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Adelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts the war graves at Adelaide Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux with a number of crosses visible, including the memorials to AIF battalions in the foreground. The painter, teacher and etcher John Good...ART02524
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A digger
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Maker: Bell, George
Depicts a portrait of an Australian 'Digger', wearing a slouch hat , and is possibly a portrait of the soldier Private Stewart.ART03591
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Advanced dressing station at Smith's Farm, near Corbie
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the dressing station of the 6th Australian Field Ambulance in May 1918 amongst farm buildings belonging to the Smith family. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidel...ART16250
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A favourite charger with groom, Anzac Mounted Division
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts Private George Shelton Lambert, a groom with 11th Light Horse Regiment, holding a troop horse. Despite the artist's title, 'A favourite charger' [i.e. officer's horse], this horse wears the di...ART02837
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Aleppo citadel
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a drawing of a Crusaders' fortress with ruins of two massive gate houses linked by stairway supported by arches. Aleppo in northern Syria is a very ancient settlement, already established by ...ART02869
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Amiens looking from the Citadel
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Maker: Percival, Cecil
Depicts a view of the town of Amiens with the cathedral visible in the background. To the left is a road with trucks and vehicles travelling away from the town. Cecil Percival, was a cartoonist and il...ART03293
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An old tomb of Jerusalem
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Maker: Ivers, T H
Depicts an old tomb in the Mohammedan Cemetery in Jerusalem with vegetation growing on the dome and a soldier standing in front with his hands in his pockets.ART02605
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Anzac Cove
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Maker: Lambert, George
Towards the end of his stay on Gallipoli with the Australian Historical Mission, Lambert made a painting of ANZAC Cove with the hills of Suvla in the distance. Lambert wrote on 5 March 1919: "In the a...ART02839
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Anzac, from Gaba Tepe
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a view over Anzac Cove, looking from the hillside of Gaba Tepe across the water towards the hills beyond. George Lambert wrote on 27 February, 1919: 'To-day the Mission visited Gaba Tepe, fro...ART02825
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Anzac looking south
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Depicts a panoramic view of the battlefield and general view of Anzac area at Gallipoli, looking south. Benson did reconnaissance sketches for the First Division on the Gallipoli Peninsula from April...ART00144
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Aqqunne Wood and railway: sketch for model of Villers-Bretonneux
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the landscape of Acquainted Wood with the railway running through the image. Sketch for the Villers-Bretonneux diorama. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF...ART11426.001
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Attack on Peronne
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Soldiers of the 53rd Battalion, 5th Division, 1st Australian Imperial Force, are depicted during the Attack on Peronne from 29 August until 2 September 1918. Peronne was a strategic location in a heav...ART02503
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Australian fleet entering Sydney Harbour
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Maker: Elliott, Frederick
Depticts a procession of seven military vessels entering the heads of Sydney Harbour. On 4 October 1913 the Royal Australian fleet entered Port Jackson, Sydney Harbor in the following processional or...ART93392
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Australian 9.2 howitzer
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Although 'Australian 9.2 howitzer' was painted in 1919, immediately after the war, it clearly represents a scene from the last phase of the fighting. The centrepiece is a large howitzer, the heaviest ...ART03004
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Australian infantry attack in Polygon Wood
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Maker: Leist, Fred
In the third battle of Ypres the Australians encountered reinforced concrete blockhouses, known as 'pillboxes', that were largely resistant to shell-fire; some had machine-guns firing from loopholes. ...ART02927
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Australia's mark on the Wiltshire Downs
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Maker: Traill, Jessie C A
Depicts a landscape with the Rising Sun cut in the white chalk hills above Codford, 1919. The artist was part of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) during the First World War.ART03552
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Balcony of troopers' ward, 14th Australian General Hospital, Abbassia
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Maker: Lambert, George
