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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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Brigadier General Charles Brand
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Brigadier General Charles Henry Brand, CB, CMG, DSO, MID, extensive service with the Australians during the war in South Africa, 1899-1902. After the outbreak of war in 1914 he was appointed brigade m...ART03181
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Brigadier General Harold Elliott
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Portrait of Brigadier General Harold Edward 'Pompey' Elliott, CB, CMG, DSO, DCM, Commanding 15th Brigade (earlier also 7th Battalion and 1st Brigade), 1st Australian Imperial Force. Elliott was at the...ART03182
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Brigadier-General James Heane
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter
Official war artist James Quinn was instructed to paint the portrait of Brigadier-General James Heane CB(M) CMG DSO as part of an ongoing series of portraits that acknowledged senior military leaders ...ART03345
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Bringing up the guns
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Commissioned to produce a large-scale battle scene, Septimus Power drew from his experince on the Western Front as an official war artist from September to December 1917 to create Bringing up the guns...ART03334
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Camouflaged tents, Dickebusch
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Charcoal and watercolour sketch depicting bell tents with rows of sandbags around them, chimney pipes protruding from doorways, and camouflage patterns on canvas at the encampment at Dickebusch. There...ART02924
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Camp scenes
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
This scene shows the encampment of the 1st Australian Division Artillery, 2nd Battery. The view is of the camp with tents and horse lines amid the trees.ART03325
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Captain L. E. Evans MC
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Portrait of Captain L. Ernest Evans, 1st Australian Imperial Force, Australian Engineers, 15th Field Company, who was awarded the Military Cross for his distinguished service against the enemy on the ...ART02654
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Captain Percy Lay
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Captain Percy Lay, MC, DCM, MM, 8th Battalion Australian Imperial Forces, served through the Gallipoli campaign as a private. He reached France with the Battalion early in 1916 and fought with it on t...ART03184
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Cook house
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
The cook house for the 1st Division Train, was situated in a wrecked building, with a tent at the left. Three soldiers are sitting near a thatched house peeling vegetablesART03323
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Craterland
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts a wounded man on a stretcher being carried by four German prisoners of war while under armed escort of an Australian soldier. They are walking along a duckboard track past shell holes filled w...ART02925
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Dead beat, the tunnel, Hill 60
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Depicts an exhausted Australian soldier wearing full kit and greatcoat, sleeping in a tunnel during the Third Battle of Ypres. Indistinct figures of two other soldiers seen in the background. Dyson, a...ART02210
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Dingbat's holiday
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour and gouache sketch depicting a batman (in Australian military slang 'dingbat' is a derogatory term that comes from 'ding' - a vicious dingo and 'bat' from batman which is an officers serva...ART02917
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Dump at Sercus
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts two General Service wagons, drawn by horses, being loaded with boxes and crates outside church; Third Battle of Ypres, Western Front.ART02897
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First Australian artillery going into the 3rd Battle of Ypres
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
This work shows a team of six horses, three mounted and three led, struggling through thick mud pulling a heavy 18 pounder gun on the limber. Six other soldiers on foot are helping to haul the gun, al...ART19842
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First Australian Division Artillery going into the 3rd Battle of Ypres
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Features the 1st Australian Division Artillery during the Third Battle of Ypres on the Western Front. 18-pounder guns are pictured being brought forward by teams of six horses, other guns already in p...ART03330
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First bombardment of Hazebrouch
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Depicts a soldier carrying an officer's valise on his shoulders as he walks along a road way in a French village. He walks along with women and children also carrying their belongings and bags. The wo...ART02291
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General Sir William Birdwood
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter Quinn, James Peter
Major General Sir (later Field Marshal Lord) William Riddell Birdwood (of ANZAC, Bt), GCB, GCMG, CIE, DSO, was selected from the Indian Army 1914 to command the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. ...ART03338
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General Sir William Birdwood
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter
Major General Sir (later Field Marshal Lord) William Riddell Birdwood (of ANZAC, Bt) GCB, GCMG, CIE, DSO, was selected from the Indian Army 1914 to command the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. H...ART03339
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Going into action
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
A 1st Australian Division Artillery battery moves into position through the mud, with mules and horses pulling an 18-pounder gun and half limber wagon. Two soldiers on foot are wearing cape groundshe...ART03329
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Heavy going in Flanders mud
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
This drawing shows a horse team from the 1st Australian Division Artillery, consisting of six horses (three ridden, three led), pulling a half limber wagon and 18-pounder field gun through the mud at ...ART03315
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Hitchi-Koo machine (delousing fumigator)
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Charcoal and watercolour sketch depicting the preventative health services delousing fumigator (Hitchi-Koo machine). Two soldiers are loading the bank of three autoclave ovens with discarded clothing ...ART02908
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Home comforts in the tunnels, Hill 60
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Depicts members of the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 1st Australian Tunnelling Company showing two men sitting in dug out in a tunnel, furnished with camp beds and boxes for tables and seats. The dug...ART02280.005
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Horse artillery lines
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
These are the temporary shelters for the 1st Division Artillery horses. Made of logs and thatched roofs, the railings are lined with nosebags, thus feeding and protecting the horses from the elements.ART03324
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Laying the duckboards, France 1917
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Maker: Bell, George
Depicts soldiers from a Pioneer unit laying a duckboard track across muddy fields in a war damaged landscape, probably in the Ypres Salient, France in 1917. The soldiers are wearing sandbags around th...ART03592
