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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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.

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Maker: Crozier, Frank

Soldiers and supplies on the shore at Anzac Beach.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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.

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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