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Australia in the War
Art
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 infantry attack in Polygon Wood
Art
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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Blaringhem Church
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour sketch depicting the church at Blaringhem and its tower with a house nearby. Frederick Leist was a painter, illustrator and teacher. He studied at the Sydney Art School and the Art School ...ART02913
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Boer war news
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
This drawing is probably for a magazine or newspaper, and the joke relies on the homonym (boar, Boer); newsboy selling papers, elderly man buying paper, tram conductor in background.ART50113
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Camouflaged tents, Dickebusch
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Charcoal and watercolour sketch depicting bell tents with rows of sandbags around them, chimney pipes protruding from doorways, and camouflage patterns on canvas at the encampment at Dickebusch. There...ART02924
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Camp kitchens, Rackingham
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour sketch depicting an encampment with a number of buildings which have large chimneys issuing smoke, most probably the camp kitchens. In the foreground are the images of two soldiers. Freder...ART02910
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Canal at Blaringhem
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts a bridge over a canal at Blaringhem, horses and foot traffic crossing bridge.ART02896
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Capture of Mont St Quentin
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts Australian soldiers (17th Battalion) and German soldiers in a captured German trench on the flank of Mont St. Quentin. The 17th Battalion colour patch, diamond shape and horizontally divided b...ART02929
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[Cargo for Blighty]
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts nurses at work aboard a hospital barge on a canal. The barges were manned by British Army Medical Corps orderlies and Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service nurses (QAIMNS, QAs). ...ART02919
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Cleaning harness
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts an unidentified saddler with either artillery or horse transport unit, working on harness traces, possibly oiling metal chain on end of trace, other traces draped over line between trees, leat...ART02880
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Cloth Hall, Ypres
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Progressively destroyed by German artillery fire from 1914, the great medieval Cloth Hall in Ypres, was in ruins when the Australians fought nearby in the final months of 1917.ART02884
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Courtyard, Chateau St Gratien
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour and charcoal sketch depicting the courtyard of Chateau St Gratien being used as the headquarters for 5th Division AIF. The courtyard contains soldiers lounging in the sunshine. Frederick L...ART02892
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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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Crusaders
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts an Australian soldier on the right, shirtless and wearing a slouch hat and holding a rifle with a bayonet attached, shaking hands with a medieval crusader wearing chainmail and a St George cro...ART02930
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Dead Boer
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Unidentified young soldier wearing British Army tunic, sitting on ground, hands in front, looking at elderly man wearing dark jacket, pale trousers and boots, bandolier across chest, lying supine on g...ART16967
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Dickebusch Church
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts the ruins of a church at Dickebusch in Belgium. The figure of a man, possibly a soldier, can be seen walking past in front of the damaged building. Fred Leist was appointed an official war art...ART02914
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Dingbat's holiday
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour and gouache sketch depicting a batman (in Australian military slang 'dingbat' is a derogatory term that comes from 'ding' - a vicious dingo and 'bat' from batman which is an officers serva...ART02917
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Ditched
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour and charcoal sketch depicting a horsedrawn general service wagon with a broken wheel in a ditch beside a tree lined road. Two Australian soldiers are unloading the wagon onto another wagon...ART02907
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Divisional headquarters, Dickebusch
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour sketch depicting a farmhouse 3 miles (5 Kilometres) south west of Dickebusch, used as headquarters for 5th Division AIF during the Third Battle of Ypres (?). On the verso is a pencil sketc...ART02886
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Dump at Sercus
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts two General Service wagons, drawn by horses, being loaded with boxes and crates outside church; Third Battle of Ypres, Western Front.ART02897
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Enrolling troops for South Africa in Sydney: the rush of applicants
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred Leist, Fred The Graphic
As part of the British Empire, the Australian Colonies offered troops for the war in South Africa. Australians served in contingents raised by the six colonies and from 1901, by the new Australian Com...ART96133
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Field dressing station, Somme
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Painting depicts a Field Dressing Station on the Somme featuring a bell tent. A man in shirtsleeves washes hands in an enamel bowl supported on stand. A towel hangs from a nearby tree.ART02894
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Frank Wilkinson
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Mr Frank Wilkinson, Australian journalist who wrote about New South Wales forces during the Boer War.ART15739
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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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'Gotha', Scottish camp, Reninghelst
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts searchlights around group of buildings at Reninghelst, 4 miles (6 1/2 Kilometres approx) south west of, searchlights focused on German aircraft on bombing raid on moonlight night; Third Battle...ART02889
