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Cloth Hall, Ypres
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts the ruins of the Cloth Hall in the town of Ypres, Belgium, with other ruins of buildings in the background. The painter, teacher and etcher John Goodchild was born in London and arrived in Ade...ART02534
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Coffee shop, Baghdad
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Depicts the interior of a coffee house in Baghdad, with a patron sitting on a divan being served with coffee. From Set 2 of a portfolio of 15 etchings based on sketches done on active service in Mesop...ART00082
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Colonel Frederick Maguire
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Colonel Frederick Arthur Maguire, DSO, Assistant Director Medical Services, German, Western Front, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF), 9th Field Ambulance, 3rd Au...ART02995
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Colonel George Barber
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Maker: Bell, George
Portrait of Colonel George Walter Barber (1868-1951) , CB, DSO, MID , Deputy Director Medical Services (DDMS), Australian Corps during the First World War. Barber was born in Lancashire, England and c...ART00106
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Colonel Graham Butler
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Colonel A Graham Butler, DSO, AAMC, Commanding 3 AGH, later also author of Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services 1914-1918, Western Front 1st Australian Imperial Force...ART02994
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Colonel Richard Dowse
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Maker: Bell, George
Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Richard Dowse, DSO, Assistant Adjutant and Quarter Master General, 4th Division AIF. One of the 12 portraits by Bell delivered to Australia House, London, June 1919. Dow...ART00097
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Colour of Sharon Valley and hills
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Maker: Ivers, T H
Depicts a landscape of the Sharon Valley and surrounding hills.ART02608
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[Conditions of treaty: Germany accepts League of Nations]
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Maker: Unknown Unknown
Poster in Urdu announding the conditions of the Versailles Treaty. This was presumably produced for inhabitants of the northern parts of India (now Pakistan). This poster is text-based only, and con...ARTV00598
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Contours, south of France
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with farm buildings and trees foreground, steep cliffs in the background. George Lambert travelled by train through France and Italy en route to Palestine in 1918. He made a visual...ART02728
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Cookhouse, Mrs Chisholm's canteen, Kantara
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Maker: Ivers, T H
Depicts a sketch of Mrs Chisholm's canteen, Kantara, four incinerators and a large bucket are outside the building while a few men can be seen inside the "Cookhouse".ART02617
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Corbie
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Corbie is situated near the Somme battlefield and was the stage for the third battle for the Somme. The painting shows a panoramic view of this area that includes a church in the far left, trees in th...ART11425
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Corbie Church
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Maker: Smythe, Percy Ellesmere
Depicts the damaged church and surrounding buildings at Corbie, near Amiens , in northern France. During 1918, Australian forces were engaged in the defence of the Amiens area and Brigade Headquarters...ART92727
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Corporal A N Alloway, Otago Company NZ Machine Gunner Battalion
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Maker: Cadell, John Hepburn
Half portrait of a young New Zealand soldier wearing his uniform and hat.ART91516.016
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Couillet, Belgium
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Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts destroyed German munitions train carriages in the railway yard at Couillet. In the foreground is a mass of twisted metal, only the wheels suggestive of their previous purpose. In the distance ...ART02562.010
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Couillet, Belgium [Aerial bomb damage on an ammunition train]
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Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts aerial bomb damage on ammunition train. Pictured is a mass of twisted and melted metal, carriages made indecipherable, and ammunition rendered indistinguishable. A crater has formed down the m...ART02562.013
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Couillet, Belgium [German guns]
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Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts German guns found on one of the trains at Couillet. Abandoned by the Germans, many were in perfect working order. In the foreground is depicted a 5.9 howitzer.ART02562.012
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Couillet, Belgium [German guns in the railway yard]
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Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts some of the German guns found in the railway station yard at Couillet. The guns are painted in camouflage, exhibiting the German techniques of the time. Buildings are visible in the background...ART02562.011
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Couillet, near Charleroi, Belgium
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Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts Australian officers and Belgian councillors entertaining themselves with song after the New Year dinner given by the officers of the 6th Battalion to the Burgomaster (town mayor) and councillo...ART02562.009
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Courtyard, 14th Australian General Hospital, Abbassia
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a two-storey yellow rendered building with green shuttered windows and a balcony of Moorish design. Men in standard convalescent dress of blue trousers, white shirts and red ties (and the penc...ART02817
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Coverless sketchbook containing 30 sketches of horses, landscape and Anzac Light Horse Memorial 1919
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Maker: Lambert, George
