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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
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A battery of the 3rd Australian Divisional Artillery established in an open position near ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A battery of the 3rd Australian Divisional Artillery established in an open position near Vaux-sur-Somme. Left to right: 31477 Gunner (Gnr) John Thomas Trim (died of wounds 30 March 1918); 19675 Gnr H...E01864
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ACCS in France
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts an Australian Casualty Clearing Station (ACCS) in France. Red Cross tents are in the foreground with artillery shells are exploding just beyond them. Nurses and soldiers are in the foreground....ART13334
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A detachment of the 5th Brigade passing through the infantry on the first objective and advancing ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A detachment of the 5th Brigade passing through the infantry on the first objective and advancing with its allotted Mark V* Male tank towards the third objective near La Motte en Santerre (six miles f...E03884
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Advanced dressing station at Smith's Farm, near Corbie
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the dressing station of the 6th Australian Field Ambulance in May 1918 amongst farm buildings belonging to the Smith family. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidel...ART16250
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Advance dressing station, 2nd Field Ambulance
Art
Depicts the advance dressing station of the Australian Forces 2nd Field Ambulance, with a motor ambulance in the background. In the foreground there is a table with medical supplies arranged on it, a ...ART19763
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A file of the 56th Battalion in process of transfer to the northern side of the Somme near ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A file of the 56th Battalion in process of transfer to the northern side of the Somme near Clery-sur-Somme. While maintaining the attempts to cross the Somme marshes, General Monash transferred the 2n...E03201
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A general view of the city of Albert situated on the River Ancre near its junction with the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
A general view of the city of Albert situated on the River Ancre near its junction with the Somme. The city was severly damaged by artillery fire in early 1916 during the fighting between British and ...C04922
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A German sniper killed in the advance towards the Crucifix at the Calvaire Cross Roads, near ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A German sniper killed in the advance towards the Crucifix at the Calvaire Cross Roads, near Bray, where the 9th Brigade experienced heavy fighting on 22 August 1918. The Crucifix marked the approxima...E03061
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A group of Australian soldiers on the hills overlooking Corbie, at the junction of the Somme and ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A group of Australian soldiers on the hills overlooking Corbie, at the junction of the Somme and Ancre Rivers.E04665
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A hundred years
Art
Maker: Mesiti, Angelica
Australian artist Angelica Mesiti was commissioned by the Australian War Memorial to explore new ways of interpreting the Australian experience of the Western Front and its legacy. The film she create...AWM2019.57.1
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Aircraft Tachometer : German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte)
Technology
Maker: Morell, Wilhelm
Dial face from a German aircraft tachometer marked "4" TO "16". The face is white with black numerals. 97 mm dia. On the reverse is written "Fokker No.863. Brought down by a British aviator at Flers,...REL/04359
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Amiens Cathedral
Art
Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting the Amiens Cathedral and surrounding village buildings. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900 to 1901, he served with the South African Light Ho...ART03002
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Among the poppies
Art
Maker: Boyd, Penleigh
The crumpled body of a young fallen soldier lying near a tree amongst a tangle of poppies. He lies with arms outstretched, his slouch hat and rifle abandoned on the grass beside him. This work is one ...ART50232
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An accident on Savy Aerodrome during the German offensive. A powerful factor in weakening the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An accident on Savy Aerodrome during the German offensive. A powerful factor in weakening the German thrust across the old Somme battlefield was the continuous bombing by British aircraft. Both Nos 2 ...E01882
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An aerial view of Pozieres after extensive artillery bombarded by both sides during the First ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown British Official Photographer
An aerial view of Pozieres after extensive artillery bombarded by both sides during the First Battle of the Somme. The 2nd and 4th Australian Divisions were at the time in possession of the village an...J00268
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An Australian buying winkles (molluscs) from a French hawker in a village on the Somme where his ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
An Australian buying winkles (molluscs) from a French hawker in a village on the Somme where his battalion was resting during the winter of 1916-1917. Note the donkey on the right.E00048
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An Australian soldier standing on the remains of a carriage destroyed during the Battle of the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
An Australian soldier standing on the remains of a carriage destroyed during the Battle of the Somme.H00475A
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Anderson, James (Private, b. - d.1916)
Private Record
Maker: Anderson, James
Collection relating to the service of 815 Private James Anderson, 13 Battalion, France 1916. Collection includes letters to family describing recent trench action.1DRL/0035
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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
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Anzac Day marching banner : 5 Machine Gun Battalion Association
Heraldry
Maker: Abel Screen Printers
5 Machine Gun Battalion Association banner. The banner is made from two layers of black cotton fabric, edged on all sides with a 50 mm yellow furniture fringe. There are black and yellow screen printe...RELAWM17353.001
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A photograph taken on a rainy day from a position near the Observatory on the Bray-Corbie Road, ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A photograph taken on a rainy day from a position near the Observatory on the Bray-Corbie Road, about a mile from Bray. Vaire-sous-Corbie is on the right and Vaux-sur-Somme on the left. Between these ...E01945
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A portion of the communal cemetery at Frechencourt, Department of the Somme, France on the Amiens ...
