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A Belgian soldier standing on a duckboard type pathway leading across a very wet countryside near ...
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A Belgian soldier standing on a duckboard type pathway leading across a very wet countryside near Bixschoote. In the background is a destroyed German Army concrete structure. (Donor French Government)H04306
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A British Army partially constructed concrete block house in the Ypres salient after it had been ...
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Maker: Deutsche Reichsarchiv
A British Army partially constructed concrete block house in the Ypres salient after it had been captured by the German Army. (Donor German War Museum Bufa 9066)H13378
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Aisne Area, France. 1918-10-12. Interior of a damaged fort at Conde sur Aisne. (Donor French ...
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Aisne Area, France. 1918-10-12. Interior of a damaged fort at Conde sur Aisne. (Donor French Government)H04427
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Ammunition dump, Glisy
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts an ammunition dump at Glisy screened by camouflage netting, a warning sign post, stacks of shells for 18-pounder guns, a separate stack for fuze caps, some shells in steel ammunition boxes and...ART03486
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An unidentified Australian soldier searching among the ruins of a German concrete fortress. ...
Photograph
Maker: Aarons, Daniel Sidney
An unidentified Australian soldier searching among the ruins of a German concrete fortress. German supplies and helmets lay scattered over the area.P11027.010.002
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Battle of Fromelles
Art
Maker: Wheeler, Charles
Depicts a panoramic view of the Sugarloaf Salient area at Fromelles, with men of 5th Division AIF crossing No Man's Land towards the German trenches. Shell bursts and explosions can be seen above the...ART07981
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Belgian soldiers resting in Triangular Wood, near Bixschoote, beside a German concrete structure ...
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Belgian soldiers resting in Triangular Wood, near Bixschoote, beside a German concrete structure which had been destroyed by French Army artillery. (Donor French Government)H04305
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Big gun emplacement, Fort of Chanak
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
This work was painted during George Lambert's visit to Gallipoli in 1919 with the Australian Historical Mission. They spent a week at Chanak (7-14 Feb), a small town on the Asiatic side of the Dardane...ART02835
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Breaking the Hindenburg Line
Art
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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Bridge into Peronne
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the ruins of the bridge into Peronne blown up by retreating Germans. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century....ART12628
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Brigade headquarters
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a bunker with a roof of sheets of corrugated iron weighed down with sandbags, sand bag walls, a sentry on duty, chimney pipes above the roof, which was used as the headquarters of an unidentif...ART03532
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Bunker entrance
Art
Maker: Chapman, Evelyn
Entrance to a bunker on the Somme in France, the red colour suggesting vegetation re-growth. In 1918, only a few weeks after the end of the First World War, Chapman travelled to the battlefields of Fr...ART19590
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Charge of the 2nd Infantry Brigade at Krithia
Art
Maker: Wheeler, Charles
Late in the afternoon of 8 May 1915, at half an hours notice, the Australian and New Zealand troops received orders to attack the village of Krithia to the south of the Anzac area. Moving across a tho...ART09558
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Collection relating to John Dougal Cramb.
Photograph
MILITARY EARTHWORKS NEAR THE QUARANTINE STATION AT AYAN MUSA, NEAR SUEZ, ON THE SUEZ CANAL. (DONATED BY CAPTAIN J.D. CRAMB.)J05878
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COLOGNE, GERMANY. C. 1919-01. THE ENTRANCE TO A FORT IN THE CITY AREA. (ORIGINAL PRINTS HELD IN ...
