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Australian squadron in Blanche Bay, New Britain
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
An urgent task undertaken by Australia after the outbreak of war, August 1914, was the occupation of German New Guinea and other German Pacific outposts. The Australian Naval and Military Expeditionar...ART07546
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Australian troop horse, full marching order
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Maker: Lambert, George
Study of a bay troop horse wearing a 1902 pattern bridle, 1912 Universal Pattern saddle, and brown saddle blanket. Attached to the saddle is a pair of saddle wallets, greatcoat, rolled grey blanket, a...ART02689
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Australian troops disembarking at Boulogne
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Painting of Australian troops disembarking from ships at the wharf in Boulogne, France, during the First World War. The artist exhibited two related works, 'Leave Ships from Blighty, off Boulogne' an...ART00189
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Australia's imperishable record
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Maker: Unknown Unknown Unknown
Australian First World War recruitment poster. It depicts the Union Jack draped across the top and left portion of the poster, framing a speech given by British General Sir Ian Hamilton at Tenedos, Ma...ARTV00850
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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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Australien (Australian)
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Maker: Pasquet
A full standing figure of a veteran Australian soldier wearing a slouch hat, and with his left hand in his pocket and a walking stick in his right hand.ART50160
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Avant l'attaque (Before the attack)
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Maker: Jonas, Lucien-Hector
A group of French infantrymen wait while their officer counts down the minutes until the beginning of an attack against the German enemy. This scene could take place anywhere along the Western Front, ...ART92977
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Avec la carte nous en aurons peu... (With the [ration] card we will have little...)
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Maker: Colas, Yvonne Comite National de Prevoyance & d'Economies Union Francaise
French First World War poster promoting the conservative use of sugar. This poster was one of a series published by the French Comite National de Prevoyance & d'Economies (National Committee of Planni...ARTV06110
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Aveluy Church
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts the war damaged church and surrounding landscape at Aveluy, France on the Western Front during the First World War. Charles Bryant (1883-1937) had some early art lessons before beginning his...ART00179
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Avenue of Remembrance
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Maker: Australian Tapestry Workshop and Imants Tillers Tillers, Imants
The tapestry, titled 'Avenue of Remembrance', has been commissioned by the Memorial in conjunction with the Australian Tapestry Workshop. The Australian artist, Imants Tillers (b. 1950-) was commissio...ART96799
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["Avez vous des oeuffs?"] ["Do you have eggs?"]
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Maker: Hartt, Cecil L
This satirical cartoon depicts a confused Australian digger on the right talking to a plump woman while three chickens graze around their feet.This satirical cartoon depicts a confused Australian digg...ART11400
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A voice from Anzac
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Depicts two ghostly figures of soldiers seated on a rock in front of Anzac Beach at Gallipoli. The soldier hold their rifles and look wistfully and melancholically out towards the viewer. They are bat...ART19662
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A waiter
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Sketch of an Egyptian waiter. Barefoot with a wide smile, the waiter supports a large round platter on one hip, with the right arm extended to hold up the other end.ART03605.010.004
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A washerwoman, Malta
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A study of a Maltese washerwoman. Her laundry load on a wagon being carried by a donkey.ART03605.020.006
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Ayunkara (Richon le Zion)
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a bare, undulating landscape with the remains of animals in the foreground. There are two horses on top of the hill on the right of the image. In February 1918, Lambert visited the ANZAC Mount...ART02697
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Back at Mouquet Farm
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Depicts two unidentified infantrymen, of the 4th Australian division, possibly part of a Vickers machine gun squad, near Mouquet Farm. The man in front is holding a water cooling can for a Vickers Mar...ART02248
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Back at the waggon lines after Polygon Wood
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Depicts men of either 1st or 2nd Division, Australian Infantry, at waggon lines behind the Front, eating, resting and being served food in a war damaged landscape. Discarded webbing with a bayonet and...ART02270
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Back at the waggon lines comparing souvenirs
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Depicts four soldiers standing around looking at their souvenirs collected during the war, including bayonets and a small gun. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fron...ART02220
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Back or forward?
