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A digger
Art
Maker: Bell, George
Depicts a portrait of an Australian 'Digger', wearing a slouch hat , and is possibly a portrait of the soldier Private Stewart.ART03591
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Bathing in a shell-hole
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Depicts two men bathing naked in a shell hole filled with water near Murder Valley on the Western Front, while another three men stand and dress or are seated on the edge of the shell hole. Will Dyson...ART02302
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Company awaiting relief, the Caterpillar, near Ville-sur-Ancre
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Depicts a number of soldiers in uniform, wearing helmets, resting on the road side, awaiting relief. The 'caterpillar' in the title refers to the name of a sunken road south of Ville. Dyson inspected ...ART02250.010
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Egypt v France
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Maker: Unknown
Depicts an Australian digger carrying a camel on his back on the left, with a digger carrying a plank of wood and a duck boards running from a shell on the right. The illustration comments on the dif...ART94827
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[Gunner]
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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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Hymn titles travested
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Maker: King, W L King, W L
A series of sketches using soldier humour and depicting the life of a soldier in the trenches during the First World War. Wilfred Lewis King served with the 60th Battalion during the First World War....ART02664
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Infantryman
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Depicts an Australian Infantryman in uniform, smoking a pipe and holding a rifle with bayonet, leaning against a wooden wall in a trench during the First World War. Further along the trench, in the ba...ART19990
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In memory of Grant Michaelis
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Depicts a battle scene on the Western Front during the First World War with soldiers, including some wounded, travelling up a road. The work was painted by G T Thompson in memory of Lt. Grant Moritz M...ART94648
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Isn't there any flamin, droughts in this country
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Depicts a humorous caricature of soldier tramping through mud on the Western Front and dripping with rainwater. This was one of three sketches Dyson gave to machine-gun officer J. C. Dunningham as a t...ART16157
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l'Agent de Liaison [A soldier on liaison duty]
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Maker: Jonas, Lucien-Hector
The piece of paper in the hand of the French soldier indicates that he is of the liaison service. Our feeling of sympathy and admiration for this soldier is heightened by his war-torn surroundings. Th...ART93094
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La tranchee [The trench]
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Maker: Vallotton, Felix
Depicts an image of a large shell explosion bursting on a battlefield. In the foreground, a row of French soldiers shelter from the blast in the protection of a trench, only their helmets and bayonets...ART93014
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Le Guetteur [The lookout]
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Maker: Jonas, Lucien-Hector
Two French soldiers on lookout duty in a trench on the Western Front. While one rests, the other keeps watch across the "no man's land" between the German and French trenches. Lucien-Hector Jonas was...ART93093
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Lewis gunner
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Depicts a gunner in profile taking aim as he prepares to fire a Lewis gun positioned on an anti-aircraft mount, whilst another soldier watches from the side of the gun pit. The soldiers are surrounded...ART19991
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Looking for the battalion
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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
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not titled [Australian soldier]
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Maker: Gilbert, Charles Web
Bronze sculpture of an unidentified Australian infantryman wearing a slouch hat. The same figure features in another of Gilbert's sculptures, 'Gunners' [ART12503], indicating this small bronze was pro...ART12684
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One of our Battalion in the Front Line
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Maker: Hawkins, Weaver
Depicts a communications officer sitting at a small wooden table talking on a telephone. He sits outside a dugout in Ypres, where Hawkins was stationed during July 1915 before his evacuation from the ...ART19998
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Quick!
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Maker: Lindsay, Norman Government of Australia Syd. Day, The Printer Ltd
An Australian First World War recruitment poster, depicting two Australian soldiers, hard pressed by a larger German force, one on the ground appealing for help. This poster was part of the First Worl...ARTV00020
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Soldiers at the front
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts a group of soldiers traversing a battlefield at the Western Front.ART91029
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The last call
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Maker: Lindsay, Norman Government of Australia W E Smith Ltd
Depicts an Australian First World War recruitment poster with an image of a wounded soldier sounding his bugle for assistance as he leans over the bodies of wounded soldiers in a trench. In the backgr...ARTV00043
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The tank's first stunt, Flers 1916
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts battle scene with damaged tanks and buildings. Soldiers advancing into enemy lines.ART02186