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If my poor old Dad...
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Depicts a cartoon of a donkey stuck in a water filled shell hole, while shell bursts and explosions can be seen on the horizon. This was one of three sketches Dyson gave to machine-gun officer J. C. D...ART16156
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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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Shelled steamroller near Fricourt
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Depicts a damaged steamroller, leaning on its side, in a snow covered landscape. The steamroller was observed by Dyson near Fricourt. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit t...ART02335
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Pozieres, 1916
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Depicts the war damaged landscape at Pozieres, France, in 1916, with the ruins of a building in the background. Dyson drew this work of the Pozieres battlefield towards Christmas of 1916, showing the ...ART09911
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The Last bit of the German trench on the Somme
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Depicts a German trench with the remains of debris, shells and duckboards on the Somme. Dyson wrote that this scene was of 'the last bit of the German trench on the Somme, drawn immediately after the ...ART09921
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Caterpillar Gully, Mametz Road, Somme
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Depicts a war damaged landscape with a roadway winding through it. Dyson wrote that this scene depicted, 'Caterpillar Gully, Mametz Road, Somme, 1917'. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war...ART09932
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The Wild Colonial Boy
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Depicts the body of an unidentified soldier, lying supine on the ground in a war damaged landscape, while shell bursts can be seen in the background. In Dyson's large collection of war works, this is ...ART02305
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Derelict (one of the original tanks blown out near Thiepval)
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Depicts an armoured vehicle, a wrecked British Mark 1 tank, in a war damaged landscape, with its rear wheels being stripped for salvaged metal. Dyson noted that this work depicted 'One of the first ta...ART02338
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10th Machine Gun Company Headquarters
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Depicts a view into the entrance of the 10th Machine Gun Company Headquarters on the Western Front, with duckboards, barbed wire and debris in front of it, in a war damaged landscape. Dyson wrote that...ART09926
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The scarecrow: 'It's a bloomin' civvy!'
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Depicts two soldiers, one wearing a tin helmet and rain cloak, the other with a bandaged head, encountering a scarecrow in a field. A wrecked and overturned canon appears in the background. The irony...ART02429
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Small Talk
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Depicts two soldiers lying in a bomb crater, in a war damaged landscape, having a conversation. The full title Dyson gave to this painting was; 'Small Talk: "No Brig., I says/ send me back to the/ boy...ART02430
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Going up again
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Depicts a group of weary soldiers standing in a war damaged landscape, re-equipping themselves after a rest period, with the intention of heading again to the Front Line. Dyson's full title for this w...ART02433
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The garden at V... after Bapaume
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Depicts a number of soldiers standing near cannons, in front of an old French building and trees. On 17 March 1917 Australian troops entered Bapaume and Dyson followed them closely, creating a number ...ART02216
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Rations: 'Seen any of our mob about?'
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Depicts a soldier, carrying a large rucksack on his back, delivering food rations to a lonely, seated soldier. The soldier delivering food asks the seated soldier if he has 'seen any of our mob about...ART02432
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Moquet Farm, Pozieres
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Depicts war damaged landscape at Moquet Farm, near Pozieres, France, with debris and smashed tree in the foreground and entrance to German reinforced dugout in background. The scene was drawn by Dyson...ART09910
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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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The Siege lamp, High Wood
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Depicts a uniformed soldier, wearing a tin hat, and holding a lit match standing in a war damaged landscape about to light a siege lamp. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visi...ART02243
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Road near Ribemont
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Depicts several soldiers walking along a road near Ribemont, in the French countryside, with hills in the background during the Summer of 1918. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist ...ART09907
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Sentry on duty at Brigade Headquarters, Fricourt
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Depicts the figure of a soldier in uniform, wearing a tin helmet, and holding a rifle with a bayonet attached, standing on sentry duty in a war damaged landscape at Fricourt, France. Will Dyson was th...ART02407
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Delville Wood, looking towards Flers
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Depicts the war damaged and bomb blasted landscape of Delville Wood, looking towards Flers on the horizon. In the foreground are the remains of a number of damaged trees and some barbed wire. Will Dys...ART02242
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Mud lane, Gueudecourt
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Depicts a mud laneway leading round Gueudecourt, after the German retreat of 1917, with a war damaged landscape with smashed trees. In the background are a Nissen hut and pieces of sheet metal. Will D...ART09918
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Evening, Crucifix Corner near Flers
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Depicts a badly war damaged landscape in the evening, with debris in the foreground and smashed trees in the background. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front duri...ART09928
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In Bapaume the day after its occupation
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Depicts two soldiers, wearing waterproof capes and tin helmets, apprehensively walking through wreckage of the town of Bapaume in March 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to...ART02318
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Ribemont sugar refinery
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Depicts a soldier in the foreground, carrying a sheet of corrugated iron above his head. In the background are badly damaged buildings, including a large column. Will Dyson was the first Australian of...ART02375
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From an Australian Battalion Headquarters in Marrett Wood
