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Amiens Cathedral
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting a view of Amiens Cathedral, Amiens, France. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900 to 1901, he served with the South African Light Horse in the B...ART03003
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Amiens Cathedral
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting a view of the Amiens cathedral from the surrounding countryside, with the village of Amiens also depicted. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900...ART03013
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Amiens Cathedral
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting the Amiens Cathedral and surrounding village buildings. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900 to 1901, he served with the South African Light Ho...ART03002
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Amiens Cathedral; verso:Salvage dump, Glisy
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
A sketch of Amiens cathedral in a landscape setting. On the verso a sketch of a salvage dump at Glisy with shell casings, barrels and ammunition boxes. From the artist's sketchbook covering the campai...ART19796.003
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Artillery Mules, Glisy
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting the artillery mules situated in plains around Glisy. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900 to 1901, he served with the South African Light Horse...ART03009
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Australian artillery in action, Peronne
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Depicts a team of six horses leads the Australian artillery advance at Peronne. Through the hilly landscape, the troops march on foot along the winding road. There are explosions to the right and left...ART12427
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Australian 9.2 howitzer
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Although 'Australian 9.2 howitzer' was painted in 1919, immediately after the war, it clearly represents a scene from the last phase of the fighting. The centrepiece is a large howitzer, the heaviest ...ART03004
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Australians advancing from Villers-Bretonneux, August 8th 1918
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
This is a depiction of what was a very large and important battle, best known as the Battle of Amiens. The Australian Corps of four divisions with one in reserve advanced on a frontage several kilomet...ART15522
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[Blank page]; verso: Salvage dump, Glisy
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Recto: A blank page; Verso: Depicts a man loading a cart with empty shells. A team of four horses stand harnessed to the cart and there are two trees in the background. From the artist's sketchbook co...ART19796.012
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Breaking the Hindenburg Line
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
The Battle of the Hindenburg Line which began September 18, 1918, was a key turning point in the Hundred Days Offensive that eventually led to the end of World War 1. British forces spearheaded the at...ART03023
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Bresle Church
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting a view of Bresle Church. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900 to 1901, he served with the South African Light Horse in the Boer War. Following ...ART03010
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Canal, Somme Valley near Belloy sur Somme
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting the canal near Belloy sur Somme. The canal is in the foreground with the Somme Valley in the background. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900 t...ART03014
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Church at Bresle
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting a view of the church at Bresle. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900 to 1901, he served with the South African Light Horse in the Boer War. Fol...ART19799
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Corbie Church
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Depicts the Corbie Church with the ruins of the village of Corbie around it. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900 to 1901, he served with the South African Light Horse in t...ART03017
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Dugouts near Villers Bretonneux
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Depicts a group of Australian soldiers, and one American soldier, standing in front of dugouts near Villers Bretonneux in France, during the First World War. This painting was previously titled 'Group...ART03024
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[Dugouts near Villers-Bretonneux]; verso: [Covered trucks parked]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
The right hand panel of a panorama sketch for 'Dugouts near Villers-Bretonneux'. This painting depicts dugouts set in the side of earth works, a corrugated iron lean-to and two soldiers. Verso: three ...ART19796.005
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Dug-outs on road near Glisy
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting the dug-outs outside the village of Glisy. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900 to 1901, he served with the South African Light Horse in the Bo...ART19800
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El Arish, Sinai Peninsula
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
The bleached arid landscape extends beyond the horizon where a dense cityscape marks the viewer's entry to El Arish, on the Sinai Peninsula. In late December 1916 troops from the ANZAC Mounted Divisio...ART03019
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[Gun captured by 58 Battalion 8/5/18, Baymoulers 9/8/18]; verso: [Dead soldier; Dismembered leg]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
recto: A gun is turned upsidedown on the earth with its wheel carriage exposed. verso: two sketches, a soldier in uniform lies face down in a field with his pack to his left; and a dismembered leg lie...ART19796.021
