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Abandoned gun pit outside Flers
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Depicts an abandoned gun pit with sandbags, barbed wire and a wooden infrastructure, outside Flers about January 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during...ART09920
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Abandoned trench, the Somme
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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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Abbeville
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts tents at the 3rd Australian General Hospital with impressionist figures of soldiers and nurses in front of the tents. In the foreground is a roadway and median strip with flowers. Streeton pai...ART92139
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Accroche Wood
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Drawing depicting the war damage to the Accroche Wood at the Western Front, France. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November 1917 with the 10th Fie...ART03086
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A comfortable billet
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Maker: Lindsay, Daryl Ernest
Depicts the inside of a billet, three soldiers resting by a light on straw.ART90832
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A digger
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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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Advanced dressing station, Middle Harbour
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the advanced dressing station at Middle Harbour, with a wall protected by sandbags and hessian camouflage screening above, set into slope of hill. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the ...ART03505
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A Field Kitchen
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Depicts three soldiers wearing tin (protective) helmets and waterproof capes attending a field kitchen (travelling field cooker) in a wet, war-damaged landscape. With the field kitchen, the forepart o...ART92146
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After Bullecourt, 32nd Battalion Mess, Bapaume
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Depicts men seated, drinking and talking in the Battalion Mess. They are the 32nd Battalion resting near Bapaume, after Bullecourt. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the...ART02334
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A funk-hole near Bullecourt
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Depicts two soldiers sheltering in a funk hole at night. They are seated and reading by candlelight. The entrance to the hole is draped with a piece of cloth. Will Dyson was the first Australian offic...ART02283.001
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A funk-hole near Bullecourt
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Depicts two soldiers sheltering in a funk hole at night. They are seated and reading by candlelight. The entrance to the hole is draped with a piece of cloth. Will Dyson was the first Australian offic...ART02283.002
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A funk-hole near Bullecourt
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Depicts two soldiers sheltering in a funk hole at night. They are seated and reading by candlelight. The entrance to the hole is draped with a piece of cloth. Will Dyson was the first Australian offic...ART02283.003
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A funk-hole near Bullecourt
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Depicts two soldiers sheltering in a funk hole at night. They are seated and reading by candlelight. The entrance to the hole is draped with a piece of cloth. Will Dyson was the first Australian offic...ART02283.015
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A funk-hole near Bullecourt
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Depicts two soldiers sheltering in a funk hole at night. They are seated and reading by candlelight. The entrance to the hole is draped with a piece of cloth. Will Dyson was the first Australian offic...ART02283.004
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A game of quoits at Tincourt
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This painting depicts an encampment and five men involved in a game of quoits at Tincourt, France.ART03387
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[A gathering of soldiers]
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Maker: Steinlen, Theophile Alexandre
This work is possibly a depiction of a scene that artist Theophile Steinlen observed while living in Paris during the First World War. The print portrays a selection of seven French soldiers, gathered...ART96201
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A guest
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Depicts three men seated in a room, talking and resting. A wine bottle and two cups can be seen on the floor in front on them. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fron...ART02380
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A happy new year from "Jim" in France [photo sketch of the late private James Anderson]
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Maker: Vasco, Louis
This sketch is a portrait of 527 Private James Anderson, B Company, 37th Battalion, 10th Brigade, AIF. It was completed by the artist Louis Vasco around 1918. It is a profile caricature of Jim; he is ...AWM2018.1288.1
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Ah! quand supprimeza-t-on l'alcool ? [Ah why kill yourself with alcohol?]
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Maker: Chavannaz PARIS : L'UNION DES FRANCAISES CONTRE L'ALCOOL, [N.D.] (PARIS : CRETE)
The poster depicts two children clinging to their mother while their father sits at a table grasping a bottle of spirits. The poster is calling for people to temper their drinking by enrolling at the ...ARTV01188
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Aid post near Doyle's Post
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Depicts a soldier walking along a snow covered road, towards the damaged remains of a post, with a gate and road sign nearby. The image was created by Dyson on the 'morning of second Messines offensiv...ART02330
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Air Vice-Marshal George Jones
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Air Vice Marshal (later Air Marshal Sir) George Jones, CBE, DFC, Chief of Air Staff Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).ART25968
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Albert
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Depicts an image of the French village of Albert in December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling to France in Decemb...ART02401
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Albert Cathedral (Albert Basilica)
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts the ruins of the basilica at Albert, in France, with war damaged buildings in the foreground. Albert was central to the First Battle of the Somme. During the war, the statue of Mary on top of ...ART15470
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A l'hopital (At the hospital)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A young officer, with an amputated leg, and a nurse, stand beside a hospital bed where a fellow soldier lies. The soldier with the amputated leg remarks: 'Don't feel sorry for yourself. You will be ab...ART50142
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Along the Bapaume Road
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Depicts a convoy of covered trucks, carrying soldiers, moving along the Bapaume Road, France. A number of soldiers, carrying accessories and packs are walking along following the trucks. Will Dyson wa...ART02387
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A man
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
'The First World War left indelible scars on Hilda Rix Nicholas's psyche and her painting 'A man' is imbued with that experience. Rix Nicholas chose a returned serviceman as the model for 'A man'. But...ART19613
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Amiens Cathedral
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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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Amiens Cathedral; verso:Salvage dump, Glisy
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
A sketch of Amiens cathedral in a landscape setting. On the verso a sketch of a salvage dump at Glisy with shell casings, barrels and ammunition boxes. From the artist's sketchbook covering the campai...ART19796.003
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A million pounds a week is the approximate value of salvage in the British Armies in France...