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Depicts a view of a landscape, with a winding road, trees, piles of debris and a seated and standing soldier from the Australian Battalion's Headquarters in Marriot Wood, France. Will Dyson was the fi...ART02365
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Early morning on the Bazentin Road
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Depicts a road winding through a war damaged landscape in France, with smashed trees along the edge. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World W...ART02345
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Sunset near Ligny Thilloy
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Depicts a war damaged landscape, denuded of trees at sunset. A road way, leading to Ligny Thilloy, winds through the landscape to the right of the scene. The landscape is that immediately after the fa...ART09909
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Switch trench, the Somme
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Depicts a soldier standing in a trench on duckboards, in the Somme, with a war damaged landscape in the background. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during th...ART09929
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Civilian cemetery on the Somme battlefield
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Depicts a war damaged and smashed tree and a number of broken tombstones in the civilian cemetery on the Somme battlefield, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the...ART02358
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Mending the wires at Wolff huts, Pozieres
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Depicts several Australian soldiers mending communication wires and power poles in a war damaged landscape in Pozieres. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front durin...ART02260
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Cease firing, enemy aeroplanes above
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Depicts a group of officers standing near an 8-inch howitzer gun in a war damaged landscape. They have ceased firing and one officer looks upwards, and indication of an aeroplane firing overhead. The ...ART02230
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Hill 60
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Depicts a landscape, with Hill 60 in the background, and the entrance to the Australian Brigade Headquarters in the foreground. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fro...ART02329
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Near Mametz
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Depicts an unidentified soldier, wearing greatcoat and cape and carrying protective (tin) helmet, standing near the trunk of a war damaged tree near Mametz, on the Western Front. Will Dyson was the f...ART02207
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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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On the road to Nieuport
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Depicts a war-damaged landscape with broken trees, destroyed artillery and an upturned, broken cart near Nieuport, Belgium. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front d...ART02205
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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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Peace at Martinpiuch
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Depicts a scene of a battlefield with war damaged trees in the left background, a damaged truck and a resting cannon. Martinpiuch is in north -western France, close to the Somme battlefield. Will Dyso...ART02204
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Entrance to Mouquet Farm dugouts
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Depicts the entrance, with wooden poles, covered in snow to the Mouquet Farm dugouts in France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, t...ART02219
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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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The Raider, P...
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Depicts two soldiers in uniform standing on the edge of a battlefield watching, through binoculars, air raids on the battlefield. A number of search lights can be seen in the background of the image, ...ART02275
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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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Nightfall near Delville Wood
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Depicts a scene of a war damaged, empty landscape, with a smashed tree and an electricity power pole, evening, near Delville Wood, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to vi...ART02362
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Church at Grevillers
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Depicts the remains of a very badly war damaged church, attacked by the Germans, near Grevillers, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First Wo...ART02382
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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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The Deserted Somme, evening, near Bazentin
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Depicts a deserted Somme landscape, with wide fields, a road in the foreground, and a small bush on the right. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the Fir...ART02360
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Deserted, Cocoa Avenue, Delville Wood
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Depicts a deserted roadway, surrounded by the debris of broken fences, war damaged buildings and damaged trees at Delville Wood. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fr...ART02333
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Patrolling in no-man's-land on the Somme
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Depicts two unidentified soldiers walking through the mist in the war damaged landscape of No-Man's-Land, the Somme in France. The soldier in the rear has his rifle over his shoulder. Will Dyson was t...ART02313
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Front line in railway cutting, Albert
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Depicts the frontline with trenches, debris, concrete dugouts and damaged power lines above, at Albert, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the Fi...ART09924
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Collecting props for Bullecourt
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Depicts a covered wagon on a roadway collecting 'props', such as poles and bits of wood, in a war damaged landscape. In the background are two Nissan huts. Will Dyson was the first Australian official...ART02310
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Blown out water point, Pozieres
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Depicts a damaged water point, with a water tank and scaffolding, in the landscape at Pozieres, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First Worl...ART02351
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Gun Avenue, near Martinpuich, after the German retreat
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Depicts a lone soldier walking along a roadway, a gun avenue, through a war damaged landscape, after the German retreat. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front duri...ART02331
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Nieuport under shell fire
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Depicts two soldiers, one standing and one seated, observing the shelling of Nieuport, on the horizon. The shelling took place outside the 13th Battery Head Quarters near Pelican Bridge, Nieuport. Wil...ART02391
