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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 rest after attacking Richthofen's plane
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Pencil sketch of a First World War aircraft and crew returning from an attack. Artist's notes accompany image and have been hand written on the manila folder to which the sketch is adhered. Those that...ART50075
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A true Canadian...
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Maker: Unknown Canadian Government Unknown
First World War poster issued by the Canadian Government to sell war savings stamps. It features a beaver at work building a dam. The beaver represents a ' true Canadian' hard at work supporting the ...ARTV00495
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Attack by 4th Australian Infantry Brigade at Bloody Angle, Anzac May 1915
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Maker: Silas, Ellis
Soldiers attacking up a ridge with considerable shellfire on top of the ridge. Other soldiers lying in a trench injured, with dead soldiers in the foreground. Bloody Angle was located between Pope's H...ART02437
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Attack on Hamel-Vaire
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts the attack on Hamel-Vaire by the Australian Corps, 4th Division and 5th Tank Brigade and American Expeditionary Force, from an Observation Post at dawn on 4 July 1918. In the distance is artil...ART02493
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Attack on Peronne
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Soldiers of the 53rd Battalion, 5th Division, 1st Australian Imperial Force, are depicted during the Attack on Peronne from 29 August until 2 September 1918. Peronne was a strategic location in a heav...ART02503
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Attention: beware of your hidden enemies
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Maker: Unknown US Army Unknown
A First World War poster warning soldiers to be aware of their ' hidden enemies' or venereal diseases. Text only it is a small rectangular poster printed in black and red ink. The text is positioned ...ARTV07551
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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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At the front !
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Maker: E T Parliamentry Recruiting Commitee, London E S & A Robinson Ltd
This early British recruiting poster draws upon existing genres of battle prints to encourage young men to join up. This is an exciting scene, depicting men and horses of the cavalry charging forward ...ARTV00418
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"At the landing and here ever since"
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
A caricatured portrait of the head and shoulders of a 'typical' Australian soldier on the Gallipoli peninsula. He is smoking a cigarette, has teeth missing and a band aid on his chin. This work was u...ART00025.002
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At the water hole
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Maker: Silas, Ellis
Water hole where men collected water and were at great risk of losing their lives from snipers' bullets at Gallipoli. Two soldiers at the waterhole; a dead soldier in a seated position at the right.ART90810
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A Turkish deserter
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Sketch on a leaf torn from a small sketchpad, depicting a Turkish deserter sitting cross-legged in profile. The artist indicates that he was cross-examined on board the SS Minnewaska. There are notati...ART03605.012.001
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A Turkish prisoner
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Sketch on a leaf torn from a small sketchpad, depicting a head study of a Turkish prisoner. The inscription reads: 'A Turkish prisoner who was being examined on the HQ's troopship'. Benson has also in...ART03605.011.004
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A Turkish prisoner (Bash Shawish, Ghezireh)
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of a Turkish prisoner wearing a hat with tassel, long moustache and Turkish shirt. Turkish prisoners in Egypt, lived under perhaps the best conditions of any prisoners during the Fi...ART02800
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A typical hut in Flanders
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Maker: Wright, Edgar Young Men's Christian Association Unknown
This First World War British poster was designed by Edgar Wright and published by the Young Men's Christian Association. The image is of a YMCA hut that was built beside a row of trees in Flanders. Th...ARTV05868
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Aubers N 27 A 4325
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Maker: Howie, Laurence
Sketch of the ruins at Aubers, a town near Fromelles in northern France. The town was part of the Aubers-Fromelles sector and saw heavy fighting during the Battle of Fromelles in July 1916, the first ...ART93090.014
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Aubers N 27 C concrete fortifications in railway station
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Maker: Howie, Laurence
Sketch of the ruins at Aubers, a town near Fromelles in northern France. The town was part of the Aubers-Fromelles sector and saw heavy fighting during the Battle of Fromelles in July 1916, the first ...ART93090.013
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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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Aug 8: Find the Turk
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Maker: Bean, C E W Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
An illustration demonstrating soldier humour. The central figure is a Turkish prisoner, who is being escorted by two Australian soldiers that have taken on a similar appearance to the Turks. August 8 ...ART00022.005
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Augmentez votre revenu [Increase your income...]
