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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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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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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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Bringing up the ammunition, Flanders, Autumn 1917
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Australian soldiers with teams of six horses pulling linked half limbers loaded with boxes of machine gun ammunition. The horses are struggling through the mud as they cross a small river.ART03333
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Camouflaged tents, Dickebusch
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Charcoal and watercolour sketch depicting bell tents with rows of sandbags around them, chimney pipes protruding from doorways, and camouflage patterns on canvas at the encampment at Dickebusch. There...ART02924
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Camp scenes
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
This scene shows the encampment of the 1st Australian Division Artillery, 2nd Battery. The view is of the camp with tents and horse lines amid the trees.ART03325
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Cloth Hall at Menin Gate
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Watercolour, gouache and charcoal sketch depicting a view of the ruins of Ypres with the Menin Gate in the foreground and Cloth Hall in the background. Ypres was the scene of almost constant fighting...ART02452
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Cloth Hall, Ypres
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Progressively destroyed by German artillery fire from 1914, the great medieval Cloth Hall in Ypres, was in ruins when the Australians fought nearby in the final months of 1917.ART02884
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Cook house
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
The cook house for the 1st Division Train, was situated in a wrecked building, with a tent at the left. Three soldiers are sitting near a thatched house peeling vegetablesART03323
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Craterland
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts a wounded man on a stretcher being carried by four German prisoners of war while under armed escort of an Australian soldier. They are walking along a duckboard track past shell holes filled w...ART02925
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Dead beat, the tunnel, Hill 60
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Depicts an exhausted Australian soldier wearing full kit and greatcoat, sleeping in a tunnel during the Third Battle of Ypres. Indistinct figures of two other soldiers seen in the background. Dyson, a...ART02210
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Dickebusch Church
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts the ruins of a church at Dickebusch in Belgium. The figure of a man, possibly a soldier, can be seen walking past in front of the damaged building. Fred Leist was appointed an official war art...ART02914
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Dingbat's holiday
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour and gouache sketch depicting a batman (in Australian military slang 'dingbat' is a derogatory term that comes from 'ding' - a vicious dingo and 'bat' from batman which is an officers serva...ART02917
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Divisional headquarters, Dickebusch
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour sketch depicting a farmhouse 3 miles (5 Kilometres) south west of Dickebusch, used as headquarters for 5th Division AIF during the Third Battle of Ypres (?). On the verso is a pencil sketc...ART02886
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Dump at Sercus
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts two General Service wagons, drawn by horses, being loaded with boxes and crates outside church; Third Battle of Ypres, Western Front.ART02897
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First Australian artillery going into the 3rd Battle of Ypres
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
This work shows a team of six horses, three mounted and three led, struggling through thick mud pulling a heavy 18 pounder gun on the limber. Six other soldiers on foot are helping to haul the gun, al...ART19842
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First Australian Division Artillery going into the 3rd Battle of Ypres
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Features the 1st Australian Division Artillery during the Third Battle of Ypres on the Western Front. 18-pounder guns are pictured being brought forward by teams of six horses, other guns already in p...ART03330
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First bombardment of Hazebrouch
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Depicts a soldier carrying an officer's valise on his shoulders as he walks along a road way in a French village. He walks along with women and children also carrying their belongings and bags. The wo...ART02291
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Going into action
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
A 1st Australian Division Artillery battery moves into position through the mud, with mules and horses pulling an 18-pounder gun and half limber wagon. Two soldiers on foot are wearing cape groundshe...ART03329
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'Gotha', Scottish camp, Reninghelst
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts searchlights around group of buildings at Reninghelst, 4 miles (6 1/2 Kilometres approx) south west of, searchlights focused on German aircraft on bombing raid on moonlight night; Third Battle...ART02889
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Heavy going in Flanders mud
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
This drawing shows a horse team from the 1st Australian Division Artillery, consisting of six horses (three ridden, three led), pulling a half limber wagon and 18-pounder field gun through the mud at ...ART03315
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Hitchi-Koo machine (delousing fumigator)
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Charcoal and watercolour sketch depicting the preventative health services delousing fumigator (Hitchi-Koo machine). Two soldiers are loading the bank of three autoclave ovens with discarded clothing ...ART02908
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Home comforts in the tunnels, Hill 60
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Depicts members of the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 1st Australian Tunnelling Company showing two men sitting in dug out in a tunnel, furnished with camp beds and boxes for tables and seats. The dug...ART02280.005
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Horse artillery lines