An unidentified Light Horse trooper is featured in a balcony ward of 14 Australian General Hospital. There is a bed by the window screened with portable screens and a nurse is standing at the foot of ...ART02815
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Barada Gorge from road level
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Maker: Lambert, George
The main route from Damascus west to Beirut runs beside the Barada river through a steep gorge. On 30 September 1918 Australian troops had trapped and killed Turkish troops in Barada Gorge who were f...ART02818
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Barada Gorge, looking down the road to Damascus
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Maker: Lambert, George
In June 1919 Lambert travelled to Barada Gorge north west of Damascus and where on 30 September 1918 a column of Turkish troops and transports, endeavouring to flee from Damascus, were intercepted by...ART02836
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Barada Gorge, looking from Damascus
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Maker: Lambert, George
West of the Barada Gorge with the road and railway on the route through the eastern mountains to Syria. In 1926, some years after painting this sketch, George Lambert wrote to Charles Bean: "The origi...ART02845
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Barrage of bombs: illustrating the poem 'Barrage', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
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Maker: Nash, Paul
Hand-coloured woodcut illustrating the poem 'Barrage', the seventh illustration in a book of poems by British poet and novelist Richard Aldington (1892-1926), published by Beaumont Press, London, 1919...ART20002.007
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Basilique d'Albert
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Maker: Augis, Marcel
Ruined basilique (church with special privileges from the Pope) at Albert on the River Somme, France. A view of the bomb-damaged church of Notre Dame de Brebieres, with the damaged virgin hanging on i...ART12267
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Battle scene
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This painting was completed in Scott's London studio in 1919 and appears to relate to the taking of the Malt Trench in the Somme region by the 28th Australian Infantry Battalion, which occurred at aro...ART03419
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Behind the Turkish lines, Gallipoli
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with a flat valley with an olive grove before low treeless hills, under a blue sky with low clouds. It is most likely that this small oil was painted in Legge Valley where the Aust...ART02829
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Bellicourt tunnel
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
By September 1918, allied forces had pushed the Germans back to the Hindenburg Line. In part, this defensive line followed the route of the St Quentin Canal. Near Bellicourt, the canal ran underground...ART12437
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Big gun emplacement, Fort of Chanak
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Maker: Lambert, George
This work was painted during George Lambert's visit to Gallipoli in 1919 with the Australian Historical Mission. They spent a week at Chanak (7-14 Feb), a small town on the Asiatic side of the Dardane...ART02835
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Bivouac in the Somme Valley
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Depicts two soldiers in front of a tent, one seated and one standing. The tent is in a forest clearing in France. Two additional tents are behind the front one. George Bell was appointed official war ...ART92140
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Bolschewismus heisst die welt im blut ersaufen [Bolshevism means the world will drown in blood]
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Maker: Safis, Johannes Vereinigung zur Bekampfung des Bolscheivismus [Alliance to Combat Bolshevism] Heymann und Schmidt
German anti-Bolshevik propaganda poster depicting a Russian wolf standing over a figure submerged in a pool of blood. In translation the poster states: 'Bolshevism means the world will drown in blood'...ARTV00130
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Bolschewismus ist Hungern und Tod: niemals aber Frieden [Bolshevism means hunger and death: but never peace]
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Maker: Anker, Hanns (Johannes) Unknown Unknown
German anti-Bolshevik propaganda poster depicting a starving woman holding the body of her dead child. The poster translates as: 'Bolshevism means hunger and death, but never will it lead to peace'. T...ARTV09317
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Bombardment: illustrating the poem 'Bombardment, in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
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Maker: Nash, Paul
Hand-coloured woodcut illustrating the poem 'Bombardment', the eighth illustration in a book of poems by British poet and novelist Richard Aldington (1892-1926), published by Beaumont Press, London, 1...ART20002.008
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Bomb crater: illustrating the poem 'Proem', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
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Maker: Nash, Paul
Hand-coloured woodcut illustrating the poem 'Proem', the first illustration in a book of poems by British poet and novelist Richard Aldington (1892-1926), published by Beaumont Press, London, 1919. Th...ART20002.001
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Bonjean Military Cemetery, Armentieres