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Overhead cover in a deserted trench, the Somme
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Depicts the overhead cover, with piles of sandbags on top, of a trench on the Somme in 1917. In the foreground are used shells and debris. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to vi...ART09916
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Tired, wet and disillusioned
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Depicts three weary soldiers, dressed in their coats and tin helmets, seated or leaning against a pole in a war damaged landscape in France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to ...ART02326
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Ypres from the ramparts
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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
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Runners' relay post near Albert
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Depicts a road going through a war damaged landscape, with two soldiers seated on the left of the road. War damaged trees and power lines can be seen in the background. Will Dyson was the first Austra...ART02386
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The Line at Caterpillar, Ville-Sur-Ancre
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Depicts a group of men standing or seated in a war damaged landscape, near boxes of supplies at Ville -sur- Ancre. Dyson noted of this work that it depicted '...the Caterpillar, near Ville-sur-Ancre,...ART09915
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Summer day near Ville-sur-Ancre
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Depicts two Australian soldiers resting and dozing against the wheel of a cart. On top of the cart is an empty wine barrel. The soldiers are seated on the edge of a trench in a war damaged landscape. ...ART02295.008
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Compensation (back at the waggon lines)
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Maker: Vincent, Day, Brooks and Sons
Depicts a young Australian soldier with his horse talking to young French woman near waggon lines. In the background are other horses and waggons. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war arti...ART02274.001
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Summer day near Ville-sur-Ancre
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Depicts two Australian soldiers resting and dozing against the wheel of a cart. On top of the cart is an empty wine barrel. The soldiers are seated on the edge of a trench in a war damaged landscape. ...ART02295.003
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Near Bresle, or Buire
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Depicts a landscape, with the badly damaged buildings of the village of Bresle or Buire, in France. The front line of Bresle or Buire, April 1918, with the German line beyond the copse. Will Dyson was...ART09917
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German prisoners, Wytschaete Road
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Depicts three German prisoners in retreat, two wearing helmets, walking along Wytschaete Road, through a war damaged landscape. This work relates to the July 31st Offensive. Behind them on the road ar...ART02288.001
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Deserted horse lines near Pommier Redoubt
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Depicts a deserted wooden building draped with cloths, next to a Nissan hut in a war damaged landscape on the Western Front. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front ...ART02286.002
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The Cornetist at the 3rd Field Ambulance, Avesnes- Bapaume
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Depicts a soldier, a member of the Australian 3rd Field Ambulance, leaning up against a tree, playing a musical instrument, a Cornet, in a war damaged landscape. Two of his fellow soldiers lie on the ...ART02374
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With the guns at Lavieville
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Depicts two soldiers at rest with their ammunition, guns and a donkey at Lavieville, near Amiens, in north-western France. The gun is an 18-pounder and piles of shells rest in right fore- ground of th...ART02226.011
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Summer day near Ville-sur-Ancre
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Depicts two Australian soldiers resting and dozing against the wheel of a cart. On top of the cart is an empty wine barrel. The soldiers are seated on the edge of a trench in a war damaged landscape. ...ART02295.012
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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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Ordnance workshops, Cambrai Road
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Depicts a number of Australian soldiers preparing and working with field guns and ordnance at a workshop near Bapaume. The image shows a view of part of the ordnance workshop, with ruined buildings in...ART02258.003
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German prisoners, Wytschaete road
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Depicts three German prisoners in retreat, two wearing helmets, walking along Wytschaete Road , through a war damaged landscape. This work relates to the July 31st Offensive. Behind them on the road a...ART02288.014
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The waggon-loading post, Vaux
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Depicts two Australian soldiers in uniform, near Vaux, in France; one of the soldiers is a stretcher bearer, with two General Service wagons, converted to horse drawn ambulances beside the road. The s...ART02211.002
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Gathering fuel, Delville Wood
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Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, gathering and carrying firewood from the broken and war damaged remains of Delville Wood during the winter, December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02281.003
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The Old Flers Road
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Depicts the war damaged landscape and snow covered roadway of the old Flers Road, near the Somme, France, with an upturned wagon, damaged tools and snow barricades.Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02215.007
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Guns in position in a valley probably near Henencourt
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Depicts a number of soldiers standing near a gun position in a war damaged landscape, with explosions and smoke evident on the horizon. The valley depicted in the scene is probably near Henencourt at ...ART09919
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Old Left Brigade Headquarters near Flers
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Depicts a image of a shelter, the old Left Brigade Headquarters, near Flers, France, covered in sandbags, with piles of debris, duckboards and power lines near by. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02378
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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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Messines, morning of the offensive
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Depicts a war damaged landscape at dawn, part of the front line at Messines, with the remains of trees, trenches and barbed wire visible and shells exploding on the horizon. The 11th Machine Gun Compa...ART02221.002
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German prisoners, Wytschaete Road
