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[Artillery]
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Maker: Wilson, Eric
A pencil drawing of the back of a field artillery gun. After being awarded a Travelling Art scholarship in 1937, Eric Wilson studied in Europe for several years. In 1939, in the months preceding the ...ART28838
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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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[Artist's markings]; verso: [Egyptian figures in a boat and standing figures]
Art
Maker: Silas, Ellis
Artist's pencil markings; verso: Four separate sketches of Egyptian figures in various poses such as rowing and gesturing; and a pencil sketch of a head.ART90838.001
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A shell swept road
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
A team of six horses from the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 1st Australian Division Artillery race along, pulling an 18-pounder gun. There are shells bursting nearby and there are ruined war-damaged ...ART92145
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A sketch made in France in 1916
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Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of a soldier, wearing a steel helmet. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling to France ...ART19770
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A soldier and two blokes; verso: Finis
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Maker: Dunbar, John
A soldier is shown on the left, standing to full attention, his uniform neat and his head strong and held upright. To the right of him two other soldiers are depicted, both slouched over and looking d...ART19520.008
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Aspects sentimentaux du front anglais (Sentimental aspects of the British front), text by Bertie Angle
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Maker: Laboureur, Jean-Emile
Bertie Angle's 'Aspects sentimentaux du front anglais (Sentimental aspects of the british front line)' was published by Dorbon-Aine, Paris in 1916. As well as an original print for the frontispiece, ...ART50272
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Assisting Queensland's patriotic day
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Maker: Templeton, P S Queensland Public Service A J Cumming, Government Printer
This early recruitment poster published by the Queensland government is a direct reference to Australia's involvement in the Dardanelles campaign. A kangaroo, dressed in the uniform of an Australian p...ARTV00150
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A stable boy, Bethlehem
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Maker: Ivers, T H
A pencil sketch of an arab stable boy from Bethlehem.ART02642
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A street in Neuve Eglise
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts a street scene with ruined and war damaged buildings at Neuve Eglise, on the Western Front in Belgium during the First World War. Charles Bryant (1883-1937) began art lessons at the age of 9 a...ART00159
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A Sudanese/Egyptian Infantry
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Depicts a Sudanese soldier in uniform, wearing calf-length boots and a fez hat, a member of the Egyptian infantry. This is one of a series of drawings Benson did entitled 'Some Egyptian Types'.ART03605.006.004
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At a place not stated from the 'Anzac Centenary Print Portfolio'
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Maker: Spong, Sriwhana
Sriwhana Spong has devised a private alphabet using abstracted trench designs drawn from First World War maps, along with facsimiles of leaves collected by the artist in Belgium. The idea for an alpha...ART96846.006
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A ten-minute sketch of Albert Church
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Depicts a 10-minute sketch of Albert Church. Benson recounts: "This place cost 7,000,000 francs and was just complete when the war started. The design was awful - the war certainly did some good." Alb...ART03605.025.002
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Athol Nicholas
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
Athol Miller Nicholas (1897-1964) was the youngest of the four Nicholas brothers to serve. He enlisted at 18 and travelled to France as part of the 16th Reinforcements and was attached to the 22nd Bat...ART96810
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a ton tour Martin...
Art
Maker: Unknown
French propaganda print depicting a polar bear called Martin about to ride on the back of a German soldier. He is being urged on by three allied soliders.AWM2019.367.26
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a tous les corps l'on gagne!
Art
Maker: Unknown
French propaganda print depicting a game of bowels with each of the pins a caricature of axis leaders. The game is being played by a French soldier.AWM2019.367.25
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Attack by 4th Australian Infantry Brigade at Bloody Angle, Anzac May 1915
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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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Attack on Peronne
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Soldiers of the 53rd Battalion, 5th Division, 1st Australian Imperial Force, are depicted during the Attack on Peronne from 29 August until 2 September 1918. Peronne was a strategic location in a heav...ART02503
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Attention: beware of your hidden enemies
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Maker: Unknown US Army Unknown
A First World War poster warning soldiers to be aware of their ' hidden enemies' or venereal diseases. Text only it is a small rectangular poster printed in black and red ink. The text is positioned ...ARTV07551
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"At the landing and here ever since"
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
A caricatured portrait of the head and shoulders of a 'typical' Australian soldier on the Gallipoli peninsula. He is smoking a cigarette, has teeth missing and a band aid on his chin. This work was u...ART00025.002
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A Turkish deserter
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Sketch on a leaf torn from a small sketchpad, depicting a Turkish deserter sitting cross-legged in profile. The artist indicates that he was cross-examined on board the SS Minnewaska. There are notati...ART03605.012.001
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A Turkish prisoner
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Sketch on a leaf torn from a small sketchpad, depicting a head study of a Turkish prisoner. The inscription reads: 'A Turkish prisoner who was being examined on the HQ's troopship'. Benson has also in...ART03605.011.004
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A typical hut in Flanders
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Maker: Wright, Edgar Young Men's Christian Association Unknown
This First World War British poster was designed by Edgar Wright and published by the Young Men's Christian Association. The image is of a YMCA hut that was built beside a row of trees in Flanders. Th...ARTV05868
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Auja crossing, Jordan
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with river. Low wooden bridge resting on pontoons. Two horses crossing bridge. White mule with head down right. Mounted horsemen on bank extreme right. Horses in distance centre, t...ART02691
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Aussie leaning on his rifle
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Maker: Williamson, Garnet Angus
Depicts a sketch of an Australian soldier leaning on his rifle.ART03573
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Aussies
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Maker: Camm, Robert
'Aussies' depicts a number of young AIF soldiers marching along a road in a bush setting. They are dressed in full uniform and wearing slouch hats.ART91492
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Australia at War: Drawings at the Front
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Maker: Cecil Palmer & Hayward Ltd. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Ltd.
