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Captured German Heavy Machine Gun
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Maker: Williamson, Garnet Angus
A captured German heavy machine gun which was being used the the Australians as an anti-aircraft gun.ART03565
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Enemy machine-gun position
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Depicts the German machine gun position after its capture by the 1st Brigade AIF near Templeux-le-Guerard. Two German machine gunners lie dead near a damaged and dismantled Maxim machine gun with sled...ART03379
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German machine-gun outpost near Proyart
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Depicts a German machine gun post near Proyart, after its capture. There are camp remnants scattered around, helmets, rifles, satchels. In the distance are bombardments with smoke rising and explosion...ART03380
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Lewis gun mounted near Glisy
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A Lewis Light Machine Gun (LMG) is mounted on a makeshift pedestal in a weapon pit surrounded by sandbags at the Battle of Hamel. The gun was used as an anti-aircraft weapon. In the background are ten...ART03501
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Machine gunner killed at his post near Foucaucourt
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Depicts a dead machine gunner who had been killed at his post near Foucaucourt. Beside him is a machine gun and at his feet, his helmet. James Fraser Scott's (1877- 1932) official war art is particula...ART03400
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Machine gun remains
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Maker: Wilson, Eric
A sketch of a the ruins of a machine gun in front of the German Front Line at Beaumont Hamel in northern France. After being awarded a Travelling Art scholarship in 1937, Eric Wilson studied in Europ...ART28840
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4th Division Artillery and Infantry moving into battle
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A column of Australian infantrymen and artillery wagons crowd a road leading into a battlefield on the Western Front. The battle is clearly already in action, with a tank moving into position as explo...ART03406
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The trumpet calls
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Maker: Lindsay, Norman W. A. Gullick, Government Printers
A soldier sounds his bugle for assistance on the front line while civilians listen in the background. Norman Lindsay (1879-1969) was a painter, draughtsman, illustrator, cartoonist, printmaker, writer...ARTV00039
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The unknown soldier: all quiet on the western front
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Maker: de Kessler, Thomas
A faceless man (numbers instead of facial features) standing before a background of stars (or explosions).ART91462
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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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Ultimo Crater
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts the Ultimo Crater and war damaged landscape at Messines, Belgium on the Western Front during the First World War. It is mentioned in Charles Bean, `Official History of Australia in the war of ...ART00180
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Zero hour (8th August, 1918)
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie
Three infantrymen, depicting the neat, tidy, steady-going, public school boy; the tall, rangy, country lad; and the hard, industrial, larrikin 'Ginger Mick' type. The central figure is carrying a Lewi...ART12504