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A digger
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Maker: Bell, George
Depicts a portrait of an Australian 'Digger', wearing a slouch hat , and is possibly a portrait of the soldier Private Stewart.ART03591
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Battery in action
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
This drawing shows four men from the 1st Division Artillery gun crew with an 18 pounder gun in action on the Western Front in France.ART03308
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Captain Arthur Cobby
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Captain (later Air Commodore) Arthur Henry Cobby, DSO, DFC and two Bars, MID (later also CBE, AFC, and GM), was one of the most daring pilots in the Australian Flying Corps during WW1, bringing down t...ART03180
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Craterland
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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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Eternal waiting
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Depicts three soldiers, two sitting on ground, all wearing great coats and waterproof capes and carrying full kit. This drawing was originally intended by Dyson as a battalion Christmas card, and he w...ART02303
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Evacuation of wounded horses in the battle line
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
A Royal Army Veterinary Corps horse ambulance Mark II, being drawn by two horses, is loaded with two horses wearing rugs. The the second horse is reluctant to enter the ambulance and is being pushed b...ART03313
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Fatalist
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Depicts two soldiers, one ducking and crouching to the ground in the wake of a shell burst behind him, while the other remains upright and walking. Both men are carrying full kits and wear expressions...ART02224
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[Gunner]
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This painting is intended to typify an Australian artilleryman in summer 1918 on the Western Front, wearing a slouch hat, trousers and leggings with a bare torso. He stands near the trail of a BL 6 in...ART19992
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In Templeux-le-Guerard
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Maker: Stewart, Allan
Depicts a scene in the devasted village of Templeux-le-Guerard, with strings of American, Australian and German 'walking wounded' from the Battle of the Hindenburg Line, making their way to a casualty...ART09340
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Lewis gunner
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Depicts a gunner in profile taking aim as he prepares to fire a Lewis gun positioned on an anti-aircraft mount, whilst another soldier watches from the side of the gun pit. The soldiers are surrounded...ART19991
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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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Motor lorries, Coisy
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts trucks of the 1st AIF parked in and alongside farm outbuildings in Coisy with soldiers standing beside two trucks. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School...ART03506
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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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Quick!
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Maker: Lindsay, Norman Government of Australia Syd. Day, The Printer Ltd
An Australian First World War recruitment poster, depicting two Australian soldiers, hard pressed by a larger German force, one on the ground appealing for help. This poster was part of the First Worl...ARTV00020
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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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Searchlight
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Maker: Leist, Fred
A group of soldiers and an officer are depicted near a lit anti-aircraft searchlight on the Western Front. The powerful beam of the searchlight streaks diagonally across the picture plane, contrasting...ART02928
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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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The last call
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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 Wild Colonial Boy
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Depicts the body of an unidentified soldier, lying supine on the ground in a war damaged landscape, while shell bursts can be seen in the background. In Dyson's large collection of war works, this is ...ART02305
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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