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A gigantic shell crater seventy five yards in circumference, at Ypres. Note the two soldiers on ...
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Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A gigantic shell crater seventy five yards in circumference, at Ypres. Note the two soldiers on the other side of the crater and the ruins in the background.E00707
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An aerial view of mine craters in No Man's Land in the Ypres sector, taken in front of the Bluff.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
An aerial view of mine craters in No Man's Land in the Ypres sector, taken in front of the Bluff.A02651
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A photograph of a ghastly sight in a shell crater near Zonnebeke, in the Ypres Sector, showing ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
A photograph of a ghastly sight in a shell crater near Zonnebeke, in the Ypres Sector, showing the body of a youthful German who lost his life in no man's land, during the attack by the Australian tro...E00927
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A typical shell swept road between Ypres and Bosinghe, Belgium. From the collection of Mr Alfred ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
A typical shell swept road between Ypres and Bosinghe, Belgium. From the collection of Mr Alfred Thomas Sharp. Mr Sharp was the Commonwealth Immigration Officer of Victoria and was based in the London...J00638
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Bringing up the guns
Art
Maker: Power, H Septimus
Commissioned to produce a large-scale battle scene, Septimus Power drew from his experince on the Western Front as an official war artist from September to December 1917 to create Bringing up the guns...ART03334
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Cloth Hall at Menin Gate
Art
Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Watercolour, gouache and charcoal sketch depicting a view of the ruins of Ypres with the Menin Gate in the foreground and Cloth Hall in the background. Ypres was the scene of almost constant fighting...ART02452
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Cloth Hall, Ypres
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Progressively destroyed by German artillery fire from 1914, the great medieval Cloth Hall in Ypres, was in ruins when the Australians fought nearby in the final months of 1917.ART02884
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Cloth Hall, Ypres
Art
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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Cook house
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
The cook house for the 1st Division Train, was situated in a wrecked building, with a tent at the left. Three soldiers are sitting near a thatched house peeling vegetablesART03323
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Dickebusch Church
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts the ruins of a church at Dickebusch in Belgium. The figure of a man, possibly a soldier, can be seen walking past in front of the damaged building. Fred Leist was appointed an official war art...ART02914
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Halles d'Ypres 1914
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Maker: Augis, Marcel
Depicted here is the war damaged Ypres Halls and Belfry tower in Ypres following German bombardment that occurred towards the end of the First Battle of Ypres, in mid November 1914. The red hues Augis...AWM2017.162.8
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Incendie des Halles d'Ypres
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Maker: Unknown
Ypres Cloth Hall, or Lakenhalle, was set on fire in November 1914 by German artillery shells. Cloth Hall was eventually reduced to rubble by 1917, but has since been restored. Belle smith, who served...AWM2018.617.7
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Laying the duckboards, France 1917
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Maker: Bell, George
Depicts soldiers from a Pioneer unit laying a duckboard track across muddy fields in a war damaged landscape, probably in the Ypres Salient, France in 1917. The soldiers are wearing sandbags around th...ART03592
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Lille Gate, Ypres
Art
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
Art
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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Looking from an old crater on the north side of Hill 60, over the shell pitted ground towards ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Looking from an old crater on the north side of Hill 60, over the shell pitted ground towards Zillebeke Lake. The 1st Australian Tunnelling Company took over mining operations and mine fighting from t...E01911
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Martyr Ypres
Published Collection
Maker: Unknown
Woven silk postcard made in France during the First World War. This postcard depicts war damage to the Cloth Hall in Ypres. The postcard is woven in shades of red and grey to evoke the sense of devas...RC01640
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Our pillbox, Westhoek Ridge, October
Art
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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Peelers' paradise
Art
Maker: Power, H Septimus
Depicts three soldiers from the 1st Australian Division of the AIF sitting near the front of a thatch-roofed house peeling vegetables, the camp kitchen is in background. This is during the Third Battl...ART03309