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Depicts three German prisoners in retreat, two wearing helmets, walking along Wytschaete Road, through a war damaged landscape. This work relates to the July 31st Offensive. Behind them on the road ar...ART02288.002
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Wine of Victory (Wounded German prisoners near Ypres)
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Depicts a wounded German soldier, captured near Ypres, being led by Australian soldiers across a war damaged landscape. Rows of other soldiers can be seen in the background of the scene. Will Dyson wa...ART02293.002
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With the guns at Lavieville
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Depicts two soldiers at rest with their ammunition, guns and a donkey at Lavieville, near Amiens, in north-western France. The gun is an 18-pounder and piles of shells rest in right fore-ground of the...ART02226.008
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Gathering fuel, Delville Wood
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Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, gathering and carrying firewood from the broken and war damaged remains of Delville Wood during the winter, December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02281.001
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The Old Flers Road
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Depicts the war damaged landscape and snow covered roadway of the old Flers Road, near the Somme, France, with an upturned wagon, damaged tools and snow barricades. Will Dyson was the first Australian...ART02215.005
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Gathering fuel, Delville Wood
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Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, gathering and carrying firewood from the broken and war damaged remains of Delville Wood during the winter, December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02281.004
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Ordinance workshops, Cambrai Road
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Depicts a number of Australian soldiers preparing and working with field guns and ordnance at a workshop near Bapaume. The image shows a view of part of the ordnance workshop, with ruined buildings in...ART02258.015
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German prisoners, Wytschaete Road
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Depicts three German prisoners in retreat, two wearing helmets, walking along Wytschaete Road , through a war damaged landscape. This work relates to the July 31st Offensive. Behind them on the road a...ART02288.005
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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...ART02285.005
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Wine of Victory (Wounded German prisoners near Ypres)
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Depicts a wounded German soldier, captured near Ypres, being led through a war damaged landscape. Rows of other soldiers can be seen in the background of the scene. Will Dyson was the first Australian...ART02293.001
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Gathering fuel, Delville Wood
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Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, gathering and carrying firewood from the broken and war damaged remains of Delville Wood during the winter, December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02281.002
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With the guns at Lavieville
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Depicts two soldiers at rest with their ammunition, guns and a donkey at Lavieville, near Amiens, in north-western France. The gun is an 18-pounder and piles of shells rest in right fore- ground of th...ART02226.012
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With Manton's Guns, Hill 60
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Depicts several soldiers seated in trenches and dugouts, some checking over canteen accounts, on the battlefield, while explosions go off on the horizon. The soldiers are members of the 1st Australian...ART02262.002
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The Old Flers Road
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Depicts the war damaged landscape and snow covered roadway of the old Flers Road, near the Somme, France, with an upturned wagon, damaged tools and snow barricades. Will Dyson was the first Australian...ART02215.002
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The Old Flers Road
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Depicts the war damaged landscape and snow covered roadway of the old Flers Road, near the Somme, France, with an upturned wagon, damaged tools and snow barricades. Will Dyson was the first Australian...ART02215.012
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Wine of Victory (Wounded German prisoners near Ypres)
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Depicts a wounded German soldier, captured near Ypres, being led by Australian soldiers across a war damaged landscape. Rows of other soldiers can be seen in the background of the scene. Will Dyson wa...ART02293.004
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Gathering fuel, Delville Wood
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Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, gathering and carrying firewood from the broken and war damaged remains of Delville Wood during the winter, December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02281.008
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Summer day near Ville-sur-Ancre
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Depicts two Australian soldiers resting and dozing against the wheel of a cart. On top of the cart is an empty wine barrel. The soldiers are seated on the edge of a trench in a war damaged landscape. ...ART02295.002
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Ordinance workshops, Cambrai Road
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Depicts a number of Australian soldiers preparing and working with field guns and ordnance at a workshop near Bapaume. The image shows a view of part of the ordnance workshop, with ruined buildings in...ART02258.014
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German prisoners on road construction work
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Depicts the figures of three German prisoners of war, wearing heavy boots, working on road making on the Somme in December 1916. One holds a broom in his hand while the other carries a spade. They sta...ART02412
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Ordnance workshops, Cambrai Road
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Depicts a number of Australian soldiers preparing and working with field guns and ordnance at a workshop near Bapaume. The image shows a view of part of the ordnance workshop, with ruined buildings in...ART02258.001
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Summer day near Ville-sur-Ancre
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Depicts two Australian soldiers resting and dozing against the wheel of a cart. On top of the cart is an empty wine barrel. The soldiers are seated on the edge of a trench in a war damaged landscape. ...ART02295.013
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The Old Flers Road
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Depicts the war damaged landscape and snow covered roadway of the old Flers Road, near the Somme, France, with an upturned wagon, damaged tools and snow barricades. Will Dyson was the first Australian...ART02215.003
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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...ART02285.003