Photograph
COLOGNE, GERMANY. C. 1919-01. THE ENTRANCE TO A FORT IN THE CITY AREA. (ORIGINAL PRINTS HELD IN AWM ARCHIVE STORE) (DONOR M. CORKHILL)P00826.181
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Craterland
Art
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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Diary of Alexander Jackson Cunningham, 1917-1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Cunningham, Alexander Jackson
Diary relating to the First World War service of Captain Alexander Jackson Cunningham, 2nd Field Company Engineers. In this diary, kept between 28 April 1917 and 18 May 1918, Cunningham recalls the Fi...RCDIG0000920
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Diary of Alexander Jackson Cunningham, 1914-1916
Digitised Collection
Maker: Cunningham, Alexander Jackson
Diary relating to the First World War service of Captain Alexander Jackson Cunningham, 2nd Field Company Engineers. In this diary, kept between 17 October 1914 and 4 July 1916, Cunningham describes hi...RCDIG0000917
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Diary of Arthur Thomas, 1916-1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Thomas, Arthur G
Diary relating to the First World War service of 3470 Corporal Arthur Thomas, 6th Battalion. This diary was written by Thomas between 20 July 1916 and 5 June 1918 and it covers: building fortification...RCDIG0001096
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Diary of Frederick William Gadsby Annand, 1916
Digitised Collection
Maker: Annand, Frederick William Gadsby
Diary relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant Colonel Frederick William Gadsby Annand, 7th Field Company Engineers and 2nd Pioneer Battalion. The entries in this diary span the period 1 ...AWM2016.30.70
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Diary of Frederick William Gadsby Annand, 1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Annand, Frederick William Gadsby
Diary relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant Colonel Frederick William Gadsby Annand, 2nd Pioneer Battalion. The entries in this diary span the period 1 January to 31 December 1917. The...AWM2016.30.71
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Diary of Frederick William Gadsby Annand, 1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Annand, Frederick William Gadsby Various
Diary relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant Colonel Frederick William Gadsby Annand, 2nd Pioneer Battalion. The entries in this diary span the period 1 January to 31 December 1917 and ...AWM2016.30.72
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Diary of John Henry Llewellyn Turnbull, 1915-1916
Digitised Collection
Maker: Turnbull, John Henry Llewellyn
Diary relating to the First World War service of 1433 Private John Henry Llewellyn Turnbull, 8th Battalion. This is the second of six detailed diaries transcribed by Turnbull after the war and documen...RCDIG0001107
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Enemy machine-gun position
Art
Depicts the German machine gun position after its capture by the 1st Brigade AIF near Templeux-le-Guerard. Two German machine gunners lie dead near a damaged and dismantled Maxim machine gun with sled...ART03379
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Engineering plans and documents of Alexander Jackson Cunningham, 1915-1916
Digitised Collection
Maker: Blamey, Thomas Albert Cunningham, Alexander Jackson
Original plans and documents relating to the First World War service of Captain Alexander Jackson Cunningham, 2nd Field Company Engineers. In this collection of material Cunningham has produced detail...RCDIG0000924
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Entrance to citadel, Peronne
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of the damaged entrance to the Citadel at Peronne, with an Albion truck parked at the entrance. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbour...ART03516
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Field message book of Alexander Jackson Cunningham, 1915-1916
Digitised Collection
Maker: Cunningham, Alexander Jackson
Field message book relating to the First World War service of Captain Alexander Jackson Cunningham, 2nd Field Company Engineers. In this field message book, kept between 4 December 1915 and 20 March 1...RCDIG0000921
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GALLIPOLI, TURKEY, C. 1916. A GROUP OF TURKISH ARMY OFFICERS ON ABANDONED FORTIFICATIONS AFTER ...
Photograph
GALLIPOLI, TURKEY, C. 1916. A GROUP OF TURKISH ARMY OFFICERS ON ABANDONED FORTIFICATIONS AFTER THE ALLIED WITHDRAWAL FROM GALLIPOLI.A05298
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GALLIPOLI, TURKEY, 1915. SHELTERS AND DUGOUTS OF 10TH BATTALION, 1ST AIF, AT ARTILLERY ROAD AND ...
Photograph
Maker: Beith, J R
GALLIPOLI, TURKEY, 1915. SHELTERS AND DUGOUTS OF 10TH BATTALION, 1ST AIF, AT ARTILLERY ROAD AND BROWN'S DIP. THE SOLDIERS' ATTENTION IS FIXED ON EVENTS TAKING PLACE FURTHER UP THE HILL.P00859.004
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Gaza Citadel key : Australian Light Horse
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Plain, metal key made from flat-profile steel, with oval ring for attachment to a chain. The metal has corroded in parts.REL/13844
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GEBEL MURR, MIDDLE EAST. C. 1917. GENERAL VIEW OF THE AREA SHOWING A FORTIFIED TRENCH AND BARBED ...
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GEBEL MURR, MIDDLE EAST. C. 1917. GENERAL VIEW OF THE AREA SHOWING A FORTIFIED TRENCH AND BARBED WIRE DEFENCES.H02566
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GEBEL MURR, MIDDLE EAST. C. 1917. SECTION OF A REGIMENTAL AID POST WITH TWO FORTIFIED POSITIONS ...
