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A reputation befouled
Art
Maker: Daily News
Depicts the cartoon published in the London 'Daily News', 26 October 1915, commenting on the execution of Edith Cavell, a British nurse accused by the Germans of being a spy. The slumped and bloodied ...ART02419
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At the Churchill Club, large and small worlds
Art
Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of Flying Officer Maurice O'Sullivan, RAAF, with a large terrestrial globe, in a room overlooking part of an enclosed garden of the Churchill Club, London. The Churchill Club was established ...ART26269
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Back them up! Heavy Stirling bombers raid the Nazi Baltic part of Lübeck and leave the docks ablaze
Art
Maker: Nockolds, Roy Ministry of Information Fosh & Cross Ltd. H.M. Stationery Office
British poster depicting an air raid on the German port of Lübeck, showing fires and damage to the docks area and appealing to the public for support. The subtitle is 'Heavy Stirling bombers raid the ...ARTV02297
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Balloon view of the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth
Art
Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts a view of the 3rd General Hospital at Wandsworth, South-West London, from a balloon. The hospital is a large permanent building, surrounded by temporary pavilion wards laid out in Nightingale ...ART19782
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Cambrai
Art
Maker: Brangwyn, Frank
Depicts soldiers standing before burning buildings in the city of Cambrai. This work by Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) is one of a series of 6 lithographs showing sites where Canadian soldiers had fought,...ART19834
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Canadians entering Cambrai
Art
Maker: Brangwyn, Frank
Depicts Canadian soldiers advancing through the ruins of buildings in the city of Cambrai. This work by Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) is one of a series of 6 lithographs showing sites where Canadian sold...ART19833
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Concert by Miss Hullah
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A coloured handbill advertising a concert at the 3rd General Hospital, on Tuesday 20th August (probably should be July), given by the entertainer 'Miss Hullah'. The image is of three poppies, one red ...ART50161
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Conduit Street
Art
Maker: Meeson, Dora
Depicts a number of wrecked buildings in Conduit Street in London after an air raid during the Second World War. Despite being recommended by Arthur Streeton as an official war artist for the First Wo...ART26913
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Corner of Bond and Bruton Streets
Art
Maker: Meeson, Dora
View of wrecked buildings on the corner of Bond and Bruton Streets in the West End after an air raid. Despite being recommended by Arthur Streeton as an official war artist for the First World War, Me...ART26910
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Dans des faubourgs de Londres (In the suburbs of London)
Art
Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A body of a girl lies among the smoking ruins of a bombed house. London was bombed many times. Coutin 1987 (48D). This work was published in 'L'Opinion, 23 October 1915, pp. 328-9 (48A). There is a dr...ART50147
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First convoy at sea
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Painting of a convoy of thirty-eight troop ships, escorted by four naval ships, with the British cruiser HMS 'Minotaur' in foreground leading the convoy. This ship is followed by SS 'Orvieto' carrying...ART00190
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Immortal shrine
Art
Maker: Longstaff, Will
Longstaff's 'Immortal shrine', also known as 'Eternal silence', depicts endless columns of ghostly soldiers marching past the Cenotaph on a rainy Remembrance Day in 1928. The Cenotaph itself has a sur...ART14196
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Kit issue at POW reception camp, Eastbourne
Art
Maker: Bowen, Stella
Kit issue at POW reception camp, Eastbourne.ART26271
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London leave
Art
Maker: Colahan, Colin
A rainy day in London during the Second World War. A bus looms large in the wetness; a grouping of three women wearing high heels stand at the left and two men in Airforce uniform can be seen walking ...ART25523
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London schoolgirls at Finnemore Wood Camp
Art
Maker: Gabain, Ethel
This was one of the 31 camps which had been specially built in the country and was housing schools from the evacuation areas. At the time there where about 6,000 children in the camp. "Evacuation" had...ART29715
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Nursery school, Watlington Park
Art
Maker: Gabain, Ethel
Since war broke out, some 10,000 little children under five years of age have been moved from nursery schools and from day and residential nurseries in the cities into residential quarters in the coun...ART29716
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Poland, a nation
Art
Maker: Dulac, Edmund Ministry of Information Avenue Press
A coloured lithograph of a man with a sword standing with his foot on the neck of an eagle. This image is from the set of 66 lithographs, 'The Great War: Britain's efforts and ideals'.ART02201
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Rejoicing and remembrance, Armistice Day, London, 1918
Art
Maker: Lahey, Vida
In this superb drawing, the Queensland-born artist, Vida Lahey depicts a procession of women mourning and rejoicing at St Martin's in the Field, Trafalgar Square, London on Armistice Day, 11 November ...ART19592
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Remains of a flying bomb
Art
Maker: Bowen, Stella
Remains of a German V-1 'doodlebug' flying bomb on the ground. These look somewhat like a destroyed human figure or metamorphosis of a figure. The new plants suggest regeneration, renewal and hope.ART26267
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Ruins of War: Arras
Art
Maker: Brangwyn, Frank
Depicts three badly damaged and wrecked houses in the French city of Arras. This work by Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) is one of a series of 6 lithographs showing sites where Canadian soldiers had fought...ART19831
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Ruins of War: Dixmunde
Art
Maker: Brangwyn, Frank
Depicts the facade of a blazing church in the Belgian town of Dixmude (Diksmuide in Belgian) is a Belgian city and was part of the Belgian section of the Western front between 1914-1918. Regiment afte...ART19832
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Sink on sight
Art