Photograph
A portion of the communal cemetery at Frechencourt, Department of the Somme, France on the Amiens to Albert Road, showing graves of soldiers of the 4th Australian Division Field Artillery Brigade and ...P01122.008
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Armoured car
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the Austin Armoured 1918 Pattern armoured car, with modified wheels and armoured cabinet at rear, on the Bapaume Road near Albert. In front is a partially sketched motor vehicle with its cabri...ART03511
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[Army camp, Somme desert]
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the Australian Army Camp at the Somme desert, Somme, Western Front. The foreground contains horses, tents, supplies and wagons. The background also contains tents as well ...ART03082
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A scene in , showing the houses wilfully destroyed by the Germans during their withdrawal on the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A scene in , showing the houses wilfully destroyed by the Germans during their withdrawal on the Somme. The village was later made the battle headquarters of the 7th Infantry Brigade in the capture of...E00418
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A sick parade at Eaucourt L'Abbaye, during the advance on the Somme in the winter of 1917. ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A sick parade at Eaucourt L'Abbaye, during the advance on the Somme in the winter of 1917. 'Trench feet' was the chief complaint. Note the soldier with his legs enclosed in sandbags as a temporary pro...E00233
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A 'Stonkered' Barn, Somme
Art
Depicts a ruined barn with a heavy gabled roof and a hay waggon in front of it, in a landscape in France during the First World War. George Benson (1886- 1960) studied at the National Gallery School, ...ART03610
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At a water point
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting several Australian soldiers with articulated general service wagons and limber wagons, traveling past a village in the Somme region. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th ...ART03068
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Aubigny
Art
Near Aubigny; an improvised plank bridge over a river, with three trucks parked near the Aubigny end.ART03371
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AULT ET ONIVAL, FRANCE. 1915. GROUP PORTRAIT OF MEMBERS OF THE 4TH ARMY INFANTRY SCHOOL. SERGEANT ...
Photograph
AULT ET ONIVAL, FRANCE. 1915. GROUP PORTRAIT OF MEMBERS OF THE 4TH ARMY INFANTRY SCHOOL. SERGEANT R.C. SWANN IS SEATED 4TH ROW BACK, 3RD FROM THE LEFT.P00276.002
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Australian aid post outside Vaux
Art
Depicts a view of the interior of an Australian Regimental aid Post, outside Vaux, near Bullecourt, with an officer and two orderlies inside. In the foreground is a table with piles of dressings and b...ART02356
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Australian mail arriving at a rest billet in Bray-sur-Somme.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Australian mail arriving at a rest billet in Bray-sur-Somme.E00024
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Australian mule transport in the Somme winter mud at Montauban.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Australian mule transport in the Somme winter mud at Montauban.E00036
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Australians and Americans on the Somme, 1918
Manuscript
Maker: Ward, Meleah Elizabeth
67 page manuscript. The manuscript provides a brief background to both the AIF and the American Expeditionary Force (AEF). The relationship between the AIF and AEF is examined in respect to training b...MSS2079
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Australian transport lines making their way through the mud between Mametz and Montauban, in the ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Australian transport lines making their way through the mud between Mametz and Montauban, in the Somme area.E00795
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A view of Fritz's Folly, the front line, Somme winter. A sunken road forming part of the German ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A view of Fritz's Folly, the front line, Somme winter. A sunken road forming part of the German front line on the sector attacked by the 1st and 3rd Battalions on the night of 4 November 1916. The att...E00578
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A view of Sailly-le-Sec, in the valley of the Somme, showing the Australian front line trenches ...