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Immortal shrine
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Longstaff's 'Immortal shrine', also known as 'Eternal silence', depicts endless columns of ghostly soldiers marching past the Cenotaph on a rainy Remembrance Day in 1928. The Cenotaph itself has a sur...ART14196
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[landscape with cathedral and spire]; verso: [1st Australian Division AIFcross]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
recto: A pencil study of a French village containing a church and spire in the landscape. verso: an AIF memorial featuring a celtic cross with 1st Australian Division AIF inscribed onto the bars of th...ART19796.022
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Lorries en route
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting three military lorries travelling down a French road with large trees either side and a faint sketch of a soldier in the left of the work. Will Longstaff was born in Ball...ART03011
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Main dressing station, Querrieu
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting the main dressing station at Querrieu. The image contains a tent in the centre, a Union Jack and Red Cross flag to the left and a partial view of the chateau in the right,...ART03008
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[Memorial cross to those who fell at Villers-Bretonneux]; verso: [Mending wire]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
A sketch of a memorial cross erected 'In memory of the officers, NCOs & Men who fell in action hereabouts in a night-attack resulting in the recapture of Villers Bretonneux 24th & 25th April 1918 R...ART19796.002
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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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Mont St Quentin
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting the battlefield at Mont St Quentin. The image has a view of Mont St Quentin with trenches, the ruins of a civilian building and the stubble of trees. Will Longstaff was bo...ART03001
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Mont St Quentin
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting Mont St Quentin, which was an area over which the Australians advanced in August 1918. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900 to 1901, he served ...ART03000
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[Mont St Quentin]; verso: [Americans attack]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
recto: right panorama landscape with colour notations by the artist; verso: Dead German soldiers in wire entanglements, smoke and shell burstsART19796.024
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[Mont St Quentin]; verso: [Attack on Mont St Quentin]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
recto: Extensive landscape sketch with artist's notes: trench, high ground, wire, railway line. verso: Left hand panorama of recto ART19796.024, containing hills, trees, fence and the artist's colour ...ART19796.023
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Night attack by 13th Brigade on Villers-Bretonneux
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Depicts the action in which Cliff Sadlier and Charlie Stokes of the 51st Battalion were awarded the Victoria Cross and Distinguished Conduct Medal respectively. The battalion took part in the counter ...ART03028
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[No 3 AGH]; verso: [Ammunition dump, Glisy]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
recto: Interior of a hospital ward with a nursing sister and patient. verso: View along a road shaded by tall trees with ammunition dump underneath.ART19796.018
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recto:Glisy; verso: Villers-Bretonneux
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
A drawing of a field artillery gun at Glisy, 11 July 1918 on the recto. On the verso a page of sketches of field artillery, artillery barrels and range finders. From the artist's sketchbook covering t...ART19796.001
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[Salvage dump, Glisy]; verso: [Four men seated at table]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Men load a cart in the background, four trees in the mid ground and stacks of shells, crates and barrels are lined up in stacks along the front of the composition. Verso: Depicts a tent tied at either...ART19796.013
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Supply tank at Villers-Bretonneux
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting the wreckage of a destroyed Gun Carrier MK I supply tank, outside Villers-Bretonneux, in France during the First World War. The tank is fully loaded with mortar ammunition...ART03007
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8th August, 1918
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
The Battle of 8 August 1918, showing the Australian Artillery moving forward from Villers-Bretonneux. Horse drawn artillery and tanks, at right is a a British Mark V tank, can be seen moving forward....ART03022
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[Three studies of a mule with saddle and harness]; verso: [Harbonnieres]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
recto: Two small studies of mules with harnesses; one sketch of a man riding a horse. verso: A street scene of Harbonnieres showing the church bell tower in the distance. Includes colour notations on...ART19796.020
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Unloading shell cases, Glisy Dump; verso:[Dugouts near Villers-Bretonneux]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
A sketch showing men unloading shell cases from waggons at the Glisy Dump. Verso: the left hand panel of a panorama sketch for 'Dugouts near Villers-Bretonneux'. This shows some dugouts set in the sid...ART19796.004
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War planes of the Australian Flying Corps
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Depicts the 1st Australian Imperial Force, No 2 Squadron and No 4 Squadron, war planes of the Australian Flying Corps. The identifiable aircraft in the painting are from top to bottom; Handley Page O/...ART03029