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[Salvage dump, Glisy]; verso: [Four men seated at table]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Men load a cart in the background, four trees in the mid ground and stacks of shells, crates and barrels are lined up in stacks along the front of the composition. Verso: Depicts a tent tied at either...ART19796.013
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Saving the guns at Robecq
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Batteries of 12th Australian Field Artillery Brigade withdrawing at the gallop in face of approaching German troops at Calonne; German offensive March-April 1918, Battle of the Lys, Western Front.ART03332
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School house, Pozieres
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour sketch depicting the ruins of school building in Pozieres, on the Western Front, surrounded by trenches. Frederick Leist was a painter, illustrator and teacher. He studied at the Sydney Ar...ART02891
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Semakh, looking from Yarmuk
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a valley with a lake, with hills in the distance, viewed from above. A light horseman sits on a rise overlooking the valley, an Arab rides a donkey down the slope and a grey horse stands besi...ART02840
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Shell-fire, St Gratien
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts shell damage on the wall of a house in the town of St Gratien. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. His na...ART12651
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Shell holes
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts a war damaged landscape with trenches, duckboards and shell holes, on the Somme in France during the First World War. Charles Bryant (1883-1937) had some early art lessons before beginning hi...ART00175
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Shopping in Albert
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Depicts two soldiers, one in a great coat and hat, the other in uniform, boots and a tin helmet, standing near a window in a building where a French woman sells 'various articles' (French sign on the ...ART02396
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Sketch%Anzac%
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts store stacked on beach. Two figures in foreground. Sharpnel burst in centre of picture and two at point above Ari Burnu.ART15469
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Sketch from Stormy Trench
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Panoramic, reconnaissance sketch of Bapaume on the Western Front from Stormy Trench, near Gueudecourt, Northern France. Clusters of trees appear on the hills in the background. Benson recounts the rec...ART03605.031.002
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Sketch of Waterlot Farm
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Soldiers and carts at Waterlot Farm, Somme, France.ART00243
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Solre-le-Chateau
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts the liberated town of Solre-le-Chateau after the armistice. The image depicts the town square with the Church bell tower and town hall in the background with the towns inhabitants attempting t...ART19780
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Solre-le-Chateau, 5th Division Headquarters
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Watercolour and charcoal sketch depicting a view of the liberated town Solre-le-Chateau, which was the headquarters of 5th Australian Division, Australian Imperial Force. The image shows the church an...ART02456
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SOME SEA FRONT BUILDINGS WITH BOATS LYING ON THE SHORE.
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SOME SEA FRONT BUILDINGS WITH BOATS LYING ON THE SHORE.H02494B
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Somme Valley
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
A line of trees meanders through the centre of this Somme valley and leads the viewer to a small farm house on the right hand side of the composition. In the distance a view of mountains in the distan...ART11434
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Somme Valley taking in Corbie, Hamelet
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St Vaire to outskirts of Hamel, from dugouts occupied by Australian troops prior to attack on Hamel, Somme Valley, Western Front.ART03373
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Southern France
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Maker: Lambert, George
An early morning sketch of buildings including a church on the left. Outcrops of rock centre right, bare trees foreground, and birds in the sky, possibly ducks, centre. George Lambert travelled by tra...ART02725
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Staff clerks at work, headquarters, St Gratien
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the 2nd Australian Division staff clerks at work in Divisional Headquarters communication facilities, in an improvised office at St Gratien. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painte...ART03502
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Staff, 5th Division, St Gratien
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts the interior of the administration and communication facilities used by the general staff of 5th Division AIF at St Gratien. The four general staff are working in an improvised office, using b...ART02465
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(St Gratien: General Birdwood bidding farewell to headquarters staff)
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts staff of the 1st and 2nd Australian Divisions standing outside the chateau at St Gratien to farewell General Birdwood. The chateau was used as headquarters for the AIF. William 'Birdie' Birdwo...ART03510
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Storm effect, Malta
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Maker: Lambert, George
View of Valletta, Malta with storm clouds over the city. Painted by George Lambert in late January 1919, when the Australian Historical Mission rested three days in Malta. This work was described in t...ART02847
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Street at Glisy
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting a street in the village of Glisy at the Western Front. The image contains several Australian soldiers , General Service wagons and war damaged buildings. Louis McCubbin e...ART03084
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Street in Bethlehem
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Depicts a street scene in Bethlehem with shuttered doorways at street level and oriel window above. From Set 1 of a portfolio of 15 etchings based on sketches done on active service in Mesopotamia and...ART00073
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Street in Haifa
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Maker: Ivers, T H
Depicts a street of Haifa with an Australian soldier amongst the local inhabitants. Haifa is a sea port and located below Mount Camel.ART02601
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Street in Jerusalem