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Maker: Hudson, Gerald C Unknown G.P. Ltd.
British First World War poster. It features a central image of three British soldiers collecting discarded German equipment in a captured trench. One of the men fills a sack, stooping to pick up grena...ARTV00832
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[Ammunition wagon]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Pencil sketch depicting a General services articulated limber wagon which, among other things, was used to transport ammunition and equipment. The inscription relates to the formation of the colour pa...ART90362
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Among the poppies
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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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11 am or a visit from the Corps
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Depicts a stern looking officer standing in the doorway of sleeping quarters, with two soldiers in bed, one still asleep while the other has just woken and is sitting up. The room is untidy and clock ...ART02427
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An angry runner on the ridge
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Depicts a soldier wearing a tin helmet, in the lower right corner, moving away from a war damaged ridge. A dark and stormy sky, filled with shell bursts looms in the right hand corner of the drawing. ...ART02235
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An Australian Field Artillery Brigade Headquarters, near Nieuport
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Depicts members of the 1st Australian Imperial Force, Australian Siege Artillery Brigade and a view from the headquarters of Artillery Brigade. One man is seated and talking on the telephone, while th...ART02343
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A night march past Querrieu
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Depicts a large number of troops marching along a roadway, as part of a march past, at night, under moonlight near Querrieu, France in April 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war arti...ART02413
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A Nissen hut camp on the Somme
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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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Another batch of Jerrys
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts a mounted Australian officer with his bayonet rifle stowed on his back, leading a groupe of German soldiers, or 'Jerrys', along a road lined with bomb damaged trees. Standing on the side of th...ART02656.004
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ANZAC Day sports: Australian base depots sports ground, Rouelles, April 25th 1919...
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Maker: Unknown Australian Imperial Force Unknown
First World War poster issued by the Australian Base Depots to promote a sports carnival to be held on ANZAC Day 1919 at Rouelles, France. Text only the poster is printed in black ink on a bright yell...ARTV08347
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ANZACS
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Maker: Laboureur, Jean-Emile
This image in which two Anzac soldiers stand with their hands on their hips and slouch hats over their eyes. A third sits to the left smoking a pipe. Behind them another Anzac sits in a horse-drawn wa...ART92100
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Appel, aux femmes Française, se priver, economiser, c'est travailler pour la patrie [A call to all French women, deprive yourself, economise, its work for the motherland]
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Maker: Unknown PARIS : CONSEIL NATIONAL DES FEMMES FRANCAISES, [N.D.] (PARIS : MARCEL PAGE) Page, Marcel
This is a text based poster which is an appeal to French women to economise and was produced by the National Council of French Women in Paris. This First World War poster calls for resistance agains ...ARTV06649
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Apres le combat (After the combat)
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Maker: Lepere, Auguste Sagot
Dead bodies are gathered up after the fighting. This print is plate 13 from the first portfolio of 18 woodcuts, 'La guerre de 1914', published by Sagot, Paris, 1915.ART50258
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A raid on enemy machine gun positions
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Maker: Hornby, Lester G.