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GEBEL MURR, MIDDLE EAST. C. 1917. SECTION OF A REGIMENTAL AID POST WITH TWO FORTIFIED POSITIONS IN THE BACKGROUND.H02567
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German machine-gun outpost near Proyart
Art
Depicts a German machine gun post near Proyart, after its capture. There are camp remnants scattered around, helmets, rifles, satchels. In the distance are bombardments with smoke rising and explosion...ART03380
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German observation post, Messines
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts a damaged German observation post in a war damaged landscape at Messines in Belgium during the First World War. Charles Bryant (1883-1937) had some early art lessons before beginning his care...ART00184
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German observation post, Mont St Quentin
Art
Maker: Power, H Septimus
This German observation post, made of concrete with slit opening, was on Mont St Quentin. Mont St Quentin stood out in the surrounding country, making it a perfect observation point and a vital strate...ART03646
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German pillbox
Art
Duck boards curve across the landscape from left to right of the composition which features a German pillbox on the Somme at the Western Front.ART03418
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Gibralter (A German strong post at Pozieres)
Art
Depicts a war grave and ruins of a German strong point known as ''Gibralter", finally taken by Australians on the Western Front in 1918. Dyson was on the Pozieres battlefields in April 1917 and August...ART02306
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Gibralter, Pozieres
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts a wrecked building,smashed trees, a war grave and a battlefield on the horizon near Pozieres, France. 'Gibralter' was a German observation post, originally of reinforced concrete, on the outsk...ART02881
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"Gibralter", strong point, Pozieres
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts a war-damaged landscape , with the remains of a building and smashed trees at Pozieres, France, during the First World War. Charles Bryant (1883-1937) was a painter who studied in London in 19...ART00187
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Handwritten copy of diary of David Bernard Harford, 1916-1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Harford, David Bernard
Diary relating to the service of 3844 Private David Bernard Harford, 51st Battalion. In this diary Harford begins by detailing his journey from Australia to Egypt and the conditions on board during th...RCDIG0000860
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Inside the fort, Chanak
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
In 1919 Lambert accompanied the Australian Historical Mission to Gallipoli. This painting shows buildings inside a fort at Chanak, seen through a large gap in the walls. The fort 'Kale Sultanieh' is a...ART02832
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Italy. c. 1917. Italian women digging fortification positions in a field. (Donor Italian ...
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Italy. c. 1917. Italian women digging fortification positions in a field. (Donor Italian Government)H04932
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Jerusalem, from below the Mount of Olives
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
A landscape with a walled city with mosques in the background. A light horsemen sits under a tree in the left foreground and his horse waits beside him. There are low trees in the middle distance. The...ART02699
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Journee du Puy de Dome. Paquetage du soldat. 23rd Janvier 1916 [Puy du Dome Collection Day]
Art
Maker: Willette, Adolphe Leon Devambez Imprimerie
poster depicting a family watching as a train departs to take packages with comforts for soldiers at the Front welcoming comforts parcels sent by citizens, advertising a collecting day in Puy de Dome ...ARTV00068
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Letter from James Moffat Reid to his nieces, 25 July 1915
Digitised Collection
Maker: Reid, James Moffat
Letter relating to the First World War service of Major James Moffat Reid, 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment. In this letter to his nieces, Reid describes how the Regiment had left their horses in E...AWM2016.30.10
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Letters from Ernest Oswald Collett to his family, 1916-1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Collett, Ernest Oswald
Letters relating to the First World War service of 19618 Bombardier Ernest Oswald Collett, 29th Battery, 8th Australian Field Artillery Brigade. The letters begin by describing life in camp at Larkhil...RCDIG0001548
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Lewis Gun in action
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts two soldiers in chalky trench firing a Lewis gun, one wearing tin (protective) helmet, other wearing slouch hat, water bottle and haversack on ground of trench nearby.ART02901
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Lille Gate, Ypres
Art
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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Memoir of Richard Roberts, 1914-1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Roberts, Richard
Memoir relating to the First World War service of 773 Private Richard Roberts, 3rd Battalion. In this memoir of his service compiled in 1935, Roberts documents the period from his enlistment and embar...RCDIG0001570
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Meuse District, France. 1916-01. The interior of the French Army Fort Douaumont shortly before it ...