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Ramparts of Ypres from the Menin Gate
Art
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: Old Mill S_.; verso: Ypres [page 9]
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Maker: Lothian, John George
recto: A sketch of two views of a windmill and a small farmhouse, probably near Messines, Belgium. verso: A sketch of some buildings in Ypres. Some taller sections have been blasted away, and the arti...ART92337.008
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Ruined church in Belgium
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Maker: Stewart, James Warren
Depicts the ruins of a church in Ypres. The town sustained heavy damage due to the intense fighting that took place there during the First World War. Captured by the Germans early during the war in191...ART19547
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Troops hauling an 18 pounder gun through mud and across shell craters, into position on Westhoek ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
Troops hauling an 18 pounder gun through mud and across shell craters, into position on Westhoek Ridge, in the Ypres sector.E01191
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View of a huge crater on Broodseinde Ridge, in the Ypres sector, where the enemy had established ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
View of a huge crater on Broodseinde Ridge, in the Ypres sector, where the enemy had established a strong post.E01034
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Vlamertinghe Church
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour sketch depicting the Vlamertinghe church, the road through Vlamertinghe to Ypres with military lorries and bicycles. The village of Vlamertinghe is 1 mile (1 1/2 Kilometres) west of where ...ART02883
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Wine of Victory (Wounded German prisoners near Ypres)
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Depicts a wounded German soldier, captured near Ypres, being led by Australian soldiers across a war damaged landscape. Rows of other soldiers can be seen in the background of the scene. Will Dyson wa...ART02293.002
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Wine of Victory (Wounded German prisoners near Ypres)
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Depicts a wounded German soldier, captured near Ypres, being led by Australian soldiers across a war damaged landscape. Rows of other soldiers can be seen in the background of the scene. Will Dyson wa...ART02293.004
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Wine of Victory (Wounded German prisoners near Ypres)
Art
Depicts a wounded German soldier, captured near Ypres, being led by Australian soldiers across a war damaged landscape. Rows of other soldiers can be seen in the background of the scene. Will Dyson wa...ART02293.005
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Wine of Victory (Wounded German prisoners near Ypres)
Art
Depicts a wounded German soldier, captured near Ypres, being led by Australian soldiers across a war damaged landscape. Rows of other soldiers can be seen in the background of the scene. Will Dyson wa...ART02293.013
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With Manton's Guns, Hill 60
Art
Depicts several soldiers seated in trenches and dugouts, some checking over canteen accounts, on the battlefield, while explosions go off on the horizon. The soldiers are members of the 1st Australian...ART02262.014
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Ypres
Art
Maker: Power, John
This painting symbolically depicts the aftermath of battle in France. A figure in a hooded gown stands with their head bent, ruined buildings are visible in the background. John Power enlisted in the...ART19570
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Ypres
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts soldiers and horsedrawn wagons outside the damaged Ypres Cloth Hall at night with a search light in the background. Frederick Leist was a painter, illustrator and teacher. He studied at the Sy...ART16894
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Ypres
Published Collection
Maker: Unknown
Printed silk postcard made in France during the First World War. This postcard features an image of the damaged Cloth Hall in Ypres. The postcard is woven in shades of red and grey to evoke the sense ...RC01636
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Ypres, Belgium. c. 1917. A war damaged convent which was used by the Allies as a casualty ...
Photograph
Ypres, Belgium. c. 1917. A war damaged convent which was used by the Allies as a casualty clearing station.H03681
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Ypres, Belgium. c. 1917. Ruined buildings on the outskirts of the town.
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Ypres, Belgium. c. 1917. Ruined buildings on the outskirts of the town.H03682
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Ypres Canal
Art
Maker: Leist, Fred
Comines Canal, runs to the west of the city, meeting the Canal de l'Yser on the northern edge of the city; Third Battle of, Salient, Western Front.ART02885
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Ypres from the ramparts
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Depicts a view of war damaged Ypres, including the ruins of the Cloth Hall and houses in the town. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War...ART02316
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Ypres from the road near Zillebeek
Art
Depicts a war damaged landscape with smashed trees and ruined buildings on the horizon, near Ypres. Dyson wrote that the scene was of 'Ypres from the road near Zillebeek'. Will Dyson was the first Aus...ART09925