Photograph
A view of Sailly-le-Sec, in the valley of the Somme, showing the Australian front line trenches on the hill to the left, where the 3rd Division had made its first appearance on the Somme battleground.E04667
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A view of the Somme Valley from the high ground near Vaux-sur-Somme, looking directly towards ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A view of the Somme Valley from the high ground near Vaux-sur-Somme, looking directly towards Mallard Wood, with Sailly Laurette behind it and the village of Sailly-le-Sec on the left. At this time th...E01863
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Back at Buire
Art
Maker: Vincent, Day, Brooks and Sons
Depicts two Australian soldiers, one wearing a heavy long coat and smoking a pipe, the other in uniform with his hands in his pocket, standing near a doorway. A young French woman, wearing a scarf, cl...ART02298.001
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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
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Bailey, Herbert Austin (Sapper, b.1873 - d.1963)
Private Record
Maker: Bailey, Herbert Austin
Collection relating to the First World War service of 19636 Sapper Herbert Austin Bailey, 5th Australian Division Engineers. Collection consists of two diaries (one very brief) and six separate diary ...PR90/018
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Baker, Eric Arthur Ormond (Lieutenant, b.1889 - d.1976)
Private Record
Maker: Baker, Eric Arthur Ormond
Collection relating to the First World War service of 3238 Lieutenant Eric Arthur Ormond Baker, 59th Battalion, England and France. Collection consists mainly of letters (some with envelopes) and pos...PR00983
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Bamford, James
Manuscript
Maker: Bamford, James
"One of Fifty Nine Thousand" narrative history of the life of Private Robert Bamford. It was written in the first person from the letters and recollections of friends by his nephew James Bamford. Cove...MSS0844
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Basilique d'Albert
Art
Maker: Augis, Marcel
Ruined basilique (church with special privileges from the Pope) at Albert on the River Somme, France. A view of the bomb-damaged church of Notre Dame de Brebieres, with the damaged virgin hanging on i...ART12267
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Bataille de la Somme, Bois de Thiepval
Art
Maker: Mansard, Paul
Depicts a badly war-damaged landscape , with smashed and burnt trees and birds circling overhead at the Thiepval Woods after the battle of the Somme, in France.ART50201
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Bataille de la Somme, Pozieres
Art
Maker: Mansard, Paul
A town street in Poziere, with trees and a church. Paul Mansard was a French artist. This etching was presented to the War Memorial by Sister Constance Adelaide Stone MBE, RRC, a nurse, who enlisted i...ART12265
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56 Battalion colour patch : Private C J Brill, 56 Battalion AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Unit colour patch for the 56th Battalion. The vertically aligned rectangular patch is made of two parallel strips of colour, white and green. The white strip is made of wool flannelette and the green ...RELAWM14076.004
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Battalion H. Q. Camon, Somme
Art
Maker: Brewster, William Hill
Depicts 50th Battalion Head Quarters, Camon, (Somme).ART00154
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Battle of Fromelles
Art
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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BAZENTIN, FRANCE, 1917-06. RUSSIAN NAVAL GUN CAPTURED BY GERMANS ON THEIR MARCH TO RIGA IN ...
Photograph
BAZENTIN, FRANCE, 1917-06. RUSSIAN NAVAL GUN CAPTURED BY GERMANS ON THEIR MARCH TO RIGA IN LATVIA, USED BY THE GERMANS AGAINST THE BRITISH AND RECAPTURED BY THE BRITISH ON THE SOMME.P00260.004
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Before Amiens, this village in the Somme valley is here shown (from the south), the day after its ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Before Amiens, this village in the Somme valley is here shown (from the south), the day after its capture in a local attack by the 4th, 6th and 11th Australian Infantry Brigades, and attached American...E02665
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Beinke, Berthold Walter MM France 1918
Private Record
Maker: Beinke, Berthold Walter
Letter of Private (Berthold) Walter Beinke MM (43 Battalion) to his parents from beside the Somme, dated 3 April 1918. It describes the penetration of the British lines by the German offensive of Marc...PR01005
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Bei Unseren Helden ad Somme [With our heroes on the Somme]
Art
Maker: Erdt, Hans Rudi Hollerbaum & Schmidt
A German First World War propaganda poster that advertises a German film, "Bei Unseren Helden ad Somme [With our heroes on the Somme]". This film was produced in response to the British film "The Batt...ARTV10348
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Belgian Croix de Guerre : Major R H Norman, 12 Infantry Brigade, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Belgian Croix de Guerre. Unnamed as issued.REL41635.009
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Bellicourt: entrance to St Quentin Tunnel
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the entrance to the St Quentin tunnel taking the canal through the hill at Bellicourt near the Hindenburg Line on the Western Front. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of th...ART03517
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Bellicourt tunnel
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
By September 1918, allied forces had pushed the Germans back to the Hindenburg Line. In part, this defensive line followed the route of the St Quentin Canal. Near Bellicourt, the canal ran underground...ART12437
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Binskin, Alfred William (Private, 20th Bn, AIF)
Private Record
Maker: Binskin, Alfred William