George Lambert, an official war artist in Middle East 13 Jan 1918 to June 1918 travelled with Bean on a historical mission to Gallipoli in February to March 1919, and then revisited Palestine. On his ...ART11389
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Credit national, soucrivez pour hater la renaissance des payes devastes [Subscribe to national credit to hasten the renewal of a devastated country]
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Maker: Duval, Constant-Leon [S.L.] : CREDIT NATIONAL, [N.D.] (PARIS : COQUEMER)
This rural and domestic country church shows the impact of bombardment during the First World War. This poster is calling for people to facilitate the repare of the damages caused by the First World W...ARTV00614
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Crucifixion
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts a crucifixion memorial with the crosses of war graves visible in the background. The graves and memorial seem to be situated on or near a battlefield as there are explosion holes in the ground...ART02521
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Dardanelles from Chanak, effects of blizzard on Gallipoli
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Maker: Lambert, George
This view from Chanak looks towards the Gallipoli Peninsula with the Kilid Bahr Plateau covered in snow, in the background. There are remains of a jetty in the foreground. In 1919 George Lambert accom...ART02833
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David and Goliath
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Maker: Zif
Depicts two members of the RAA walking alongside each other. One is considerably larger than the other. On the recto there is a pencil drawing of a bearded man's head in a hat.ART93180.021
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Dawn, camel patrol setting out
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Maker: McBey, James
Depicts a patrol of soldiers and camels from the Australian Camel Corps heading away from the viewer into the distance of a desert. McBey has etched Serapeum onto the plate to indicate the place of th...ART03039
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Dead bodies on barbed wire: illustrating the poem 'Trench idyll', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
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Maker: Nash, Paul
Hand-coloured woodcut illustrating the poem 'Trench idyll', the sixth illustration in a book of poems by British poet and novelist Richard Aldington (1892-1926), published by Beaumont Press, London, 1...ART20002.006
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Death in the trenches
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Two soldiers have been fired upon in their trench at the Somme. One has died and lays face down in the mud, the other stands upright but is bleeding and in pain.ART02173
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Death of Major Black
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This painting, executed in Scott's studio at St John's Wood, London in 1919, refers to the death of Major Percy Black during the attack by the 16th Australian Battalion which Black led at Bullecourt o...ART03416
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Departure of the last Australian hospital ship from Southampton, England
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Maker: Meeson, Dora
Departure of the last Australian hospital ship from Southampton, England. Hospital ships were designated as floating medical treatment facilities or hospitals. This painting depicts one of the two Aus...ART03190
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Dernancourt
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
A wrecked landscape at Dernancourt, Western Front.ART11422
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Deutschlands ideale zukunft unter der Herrschaft des Bolschewisten [Germany's ideal future under the dominion of the Bolshevist]
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Maker: Kassin, M Vereinigung zur Bekampfung des Bolscheivismus [Alliance to Combat Bolshevism] Heymann und Schmidt
A post-First World War German anti-Bolshevist poster issued by Vereinigung zur Bekampfung des Bolscheivismus [Alliance to Combat Bolshevism] c.1919. The poster features the image of a giant male figur...ARTV00129
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Devilish Dan
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Maker: Zif
Depicts an old man wearing a peaked cap and holding a cane and a small caseART93180.039
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Dick's dodge
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Maker: Zif
Depicts a man smoking a pipe and holding a large bottle marked 'LIME JUICE' while placing something in his pocket.ART93180.047
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Die Gefahr des Bolschewismus [The danger of Bolshevism]
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Maker: Feld, Rudi
German anti-Bolshevik propaganda poster showing a black-clothed skeleton with a sword held in its teeth. The poster provides a context for the social, cultural, emotional and political situations in ...ARTV06118
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Die Mutter (The mothers)
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Maker: Kollwitz, Kathe
Kollwitz has reduced the amount of detail and pared down the forms to achieve an almost sculptural quality in this powerfully evocative lithograph, showing a group of mothers protecting their children...ART50254
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Die National Versammlung ist der Grundstein der Deutschen Sozialistischen Republik (The National Assembly is the cornerstone of the German Socialist Republic)
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Maker: Pechstein, Max
This political poster comments on the ordinary man depicted with a trowl on hand laying a foundation stone against a beflagged background. The relates 'The National Assembly, the foundation stone of t...ARTV06661
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Die National Versammlung ist die Morgenstunde : Unsrer Sozialen Republik [The National Assembly is the dawning of our Socialist Republic]
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Maker: [GERMANY : S.N.], 1919
German First World War poster depicting workers marching in the light of dawn. The poster title translates from the German as; 'The National Assembly is the dawning of our Socialist Republic'. The Ge...ARTV06117
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Digger with packhorse passing through ruins
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
A digger with a pack horse passes through ruins and debris in the Somme area, France.ART16638
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Disabled sailors and soldiers. What every man should know...