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Maker: Lindsay, Norman
A gorilla representing Germany is tugging at the right arm of a man, pulling him down the path of 'war'. The man is clothed in caveman garments and holds a Roman dagger and a mallet in each hand. A fe...ART19792
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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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Bapaume church
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Depicts the severely damaged remains of the Bapaume church, with a statue in the foreground. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, trav...ART02285.005
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Bapaume 1917, La Place de l'hotel de Ville
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Maker: Mansard, Paul
War-damaged town hall in Bapaume, France, with debris and rubble surrounding the remains of the structure.ART50202
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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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Barada Gorge, 30 September 1918
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Maker: Lambert, George
A section of the Barada Gorge, showing the road and railway route through the eastern mountains where fleeing Turkish troops and German machine-gunners were confronted by the 5th Australian Light Hors...ART09755
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Barbed wire entanglement
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Gallipoli soldier entangled in barbed wire. Nolan viewed many photos of the soldiers at Gallipoli at the Imperial War Museum, London and would have seen photos of many dead soldiers, both Allied and T...ART91222
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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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Basilica of War
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Maker: Pennell, Joseph
This comes from Joseph Pennell's series of lithographs entitled, 'War work in England'.ART50223
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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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Basilique d'Albert (Basilica of the church of Notre Dame de Brebiers, Albert)
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Maker: Mansard, Paul
The interior of the bomb-damaged church of Notre Dame de Brebiers, Albert, France.ART50248
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Bataille de la Somme, Bois de Thiepval
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Maker: Mansard, Paul
Depicts a badly war-damaged landscape , with smashed and burnt trees and birds circling overhead at the Thiepval Woods after the battle of the Somme, in France.ART50201
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Bataille de la Somme, Pozieres
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Maker: Mansard, Paul
A town street in Poziere, with trees and a church. Paul Mansard was a French artist. This etching was presented to the War Memorial by Sister Constance Adelaide Stone MBE, RRC, a nurse, who enlisted i...ART12265
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Bataille de Verdun (Battle of Verdun)
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Maker: Mansard, Paul
A landscape with a hill, a duckboard, burnt trees and barbed wire in the foregrouond.ART50251
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Bataille de Verdun: Le Bois des Corbeaux et le Morthomme
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Maker: Mansard, Paul
View of a badly war-damaged hilly landscape after the battle of Verdun in 1916, with smashed and burnt trees and a pathway in the foreground. The Germans commenced the year 1916 by launching a massive...ART12266
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Bather under shower
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Gallipoli soldier having a shower. This is one of the earliest works Nolan created relating to the Gallipoli series whilst he was on the Greek island of Hydra in the Aegean Sea. The works initial sour...ART91259
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Bathing in a shell-hole
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Depicts two men bathing naked in a shell hole filled with water near Murder Valley on the Western Front, while another three men stand and dress or are seated on the edge of the shell hole. Will Dyson...ART02302
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Bathing under shellfire
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Maker: Silas, Ellis
Soldiers swimming in the sea, while shells are bursting nearby. Warships in background at right; boxes of supplies of gunpowder right foreground. "This is certainly a most unique experience. I remembe...ART90795
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Battered limber wagon near Vaire Wood
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting a war damaged limber wagon in a field near Vaire Wood at the Western Front. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November 19...ART03060
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Battery Commander's dug-out, Hill 60
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Depicts two soldiers in uniform, seated in the interior of a dug-out. The one sitting on the right is probably Major R F Manton, DSO, Commanding of 15 Bty, AFA. A lit candle , tins of food and small s...ART02299.002
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Battery Commander's dug-out, Hill 60
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Depicts two soldiers in uniform, seated in the interior of a dug-out. The one sitting on the right is probably Major R F Manton, DSO, Commanding of 15 Bty, AFA. A lit candle , tins of food and small s...ART02299.009
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Battery in action
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
This drawing shows four men from the 1st Division Artillery gun crew with an 18 pounder gun in action on the Western Front in France.ART03308
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Battlefield of Romani looking S. W. from Canterbury Hill
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Maker: Hewett, Otho
Depicts a panoramic view of an undulating desert landscape near Romani, with various locations indicated by the artist; 'Signal Post', 'Mount Meredith', 'Mount Royston', 'Scrubby Knoll' and 'Katib Ga...ART19633
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Battle of Fromelles
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Maker: Wheeler, Charles
Depicts a panoramic view of the Sugarloaf Salient area at Fromelles, with men of 5th Division AIF crossing No Man's Land towards the German trenches. Shell bursts and explosions can be seen above the...ART07981
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Battle of Menin Road
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
The Battle of Menin Road was an offensive operation, part of the Third Battle of Ypres on the Western Front, which saw the first involvement of Australian units (1st and 2nd Divisions AIF) in the Thir...ART03327
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Battle of Romani, 4 August 1916
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Maker: Lambert, George
A desert landscape with light horsemen dismounting and preparing for battle. Two soldiers place a stretcher into an ambulance wagon (in the centre right of the image). A dead white horse lies in the f...ART09556
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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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B Company Cook (Private Louis Cohen)
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Maker: Williamson, Garnet Angus
Depicts a sketch of 2346 Private Louis Jacob 'Loo' Cohen, Cook, B Company 56th Battalion A.I.F.ART03572
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Beatty
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Maker: Chinner, John Henry
Portrait of the British Admiral David Beatty by South Australian caricaturist and cartoonist J.H Chinner. One of a commemorative set of seven handcoloured caricatures of First World War Military leade...ART96319
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Bedouin gun thief or runner, a very 'crook' character, Deiran
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a light horseman wearing a slouch hat and great coat holding a rifle with a bayonet and facing a captured Bedouin. The Bedouin is bearded and bare-footed, and wears a keffiyeh and brown and cr...ART02783