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A l'hopital (At the hospital)
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Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A young officer, with an amputated leg, and a nurse, stand beside a hospital bed where a fellow soldier lies. The soldier with the amputated leg remarks: 'Don't feel sorry for yourself. You will be ab...ART50142
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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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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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Bringing in the wounded under the white flag
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts a First Aid team of five soldiers, attending to a wounded soldier on the edge of muddied crater on the battlefield, under the protection of a white flag. The wounded soldier has been put onto ...ART02656.003
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Casualty
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts an Australian soldier holding the dead body of a fellow soldier in a barren, war damaged landscape, in the foreground. Behind him are other soldiers and a cloud filled sky. Frank Crozier (1883...ART02170
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Charge of the Light Horse at Quinn's Post, May 1915
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Maker: Silas, Ellis
Soldiers attacking, others lying dead and wounded at Quinn's Post, Gallipoli.ART90800
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Death in the trenches
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Two soldiers have been fired upon in their trench at the Somme. One has died and lays face down in the mud, the other stands upright but is bleeding and in pain.ART02173
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Dressing a wounded runner, Hill 60
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Depicts several soldiers, either kneeling or standing, around a runner who is having a wound bandaged. The soldiers and the wounded man are inside a tunnel at Hill 60, near Ypres in August 1917. Will ...ART02404
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Dressing station in France
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts soldiers being brought to a station where they can have their wounds dressed. Several are standing or lying on stretchers in the foreground, with an ambulance and two stretcher bearers behind ...ART16976
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Evacuation of wounded: Regimental aid post
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Maker: Anderson, Wallace McCubbin, Louis Frederick Modelling Sub-section, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
Second in the series of nine dioramas depicting the scheme of evacuation practiced at the Battle of Messines in France. This model shows the walking wounded and stretcher cases arriving at a Regimenta...ART41027
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Evacuation of wounded: Walking wounded dressing station
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Maker: Anderson, Wallace McCubbin, Louis Frederick Modelling Sub-section, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
Fourth in the series of nine dioramas depicting the scheme of evacuation practiced at the Battle of Messines in France.ART41025
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Evacuation of wounded: Where the walking wounded and stretcher cases part company
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Maker: Anderson, Wallace McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Third in the series of nine dioramas depicting the scheme of evacuation practiced at the Battle of Messines in France. This model shows stretched cases being loaded on to a light tramway and being pus...ART41026
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Gallipoli
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Maker: Roach, Gilbert
Depicts two Australian stretcher bearers with a patient, who is an officer, lying on the stretcher.ART13632
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Gas cases in the 3rd Field Ambulance, Aresnes- Bapaume
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Depicts several tents at the 3rd Field Ambulance Hospital, at night. Inside the tent in the foreground can be seen gas attack patients lying on portable beds. Will Dyson was the first Australian offic...ART02385
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Gassed refugees from Armentieres, Hazebrouck
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Depicts two French civilians, an elderly man and a young boy. The elderly man wears sabot (clogs) and his eyes are bandaged following a gas attack. He is seated on a bundle, with the young boy standin...ART02339
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Gunners
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Maker: Gilbert, Charles Web Bowles, Leslie Gregory, E J
Web Gilbert made a number of bronze sculptures depicting Australian soldiers in action on the Western Front. In this work, two of the five-man detachment of an 18-pounder field gun are dead or wounded...ART12503
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Hospital ward
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Maker: Balande, Gaston
Depicts a hospital ward scene with a patient being attended to und injected in the left foreground and a number of nurses and patients in the background of the image.ART90370
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In France
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
Hilda Rix Nicholas was studying in France at the outbreak of the First World War and was evacuated to London. She experienced the tragedy of war first hand; her husband, Major George Matson Nicholas w...ART90243
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In the Hindenberg - out past line
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Depicts troops at a anti-gun post, a Lewis gun un-maned, in a moment of inaction as bomb blasts can be seen in the distance.ART03605.053.004
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[In the hospital]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist sitting up in bed in hospital. He is probably in a regimental aid post, rather than a casualty clearing station, as he is in a proper building, not a makeshift dugout. In an...ART93070.021
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Les grands blessé (The severely wounded)
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Maker: Jonas, Lucien-Hector
Severely wounded French soldiers returning home to greet their families at the end of the First World War. A nurse holds up a little girl for her blind father to touch her face; a mother is embracing ...ART92976
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Maquette for 'Simpson and his donkey 1915'
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Maker: Corlett, Peter Victoria College Foundry
In 1987 sculptor Peter Corlett won a competition to design a memorial to commemorate the courage and sacrifice of Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick, a 3rd Field Ambulance stretcher-bearer who became th...ART40983
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Nurse and patient, 3rd Australian CCS
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
In 1936 Crozier was commissioned to paint a number of scenes of women’s work during the First World War for the Australian War Memorial’s collection. As these were created some time after the war, it ...ART13338
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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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1918 - Patched up
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Maker: Robbie, Dan
This image is part of a series of six cartoon style paintings that follow a man from his enlistment through to his discharge from service in the First World War. Titled 'Patched up', the painting show...ART15607
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Pozieres
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Maker: Lynch, Frank McCubbin, Louis Frederick Bowles, Leslie Gregory, E J
This diorama depicts events from the summer of 1916 when the Australians captured the crest of the Somme-Ancre ridge beyond Pozieres. The terrific bombardments laid down by both sides in this fightin...ART41019
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Pro Patria No.6 Admirable Courage d'un Brancardier
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Maker: Loubère, P Lasnier, A
French propaganda print No. 6 in the series 'Pro Patria'. Titled 'The admirable courage of a stretcherbearer' it depicts the moment that a strecther bearer advanced carrying a red cross flag out of th...AWM2019.367.24
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Pro Patria No.5 L'Absolution
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Maker: Loubère, P Lasnier, A
French propaganda print No.5 in a series Pro Patria titled 'L'Absolution'. It shows a dying French soldier receiving absolution on the battlefield.AWM2019.367.23
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Quick!