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Lieutenant Colonel Terence McSharry
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Lieutenant Colonel Terence Patrick McSharry, CMG, DSO, MC, served with 2nd Light Horse Regiment, Australian Imperial Force, on Gallipoli until 1915 when he joined the 15th Infantry Battalion as adjunc...ART06344
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Lille Gate, Ypres
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts the Gate in the walls around (on the south west side opposite the Menin Gate); Third Battle of, Western Front.ART02887
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Lille Gate, Ypres
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Charcoal sketch depicting the Lille Gates at Ypres in Belgium. The road that is travelling through the gates contains horse drawn wagons, civilians, goods, rubble and soldiers. The Australian Division...ART02879
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Major General Joseph Talbot Hobbs
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Portrait of Major General (later Lieutenant General Sir) Joseph John Talbot Hobbs, General Officer Commanding 5th Division Australian Imperial Force on the Western Front during the First World War. Fr...ART02926
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Major General Sir Charles Rosenthal
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Major General Sir Charles Rosenthal, KCB, CMG, DSO, MID, General Commanding the 2 Division Australian Imperial Forces on the Western Front and the Third 1st Australian Imperial Force, 3...ART02988
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Major General Sir John Gellibrand
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter
Official war artist James Quinn was instructed to paint the portrait of Major General (later Sir) John Gellibrand, CB(M) (later KCB), DSO and Bar as part of an ongoing series of portraits that acknowl...ART03346
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Major General Sir Joseph Hobbs
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter
Official war artist James Quinn was instructed to paint the portrait of Major General Sir Joseph Hobbs as part of an ongoing series of portraits that acknowledged senior military leaders in the Austra...ART03348
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Major General Thomas William Glasgow
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter
In 1918 official war artist James Quinn received instruction to complete the portrait of Major General (later Sir) Thomas William Glasgow KCB(M), CMG, CB(M), and DSO. William "Bill" Glasgow was one o...ART03341
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New year 1918 inside the 'Inside Inn'
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Maker: Mather, L S
Captain Edward Henry Dike and Captain James Edward Fitzgerald Coyle inside an inn, possibly in Ypres in 1918.ART92786
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Our pillbox, Westhoek Ridge, October
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Depicts three soldiers wearing tin helmets looking out across the battlefield at Westhoek Ridge. A wrecked pillbox appears in the background with two gun limbers near it. Will Dyson was the first Aust...ART02268
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Outside Colonel B...'s dressing station, Menin Road
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Depicts a group of Australian 1st and 2nd Australian Division unidentified, wounded soldiers sitting outside a dressing station on Menin Road, with a stretcher lying on the roof of the dressing statio...ART02206
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Outside the Aid Post at Zonnebeke
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Depicts three standing, wounded soldiers outside a regimental aid post in Zonnebeke, Belgium. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, tra...ART02384
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Peelers' paradise
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Depicts three soldiers from the 1st Australian Division of the AIF sitting near the front of a thatch-roofed house peeling vegetables, the camp kitchen is in background. This is during the Third Battl...ART03309
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Remembrance Day ceremonies at Ypres, Belgium and Villers-Bretonneux, France .
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Maker: Smith, Stanley
Remembrance Day ceremonies at Ypres, Belgium and Villers Bretonneux, France, November 1978. Includes interviews with veterans Jim Bryant, Arthur McMillan, Jack Nicholson and Bert Field recorded by Sta...S00311
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Resting after the stunt
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Depicts men of either 1st or 2nd Division at the waggon lines behind the front on 21 September 1917, after the fighting at Polygon Wood on 20 September. 'Stunt' was a common term to describe military ...ART02271
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Sergeant Walter "Wally" Brown, VC
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Sergeant Walter Ernest Brown, VC, DCM, (VC awarded for actions at - Accroche Wood), (later also 2/15th Field Regiment, 2 AIF) 1928; 20th Infantry Battalion.ART09490
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Shell pack horses in the mud
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Two horses from the 1st Australian Division Ordnance units are struggling through the mud. One is being led, and the other ridden, with each horse carrying shells for 18 pounder field guns. The shells...ART03307
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The Battle of Messines
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Maker: Wheeler, Charles
The Battle of Messines, codenamed ‘Magnum Opus’, began at 3:10am on 7 June 1917, after a seven day preliminary bombardment, with the detonation of 19 huge mines that obliterated thousands of frontline...ART03557
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The mate (In memory of W..., Machine Gun Company, Messines Ridge)
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Depicts an Australian soldier carving a cross with an ornate rising sun for his fallen mate. Dyson witnessed this event on August 1st, 1917 on Messines Ridge, near Ypres in Belgium. Will Dyson was the...ART02231
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Walking wounded
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Depicts two soldiers seen from behind, the one on the right has his head bandaged beneath his helmet, while the soldier on the left has his uniform tunic over his shoulders, and his right arm over the...ART02370
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War
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Power has depicted the 1st Australian Division Artillery battery crossing open ground, with shells exploding nearby. The horses are wearing standard 1912 harnesses, with improvised shadow rolls on bri...ART03328
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Warrant Officer David O'Keeffe
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Maker: Hall, Bernard
Depicts a portrait of (12367) Sergeant (later Warrant ) David O'Keefe, DCM and Bar, for his work as a stretcher bearer at Ploegsteert Wood, during the Battle of Messines, 1917. He gained a bar to the ...ART07287
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William John Cox as a corporal, 15 Battery, 5 Brigade Artillery, France, 1916-1918 [Memoirs]
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Maker: Cox, William John Cox, William John
Discusses: why Australia went to war; landing at Gallipoli; his enlistment during recruiting week in July 1915; pre-war employment; sent to Melbourne Showgrounds recruitment camp; issue of initial clo...S02207
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Ypres area, Belgium, 1917. A dugout with its entrance protected by sandbags. A spade rests on top ...
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Ypres area, Belgium, 1917. A dugout with its entrance protected by sandbags. A spade rests on top of the dugout at left.P01835.065