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Meuse District, France. 1916-01. The interior of the French Army Fort Douaumont shortly before it was captured by the German Army. (Donor French Government)H04324
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Mont St Quentin
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts the Mont St Quentin in the Peronne area of France, captured by allied forces in September 1918, in a green but wrecked landscape. In the foreground and midground the remains of damaged pillbox...ART03135
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Mont St Quentin
Art
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
Art
Depicts trenches on Mont St Quentin taken by soldiers of the AIF from German troops, with the town and river in middle distance. The location is near the Hindenburg Line, Western Front. James F Scot...ART03369
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Mouquet farm, Pozieres
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour sketch depicting the wrecked buildings of Mouquet farm in Pozieres. The image shows trench lines surrounding a pile of rubble with war graves marked with crosses. Frederick Leist was a pai...ART02875
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Our pillbox, Westhoek Ridge, October
Art
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
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Outdoor informal group portrait including (in foreground, from left): Admiral Guido von Usedom; ...
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Maker: Unknown
Outdoor informal group portrait including (in foreground, from left): Admiral Guido von Usedom; Emperor Wilhelm II; Enver Pasha (Turkish Minister for War), Vice Admiral Johannes Merten. All three Ger...P11504.008
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Photostat copy of sketch map showing Battle of Messines frontline, 1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Lines, Herbert Henry
Photostat copy of sketch map relating to the First World War service of Captain Robert Cuthbert Grieve. The map was originally drawn by 318 Private Henry Herbert Lines. It is a map of the sector where...RCDIG0001077
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Pillboxes, Messines Ridge
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts wrecked German pillboxes at Messines Ridge, Western Front. Pillboxes were developed during the First World War to provide a secure place near the trenches to fire on an attacking side and were...ART03125
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Pill box, Polygon Wood
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the Polygon Wood Area at the Western Front with pill boxes and wrecked landscape. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from Nove...ART03149
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Pozieres, France, 1916. The ruins of a German fortification made of steel-reinforced concrete and ...
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Pozieres, France, 1916. The ruins of a German fortification made of steel-reinforced concrete and known as "Gibraltar" or "The Cement House". It was captured in 1916-07 by soldiers of the 2nd Battalio...P01835.045
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Probably PALESTINE. ?1916. AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS OUTSIDE THE WALLS OF A FORT.
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Probably PALESTINE. ?1916. AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS OUTSIDE THE WALLS OF A FORT.P00678.010
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Ramparts of Ypres from the Menin Gate
Art
Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts a view of the ramparts of Ypres from the Menin Gate, showing a war ravaged landscape and a flock of birds flying through the sky. Albert Henry Fullwood was born in Birmingham, England in March...ART02453
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recto: Achi Baba, from Tommy's Trench, Helles; verso: The top of the Taurus Mountains
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Lambert wrote on 8 March 1919: "The old Bean [Charles Bean] had a great day among the old trenches about the plain before Krithia. Achi Baba makes a fine contour in the background and the plain is cov...ART02849
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Sadil Bahir
Art
Maker: Pugh, Clifton
The fort at Sadil Bahir. This was the scene of the British landings on 25th April 1915 but also the site of previous bombardments by allied warships which alerted the Turks to the likelihood of an inv...ART29532
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School house, Pozieres
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour sketch depicting the ruins of school building in Pozieres, on the Western Front, surrounded by trenches. Frederick Leist was a painter, illustrator and teacher. He studied at the Sydney Ar...ART02891
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Soldier in trench with periscope, Messines
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts an unidentified Australian soldier in a trench, looking through a periscope at Messines during the First World War. He wears an 'A' for Anzac colour patch and has sandbags instead of puttees a...ART00162
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Sunken barbed wire entanglements built by the 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train at the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Sunken barbed wire entanglements built by the 1st Royal Australian Naval Bridging Train at the Bridgehead at Kubri East. A camp is seen in the background.A01274
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Tel el Saba
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Although dated 11 March 1918, Lambert sketched at Tel el Saba on the 12th, the day after he had worked at Beersheba. It is five kilometers east of Beersheba and had been a crucial position to take bef...ART02681