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Maker: Lindsay, Norman Government of Australia W E Smith Ltd
An Australian First World War recruitment poster, depicting two Australian soldiers, hard pressed by a larger German force, one on the ground appealing for help. Norman Lindsay (1879-1970) was a paint...ARTV00036
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Retour de la cote 125 (Return from Hill 125) 1914
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Maker: Abel-Truchet, Louis
Four French soldiers in France during the First World War, rugged up against the cold, carrying a wounded soldier, as they return from a battle at Hill 125 in France. In the margin lower right the art...ART92964
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Sketch for Walking wounded
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Depicts the ' walking wounded'; two pairs of soldiers, one assisting the other, walking out of mist or smoke haze in the background during the First World War. The soldier in foreground, wearing a tin...ART03593
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Slightly gassed cases at the 3rd Field Ambulance, Avesnes Bapaume
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Depicts gassed soldiers lying resting on rows of portable beds, under canvas tents at the 3rd Field Ambulance hospital at Avesnes-Bapaume, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war arti...ART02325
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[Soldier clutching his chest, and leg study; verso: rough sketches of two figures, one seated]
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Maker: Silas, Ellis
A group of small oil studies for a larger painting consisting of a study of a soldier clutching his chest as if hit, and a study of a leg, for the 1920 painting 'Roll call'.ART90790
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[Soldier shot in chest; verso: Men in boats: studies for 'Roll call']
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Maker: Silas, Ellis
Upper body of soldier shot in the chest: study for the painting 'Roll Call' 1920.ART90819
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[Soldier with arm in sling: study for 'Roll call']
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Maker: Silas, Ellis
Soldier standing with left arm in a sling, head not completed. Study for the painting 'Roll Call' , 1920.ART90820
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Stretcher bearers
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Depicts a team of four stretcher bearers carrying a wounded soldier at shoulder height, returning from the the Hindenberg outpost line of attack.ART03605.054.001
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Stretcher bearers
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Maker: Gilbert, Charles Web Bowles, Leslie Gregory, E J
Two German prisoners of war lifting stretcher with Australian soldier, who is covered with his greatcoat. Prisoners of war were often used to assist walking wounded or carry stretchers from the front ...ART12660
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Tending the wounded: Back to 'blighty', detraining in England
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Maker: Shepperson, Claude Ministry of Information
A hospital train stands under the vaulted roof of a railway station. Two orderlies carry a patient on a stretcher, while others place an invalid in an ambulance. This is number 52 from the series of 6...ART03438
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Tending the wounded: Casualty Clearing Station in France
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Maker: Shepperson, Claude Ministry of Information
Two soldiers carry a wounded soldier on a stretcher into a sand-bagged dug-out, while two other soldiers watch. This is number 49 from the series of 66 lithographs 'The Great War: Britain's efforts an...ART03436
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Tending the wounded: Convalescence in England
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Maker: Shepperson, Claude Ministry of Information
Wounded soldiers rest on the grass in the shady grounds of an old country house. A nurse helps a man on crutches. This is number 54 from the series of 66 lithographs 'The Great War: Britain's efforts ...ART03440
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Tending the wounded: Hospital transport
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Maker: Shepperson, Claude Ministry of Information
Orderlies place a wounded man on the deck of a hospital ship. Two wounded men wear Balaclava helmets in the foreground. This is number 51 from the series of 66 lithographs 'The Great War: Britain's ef...ART03437
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Tending the wounded: In hospital in England
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Maker: Shepperson, Claude Ministry of Information
Wounded men rest on iron beds and are tended by hospital staff. Two orderlies carry a soldier on a stretcher. This is number 53 from the series of 66 lithographs 'The Great War: Britain's efforts and ...ART03439
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The arrival of the first Australian wounded from Gallipoli at the Third London General Hospital, Wandsworth
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Maker: Coates, George
This work is a study for a work of the same title. It depicts the arrival of the first Australian soldiers wounded from Gallipoli at the Third London General Hospital, Wandsworth, with a number of nur...ART50234
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The dance of Death 1914-1918 Death forbids
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Maker: Smith, Percy
No. 1 from a portfolio of 7 etchings titled 'The dance of Death', features Death as a tangible image hovering ominously over the battlefield. The concept of dance of Death imagery began as a medieval ...ART50276
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The man with the donkey
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Gregory, E J
Soldier mounted on donkey and assisted by 202 Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick (known as Simpson or 'the man with the donkey') 3rd Fd Amb, to reach an aid post (in this work Simpson is wearing a forag...ART19795
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The morning after the stunt
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts wounded and war-weary soldiers trapsing through a muddy battlefield, wearing tattered coats and scarves. Some of the men wear hesian sacks wrapped around their boots. There is wooden sign imbe...ART02656.007
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The passing of Haig
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Depicts an image of a wounded soldier with a bandage on his head, surrounded by a halo, holding a rifle and bayonet. He stands beside an officer, a portrait of Douglas Haig, in uniform wearing a cap, ...ART14104
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The shell cloud
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
A soldier watches a plume of smoke following shelling in the Pozieres area, Western Front.ART02167