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A back garden, Peronne
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Maker: Percival, Cecil
Depicts a backyard in the town of Peronne, with damaged stone walls and damaged buildings in the rear. Peronne, an ancient French town at the junction of the Somme and Cologne Rivers, was the objectiv...ART03299
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A Cairo Street
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Sketch of a Cairo street. Birds fly overhead as groups of people mill in the street below. A figure in the foreground carries a large sack on the shoulder.ART03605.009.001
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ACCS in France
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts an Australian Casualty Clearing Station (ACCS) in France. Red Cross tents are in the foreground with artillery shells are exploding just beyond them. Nurses and soldiers are in the foreground....ART13334
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Administrator's office, Rabaul
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts the administration bungalow at Rabaul, New Guinea, which was used during the early part of the British military occupation. This painting is one of a number of the commissioned works Bryant pr...ART03628
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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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Advance dressing station, 2nd Field Ambulance
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Depicts the advance dressing station of the Australian Forces 2nd Field Ambulance, with a motor ambulance in the background. In the foreground there is a table with medical supplies arranged on it, a ...ART19763
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A famous street of Jerusalem
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Maker: Ivers, T H
Depicts a famous street scene in Jerusalem with double story buildings on right hand side.ART02606
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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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Ambulance wagons waiting for hospital ship, Boulogne, France
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts four Ambulance wagons on the dock, waiting for a hospital ship in Boulogne, Pas de Calais, France during the First World War. A large hospital ship is seen in the background, steaming into the...ART00164
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Amiens Cathedral
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of the Amiens Cathedral visible above trees and rooftops. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. Hi...ART03491
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Amiens Cathedral
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting a view of the Amiens cathedral from the surrounding countryside, with the village of Amiens also depicted. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900...ART03013
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Amiens Cathedral
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur Ernest
During the First World War Amiens was significant as an administration and communication centre at the crossroads of French rail and highway. The capture of this large, historic city became a principa...ART96738
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Amiens Cathedral
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting the Amiens Cathedral and surrounding village buildings. Will Longstaff was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1879. From 1900 to 1901, he served with the South African Light Ho...ART03002
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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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Amiens, the key of the west
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Streeton believed that Amiens, the key of the west, which refers to the events of 8 August 1918 and the fighting in the Somme area that led up to this day, was one of his most important works. Amiens ...ART12436
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Ammunition dump at Daours
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts the ammunition dump near Daours with horse drawn vehicles and stacked boxes in ammunition dump concealed in a grove of trees on the right. The left of the image contains civilian buildings, te...ART02489
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An Australian Field Artillery Brigade Headquarters, near Nieuport
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Depicts members of the 1st Australian Imperial Force, Australian Siege Artillery Brigade and a view from the headquarters of Artillery Brigade. One man is seated and talking on the telephone, while th...ART02343
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[An Austro-Hungarian unit in their billets]
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Maker: Gardener, Arthur
A group of soldiers wearing caps seated relaxing in a room with arched windows. They are troops from an unidentified Austro-Hungarian unit in their billets. This work was done while Arthur Gardener wa...ART50049
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A night march to the line
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Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts an officer on horseback leading a troop of soldiers wearing tin helmets and bearing arms. Another officer walks down the side of the troop formation as if inspecting them for the last time bef...ART93359.004
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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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Arab huts, Jericho
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a landscape with Arabs, huts and a goat in the foreground, palm and other trees in the middle ground and steep hills behind a plain in the distance.ART02709
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[Army camp, Somme desert]
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the Australian Army Camp at the Somme desert, Somme, Western Front. The foreground contains horses, tents, supplies and wagons. The background also contains tents as well ...ART03082
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At a water point
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting several Australian soldiers with articulated general service wagons and limber wagons, traveling past a village in the Somme region. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th ...ART03068
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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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Aubigny
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Near Aubigny; an improvised plank bridge over a river, with three trucks parked near the Aubigny end.ART03371
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Australian artillery passing through Bapaume
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Maker: Waller, Napier
