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Advanced dressing station at Smith's Farm, near Corbie
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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
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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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Back at Buire
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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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Bellicourt tunnel
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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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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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Brigadier General Harold Elliott
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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
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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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Captain Frederick James
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Maker: Williamson, Garnet Angus
Depicts a side profile of Captain Frederick James, RMO, AAMC of the 56th Battalion.ART03562
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Captain Percy Lay
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Captain Percy Lay, MC, DCM, MM, 8th Battalion Australian Imperial Forces, served through the Gallipoli campaign as a private. He reached France with the Battalion early in 1916 and fought with it on t...ART03184
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Captain Walter Gilchrist
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Maker: Rodway, Florence
Captain Walter Richard Gilchrist, MC, 6 Fd Coy Engnrs AIF; Western Front Sydney, New South; 6th Field Company Engineers;ART06048
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Cecil (Jack) Hazlitt
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Maker: Westwood, Bryan
Jack put his age up to enlist in 1915 and arrived in Gallipoli as a signaler with the 28th Battalion. He went to France in 1916 and joined the Signals Company of the 4th Division. He was severally she...ART90418
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[Company awaiting relief]
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Depicts the 2nd Division, 22nd Battalion, a group of soldiers, most standing, one sitting on rock near Ville-sur-Ancre. The company of soldiers, wearing helmets and carrying packs, await relief. Will ...ART19603
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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 V...ART02250.003
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Corps reserve ammunition dump
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the Australian Corps reserve ammunition dump at St Gratien, with a road through the woods camouflaged with hessian stretched above road to conceal ammunition dump. Arthur Streeton is best know...ART03507
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CO's bivouac, DAC at St Souplet (Horace McKeown)
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Maker: Bell, George
Depicts Horace Henry McKeowan, a Lieutenant with the First Light Horse, and later a Captain with 4th Division Artillery, sitting in a tent and reading a newspaper or some military papers at St Souplet...ART00130
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Derelict (one of the original tanks blown out near Thiepval)
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Depicts an armoured vehicle, a wrecked British Mark 1 tank, in a war damaged landscape, with its rear wheels being stripped for salvaged metal. Dyson noted that this work depicted 'One of the first ta...ART02338
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Dingbat Alley, Peronne
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 2nd Australian Division Ammunition Column headquarters and the houses on the street with some ruined. 'Dingbat' is Australian slang for idiot or simpleton. ...ART12641
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Feuilleres, section of bridge
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a bridge at Feuilleres across the Somme, destroyed by retreating German forces, and repaired next morning by the 5th Field Company AIF. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of...ART03522
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Field dressing station, Somme
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Painting depicts a Field Dressing Station on the Somme featuring a bell tent. A man in shirtsleeves washes hands in an enamel bowl supported on stand. A towel hangs from a nearby tree.ART02894
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Field telegraph, St Gratien
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts soldiers setting up telegraph wires at the Field telegraph at St Gratien in France. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late ninet...ART03490
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General Sir William Birdwood
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter Quinn, James Peter
Major General Sir (later Field Marshal Lord) William Riddell Birdwood (of ANZAC, Bt), GCB, GCMG, CIE, DSO, was selected from the Indian Army 1914 to command the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. ...ART03338
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German 38 cm naval gun, captured near Chuignolles
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Chuignolles; 1st Australian Division, 1st Infantry Brigade; German 38 cm naval gun, captured by 1st Brigade AIF, gun destroyed before capture; Western Front, Hindenburg Line; South of Cappy Arthur Str...ART03521
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Gun repair park
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting British 6 inch Howitzers and artillery pieces in a maintenance park with a tripod crane for lifting heavy components. There are three soldiers in the mid ground of the ima...ART03066
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In Bapaume the day after its occupation
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Depicts two soldiers, wearing waterproof capes and tin helmets, apprehensively walking through wreckage of the town of Bapaume in March 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to...ART02318
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Interrogation of a prisoner
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English officer JJW Herbertson is shown interviewing a German soldier in the officer's living quarters at Montauban, north of the Somme. The German soldier is seated on a wooden crate, while the offic...ART02228
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Jim Kibble
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Maker: Westwood, Bryan
Jim Kibble was a bricklayer before World War One. He tried to enlist immediately when war broke out, but was rejected as being too short. He tried again and was accepted in April 1915. Jim arrived at ...ART90419
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Lance Corporal Charles Wilson
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Maker: Williamson, Garnet Angus
