Filters
Collection
320 Results
-
Breakfast at Ypres
Art
Depicts three soldiers, two sitting and one standing, around a small brazier preparing breakfast, near Ypres in France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front durin...ART02314
-
Back with the 'Heads', Querrieu
Art
Depicts a Nissan hut and other buildings beside a road, in a French landscape. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling to Fran...ART02327
-
Refugees after German offensive
Art
Depicts a French man and women viewed from the rear, carrying their belongings, with their cow walking behind them. The man and woman are refugees, driven from their homes by the German offensive on t...ART02317
-
Along the Bapaume Road
Art
Depicts a convoy of covered trucks, carrying soldiers, moving along the Bapaume Road, France. A number of soldiers, carrying accessories and packs are walking along following the trucks. Will Dyson wa...ART02387
-
Sentry on duty at Brigade Headquarters, Fricourt
Art
Depicts the figure of a soldier in uniform, wearing a tin helmet, and holding a rifle with a bayonet attached, standing on sentry duty in a war damaged landscape at Fricourt, France. Will Dyson was th...ART02407
-
Near Henencourt
Art
Depicts a landscape with trees and people on a road, near Henencourt, France in 1918. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling ...ART02342
-
Delville Wood, looking towards Flers
Art
Depicts the war damaged and bomb blasted landscape of Delville Wood, looking towards Flers on the horizon. In the foreground are the remains of a number of damaged trees and some barbed wire. Will Dys...ART02242
-
Domestic scene in the Somme
Art
Depicts a number of soldiers seated, resting, reading or drinking near two tents in the French countryside, near the Somme. The soldiers are probably members of a salvage company operating on the dese...ART09908
-
Mud lane, Gueudecourt
Art
Depicts a mud laneway leading round Gueudecourt, after the German retreat of 1917, with a war damaged landscape with smashed trees. In the background are a Nissen hut and pieces of sheet metal. Will D...ART09918
-
Evening, Crucifix Corner near Flers
Art
Depicts a badly war damaged landscape in the evening, with debris in the foreground and smashed trees in the background. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front duri...ART09928
-
German prisoners near Messines
Art
Depicts a standing Australian soldier guarding two German soldiers seated on the ground. One of the seated soldiers wears a German Field Cap, while the soldier on the right has a bandaged head and han...ART02214
-
In Bapaume the day after its occupation
Art
Depicts two soldiers, wearing waterproof capes and tin helmets, apprehensively walking through wreckage of the town of Bapaume in March 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to...ART02318
-
Yanks and a veteran ('As long as you are there to tell us what to do!')
Art
Depicts a young soldier, wearing a tin helmet and carrying a rifle, standing talking to two other soldiers, in the trenches. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front ...ART02426
-
Not afraid of the Boche (An old French peasant who remained at work in the forward area)
Art
Depicts an elderly and unidentified French peasant woman pushing a handcart filled with straw past line of marching soldiers. The term 'Boche' in the title refers to French derogatory slang at the ti...ART02406
-
Ribemont sugar refinery
Art
Depicts a soldier in the foreground, carrying a sheet of corrugated iron above his head. In the background are badly damaged buildings, including a large column. Will Dyson was the first Australian of...ART02375
-
From an Australian Battalion Headquarters in Marrett Wood
Art
Depicts a view of a landscape, with a winding road, trees, piles of debris and a seated and standing soldier from the Australian Battalion's Headquarters in Marriot Wood, France. Will Dyson was the fi...ART02365
-
Early morning on the Bazentin Road
Art
Depicts a road winding through a war damaged landscape in France, with smashed trees along the edge. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World W...ART02345
-
Gas cases in the 3rd Field Ambulance, Aresnes- Bapaume
Art
Depicts several tents at the 3rd Field Ambulance Hospital, at night. Inside the tent in the foreground can be seen gas attack patients lying on portable beds. Will Dyson was the first Australian offic...ART02385
-
Sunset near Ligny Thilloy
Art
Depicts a war damaged landscape, denuded of trees at sunset. A road way, leading to Ligny Thilloy, winds through the landscape to the right of the scene. The landscape is that immediately after the fa...ART09909
-
Switch trench, the Somme
Art
Depicts a soldier standing in a trench on duckboards, in the Somme, with a war damaged landscape in the background. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during th...ART09929
-
Civilian cemetery on the Somme battlefield
Art
Depicts a war damaged and smashed tree and a number of broken tombstones in the civilian cemetery on the Somme battlefield, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the...ART02358
-
Gun pit, wet day, Hill 60
Art
Depicts a field gun in a trench, under a temporary shelter, covered with a tarpaulin, in August 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World ...ART02388
-
Mending the wires at Wolff huts, Pozieres
Art
Depicts several Australian soldiers mending communication wires and power poles in a war damaged landscape in Pozieres. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front durin...ART02260
-
Cease firing, enemy aeroplanes above
Art
Depicts a group of officers standing near an 8-inch howitzer gun in a war damaged landscape. They have ceased firing and one officer looks upwards, and indication of an aeroplane firing overhead. The ...ART02230
-
