t...ART02219
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The Butte of Warlencourt
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Depicts a war damaged landscape in Belgium, with the Butte of Warlencourt in the background topped by two crosses. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the...ART02261
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Abandoned trench, the Somme
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Depicts an abondoned trench on the Somme. The trench is in the foreground, with smashed trees on the edge and there are Nissan huts and tents in the background. The portion of the trench depicted is p...ART09912
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Reinforcements 1917
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Depicts a number of Australian soldiers in uniform seated and standing, reinforcements for the front line. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First W...ART02222.012
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The Raider, P...
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Depicts two soldiers in uniform standing on the edge of a battlefield watching, through binoculars, air raids on the battlefield. A number of search lights can be seen in the background of the image, ...ART02275
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An angry runner on the ridge
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Depicts a soldier wearing a tin helmet, in the lower right corner, moving away from a war damaged ridge. A dark and stormy sky, filled with shell bursts looms in the right hand corner of the drawing. ...ART02235