DETAILS OF ACTIVE SERVICE FROM TIME OF JOURNEY TO EGYPT, CANAL DUTY, TRANSFER TO FRANCE INCLUDING EXPERIENCES ON THE SOMME, POZIERES, FLERS, YPRES, MESSINES AND MONT ST QUENTIN. ALSO COVERS THE ARMIST...PR83/047
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Bivouac in the Somme Valley
Art
Depicts two soldiers in front of a tent, one seated and one standing. The tent is in a forest clearing in France. Two additional tents are behind the front one. George Bell was appointed official war ...ART92140
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Bivouacs in the snow (alternate title: 'On the duckboards')
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
A winter scene with three figures huddled together in foreground. In the middle distance are Nissen hut and bivouacs.ART15465
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[blank]; verso: [Encampment under trees]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A sketch of trees with an encampment situated under them. This sketch could possibly relate to 'Greys under cover, Glisy' ART12633 and ART14637. This sketchbook is from Streeton's first official war a...ART93170.003
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[Blank]; verso: [Landscape]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a partial landscape with telegraph poles. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account, 2007ART93169.009
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[blank]; verso: [Landscape]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A sketch of a wooded landscape ojn the Somme River. This sketchbook is from Streeton's first official war artist commission to France 14 May-13 August 1918 where he worked mainly around the Somme batt...ART93170.001
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[Blank]; verso: Landscape]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts an incomplete landscape sketch. The page has some scribble on most probably by Streeton's young son Oliver. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National C...ART93169.015
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[Blank]; verso: [Landscape]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Verso depicts the left hand side page of a sketch of a landscape with railway and road indicated through trees and a village on the right of the image. Purchased with the assistance of the Australi...ART93169.012
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[blank]; verso: [Partial roof]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A partial sketch of a roof. This sketchbook is from Streeton's first official war artist commission to France 14 May-13 August 1918 where he worked mainly around the Somme battlefields. Purchased ...ART93170.009
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[Blank]; verso: [Riverscape with fallen tree]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a road/river? with a fallen tree. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account, 2007ART93169.005
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[blank]; verso: [Rooftop]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A partial sketch of a rooftop. This sketchbook is from Streeton's first official war artist commission to France 14 May-13 August 1918 where he worked mainly around the Somme battlefields. Purchase...ART93170.007
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[Blank]; verso: [Sketch of a review of 2nd Division by General Sir Charles Rosenthal]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
The verso also depicts a sketch of the 2nd Division in review formation for General Sir Charles Rosenthal. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural H...ART93169.007
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[Blank]; verso: [Smith's side of road and railway]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a sketch of a landscape with a village along the horizon line. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account, 2007ART93169.010
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[blank]; verso: Vaux
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A sketch of a landscape at Vaux-Sur-Somme with an encampment on the far bank. There is barbed wire in the foreground of the sketch. ART12644 correlates to this sketch and seems to have been excised fr...ART93170.004
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[Blank]; verso: [View of Amiens]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of Amiens with wagons and encampments in the foreground. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account, 2007ART93169.016
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[blank]; verso: [Villers-Bretonneux memorial cross]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the memorial cross at Villers-Bretonneux erected in memory of those who fell in battle from the 13 Australian Infantry Brigade on 24 and 25 April 1918. Purchased with the assistance of the ...ART93169.019
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Bois d'Ecardrineuse
Art
Depicts a view of the Bois d'Ecardrineuse (woods of Ecardrineuse) , Ecardrineuse, Somme, France.ART03166
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Bomb dump near Chuignolles
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A sketch of an ammunition dump near Chuignolles that has been bombed. This sketchbook is from Streeton's first official war artist commission to France 14 May-13 August 1918 where he worked mainly ar...ART93170.010
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Brassard : Lieutenant M S Fox, 186 (Special) Company, Royal Engineers
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Special Brigade brassard made of eleven vertical strips of woollen fabric in a continuous sequence; green, white, red. One end of the brassard forms a tongue, while the other is full-width. A blackene...RELAWM16878
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BRAYE, FRANCE, 1914-1918 WAR. BRIDGE ACROSS THE SOMME.
Photograph
Maker: Templeman, Norman Kingsley
BRAYE, FRANCE, 1914-1918 WAR. BRIDGE ACROSS THE SOMME.P00098.003
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Bray, France. September 1918. A recaptured tank near Bray, on the Somme.
