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Ammunition dump, Glisy
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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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Battle of Fromelles
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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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Big gun emplacement, Fort of Chanak
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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Enemy machine-gun position
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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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Entrance to citadel, Peronne
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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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Essenholen bei Pilkem [Ration carriers near Pilkem]
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Maker: Dix, Otto Nierendorf, Karl Felsing, Otto
This image is plate 43 from the portfolio of 50 etchings comprising the series 'Der Krieg (The War)', published by Karl Nierendorf, Berlin and printed by Otto Felsing. This scene is near Pilkem Ridge ...ART50286
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General view of Peronne from old German position left side
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A diptych view of the trenched landscape of Peronne, France, from an old German position. Buildings are visible in the distance.ART03409
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German machine-gun outpost near Proyart
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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
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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
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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
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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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Gibralter (A German strong post at Pozieres)
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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
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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
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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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Inside the fort, Chanak
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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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Jerusalem, from below the Mount of Olives
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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]
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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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Lewis Gun in action
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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
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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
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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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Mont St Quentin
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
This diptych depcits the landscape of Mont St Quentin, France, with discarded remnants and trenches remaining from the First World War. Louis McCubbin (1890-1952) was an Official War Artist working as...ART03134
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Mont St Quentin
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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
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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
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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
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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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Not titled [Fortification]
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Maker: Howie, Laurence
Sketch of a landscape with earthen fortification erected during the First World War in the foreground.ART93090.021
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Old Redoubt in front of Polygon Wood with Passchendaele in distance
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Old Redoubt, a stirring scene of overgrown trenches in front of Polygon Wood, with Passchendaele in distance.ART19761
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Our pillbox, Westhoek Ridge, October
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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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Outpost Bony
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the war damage at Bony on the Western Front. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November 1917 with the 10th Field Ambulan...ART03147
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Pillboxes, Messines Ridge
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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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Pillbox, Nonne Boschen
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
A pillbox and the surrounding war damaged landscape in the Nonne Boschen area, Western Front.ART03130
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Pill box, Polygon Wood
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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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Ramparts of Ypres from the Menin Gate
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Tel el Saba
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Citadel and Hill 3039 - Amman
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Maker: Hewett, Otho
Depicts a detailed topographical and panoramic view of hills with fields marked out with stomes, with the the Citadel of Amman in middle ground and steep hills rising in the background. Otho Hewett (1...ART19652
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The death of Major Black
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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