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Depicts a street scene in Jerusalem with two locals walking through the streets and houses with arched windows intheir upper storey. From Set 1 of a portfolio of 15 etchings based on sketches done on...ART00077
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Street in Jerusalem
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Depicts a street scene in Jerusalem with people walking through the archways that are above the streets. From Set 3 of a portfolio of 15 etchings based on sketches done on active service in Mesopotami...ART00086
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Street in Le Cateau
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts a street corner in Le Cateau with two soldiers looking at ruins, a peasant wheeling a hand cart. Le Cateau was liberated from German occupation in October 1918 and was situated behind the Hind...ART02454
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Street in ruins, Villers-Bretonneux, France
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Official war artist Arthur Streeton was sent to France with the 2nd Division AIF in May 1918 to record the Somme battlefields. This pencil and wash drawing depicts the aftermath of a major battle at V...ART93003
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Street in St Gratien
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts a street in St Gratien, which was the headquarters of 5th Division with soldiers walking in street, horses, an old lady with a walking stick and the church tower visible in the background. Al...ART02475
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Sugar factory, Peronne
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the ruins of a sugar beet factory at Peronne on the Western Front. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. Hi...ART03515
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Sugar refinery, Peronne
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Maker: Howie, Laurence
Watercolour of the ruins of the sugar refinery, Peronne.ART93068
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Sugar refinery, Pozieres
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Depicts the damaged remains and wreckage of sugarbeet processing and refining plant at Pozieres, on the Western Front in France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fr...ART02308
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Sunrise Semakh, looking from the Sea of Galilee
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with buildings and trees, and blue hills in the background under a pale sky.ART02842
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Sunrise Semakh, looking towards Yarmuk Gorge
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Maker: Lambert, George
George Lambert described Semakh as: "... a railway-station of picturesque conglomeration of not more than usually dirty Arab huts, and a few tents and horses of the occupation people on the shore, sou...ART02834
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Sunset, Lemnos
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a seascape with water and ships, and with buildings and hills on the distant shore, beneath a sunset. This work was painted during George Lambert's visit to Gallipoli in 1919 with the Australi...ART02853
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Suzanne
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts building debris and shrubbery in the foreground, the town of Suzanne with its church in the midground and aircraft flying overhead in the background. Suzanne is in the Bray Proyart Area, Somme...ART03123
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Tanks at a railhead near the Somme
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting Mark IV British First World War tanks at a railhead. The sponsons have been removed for rail transport so that it is not possible to identify the tanks as being male (6 po...ART03065
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[Tanks at Glisy]; verso: [Acute surgical ward]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
recto:Depicts two pencil sketches of tanks and men at Gilsy; verso: Depicts the interior of a surgical ward containing a long row of hospital beds and surgical equipment on a trolley.ART19796.014
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4th Army pigeon loft, Peronne
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the British 4th Army pigeon loft for communications. The loft is damaged with holes in the roof and parts of the walls. This drawing was made in Streeeton's sketchbook ART93175 and later excis...ART12640
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That liberty shall not perish from the Earth buy Liberty Bonds...
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Maker: Pennell, Joseph US Government Alco-gravure Inc
Poster depicts a headless Statue of Liberty in front of burning buildings after an air raid, poster quotes from the Declaration of Independence: 'That liberty shall not perish from the earth' and urge...ARTV00825
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The Charge of the Australian Light Horse at Beersheba, 1917
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Maker: Lambert, George
Late on 31 October 1917 the 4th Light Horse Brigade was ordered to gallop towards Beersheba and seize the town. Two regiments, the 4th and the 12th, made the charge. This bold and successful move was ...ART02811
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The Clock Tower, Jaffa
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
A three tier clock tower with arched entrance beside a building.ART00087
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The drover
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Depicts a group of German prisoners being escorted by an Australian soldier on horseback on the Somme battlefield, walking past a windmill on their way to prisoner of war camp in France. This paintin...ART00142
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The encampment, Racquinham
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Maker: Macqueen, Kenneth
A view across a river to an allied camp, showing a house and a row of tents. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by the Macqueen family in 2009ART93969
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Their Home! Belgium 1918
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Maker: Brown, F Gregory Grosvenor Press Ltd.
British First World War poster promoting the purchase of national war bonds. The poster aimed to spur on nationalist sentiment by showing the effects of the German bombardment of Ypres and how it affe...ARTV01006
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The mud of desolation
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts a soldier, carrying a pack, in the foreground, moving through a debris filled and war damaged landscape, on the Somme, France. He moves past the remains of a building. Other soldiers appear on...ART00211
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The Nile from Gezira
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape seen across the Nile from the island of Gezireh, with two small sailing boats (Felucca) on dark blue water. Palm trees and two animals stand on the bank, and a town covers the hill...ART02821
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The real Irish spirit...