Photograph
Bray, France. September 1918. A recaptured tank near Bray, on the Somme.P00520.003
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Bray-sur-Somme showing Red Cross Station
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the Red Cross Station at Bray-sur-Somme on the Western Front. The station is in the mid ground of the image with the town and landscape of Bray-sur-Somme around it. Louis ...ART03110
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Bridge into Peronne
Art
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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Bridge rebuilt at south Peronne
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a temporary timber bridge built across the Somme River in place of the wrecked bridge, with timber revetments on the banks and a truck travelling across. Arthur Streeton is best known as one ...ART03519
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Brigade headquarters
Art
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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Brigadier General Harold Elliott
Art
Portrait of Brigadier General Harold Edward 'Pompey' Elliott, CB, CMG, DSO, DCM, Commanding 15th Brigade (earlier also 7th Battalion and 1st Brigade), 1st Australian Imperial Force. Elliott was at the...ART03182
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Brigadier General Iven Giffard MacKay
Art
Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Brigadier General (later Major General Sir) Iven Giffard Mackay, CMG, DSO, MID (x4), Commanding, 1st Infantry Brigade, Western Front, (later North Africa) 1st Australian Imperial Force,...ART02990
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British intelligence and instructional papers relating to James Murdoch Archer Durrant, 1915-1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Unknown Various
British intelligence and instructional papers relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant-Colonel James Murdoch Archer Durrant, 1915-1917. This file is comprised of British intelligence and...AWM2018.785.68
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British military pamphlets relating to James Murdoch Archer Durrant, 1916-1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Unknown
British military pamphlets relating to the First World War service of Lieutenant-Colonel James Murdoch Archer Durrant, 1916-1918. This file contains: Pamphlet titled 'General Instructions for the O...AWM2018.785.74
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British planes flying towards the Lines over the Somme 1918
Art
Maker: Carline, Richard
Depicts a painting of either Australian Flying Corps (AFC) or the British Royal Flying Corps, biplanes flying over river valley in moonlight, Somme, Western Front during the First World War. The AFC w...ART50032
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British War Medal 1914-20 : Lance Corporal J A McDonnell, 6 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1914-1920. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL31207.002
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British War Medal 1914-20 : Private E D Hood, 29 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL/02892.001
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British War Medal 1914-20 : Private W H Bain, 3 Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1914-20. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL31729.002
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Buchanan, Harold Keith (Bombardier, b,1892- d.1917)
Private Record
Maker: Buchanan, Harold Keith
Collection relating to the First World War service of 2004 Bombardier Harold Keith Buchanan, 39 Battery, Australian Field Artillery [AFA] . Collection consists of a typescript copy of five original d...PR83/192
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[Buildings] verso: [Landscape with church in distance]
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting war damage ruins of a village. The verso has a Watercolour sketch depicting a landscape with a church in the background. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AI...ART03077
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Bunker entrance
Art
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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Burton, Colin John Combe (Sapper, b.1897 - d.1974)
Private Record
Maker: Burton, Colin John Combe
Photocopied diary of Sapper Burton for the period 1917-1919. The diary details the journey from Australia to England, working with A Company, No. 1 Section, Engineers Training Camp in Essex, his time ...PR00377
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Butte de Warlencourt
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts walking figure and portion of a tent in right foreground. Red Cross wagon and two-horse General Store wagon in middle foreground.ART15466
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Caldwell, David Wallace (Lieutenant, 27 Battalion, AIF d.1917)
Private Record
Maker: Caldwell, David Wallace
LETTERS WRITTEN BY LT CALDWELL PRIOR TO SERVICE ON THE SOMME AND LATER LETTERS OF CONDOLENCE FOLLOWING HIS DEATH ON 2 MARCH, 1917PR83/174
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Cameron, Lindsay George (Gunner, 5th Div Arty HQ, AIF)
Private Record
Maker: Cameron, Lindsay George
DIARY DETAILING HIS DUTIES IN EGYPT AND FRANCE AS A DESPATCH CARRIER AT DAHQ, SERVICE AT BAPAUME, MESSINES AND THE SOMME UNTIL EVACUATED, VARIOUS POSTCARD LETTERS SENT TO HIS FAMILY AND OFFICIAL RECOR...PR83/073
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Camouflaged tents
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting camouflaged tents in a wood in the Somme region. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November 1917 with the 10th Field Ambu...ART03096
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Campac Station, R.G. dump
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Painting of Campac Station with a wrecked landscape nearby in France during the First World War. Charles Bryant (1883-1937) had some early art lessons before beginning his career as a clerk in the Ba...ART00165