Depicts a number of Australian artillerymen, wearing tin helmets and great coats moving through the streets of Bapaume after the town was occupied in March 1917, with horses carrying artillery on load...ART92983
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Australian burning effigy of Kaiser in square, Armistice Day
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a crowd of soldiers in Peronne square, surrounded by building skeletons, damaged by war. They are gathered around a bonfire with an effigy of Kaiser hanging from gallows. Arthur Streeton is b...ART03523
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Australian pastoral scene
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts a women ploughing a field with a one horse plough.ART13343
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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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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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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 from stormy trench, March 1917
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Depicts a panoramic, topographical view of Bapaume, on the Western Front, from Stormy Trench. Clusters of trees appear on the hills in the background and a grave marker is visible in the foreground ce...ART00133
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Before sunset buy a war loan bond
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Maker: Unknown Unknown John Sands Ltd
Australian First World War poster advertising War Loan bonds. It features a large Australian flag unfurled against a city in the distance. The outline of civic buildings is silhouetted black against ...ARTV05207
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Before sunset buy a war loan bond
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Maker: Unknown Unknown John Sands Ltd
Australian First World War poster advertising War Loan bonds. It features a large Australian flag unfurled against a city in the distance. The outline of civic buildings is silhouetted black against ...ARTV05206
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Before sunset buy a war loan bond
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Maker: Unknown Unknown John Sands Ltd
Australian First World War poster advertising War Loan bonds. It features a large Australian flag unfurled against a city in the distance. The outline of civic buildings is silhouetted black against ...ARTV00837
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Behind Topkapi Palace, Istanbul
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Maker: Pugh, Clifton
Depicts a house behind Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. Topkapi Palace is renowned for its opulence and was the residence and administration centre for the Ottoman Empire. Pugh was appointed offici...ART29521
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Bellicourt
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
The right hand side of a sketch of the town of Bellicourt, depicting ruined buildings, bomb damage and telegraph poles. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the Nation...ART93175.014
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Bellicourt: entrance to St Quentin Tunnel
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the entrance to the St Quentin tunnel taking the canal through the hill at Bellicourt near the Hindenburg Line on the Western Front. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of th...ART03517
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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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Billeting
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Farmhouses on the Western Front being used as billeting for soldiers. In the left foreground soldiers are leaving with supplies, and there is a dung heap in the right foreground.ART02174
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[Blank page]; verso: Salvage dump, Glisy
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Recto: A blank page; Verso: Depicts a man loading a cart with empty shells. A team of four horses stand harnessed to the cart and there are two trees in the background. From the artist's sketchbook co...ART19796.012
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Blaringhem Church
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour sketch depicting the church at Blaringhem and its tower with a house nearby. Frederick Leist was a painter, illustrator and teacher. He studied at the Sydney Art School and the Art School ...ART02913
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Bombardment near Albert
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the landscape near Albert with an artillery barrage in the distance and smoke from artillery barrage rising above hills. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AI...ART03083
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Bombed cathedral ruins
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Interior of ruined church, roof missing, piles of rubble on floor, (possibly interior of Abbey).ART19762
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Boulogne
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Maker: Davril, Louis
Depicted here is the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Boulogne, identifiable by its 101 metre high tower and dome. Boulogne was one of the three major base ports used by the Commonwealth armies on the Wester...AWM2017.162.6
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Boulogne
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the town of Boulogne with the city buildings in the background, railway engines and trucks, and soldiers marching in the foreground. This drawing was likely made on an excised double page spre...ART12630
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Boulogne in wartime, January 1918
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Painting of the harbour and port at Boulogne, France, during the First World War with ambulance trucks in the foreground, a French seaplane landing on the water in the middle and camouflaged troop or ...ART03612
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Bridge into Peronne
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the ruins of the bridge into Peronne blown up by retreating Germans. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century....ART12628
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Bridge Street at Ham-sur-Heure
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts a view of a street and bridge in the recently liberated town of Ham-sur-Heure, which was the headquarters of Australian Imperial Force Corps. There are several soldiers and civilians walking t...ART02461
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Broken house, Peronne
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Maker: Percival, Cecil
Depicts a damaged house in the town of Peronne, with collapsed roof and walls. Peronne, an ancient French town at the junction of the Somme and Cologne Rivers, was the objective of an intensive series...ART03298