Art
Maker: Ministry of Pensions Dangerfield Printing Co Ltd
Poster issued by the British Ministry of Pensions (formed 1916) to provide information to disabled returned servicemen. It consists of a listing of informative facts and statements emphasising that su...ARTV00117
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Distant view of Amiens
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Watercolour sketch of a windmill in the countryside with a view of Amiens and its cathedral in the distance. Albert Henry Fullwood was born in Birmingham, England in March 1863. In 1883 he sailed to ...ART50007
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Don't argue
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Maker: Zif
Depicts a large man with his hand over the face of a smaller man, knocking him over.ART93180.037
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Doorway in Judea
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Depicts a section of wall in Judea, with a large open doorway slightly above street level, another smaller doorway is slightly below street level, and a window above the lower door. A civilian is abou...ART00083
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"Drake", Plymouth
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Maker: Bolton, Frederick Charles
A rough sketch of the statue of Sir Francis Drake situated in the Plymouth Hoe. Frederick enlisted 5 January 1918 in Sydney, New South Wales. He was posted to the Field companies Engineers, 1st Draf...ART90377.022
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Dressing Station, Nieppe
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts a view of the dressing Station at Nieppe with two Red Cross Ambulance Wagons in the courtyard. The painter, teacher and etcher John Goodchild was born in London and arrived in Adelaide in 1913...ART02508
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Dressing station Zonnebeke D21 D92
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Maker: Howie, Laurence
Sketch of a dressing station at Zonnebeke in Belgium. This was used to move wounded soldiers to for them to receive medical attention before they were moved to the advanced dressing station, generally...ART93090.023
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Driver Norman Cull
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Maker: Carter, Norman
Portrait of 1456 Driver Norman Henry Cull, 1st AIF, Motor Driver ASC, Australian Service Corps. Cull died of disease in April 1919.ART19829
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Dueidar Road - by the old Canal Bridge, Kantara
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Maker: Ivers, T H
This sketch depicts Dueidar Road flanked by palm trees leading to group of buildings, including a church with a tower.ART02621
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Durrington Cemetery
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts the graves at Durrington Cemetery, Wiltshire with the memorial to the men of the 1st Trining Battalion amidst the graves. The cemetery contains 252 war graves of which 141 are Australian. Most...ART02544
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Durrington Cemetery
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts the memorial to men of the 1st Training Battalion, AIF who died in active service at Larkhiull Camp. The memorial is an obilisque made out of red granite. Durrington Cemetery, Wiltshire, Engla...ART02545
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[Egyptian boy wearing hat]
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Maker: Lambert, George
An Egyptian boy stands with his hands on his hips looking out from beneath his wide brimmed hat.ART11389.002
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[Engine Standing with steam up at stop - main building, Train station, Semakh]
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Maker: Lambert, George
A locomotive Engine stands with steam coming out of the entrance to the Semakh Railway Station. The main building with two water tower adjacent lies to the left of the railway line. Lambert described...ART11393.022
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Entering Jisr Benat Yakub from the bridge
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Maker: Ivers, T H
Drawing depicting a building, road and wall near the town of Jisr Benat Yakub in Palestine.ART02637
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Finis
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Maker: Zif
Continuation of the text from ART93180.007. Sketch of a small rocky island with a sign that reads 'Here lies Philip Cray late of the RAA'.ART93180.056
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Finis
Art
Maker: Zif
A sergeant stands at the door to a barracks room and hollers for a sleeping soldier, Edward "Teddy" Flood, to get up. Flood (272) went on to serve in the First World War as a gunner in the Siege Artil...ART93180.004
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First Australian artillery going into the 3rd Battle of Ypres
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
This work shows a team of six horses, three mounted and three led, struggling through thick mud pulling a heavy 18 pounder gun on the limber. Six other soldiers on foot are helping to haul the gun, al...ART19842
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First Australian Division Artillery going into the 3rd Battle of Ypres
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Features the 1st Australian Division Artillery during the Third Battle of Ypres on the Western Front. 18-pounder guns are pictured being brought forward by teams of six horses, other guns already in p...ART03330
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First convoy leaving Albany
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Painting of the first convoy of Australian and New Zealand troops leaving King George's Sound, 1 November 1914.ART12417
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First World War sketchbook
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Maker: Howie, Laurence
An artist's sketchbook of battlefield scenes in France in 1919, containing 33 pages, 28 pages of drawings, 5 blank sheets. Roberson sketchbook, hard buff cover, cartridge paper.ART93090
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[Five studies of a horse's leg]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Five studies of a horses leg in profile and varying degrees of movement.ART11389.023