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Maker: Unknown Canadian Government Unknown
Canadian First World War poster issued by War Poster Service to sell Victory Bonds to the population to raise money for the War. The victory bonds were a loan to the Canadian Government which could be...ARTV00480
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Auja crossing, Jordan
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with river. Low wooden bridge resting on pontoons. Two horses crossing bridge. White mule with head down right. Mounted horsemen on bank extreme right. Horses in distance centre, t...ART02691
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Aussie and the 'tab'
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Paper sculpture of an Australian soldier with a young English woman walking together. To the side an English soldier sitting on a bench with an open book that reads 'A girl would leave an angel for an...ART40937
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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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Aussies
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Maker: Camm, Robert
'Aussies' depicts a number of young AIF soldiers marching along a road in a bush setting. They are dressed in full uniform and wearing slouch hats.ART91492
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Aussies on work of national importance
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Paper sculpture of a crowd of Australian soldiers playing two-up (a gambling game using two coins).ART40966
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Australia at War: Drawings at the Front
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Maker: Cecil Palmer & Hayward Ltd. Vincent Brooks Day & Son Ltd.
Advertising poster depicting an Australian soldier in uniform, wearing a steel helmet and carrying a full pack. The poster was produced in London to advertise Will Dyson's publication 'Australia at Wa...ARTV03826
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Australia has promised Britain 50,000 more men
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Maker: Syno Unknown Unknown
Australian First World War recruitment poster. Towards the end of 1915, a War Census of the Australian population showed that 244,000 single men of military age were available for enlistment. Accordin...ARTV05613
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Australia has promised Britain 50,000 more men
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Maker: Syno Unknown
Towards the end of 1915, a War Census of the Australian population showed that 244,000 single men of military age were available for enlistment. Accordingly, on 26 November 1915, the government with W...ARTV00021
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Australia in Palestine
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Depicts a desert scene with a women drawing water at a water hole, with a tree to the right behind the words 'Australia in Palestine'. David Barker (1888-1946) was a painter, etcher, illustrator and c...ART94789
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Australia in the War
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Maker: Leist, Fred Grafton Galleries Printing Craft Ltd
Lithographic poster advertising an exhibition of paintings and photographs by Australian artists called 'Australians in the War' which was held at Grafton Galleries, London in 1918. The work depicts f...ARTV07022
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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 going into action at Harbonnieres
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Depicts a team of horses with the Australian 1st Division Artillery pulling 18 pounder guns up a hill on a road near Harbonnieres on the Western Front and soldiers on horseback riding into action. Po...ART03336
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Australian artillery in action, Peronne
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Depicts a team of six horses leads the Australian artillery advance at Peronne. Through the hilly landscape, the troops march on foot along the winding road. There are explosions to the right and left...ART12427
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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 Bristol Fighter A-7196 on patrol in Palestine]
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Maker: Muir, Gerald
Australian Bristol Fighter A-7196 on patrol in Palestine. The artist has dedicated the picture to "Dick Challinor, in memory of Palestine, 1918". On 1 May 1918, the Bristol Fighter A7196 in which Lieu...ART94126
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Australian burning effigy of Kaiser in square, Armistice Day
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a crowd of soldiers in Peronne square, surrounded by building skeletons, damaged by war. They are gathered around a bonfire with an effigy of Kaiser hanging from gallows. Arthur Streeton is b...ART03523
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Australian Comforts Fund: June appeal...
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Maker: Unknown Australian Comforts Fund Norman Bros.
An Australian First World War poster issued by the Australian Comforts Fund (A.C.F.) to promote the sale of raffle tickets for their June appeal of 1918. The poster is text only printed in black on cr...ARTV06090
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Australian Comforts Fund Victorian Division
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Maker: Unknown Australian Comforts Fund Victorian Division Unknown
Placard inviting members of the public to the Town Hall in Melbourne to view the activities of the Australian Comforts Fund. Poster is text only, and printed in red or blue ink. Title occupies the to...ARTV06098
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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 hospital ship Kyarra
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Maker: Allcot, John
Commissioned in 1903, the ship 'Kyarra' was used for transport of goods and people across the world. In 1914, she was fitted as a hospital ship and she was painted white with a red cross on her hull. ...ART19766
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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 Imperial Forces special appeal to Western men
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Maker: Queensland Recruiting Committee Unknown
Australian Imperial Forces First World War recruitment poster. This is a text based poster, with no images. Printed in black text only this poster urges men in the Western districts of Queensland to e...ARTV00149
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Australian infantry attack in Polygon Wood
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Maker: Leist, Fred
In the third battle of Ypres the Australians encountered reinforced concrete blockhouses, known as 'pillboxes', that were largely resistant to shell-fire; some had machine-guns firing from loopholes. ...ART02927
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Australian Light Horse
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Maker: Pugh, Clifton
Australian light horseman with plumed hat carrying a rifle mounted on his horse against a red background containing white crosses. The horse's rib cage is exposed and there is a bandage on its left le...ART91983