Advertising poster depicting an Australian soldier in uniform, wearing a steel helmet and carrying a full pack. The poster was produced in London to advertise Will Dyson's publication 'Australia at Wa...ARTV03826
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Australia has promised Britain 50,000 more men
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Maker: Syno Unknown Unknown
Australian First World War recruitment poster. Towards the end of 1915, a War Census of the Australian population showed that 244,000 single men of military age were available for enlistment. Accordin...ARTV05613
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Australia has promised Britain 50,000 more men
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Maker: Syno Unknown
Towards the end of 1915, a War Census of the Australian population showed that 244,000 single men of military age were available for enlistment. Accordingly, on 26 November 1915, the government with W...ARTV00021
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Australia in the War
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Maker: Leist, Fred Grafton Galleries Printing Craft Ltd
Lithographic poster advertising an exhibition of paintings and photographs by Australian artists called 'Australians in the War' which was held at Grafton Galleries, London in 1918. The work depicts f...ARTV07022
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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 artillery passing through Bapaume
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Maker: Waller, Napier
Depicts a number of Australian artillerymen, wearing tin helmets and great coats moving through the streets of Bapaume after the town was occupied in March 1917, with horses carrying artillery on load...ART92983
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Australian burning effigy of Kaiser in square, Armistice Day
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a crowd of soldiers in Peronne square, surrounded by building skeletons, damaged by war. They are gathered around a bonfire with an effigy of Kaiser hanging from gallows. Arthur Streeton is b...ART03523
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Australian flying squadron aerodrome, near Villers-Bocage
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts an RE8 aircraft standing near a group of tents at Villers-Bocage in France. One aircraft is seen in the right foreground, another at the left distance and one in the air. Arthur Streeton is be...ART03526
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Australian Gun Hospital on the Bapaume-Cambrai Road
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Depicts a number of soldiers working on repairing and cleaning field guns at the St. Stamps Gun Hospital in Cambrai, on the Bapaume Road, in August 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official ...ART02337
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Australian Hospital, Abbeville
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the Number 3 Australian General Hospital at Abbeville with large tents used as hospital wards, and in the background are wooden buildings. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters ...ART12649
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Australian hospital ship Kyarra
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Maker: Allcot, John
Commissioned in 1903, the ship 'Kyarra' was used for transport of goods and people across the world. In 1914, she was fitted as a hospital ship and she was painted white with a red cross on her hull. ...ART19766
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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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Australian infantry attack in Polygon Wood
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Maker: Leist, Fred
In the third battle of Ypres the Australians encountered reinforced concrete blockhouses, known as 'pillboxes', that were largely resistant to shell-fire; some had machine-guns firing from loopholes. ...ART02927
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Australian Light Horse
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Maker: Pugh, Clifton
Australian light horseman with plumed hat carrying a rifle mounted on his horse against a red background containing white crosses. The horse's rib cage is exposed and there is a bandage on its left le...ART91983
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Australian Light Horseman
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a drawing of an unidentified Light Horseman seated, legs apart, left hand on left knee, right forearm resting on right knee. Wearing a slouch hat with emu plume, Australian Commonwealth forces...ART02795
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Australian lines from MacCay's Hill
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Maker: Moore-Jones, Horace
Depicts the Australian lines from McCay's Hill with Anzac Cove in the background. Soldiers are walking down the valley carrying water containers, and this work highlights the extraordinary lengths the...ART03201
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Australian main dressing station, Bapaume
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Depicts Australian soldiers walking along a road or seated on the edge of the road, near an encampment, with tents and trucks. The encampment is the main dressing station near Bapaume, France in 1917....ART02322
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Australian Memorial, Mont St. Quentin, France
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Maker: Hinckfuss, Harold Charles
Depicts the Australian memorial at Mont St. Quentin, France from the lower side of the hill and the front to left aspect. A solitary soldier cast in bronze, carries a rifle over his right shoulder. S...ART19553
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Australian Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux
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Maker: Wilson, Eric
A landscape view across a field looking towards the Australian Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux in northern France. After being awarded a Travelling Art scholarship in 1937, Eric Wilson studied in Euro...ART28843
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Australian official war artists 1916-1918
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Maker: Coates, George
Depicts many Australian official war artists who were attached to different divisions of the AIF during the First World War, in a group portrait. The painting was originally owned by Cyril Steele of M...ART15334
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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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Australians and Turks advancing during an attack at Gallipoli
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Maker: Elliott, Dudley Marwood
Depicts a sketch, showing the topograhy of the battlefield at Gallipoli, with the Turkish trenches and figures in the foreground of Australian soldiers and the Lighthorse advancing. The sketch is by L...ART09448
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"Australians" look ! : Your country : Fight for it
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Maker: Macdonald, A C Unknown Wilby, James E
Australian First World War recruitment poster. It features a white map of Australia (not including Tasmania) against a dark blue background. All the capitals of each State (except for Darwin and Hobar...ARTV05663
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Australian soldier
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Maker: Anderson, Wallace Meridian Sculpture Founders
Depicts a bronze bust of a typical Australian soldier. This bronze edition was cast in 1994 from the original plaster cast from 1926.ART90166