1st Australian Imperial Force, 56th Battalion; 5240 Lance Corporal Charles Edward Wilson, head cook, D Company 56 Btn AIF; Western FrontART03566
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Leslie Hales
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Maker: Westwood, Bryan
Leslie Hales put his age up and enlisted under the name of Hayes to join the AIF in Melbourne, 1914. He left Australia with the first convoy and landed at Gallipoli with the 16th Battalion in Anzac Da...ART90421
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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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Lewis Gunner, Sergeant Stanley Galton
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Maker: Williamson, Garnet Angus
1st Australian Imperial Force, 56th Battalion; 5383 Sergeant Stanley John Galton, 56 Btn AIF; Lewis Machine gunART03569
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L'Hallue valley
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the 1st AIF Divisional Train in the L'Hallue Valley with a section of horse lines, a row of general service wagons, and soldiers formed up near the road. Arthur Streeton is best known as one o...ART03512
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Lieutenant Colonel Carl Jess
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Maker: Longstaff, John
Portrait of Colonel and Temporary Brigadier General (later Lieutenant General Sir) Carl Herman Jess, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DSO), Commanding 10th Infantry Brigade, 1st Australia...ART02982
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Lieutenant C T Bently
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Maker: Williamson, Garnet Angus
La Houssage; 56 Infantry Battalion, also previously Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force AN&MEF, and 19th Infantry Battalion; Lieutenant Charles Thomas Bentley, 56 Btn AIF; German, Wester...ART03567
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Lieutenant General Sir John Monash
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Lieutenant General Sir John Monash, GCMG, KCB, Commanding, Aust. Corps.ART50003
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Lieutenant John Ewen
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Maker: Balfour, Lawson
Portrait depicting Lieutenant John Carr Ewen, MC, DCM, MM, enlisted in AIF in 1915 and arrived in France in 1916. His subsequent service as a gunner gained him the MM at Pozieres in August 1916, and ...ART09741
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Lieutenant Lawrence McCarthy
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Maker: Wheeler, Charles
Depicts a uniformed portrait of Lieutenant Lawrence Dominic McCarthy, VC, 16th Battalion, A.I.F, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his work on the 23 August 1918 near Madam Wood, east of Verman...ART09424
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Lieutenant Rupert Moon
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Captain Rupert Vance Moon, VC, served with the 4th Australian Light Horse Regiment as a trooper on Gallipoli and progressed steadily through the ranks until he was commissioned in 1916. He was then p...ART19609
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Linesmen at work, La Houssoye
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Depicts two linesmen up a telegraph pole, repairing or winding wires near La Houssoys, on the Somme in April 1918. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the...ART02408
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Major General Sir John Gellibrand
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter
Official war artist James Quinn was instructed to paint the portrait of Major General (later Sir) John Gellibrand, CB(M) (later KCB), DSO and Bar as part of an ongoing series of portraits that acknowl...ART03346
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Major General Sir Joseph Hobbs
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter
Official war artist James Quinn was instructed to paint the portrait of Major General Sir Joseph Hobbs as part of an ongoing series of portraits that acknowledged senior military leaders in the Austra...ART03348
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Maurice Dooling
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Maker: Williamson, Garnet Angus
Portrait of Major Maurice Dooling, 416 Regimental Sergeant of the 56th Battalion.ART03563
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Nissen hut, Mont St Quentin
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Depicts the interior of a Nissen hut used as officers' quarters by the 1st Division AIF. Beds and personal effects are evident in the background, and improvised heater and flowers in the foreground. J...ART03413
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One of the Old Platoon
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An Australian soldier in full uniform, with a large pack on his back, standing in a war damaged landscape. He is bending over to pay tribute at the grave of a dead Australian soldier in Pozieres. The...ART02245.003
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Ordnance workshops, Cambrai Road
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Depicts a number of Australian soldiers preparing and working with field guns and ordnance at a workshop near Bapaume. The image shows a view of part of the ordnance workshop, with ruined buildings in...ART02258.006
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Peronne. Heavy artillery advancing through the town
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
The 1st Australian Imperial Force going through the ruins of Peronne with heavy artillery such as 8 inch howitzers. A biplane can be seen flying overhead. Smoke from burning villages is visible in t...ART03043
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Pommiers Redoubt
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Depicts two unidentified soldiers of the 5th Division, 14th Brigade getting a hot meal. One is wearing a scarf around his head, the other a cape, and both are wearing gum boots. Will Dyson was the fir...ART02212
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18 pounder quick firing gun
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Depicts an 18 pounder quick firing gun, Mark II, with camouflage paint, with a half limber wagon for ammunition, which is also camouflaged, behind the gun. The gun was used by the 1st Australian Imper...ART03378
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Preparing the brazier
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Depicts two soldiers, each wearing heavy long coats and hats, in front of a tent. One is standing and gazing into a small fire burning in a brazier, while the other is seated, warming his hands in fro...ART02297.004
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Private Hugh Kerr
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Maker: Williamson, Garnet Angus
Portrait of Private Hugh Kerr of the 56th Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces.ART03564
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Sanitary section camp, St Gratien
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the encampment of the 1st AIF sanitary section with tents in the woods and stores nearby. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late...ART03530