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[Delousing the soldiers]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the soldiers preparing for delousing. All of those portrayed wear goggles and simple masks over their faces. A man on the far left is ringing a bell, perhaps to alert the soldiers that the ch...ART93070.014
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Diary of John Henry Llewellyn Turnbull, 1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Turnbull, John Henry Llewellyn
Diary relating to the First World War service of 1295 Driver John Henry Llewellyn Turnbull, 5th Divisional Ammunition Column. This is the fifth of six detailed diaries transcribed by Turnbull after th...RCDIG0001110
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[Directing digging in the trenches]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist directing some consternated soldiers to dig a trench. The protagonist is standing on the far left, and appears to be telling the private in the middle something. The protagon...ART93070.010
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[Eating in a restaurant]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist, still in uniform, dining in a restaurant with his wife. This is a detailed drawing, which carefully describes everything from the table legs of the table they are sitting at,...ART93070.027
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[Frontispiece '1916 Paul Prangere']
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts a decorative title page. A bouquet of wild roses tied together with a ribbon climb the left side of the page. The bouquet frames the title - '1916 Paul Prangere' - which is written on the ...ART93070.001
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[Home at last]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist and his wife at home in an intimate embrace. She is sitting on a large seat, leaning her head back, and he is leaning over the back of the chair to kiss her. She is stretched...ART93070.028
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[Letters from home]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist and his bearded friend being given letters from home by a private. The long coats of the protagonist and his bearded friend are those of a corporal, while the short coat of th...ART93070.009
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Letters written by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood to Sir Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson, 1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Birdwood, William Riddell
This folder contains copies of 16 letters sent by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood to Sir Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson between 17 January and 31 December 1917. During this period, Sir Ronald Crau...RCDIG0000041
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Letters written by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood to Sir Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson, 1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Birdwood, William Riddell
This folder contains copies of 13 letters sent by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood to Sir Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson between 3 February and 6 December 1918. During this period, Sir Ronald Crauf...RCDIG0000042
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[Maintenence of the trenches]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist and two privates walking through the trenches. The protagonist has a pipe in his mouth, and his rifle slung over his shoulder. The privates follow him, and are carrying a lar...ART93070.016
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[Manoeuvres at night]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist and other soldiers advancing towrds the enemy at night. They are out of the trenches in an open space. Above them a shell bursts, illuminating the scene. All of the oldiers ...ART93070.015
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[Mishap while making fortifications]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
A farcical scene in the trenches depicting a private accidentally smacking himself in the head with a tool for knocking posts into the ground. He is wearing a shocked expression as the tool impacts w...ART93070.011
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[Near miss]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist lying down, grimacing with fear in the trench. A small shell or a gunshot appears to have exploded near his head. The trench is very shallow, and barbed wire entanglements ar...ART93070.018
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[Nocturnal visitation]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist sleeping in a dugout, using his haversack as a pillow. His half-naked wife hovers above him in a negligee. She seems to be a manifestation of his dream. From a supporting po...ART93070.013
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[Permission for leave]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist holding up a piece of paper upon which the word 'PERMISSION' is legible. He is in full uniform, and is wearing his helmet, thus indicating he has recovered from his injuries. ...ART93070.022
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[Preparing food in a dugout]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts a man wearing a French army chefs uniform preparing a meal. He is working in a dugout. Holding an enormous ladle, he is tranferring food from a large cooking pot into buckets or squad boilde...ART93070.017
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[Procession carrying food]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the mustachioed protagonist leading two men who are carrying food. The protagonist is carrying his rifle and striding confidently through the trenches. Behind him is a man with no facial hai...ART93070.005
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[Reading the newspaper]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts two French soldiers relaxing in the trenches. The soldier with the moustache, the protagonist, is having the newspaper read to him by the bearded soldier, who is smoking a pipe. The title of...ART93070.004
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Retour de permission (Return from leave)
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Maker: Steinlen, Theophile Alexandre
A soldier in a great coat and helmet (right of image) talks with two women, who are both wearing long coats and carrying shoulder bags.ART50208
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[Reunion at the train station]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist on the platform of a train station. He appears to have just stepped off the train, and is waving to his wife She is waving back to him, and is elegantly dressed in a high-nec...ART93070.024
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[Sleeping in the dugout]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist and his bearded friend sleeping in a dugout on crudely made bunk-beds. The scene has a cosy atmosphere, due to the artists's enclosing of the characters in a soft, rounded spa...ART93070.006
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[Soldiers in trench surveying the battlefield]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts two French soldiers standing in a trench and relatively at ease. The bearded soldier in the backbround is smoking a pipe with his hands at his sides. He is looking over the top of the trench...ART93070.003
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'Souvenir des tranchèes de CHAMPAGNE 1914 - 1915, 1916'
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist of the story, a French soldier, in full uniform in the foreground standing on a decorative sprig of leaves. He is leaning with his right arm on a shield upon which is written:...ART93070.002
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Souvenir des tranchèes de CHAMPAGNE 1914 - 1915 [Souvenir of the trenches of Champagne, 1914 - 1915]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
This sketchbook belonging to Paul Prangère was found on the WWI battlefields in France by Private Charles Edward Goldspink M.M., 17th Infantry Battalion. The sketches enclosed depict life in the tren...ART93070
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[The kiss]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist delivering a chaste public kiss to his wife while they are embracing. Both figures are quite large on the page, and the drawing shows both of their costumes in detail. She ha...ART93070.025
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[Two friends regarding one another]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist and his bearded friend respectively in three-quarter profile. They appear to be talking to one another. The bearded man is smoking his pipe, and the numbers '320' are clearly...ART93070.012
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[Wife receives notice of leave]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the wife of the protagonist reading a missive delivered by the army mail ('CARTE MILITAIRE'), and written by her husband. It informs her that he will arrive tomorrow ('demain'). Unfortunatel...ART93070.023
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[Wife writing to her husband at the front]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist's wife sitting at a table writing a letter to her husband. It is a counterpoint to the preceding drawing in the sketchbook - which is of the man writing to his wife. Again, i...ART93070.008
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[Writing a letter to the wife]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist sitting on a box of grenades in the bottom left corner, writing a letter on a makeshift table. It is a rather symbolist piece; his imagining of his wife is drawn in the upper ...ART93070.007