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Maker: Unknown Central Council for the Organization of Recruiting in Ireland McCaw, Stevenson & Orr Ltd
First World War recruitment poster issued by the Central Council for the Organization of Recruiting in Ireland. It features a depiction of a newly enlisted infantryman in the left foreground. He is in...ARTV00957
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The road to Aleppo
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts figures including an Arab on horseback, progressing along a road leading to buildings. There are hills in the background. Aleppo was the most northern city occupied by the Allied forces and wa...ART02830
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The Sea of Galilee, looking towards Semakh from Tiberias Road
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Maker: Lambert, George
George Lambert wrote to his wife in June 1919: '‘It is really very beautiful here the Sea or lake laps very pleasantly against the warm grey face of the edge about 10 to 20 feet high & bathing morning...ART02828
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The Somme from above Corbie
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of the Somme valley from above Corbie and 'Smith's Farm' Advanced Dressing Station, Villers-Bretonneux is indicated as being beyond the hills on the right side. Arthur Streeton is bes...ART12652
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The Somme Valley near Corbie
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Streeton has taken a position above the Somme Valley near Corbie, France, which provided the best view of an area heavily fought over by Australians in 1918. In April the Germans had advanced until th...ART03497
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The village, I think, is Ribemont
Art
Depicts a scene of the village of Ribemont with a view of the village showing damage to buildings, and a notice in the foreground warning of the presence of gas in the village. This drawing was likel...ART09927
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The Wassah, Cairo
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a city street with shops and awnings, various figures, and a donkey and a cart. The street is part of the Wassah, the 'red light' district of Cairo, and the scene of several riots in 1915 wher...ART02755
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Tiberias
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape of fields with stone walls in front of a town with a mosque and white flat-topped buildings. Lake Tiberias (the Sea of Gallilee) and hills are seen in the background. Tiberias, on ...ART02822
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Toma
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts a view of part of Toma, with jungle and banana plants in the foreground and a homestead on the top of a hill in the background. The Governor and German administration moved here from 6 August...ART03631
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Town crier at Coisy
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts soldiers of the 5th Division AIF and civilians in a street in the village of Coisy, listening to the town crier in a donkey cart, proclaiming latest war news. Albert Henry Fullwood was born in...ART02463
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Training in the desert, Mena
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
After the men of the 1st Division, AIF, landed in Egypt in December 1914 they were given a period of training around Mena to prepare them for active service. The desert training was exceptionally inte...ART03607
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Transport in the mud
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
A soldier and horse walking through the mud and debris of the Somme.ART02156
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[Tree landscape]; verso: Street in Amiens from Cathedral
Art
Maker: Longstaff, Will
Right view of the double page pencil drawing of landscape dominated by trees. Verso: A street scene in Amiens looking from the cathedral to the village of Amiens. From the artist's sketchbook covering...ART19796.011
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Troops arriving at Anzac Camp
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Maker: Rae, Iso
1st Australian Imperial Force Camp. Australian troops marching into `Anzac Camp' at the Etaples Army Base Camp. The building in the foreground is the YMCA Gordon Hut.ART19601
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Tunnel, Bellicourt
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Double leaf sketch of Bellicourt Tunnel, likely to be a preliminary sketch for the large painting ART12437 'Bellicourt tunnel'. By September 1918, allied forces had pushed the Germans back to the Hin...ART93175.010
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Turkish buildings by the wadi, at Magdhaba
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Maker: Lambert, George
Lambert painted this watercolour in mid March 1918 when he visited Magdhaba. Using the available shade at midday, George Lambert painted this from the hospital window opposite the Turkish buildings. T...ART02792
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Unloading shell cases, Glisy Dump; verso:[Dugouts near Villers-Bretonneux]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
A sketch showing men unloading shell cases from waggons at the Glisy Dump. Verso: the left hand panel of a panorama sketch for 'Dugouts near Villers-Bretonneux'. This shows some dugouts set in the sid...ART19796.004
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verso: [Farm building]
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Sketch of a damaged farm building with a rake leaning on the building to the left of the image. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Acc...ART93173.004
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View from I 24 a 24 in Bazincourt Wood
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Maker: Howie, Laurence
Landscape of low grasses at Bazincourt Wood, France. The towns of Mont St Quentin and Halle seen at right distance. The drawing covers two pages of a sketchbook.ART93090.027
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View from my window, Kensington
Art
Maker: Macqueen, Kenneth
A view across the rooftops of Kensington, London. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by the Macqueen family in 2009ART93958
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View of Peronne from Citadel
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Maker: Howie, Laurence
Watercolour of the view from Peronne of the Citadel.ART93069
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Villers-Bretonneux 1982
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Maker: Unknown
Views of the town including its buildings, memorials, military cemetery and fields.F10308
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Villers-Bretonneux, crucifix corner