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15th Brigade, 5th Division, Headquarters, Heilly
Art
Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts the walls of the headquarters of 5th Division, 15th Australian Infantry Brigade AIF at Heilly. There are several Australian soldiers standing near the gateway. Albert Henry Fullwood was born i...ART02470
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The Battle of Messines
Art
Maker: Wheeler, Charles
The Battle of Messines, codenamed ‘Magnum Opus’, began at 3:10am on 7 June 1917, after a seven day preliminary bombardment, with the detonation of 19 huge mines that obliterated thousands of frontline...ART03557
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The Charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba, 1917
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Late on 31 October 1917 the 4th Light Horse Brigade was ordered to gallop towards Beersheba and seize the town. Two regiments, the 4th and the 12th, made the charge. This bold and successful move was ...ART02811
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The charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the Nek, 7 August 1915
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
On 7 August 1915 the Australians and Turks faced each other over a narrow strip of open ground on Gallipoli; the Australians were met with a torrent of gunfire and four out of five who took part in th...ART07965
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The death of Major Black
Art
Maker: Wheeler, Charles
Major Percy Black had established a reputation for great courage. On 11 April 1917 at Bullecourt, Black led his men through gaps in the dense entanglements under heavy fire, capturing the first trench...ART03558
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The harbour from Fort Raluana, Blanche Bay
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts the harbour from Fort Raluana, Blanche Bay at Rabaul in New Guinea. This painting is one of a number of the commissioned works Bryant produced for Australian War Records between 1923 and 1926 ...ART03629
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The last call
Art
Maker: Lindsay, Norman Government of Australia W E Smith Ltd
Depicts an Australian First World War recruitment poster with an image of a wounded soldier sounding his bugle for assistance as he leans over the bodies of wounded soldiers in a trench. In the backgr...ARTV00043
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The Nek, Walker's Ridge, site of the charge of the light horse; verso; Rest Gully, pack mule and the draught horse
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
View of the Nek from the lower slopes with bones littering no-man's-land, site of the charge at the Nek, an August 1915 offensive. Lambert wrote on 17 February 1919: "I was conducted by the 'Mission'...ART02856
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The No. 3 redoubt in Duiedar, Egypt. A extensive series of defensive redoubts were constructed in ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
The No. 3 redoubt in Duiedar, Egypt. A extensive series of defensive redoubts were constructed in the Romani area by the British and Australian forces prior to the Battle of Romani in August 1916.P11220.004
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The remains of a British Army block house in the Ypres salient after it had been captured by the ...
Photograph
Maker: Deutsche Reichsarchiv
The remains of a British Army block house in the Ypres salient after it had been captured by the German Army. (Donor German War Museum Bufa 9065)H13377
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The taking of Lone Pine
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts the battlefield at Gallipoli during the Battle for Lone Pine. At the landing in April 1915 a single pine tree was growing on the site and the Australians called it 'Lonesome Pine' from the tit...ART02931
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Transcript of diaries of Alexander Jackson Cunningham, 1914-1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Cunningham, Alexander Jackson
Transcript of diaries relating to the First World War service of Captain Alexander Jackson Cunningham 2nd Field Company Engineers. The transcripts cover of all four diaries, from 19 October 1914 to 17...RCDIG0000916
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Transcript of diaries of Arthur Thomas, 1916-1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Thomas, Arthur G
Transcript of diaries relating to the First World War service of 3470 Corporal Arthur Thomas, 6th Battalion. Transcript of the diary written by Arthur Thomas between 20 July 1916 and 5 June 1918 and w...RCDIG0001097
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Trenches Beersheba, looking towards Tel el Saba
Art
Maker: Lambert, George
Beersheba, was a heavily fortified town 43 km from the Turkish bastion of Gaza, and the scene of an historic charge by the 4th Light Horse Brigade on 31 October 1917. Lambert visited there in March 19...ART02708
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Typescript memoir of Robert Richards, 1914-1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Roberts, Richard
Memoir relating to the First World War service of 773 Private Richard Roberts, 3rd Battalion. This typescript copy of Roberts’ original memoir was created by his daughter in 1993. The original memoir,...RCDIG0001571
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Vieux Conde, France. c. 1917. Well built moat fortifications with a river in the background. ...
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Vieux Conde, France. c. 1917. Well built moat fortifications with a river in the background. (Donor Mrs M.A. Morse)H12789