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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