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Flavion, Agimont
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Maker: Chappel, Herbert Horace
An illustration for the 4th Australian Divisional Artillery Commemorative Booklet. Both towns are near the Belgium border with France.ART92589
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Ford over the Jordan at Jisr Benat Yakub
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a scene of a ford over the Jordan River at Jisr Benat Yakub. A close up view of an Arab seated with goats and a donkey beneath a dark green sprawling tree, beside the Jordan river. To the left...ART02841
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[Four studies of Egyptian man's head, one with fez]
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Maker: Lambert, George
In side profile we see four studies of an Egyptian man's head, one wears a fez.ART11389.013
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Frontispiece of "Where the Australians Rest"
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Maker: Goodchild, John
'Where the Australians Rest: A description of many of the Cemeteries overseas in which Australians, including those whose names can never now be known, are buied' was illustrated by John C. Goodchild ...ART02535
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Gallipoli, from the Chanak side
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Maker: Lambert, George
In 1919 George Lambert accompanied the Australian Historical Mission to Gallipoli. He painted this from Chanak looking towards Gallipoli. He wrote: "I have managed to make four sketches, quite passabl...ART02858
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[Gallipoli landscape]
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Maker: Lambert, George
This drawing of a Gallipoli landscape is annotated with colour references.ART11390.001
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[Gallipoli landscape]
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Maker: Lambert, George
This drawing of a Gallipoli landscape is annotated with colour references.ART11390.002
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Gallipoli, looking towards Anafarta and Suvla
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape - The Razor Edge, between Plugge's Plateau and Russell's Top, looking towards Annafarta and Suvla.On the day that Lambert probably made this work he noted: "Ten thirty saw Spruce &...ART02862
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Gallipoli wild flowers
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a still life of flowers and foliage in a biscuit tin. Lambert picked these flowers from the site of 'Beachy Bill', and painted them when the Australian Historical Mission was held up by rain. ...ART02838
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Garden Island
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Maker: Elliott, Frederick
Four unidentified vessels docked at Garden Island facility, Sydney Harbour.ART90992
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General Chaytor's tent, Kantara camp
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Maker: Lambert, George
Lambert completed this painting between 9-10 July 1919 after his visit to Gallipoli with the Australian Historical Mission. The image relates to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Australian and Ne...ART02831
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General Sir William Birdwood
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter Quinn, James Peter
Major General Sir (later Field Marshal Lord) William Riddell Birdwood (of ANZAC, Bt), GCB, GCMG, CIE, DSO, was selected from the Indian Army 1914 to command the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. ...ART03338
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German pillbox
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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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German pill box Aubers N 22 A 9580
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Maker: Howie, Laurence
Sketch of a German pillbox fortification at Aubers, a town near Fromelles in northern France. The town was part of the Aubers-Fromelles sector and saw heavy fighting during the Battle of Fromelles in ...ART93090.015
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German pill box Fromelles
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Maker: Howie, Laurence
Depicts a ruined German pill box in Fromelles. The town saw heavy fighting during the Battle of Fromelles in July 1916, the first battle on the Western Front fought by troops in the AIF. The battle wa...ART93090.007
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German support line trench and pill-box
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Maker: Howie, Laurence
Sketch of a ruined German pillbox and trenches. Pillboxes were developed during the First World War to provide a secure place near the trenches to fire on an attacking side and were strong enough to w...ART93090.008
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Give the world the once over in the United States Navy
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Maker: Daugherty, James Henry United States Navy Recruiting Bureau Unknown
First World War recruitment poster issued by the United States Navy Recruitment Bureau. It features a colour reproduction of a painting by James Daughtery depicting sailors on leave in India in the up...ARTV06162
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Goordbelayinji
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Maker: Purdie, Shirley
Goordbelayinji is a Gija word that is used to describe any place where many have been killed at one time. In this painting, Purdie speaks about events on her Father's Country: violence amongst neighbo...AWM2018.471.1
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Grave of an unknown soldier
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts a grave of an unknown British soldier, with the soldiers rifle and helmut stuck in the grave and other personal belongings beside the grave. In the background is a large crucufix, duckboards ...ART02522
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Grave of a pal
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts a soldier standing beside the simple cross of a friend's grave, in a war damaged landscape. Frank Crozier (1883-1948) worked as a decorator and clerk and attended the National Gallery of Victo...ART00219