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts Australian graves at the Bonjean Military Cemetery in Armnetieres. Some soldiers names are visible on the gravestones.The painter, teacher and etcher John Goodchild was born in London and arri...ART02518
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Brainy Dick
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Maker: Zif
Caricature of a member of the RAA standing at a blackboard working out a sum.ART93180.049
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Brigadier General Gordon Bennett
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter
Official war artist James Quinn was instructed to paint the portrait of Brigadier General Henry Gordon Bennett, CB, CMG, DSO, who was mentioned in despatches eight times. A member of the Citizen Mili...ART03343
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Brigadier General Iven Giffard MacKay
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Brigadier General (later Major General Sir) Iven Giffard Mackay, CMG, DSO, MID (x4), Commanding, 1st Infantry Brigade, Western Front, (later North Africa) 1st Australian Imperial Force,...ART02990
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Brigadier General James Robertson
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Brigadier General James Campbell Robertson, CB, CMG, DSO, MID (x7), Commanding 6 Brigade AIF; Belgium, Western Front, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 9th Battalion, 12th Brigade.ART02991
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Brigadier General Raymond Leane
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Maker: Bell, George
A portrait of Brigadier General Raymond Lionel Leane (1878- 1962) CB, CMG, DSO and Bar, MC, MID. General Raymond Lionel Leane was the Commanding Officer of the 12th Infantry Brigade in Gallipoli, Fran...ART00100
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Brigadier General Sydney Herring
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Maker: Bell, George
Depicts a portrait of Brigadier-General Sydney Charles Edgar Herring (1881-1951), DSO, Commanding 13th Brigade, in full uniform, wearing a cap. Herring was born in Granville, Sydney and after a privat...ART00098
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Brigadier General Thomas Dodds
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter
Official war artist James Quinn was instructed to paint the portrait of Brigadier General Thomas Henry Dodds CMG CVO DSO, as part of an ongoing series of portraits that acknowledged senior military le...ART03344
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Brigadier General Thomas Griffiths
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Maker: Coates, George
Depicts a portrait of Brigadier General Thomas Griffiths, CMG, DSO, a regular soldier and administrative specialist, Griffith was Secretary to the Australian Military Board at the outbreak of the war ...ART00197
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Brigadier-General Walter Coxen
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Brigadier General Walter Adams Coxen, CB, CMG, DSO, MID (x4), General Commanding Royal Art. Aust. Corps; Western Front 1st Australian Imperial Force, Australian Siege Brigade, 1st Divisi...ART02989
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Buildings in the Wadi, Magdhaba
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Maker: Ivers, T H
A drawing depicting several buildings in Magdhaba, Egypt that shows the shapes of the architecture as well as the colours of the landscape.ART02648
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Bunker entrance
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Maker: Chapman, Evelyn
Entrance to a bunker on the Somme in France, the red colour suggesting vegetation re-growth. In 1918, only a few weeks after the end of the First World War, Chapman travelled to the battlefields of Fr...ART19590
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Burnt gully, Gallipoli
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a hilly landscape with the blackened stumps of burnt trees. This scene, painted at Gallipoli between 18 and 21 February 1919 shows the battlefield with hills, gullies and ridges, stumps of bu...ART02824
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Buy Peace Bonds
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Maker: Unknown Unknown John Sands Ltd
Australian poster promoting the sale of Peace bonds following the end of the First World War. This Peace Loan was issued in August 1919 and citizens were encouraged to subscribe to help assist returne...ARTV06279
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Camel cacolet
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts a camel with a cacolet on his back which is used for carrying sick or wounded men, being led by an Arab on foot. Henry Gullett stated 'It would be scarcely possible to devise a more acute tort...ART00217
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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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Cemetery at Brown's Dip, Gallipoli
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Maker: Goodchild, John
A view of the Australian cemetery at Brown's Dip Gallipoli with a number of wooden crosses marking the graves. The painter, teacher and etcher John Goodchild was born in London and arrived in Adelaide...ART02543
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Cemetery at Lone Pine
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts the cemetery at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, with a number of wooden crosses and a monument amidst the graves. The painter, teacher and etcher John Goodchild was born in London and arrived in Adelaid...ART02538