Depicts the figure of a German naval officer, possibly Admiral Scheer (who conducted the German submarine campaign against shipping) and the ghost of SS Lusitania, in the form of a young woman, wearin...ART90449
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[Study for 'Flight from reason']
Art
Maker: Bowen, Stella
Inner temple, Temple Church London, Second World War after bombing raid, showing bombed monuments to John Hiccocks and Samuel Mead.ART29414
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Tending the wounded: Hospital transport
Art
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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The freedom of the seas
Art
Maker: Brangwyn, Frank Ministry of Information Avenue Press
Depicts a coloured lithograph featuring four men on a boat fighting with a large octopus. This image is from the set of 66 lithographs, 'The Great War: Britain's efforts and ideals'. This lithograph w...ART04207
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The Old Flers Road
Art
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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Tommies staging in the tunnels (In the Tunnel- Hill 60)
Art
Maker: Vincent, Day, Brooks and Sons
Depicts an image of soldiers from the British Army, possibly the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) sleeping in tunnels. The 'Vine Street' sign on wall refers to street of that name in London. The e...ART02246.001
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Transport at sea: transporting troops
Art
Maker: Pears, Charles Ministry of Information Avenue Press
'Convoy of transports with attendant destroyers'. A convoy of transport ships are accompanied by destroyers. This is no. 64 from the series of 66 lithographs 'The Great War: Britain's efforts and idea...ART91738
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Transport by sea: maintaining export trade
Art
Maker: Pears, Charles Ministry of Information
'The ship is being shelled by a U-boat'. A sailing ship is on fire as a result of the shelling; men escape in lifeboats. This is no. 62 from the series of 66 lithographs 'The Great War: Britain's effo...ART91736
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Transport by sea: maintaining food supplies
Art
Maker: Pears, Charles Ministry of Information
'The arrival of the grain ship. She has been mined, and is awash forward, but reaches port'. This is no. 61 from the series of 66 lithographs 'The Great War: Britain's efforts and ideals', published b...ART91735
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Transport by sea: maintaining forces overseas
Art
Maker: Pears, Charles Ministry of Information
'Transport loading at night.' A transport ship is loading at night, under searchlights. This is no. 65 from the series of 66 lithographs 'The Great War: Britain's efforts and ideals', published by the...ART91739
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Transport by sea: the place of safety
Art
Maker: Pears, Charles Ministry of Information
A rough sea with bomb blasts in the sky. A boat has been blasted and men are escaping in lifeboats. One man rescues another from the sea. This is no. 66 from the series of 66 lithographs 'The Great Wa...ART91740
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V2 casualties, Smithfield Market, London
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
Shows the removal of casualties caused by the explosion of a German V2 rocket in the famous Smithfield Meat Market, London.ART24365
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VE night, Piccadilly Circus
Art
Maker: Colahan, Colin
A jubilant scene, as men and women dance in the street on VE night which heralded the end of the Second World War. English and American flags are flown from the windows of the buildings that line Picc...ART26250
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Victory March, London, 10 June 1946
Art
Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Representatives of Australian forces marching past saluting base in Pall Mall, during the victory celebrations in London on 10 June 1946. King George VI is standing on a podium taking the salute as he...ART26674
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Victory March, London, 10 June 1946
Art
Maker: Bowen, Stella
Depicts a victory march, Royal Family; on dais l-r: Dowager Queen Mary, unidentified, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth (Queen consort), Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret, unidentified, tri-service C...ART26665
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Victory parade
Art
Maker: Colahan, Colin
Colahan depicts troops from the 2nd Australian Imperial Force, Royal Australian Navy and Royal Australian Airforce marching past the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London, as part of victory celebrations in 1...ART26364
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Waterloo Station
Art
Maker: Colahan, Colin
Waterloo station, London, under black-out. Figures moving through the railway station; a large four sided railway clock hangs in the middle of the main conourse and at the upper left in the painting. ...ART25699
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Women's work: In the towns - bus conductress
Art
Maker: Hartrick, Archibald Standish Ministry of Information
A women, dressed in uniform and hat, stands on the back step of a bus. Hartrick was sent to various locations to make studies for his series of lithographs about women's work. In most cases the women ...ART91731
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Women's work: on munitions - dangerous work, packing T.N.T
Art
Maker: Hartrick, Archibald Standish Ministry of Information
A woman, with a napkin over her nose and mouth, packs TNT into a box. Hartrick was not allowed to enter the hut where the TNT was packed because it was considered to be too dangerous. Instead a girl...ART91733
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Women's work: on munitions - heavy work, drilling a casting
Art
Maker: Hartrick, Archibald Standish Ministry of Information Avenue Press
Depicts a women working at a drill in a munitions factory. Hartrick was sent to various locations to make studies for his series of lithographs about women's work. In most cases the women were doing w...ART91734
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Women's work: On munitions - skilled work
Art
Maker: Hartrick, Archibald Standish Ministry of Information
A woman, wearing apron and gloves, works at a lathe. Hartrick was sent to various locations to make studies for his series of lithographs about women's work. In most cases the women were doing work pr...ART91732
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Your Britain, fight for it now
Art
Maker: Games, Abram Army Bureau of Current Affairs Multi Machine Plates Ltd
patriotism; poster produced by the Army Bureau of Current Affairs, depicting a block of flats built in 1936 against bombed terrace houses, text advises 'fight for it now'ARTV06920