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Graves in a battlefield
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Maker: Chapman, Evelyn
Makeshift war graves in a battlefield in France. The bright red flowers suggest vegetation re-growth. In 1918, only a few weeks after the end of the First World War, Chapman travelled to the battlefie...ART19587
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Graves of the Light Horsemen by the Sea at Gallilee
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts graves of soldiers from the Australian Mounted Divisions 4th Light Horse Brigade, overlooking the Sea of Galilee (Lake Tiberias). The painter, teacher and etcher John Goodchild was born in Lon...ART02549
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Green and blue landscape: illustrating the poem 'Fatigues', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
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Maker: Nash, Paul
Hand-coloured woodcut illustrating the poem 'Fatigues', the second illustration in a book of poems by British poet and novelist Richard Aldington (1892-1926), published by Beaumont Press, London, 1919...ART20002.002
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Greys under cover, Glisy, near Amiens
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a row of greys (horses) under the cover of a forest of trees in an AIF encampment. The sketch for this painting is also held in the Memorials collection (ART12633). Arthur Streeton is best kn...ART14637
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[Group of soldiers, possibly at Cairo railway station]
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a group of Australian soldiers viewed from the rear, possibly at Cairo railway station.ART11389.001
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Gueudecourt
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the war damaged landscape around Gueudecourt with destroyed trees. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November 1917 with t...ART03145
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Gueudecourt
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the war damaged landscape around Gueudecourt with a road leading from the right of the image, and destroyed trees in the background. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th ...ART03146
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[Gunner]
Art
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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Guns going forward
Art
Depicts Australian Artillery units on the battlefield, with two teams of six horses, drawing half limber and 18 pounder guns across the landscape , passing by shell holes while more shells explode in ...ART03595
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Haifa and Bay of Acre
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Maker: Ivers, T H
Watercolour depicting the buildings along the shore at Haifa with the Bay of Acre visible in the distance.ART02597
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Haifa carnoise flowers
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Maker: Lambert, George
Eighteenth page of the sketchbook titled 'Book B' which was used by George Lambert. On the back of the page it features a sketch of three flower blossoms with artist's notes.ART11398.018
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Haifa Railway
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Maker: Ivers, T H
A drawing depicting the railway at Haifa with telegraph poles and buildings visible in the background, on the other side of the tracks.ART02624
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Hangard Wood: sketch for model of Villers-Bretonneux
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts a view of Hangard Wood, a sketch for the Villers-Bretonneux diorama. Louis McCubbin was appointed as an official war artist working as Officer in Charge of Camouflage for 3rd Division AIF in ...ART11426.005
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Harefield Cemetery
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts a view of the Harefield Hospital Anzac Cemetery with the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in the background.The church cemetery at St. Mary the Virgin, on Church Hill houses the graves of over 10...ART02516
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Harleyville Wood, near Proyart, France [Chalk quarry]
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Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts the chalk quarry in the ravine which was 150 yards from the front line in the Harleyville Wood, near Proyart, France. The quarry was used by the Medical Officer (MO) as a regimental aid post, ...ART02562.016
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Head of a Turk, Chanak
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Maker: Lambert, George
George Lambert made this portrait study of a Turkish veteran at Chanak in February 1919, he noted on the study that the soldier had fought in front of Australian Troops in 1915.ART02863
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Hedjaz recruiting depot Damascus
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Maker: Ivers, T H
This drawing is a view of a recruiting depot in Damascus operated by the Hedjaz Forces, who were allies with the British in Syria during the First World War. The viewer is positioned below street leve...ART02582
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Helfte alle mit Wiederaufbauen (One and all come and help with reconstruction)
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Maker: Wohlfahrt, Erich Dinse & Eckert Kunstanstalt
1919-1920; post war reconstruction, patriotism; poster depicting a workman building a brick wall, text: 'Everyone help with rebuilding. Public proposal'ARTV06056
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Here they come back...
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Maker: Cross, Stan
A young boy ("W.A.") gestures towards a group of returning Australian soldiers outside, while a cleaning woman ("Government") holds a mop and bucket while holding her right hand up defensively. The ro...ART19745
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HMAS Australia
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Maker: Artist unknown
The Royal Australian Navy was formed on 10 July 1911 and HMAS Australia was commissioned as the Navy's first flagship vessel. Built in Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, HMAS Australia arrived in Sydne...ART96270