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch of Crucifix corner at Villers-Bretonneux, Somme, France, with the landscape devastated due to war damage. The son of artist Frederick McCubbin, Louis McCubbin was born in Melbourne ...ART13318
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Villers-Bretonneux from Bussy
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Watercolour sketch depicting a view of Villers-Bretonneux from a field near Bussy, with trench and soldiers training. In the distance smoke is rising from the bombardments at Villers-Bretonneux. Alber...ART50104
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Villers-Bretonneux road
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting a Villers-Bretonneux road populated with trucks, vehicles and civilians. The skyline has images of at least three planes overhead. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th B...ART03063
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[Villers Bretonneux]; verso: Moor at Villers Bretonneux
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Right view of a double page pencil sketch of the town of Villers Bretonneux. Verso: expanded left view sketch of the town of Villers Bretonneux. From the artist's sketchbook covering the campaign on t...ART19796.008
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[Villers Bretonneux]; verso [Villers Bretonneux]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Right view of a double page pencil sketch of the town of Villers Bretonneux. Verso: expanded left view sketch of the town of Villers Bretonneux. From the artist's sketchbook covering the campaign on t...ART19796.007
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[Villers Bretonneux]; verso [Villers Bretonneux]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
View of the town of Villers Bretonneux. Verso: expanded left view sketch of the town of Villers Bretonneux. From the artist's sketchbook covering the campaign on the Western Front during July - Novemb...ART19796.006
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Ville-sur-Ancre
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour sketch depicting a view of the village of Ville-sur-Ancre, with scars of trenches on hillside behind. Frederick Leist was a painter, illustrator and teacher. He studied at the Sydney Art S...ART02904
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Vlamertinghe Church
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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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Wady Hanein, Jewish colony country
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Maker: Lambert, George
Jewish colonies, sponsored by wealthy Jewish families such as the Rothschilds, were made up mainly of emigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe. Harassed by both Arabs and Turks, they welcomed the Brit...ART02700
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Waterfront at Rabaul
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts and number of buildings, including Government House, and the waterfront at Rabaul, New Guinea. This painting is one of a number of the commissioned works Bryant produced for Australian War Rec...ART03625
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Waterfront at Rabaul
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
View of part of the waterfront at Rabaul showing the New Guinea Company's large store on the right, used as barracks by the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF).ART03634
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Well-bred white donkey
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a profile of a white donkey facing to the left of the image, wearing a halter, and held by an Arab youth (wallad) wearing a long yellow jellaba and a cap. The youth and donkey cast a dark sha...ART02686
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West Mudros rest camp, Lemnos
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Maker: Lambert, George
This work was painted during Lambert's visit to Gallipoli in 1919 with the Australian Historical Mission, when the sea journey from Taranto was broken at Lemnos. The Mission travelled from Malta to t...ART02823
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Where I am billeted
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Maker: Macqueen, Kenneth
A drawing of a farmhouse and trees, with a cloudy sky in the distance. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by the Macqueen family in 2009ART93970
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Will you fight now or wait for this
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Maker: Lindsay, Norman Commonwealth Government of Australia W E Smith Ltd
Australian First World War recruitment poster. This poster was part of the First World War Australian Government Recruiting Kit. Depicts a group of armed German soldiers threatening a young man pinned...ARTV00079
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Windmill near Messines
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch of a windmill and farmhouse near Messines, Belgium. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November 1917 with the 10th Field Ambulance. ...ART03049
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Wireless station, Bita Paka, Rabaul
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Painting of the wireless station at Bita Paka in Rabaul. There is a large signals tower rising up over civilian buildings, the scene set against lush green hillside and cloudscape.ART03639
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Woman drawing water
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Maker: Chapman, Evelyn
Depicts bomb-damaged buildings in a small French town. A woman is seen drawing water at centre left. In 1918, only a few weeks after the end of the First World War, Chapman travelled to the battlefiel...ART19591
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Women of Queensland!: Send a man today to fight for you
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Maker: Watkins, John Samuel Queensland Recruiting Committee A J Cumming, Government Printer
An excellent example of Australian First World War recruiting posters aimed at women, rather than potential soldiers. The poster suggests that in helping defeat Germany, women were really defending t...ARTV05632
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YMCA Walton hut
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Maker: Rae, Iso
Depicts the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) Walton hut. The building was provided and run by the YMCA as an amenities centre for soldiers in the Etaples Army Base Camp, Etaples, France.ART19598
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Ypres Canal
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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
Art
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