Depicts a small group of soldiers crawling through barbed wire and over crops in a field in Marne, France, during the First World War. Inscribed on a piece of paper for merely attached to the drawing ...ART50026
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Army camp building in France
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Australian soldiers guarding a red army camp building in France. The building has a green door and is surrounded by trees. A sign about the building has been nailed to a tree and a path leads past t...ART91987
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[Army camp, Somme desert]
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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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Army Headquarters, Cassel
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Depicts the small town of Cassel in northern France; southeast of Dunkurque. Cassel is a hilltop village that was much fought over during the First World War because of its position and observation op...ART03605.028.001
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Arthur Streeton
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Maker: Lambert, George
During the First World War Arthur Streeton joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and worked as an orderly at the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth. He was appointed an official war artist in May 1...ART19841
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[Artillery]
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Maker: Wilson, Eric
A pencil drawing of the back of a field artillery gun. After being awarded a Travelling Art scholarship in 1937, Eric Wilson studied in Europe for several years. In 1939, in the months preceding the ...ART28838
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A shell swept road
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
A team of six horses from the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 1st Australian Division Artillery race along, pulling an 18-pounder gun. There are shells bursting nearby and there are ruined war-damaged ...ART92145
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A sketch made in France in 1916
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Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of a soldier, wearing a steel helmet. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling to France ...ART19770
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A Souvenir
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Maker: Chambers, A
Depicts two soldiers one an Australian the other a French soldier holding a souvenir.ART00203
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Aspects sentimentaux du front anglais (Sentimental aspects of the British front), text by Bertie Angle
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Maker: Laboureur, Jean-Emile
Bertie Angle's 'Aspects sentimentaux du front anglais (Sentimental aspects of the british front line)' was published by Dorbon-Aine, Paris in 1916. As well as an original print for the frontispiece, ...ART50272
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Association des Dames Françaises, Croix Rouge Française [The Association of French Women, French Red Cross]
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Maker: Jonas, Lucien-Hector Lapina Imprimerie
Poster depicting injured soldiers being attended to by the Red Cross. The poster is asking people to buy stamps to assist in funding the Red Cross.ARTV00071
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A 'Stonkered' Barn, Somme
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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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A 'Tommy' in Blues
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Maker: Cadell, John Hepburn
Portrait study of a young Welshman, 21369 Private E Edwards, 4th R J Dragoon Guards, wearing a jacket and tie, 2nd Australian General Hospital, France.ART00194.004
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a ton tour Martin...
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Maker: Unknown
French propaganda print depicting a polar bear called Martin about to ride on the back of a German soldier. He is being urged on by three allied soliders.AWM2019.367.26
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a tous les corps l'on gagne!
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Maker: Unknown
French propaganda print depicting a game of bowels with each of the pins a caricature of axis leaders. The game is being played by a French soldier.AWM2019.367.25
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At the Casualty Clearing Station
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Depicts an officer seated at a table, his chin resting on his folded hands. Behind him is room full of wounded soldiers, some lying down, others seated and resting. Dyson noted that this work depicted...ART02336
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Aubers N 20 D 84 German pill-box built inside farm house
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Maker: Howie, Laurence
Sketch of a ruined German pill box that they had built inside a farm house in the town of Aubers. The town was part of the Aubers-Fromelles sector and saw heavy fighting during the Battle of Fromelles...ART93090.010
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Aubigny
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Near Aubigny; an improvised plank bridge over a river, with three trucks parked near the Aubigny end.ART03371
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Aussie leaning on his rifle
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Maker: Williamson, Garnet Angus
Depicts a sketch of an Australian soldier leaning on his rifle.ART03573
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Australian aid post outside Vaux
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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 artillery passing through Bapaume
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Maker: Waller, Napier
Depicts a number of Australian artillerymen, wearing tin helmets and great coats moving through the streets of Bapaume after the town was occupied in March 1917, with horses carrying artillery on load...ART92983
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Australian Corps Headquarters
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Depicts a detailed sketch of a series of buildings , in the French countryside, which served as the Australian Corps Headquarters, during the First World War. George Benson (1886- 1960) studied at the...ART03601
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Australian engineers constructing a bridge at Eterpigny (also known as `Battle scene, France 1918' and `The bridge builders')
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Maker: Bell, George
Depicts a large number of Australian soldiers (engineers) building a small, wooden bridge over a river at Eterpingy, on the Western Front during the First World War.ART11416
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Australian flying squadron aerodrome, near Villers-Bocage
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts an RE8 aircraft standing near a group of tents at Villers-Bocage in France. One aircraft is seen in the right foreground, another at the left distance and one in the air. Arthur Streeton is be...ART03526
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Australian Gun Hospital on the Bapaume-Cambrai Road
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Depicts a number of soldiers working on repairing and cleaning field guns at the St. Stamps Gun Hospital in Cambrai, on the Bapaume Road, in August 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official ...ART02337
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Australian Horse Lines near Bapaume
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Depicts a number of horses tethered under a temporary sheltar, with a soldier and cart nearby. The image is of the Australian horse lines near Bapaume. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war...ART02346
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Australian Hospital, Abbeville
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the Number 3 Australian General Hospital at Abbeville with large tents used as hospital wards, and in the background are wooden buildings. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters ...ART12649
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Australian 9.2 howitzer
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Although 'Australian 9.2 howitzer' was painted in 1919, immediately after the war, it clearly represents a scene from the last phase of the fighting. The centrepiece is a large howitzer, the heaviest ...ART03004
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Australian main dressing station, Bapaume
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Depicts Australian soldiers walking along a road or seated on the edge of the road, near an encampment, with tents and trucks. The encampment is the main dressing station near Bapaume, France in 1917....ART02322
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Australian motor repair shop, Morbecque
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Depicts the interior of an Australian motor repair workshop, with mechanics working on engines, at Morbecque, near Picarde in northern France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist t...ART02320
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Australians advancing from Villers-Bretonneux, August 8th 1918
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
This is a depiction of what was a very large and important battle, best known as the Battle of Amiens. The Australian Corps of four divisions with one in reserve advanced on a frontage several kilomet...ART15522
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Australian Trench Mortar 'possy' in Treux
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Depicts a badly damaged building at Treaux or Ville-sur-Ancre in April 1918. Dyson titled this work 'Street at ....Trench Mortar Posee, Treux or Ville-sur-Ancre'. Will Dyson was the first Australian o...ART02414
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Australien (Australian)
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Maker: Pasquet
A full standing figure of a veteran Australian soldier wearing a slouch hat, and with his left hand in his pocket and a walking stick in his right hand.ART50160
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Avant l'attaque (Before the attack)
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Maker: Jonas, Lucien-Hector
A group of French infantrymen wait while their officer counts down the minutes until the beginning of an attack against the German enemy. This scene could take place anywhere along the Western Front, ...ART92977
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Avec la carte nous en aurons peu... (With the [ration] card we will have little...)