Back at the waggon lines comparing souvenirs
Art
Depicts four soldiers standing around looking at their souvenirs collected during the war, including bayonets and a small gun. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fron...ART02220
-
A Nissen hut camp on the Somme
Art
Depicts a camp site on the Somme in 1917, consisting of a number of Nissen huts, piles of supplies, a rubbish dump and men working on a power pole. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war art...ART02367
-
The batman (Compree washing madame)
Art
Depicts an Australian soldier leaning against a doorway with a bundle of dirty laundry at his feet, talking to a civilian French woman and asking her if she will do his washing for him. Will Dyson was...ART02431
-
Wintery day on the Somme
Art
Depicts a soldier in uniform, wearing a great coat, standing at the entrance of a dugout, with a kerosene lamp hanging near the door, looking out onto a snowy winter landscape on the Somme in December...ART02411
-
Traffic control near Baizieux
Art
Depicts an Australian soldier mounted on a horse standing in a road way, in front of another soldier, who wears a long coat. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front ...ART02369
-
Hill 60
Art
Depicts a landscape, with Hill 60 in the background, and the entrance to the Australian Brigade Headquarters in the foreground. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fro...ART02329
-
On the Road
Art
Depicts a large number of soldiers, with horses, supplies and a portable kitchen, walking up a road. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World W...ART02319
-
Reporting at the Battery
Art
Depicts two soldiers entering the tent of an Officer in Charge after returning from Forward Observation Post, reporting back to their battery. The Officer in Charge has been woken at night and sits up...ART02277
-
The Lagnicourt guns
Art
Depicts a number of Australian soldiers inspecting field guns and ordanance at rest on the battlefiled, at Lagnicourt. In April 1917 Germans attacked Lagnicourt and Noreuil, initially successful, but ...ART02247
-
Near Mametz
Art
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
-
The Shack, Trone's Wood
Art
Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, sitting forlornly under the edge of a shelter. Beside him is a standing figure, wearing a protective rain coat. Will Dyson was the first Australian official wa...ART02420
-
A night march past Querrieu
Art
Depicts a large number of troops marching along a roadway, as part of a march past, at night, under moonlight near Querrieu, France in April 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war arti...ART02413
-
Back with the Civilians
Art
Depicts a seated soldier, in the foreground, observing a young French woman, who wears a head scarf. Behind them are the war damaged buildings of a French village. Will Dyson made the work in the Somm...ART02403
-
War weariness ('Ain't this bloomin' war over yet?')
Art
Depicts a soldier sitting near the entrance steps to a cellar, near an improvised heater. The painting makes comments on 'the heroism of endurance'. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war ar...ART02425
-
3rd Machine Gun Battalion headquarters, Ribemont
Art
Depicts a landscape, with a large tree and fields, with the small figures of men and horses in the foreground. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the Fir...ART02357
-
Abandoned gun pit outside Flers
Art
Depicts an abandoned gun pit with sandbags, barbed wire and a wooden infrastructure, outside Flers about January 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during...ART09920
-
On the road to Nieuport
Art
Depicts a war-damaged landscape with broken trees, destroyed artillery and an upturned, broken cart near Nieuport, Belgium. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front d...ART02205
-
[Digger lying on his stomach] verso: [Reclining officer with spyglass]
Art
Depicts an image of an Australian digger in uniform lying on his stomach on the ground, observed from behind. On the verso is an image of an officer, seated on the ground, looking through a spyglass o...ART19710
-
The misery of rest camps
Art
Depicts two Australian soldiers at rest inside a tent. They are huddling in the tent while it rains outside somewhere on the Western Front, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war art...ART02240.003
-
Albert
Art
Depicts an image of the French village of Albert in December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling to France in Decemb...ART02401
-
Unloading the wounded from ambulance at ACCS
Art
Depicts a field ambulance being unloaded by a number of men from the rear of the ambulance. Behind the ambulance are a number of hospital tents. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist...ART02264
-
Peace at Martinpiuch
Art
Depicts a scene of a battlefield with war damaged trees in the left background, a damaged truck and a resting cannon. Martinpiuch is in north -western France, close to the Somme battlefield. Will Dyso...ART02204
-
Exchanging furphies
Art
Depicts two soldiers, one standing and one seated, in front of a large tent. The seated soldier is pulling something out of a bag on the ground. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist...ART02259
-
Looking for the battalion
Art
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
-
Entrance to Mouquet Farm dugouts
Art
Depicts the entrance, with wooden poles, covered in snow to the Mouquet Farm dugouts in France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, t...ART02219
-
Abandoned trench, the Somme
Art
Depicts an abondoned trench on the Somme. The trench is in the foreground, with smashed trees on the edge and there are Nissan huts and tents in the background. The portion of the trench depicted is p...ART09912