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Grease King
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts a bare-armed cook standing at improvised workbench, field kitchen and row of dixies on hearth behind, pots and implements hanging on tree, boxes stacked beneath bench cooking utensils, encampm...ART02895
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Highway, Steenvoorde
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour sketch depicting the road running through the village of Steenvoorde in the Ballieul area. The image contains a church and houses on the left side of the road and the far side is lined wit...ART02878
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Hitchi-Koo machine (delousing fumigator)
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Charcoal and watercolour sketch depicting the preventative health services delousing fumigator (Hitchi-Koo machine). Two soldiers are loading the bank of three autoclave ovens with discarded clothing ...ART02908
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Horse lines, Dickebusch
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts horses tethered under shelter with open sides and corrugated iron roof, unidentified men sitting in sunshine (horses are probably officers' riding horses); Third Battle of, Western Front.ART02888
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Interior, Dickebusch Church
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour and charcoal sketch depicting the wrecked interior of the Dickebusch Church. There is a gaping hole in roof, glass missing from windows, rubble on floor. There also appears to be two Austr...ART02918
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Item 15: Christmas entertainment to Australian soldiers
Published Collection
Maker: Australian Comforts Fund Leist, Fred
Souvenir program for a theatrical performance during the First World War. This program is for a Christmas matinee concert at the London Opera House for the Australian Imperial Force during Christmas 1...PUBS002/002/001/003/015
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Item 17: Entertainment to members of the Australian Military and Naval Forces.
Published Collection
Maker: Leist, Fred
Souvenir program for a concert held during the First World War. This program was presented to members of the Australian Military and Naval forces attending a concert at Royal Albert Hall on 26 Decembe...PUBS002/006/001/001/017
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Lace making
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour sketch depicting a nun wearing white head dress and long black habit with rosary, sitting on an upright wooden chair, working on bobbin (or cushion) lace. The lace is cushion supported on ...ART02909
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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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Lille Gate, Ypres
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Charcoal sketch depicting the Lille Gates at Ypres in Belgium. The road that is travelling through the gates contains horse drawn wagons, civilians, goods, rubble and soldiers. The Australian Division...ART02879
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Major General Joseph Talbot Hobbs
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Portrait of Major General (later Lieutenant General Sir) Joseph John Talbot Hobbs, General Officer Commanding 5th Division Australian Imperial Force on the Western Front during the First World War. Fr...ART02926
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Mill, Reninghelst
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour and charcoal sketch depicting the mill at Reninghelst. The image contains a group of buildings, roofs, walls and a damaged chimney situated in a valley among low hills. The mill was chiefl...ART02903
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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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Mud bath
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts a horse standing in depression in ground, in a (possibly) temporary yard, the corner posts of which are leaning in forming two irregular 'A's linked with rope, horse wearing nose bag, mud encr...ART02890
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'On the wallaby', but still smiling
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour and ink sketch depicting an Australian soldier with haversack, billy, and rifle without shirt and smoking pipe. On the end of the rifle is a Turkish soldiers cap and in the background is a...ART19610
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Poplar avenue (Road to Steenvoorde)
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts a truck moving down a straight road with tall poplar trees planted on either side passing through fields. A village is visible in the background as is a church. Frederick Leist was a painter, ...ART02916
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Red Cross barges
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts hospital barges on a canal, which were manned by British Army Medical Corps orderlies and Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service nurses (QAIMNS, QAs). The converted barges, which ...ART02898
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Repairing room, divisional baths
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Charcoal sketch depicting a sewing room with women repairing items of uniform. Finished items are hanging from a line on the ceiling and there is an iron stove in the centre of the room. Frederick Le...ART02921
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Rest camp, Reninghelst
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts three soldiers setting up camp at Reninghelst, Belgium. One man leans against the wooden wagon which contains their supplies, while another stands in the wagon presumably unpacking things. A w...ART02920
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Resting on the road to the front
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts a group of soldiers sitting under poplar tree planted along roadway.ART02882
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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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Searchlight
Art
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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Sinking of the Southland
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts the sinking of the HMT Southland in the Aegean Sea, with the soldiers from 2nd Australian Division taking to and waiting for lifeboats or jumping overboard. Part of deck of the SS Southland is...ART09829
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Tank in action
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
A First World War tank in action at the Western Front.ART19563