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Maker: Colas, Yvonne Comite National de Prevoyance & d'Economies Union Francaise
French First World War poster promoting the conservative use of sugar. This poster was one of a series published by the French Comite National de Prevoyance & d'Economies (National Committee of Planni...ARTV06110
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AVIS, nous avons l'honneur de porter a votre connaissance qu'un bal [Notice, we would be honoured to make your acquaintance at a ball]
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Maker: [FRANCE] : AUSTRALIAN ARMY, [1919]
Titled with the word 'Notice' in French, this poster produced by the Australian Army 46-48Bde in France was produced to advertise a bal which was held on Saturday 22 March 1919.ARTV08341
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A well
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Maker: Addison, Reginald Harwood
A sketch of a wooden well hut with a tiled roof in the French countryside and a sign reading 'out of order'. A chicken is scratching around the bottom of the hut.ART00001
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Back at Buire
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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...ART02298.011
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Back at Buire
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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...ART02298.014
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Back at Buire
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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, c...ART02298.002
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Back at Buire
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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...ART02298.013
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Back at Buire
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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...ART02298.012
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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...ART02298.008
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Back at Buire
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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...ART02298.009
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Back at Mouquet Farm
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Depicts two unidentified infantrymen, of the 4th Australian division, possibly part of a Vickers machine gun squad, near Mouquet Farm. The man in front is holding a water cooling can for a Vickers Mar...ART02248
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Back at the waggon lines after Polygon Wood
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Depicts men of either 1st or 2nd Division, Australian Infantry, at waggon lines behind the Front, eating, resting and being served food in a war damaged landscape. Discarded webbing with a bayonet and...ART02270
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Back at the waggon lines comparing souvenirs
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Depicts four soldiers standing around looking at their souvenirs collected during the war, including bayonets and a small gun. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fron...ART02220
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Back entrance Henecourt Chateaux
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Maker: Marsh, Jeremy Taylor
Depticts the back entrance to Henecourt Chateaux, one of the Headquarters for the 1st Australian Division during the First World War. The artist, Lieutenant Colonel Jeremy Taylor Marsh, was part of th...ART12269
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Back with the Civilians
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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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Back with the 'Heads', Querrieu
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Depicts a Nissan hut and other buildings beside a road, in a French landscape. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling to Fran...ART02327
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Bapaume church
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Depicts the severely damaged remains of the Bapaume church, with a statue in the foreground. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, trav...ART02285.002
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Bapaume church
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Depicts the severely damaged remains of the Bapaume church, with a statue in the foreground. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, trav...ART02285.005
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Bapaume church
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Depicts the severely damaged remains of the Bapaume church, with a statue in the foreground. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, trav...ART02285.003
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Bapaume church
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Depicts the severely damaged remains of the Bapaume church, with a statue in the foreground. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, trav...ART02285.004
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Bapaume church
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Depicts the severely damaged remains of the Bapaume church, with a statue in the foreground. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, trav...ART02285.001
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Bapaume church
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Depicts the severely damaged remains of the Bapaume church, with a statue in the foreground. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, trav...ART02285.007
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Bapaume from stormy trench, March 1917
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Depicts a panoramic, topographical view of Bapaume, on the Western Front, from Stormy Trench. Clusters of trees appear on the hills in the background and a grave marker is visible in the foreground ce...ART00133
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Bapaume 1917, La Place de l'hotel de Ville
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Maker: Mansard, Paul
War-damaged town hall in Bapaume, France, with debris and rubble surrounding the remains of the structure.ART50202
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Bapaume Road
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts a war damaged landscape 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 Bank of NSW. In 1908 he trav...ART00173