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Here artist Septimus Power shows three lines of horse shelters, with a group of horses standing under the foreground shelter. A single horse outside the shelter is being attended by a lighthorseman at...ART03314
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Horse artillery lines
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
These are the temporary shelters for the 1st Division Artillery horses. Made of logs and thatched roofs, the railings are lined with nosebags, thus feeding and protecting the horses from the elements.ART03324
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Horse lines, Dickebusch
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts horses tethered under shelter with open sides and corrugated iron roof, unidentified men sitting in sunshine (horses are probably officers' riding horses); Third Battle of, Western Front.ART02888
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Laying the duckboards, France 1917
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Maker: Bell, George
Depicts soldiers from a Pioneer unit laying a duckboard track across muddy fields in a war damaged landscape, probably in the Ypres Salient, France in 1917. The soldiers are wearing sandbags around th...ART03592
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Lille Gate, Ypres
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Charcoal sketch depicting the Lille Gates at Ypres in Belgium. The road that is travelling through the gates contains horse drawn wagons, civilians, goods, rubble and soldiers. The Australian Division...ART02879
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Menin Gate at midnight
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
'Menin Gate at midnight' was painted by Will Longstaff to commemorate those soldiers with no marked graves on the Western Front during the First World War; also known as 'Ghosts of Menin Gate'. Longst...ART09807
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Mess parade
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
A group of soldiers stand near a thatched cookhouse, holding their plates waiting for food.ART03320
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Old Redoubt in front of Polygon Wood with Passchendaele in distance
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Old Redoubt, a stirring scene of overgrown trenches in front of Polygon Wood, with Passchendaele in distance.ART19761
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Our pillbox, Westhoek Ridge, October
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Depicts three soldiers wearing tin helmets looking out across the battlefield at Westhoek Ridge. A wrecked pillbox appears in the background with two gun limbers near it. Will Dyson was the first Aust...ART02268
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Pack horses
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Depicts two horses loaded with eight 18-pounder shells, carried in canvas shell carriers. Power was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1877. When he was young his family immigrated to Australia and settl...ART03317
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Peelers' paradise
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Depicts three soldiers from the 1st Australian Division of the AIF sitting near the front of a thatch-roofed house peeling vegetables, the camp kitchen is in background. This is during the Third Battl...ART03309
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Ramparts of Ypres from the Menin Gate
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts a view of the ramparts of Ypres from the Menin Gate, showing a war ravaged landscape and a flock of birds flying through the sky. Albert Henry Fullwood was born in Birmingham, England in March...ART02453
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Red Cross barges
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts hospital barges on a canal, which were manned by British Army Medical Corps orderlies and Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service nurses (QAIMNS, QAs). The converted barges, which ...ART02898
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Repairing room, divisional baths
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Charcoal sketch depicting a sewing room with women repairing items of uniform. Finished items are hanging from a line on the ceiling and there is an iron stove in the centre of the room. Frederick Le...ART02921
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Reserves in the trenches
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Australian soldiers wait in the trenches at Passchendaele in Belgium. In the distance is a pall of smoke and ruined trees, hinting at what lies ahead for the soldiers. The Battle of Passchendaele was ...ART03310
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Shell pack horses at a dump
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Two horses are loaded with 18-pounder shells, which are carried in canvas shell carriers. The horses stand at an ammunition dump, with ammunition on the ground in front of them.ART03316
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Shell pack horses in the mud
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Two horses from the 1st Australian Division Ordnance units are struggling through the mud. One is being led, and the other ridden, with each horse carrying shells for 18 pounder field guns. The shells...ART03307
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The Battle of Messines
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Maker: Wheeler, Charles
The Battle of Messines, codenamed ‘Magnum Opus’, began at 3:10am on 7 June 1917, after a seven day preliminary bombardment, with the detonation of 19 huge mines that obliterated thousands of frontline...ART03557
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The Dynamo, Hill 60
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Depicts two Australian miners of the First Australian Tunnelling Company who at Hill 60, near Ypres in Belgium, were involved in tunnelling through sandy dunes with machinery; here a dynamo for electr...ART02209.013
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Tommies staging in the tunnels (In the Tunnel- Hill 60)
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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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Vlamertinghe Church
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour sketch depicting the Vlamertinghe church, the road through Vlamertinghe to Ypres with military lorries and bicycles. The village of Vlamertinghe is 1 mile (1 1/2 Kilometres) west of where ...ART02883
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War
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Power has depicted the 1st Australian Division Artillery battery crossing open ground, with shells exploding nearby. The horses are wearing standard 1912 harnesses, with improvised shadow rolls on bri...ART03328
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Well earned rest
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Charcoal sketch depicting a soldier asleep in a farm wagon with his rifle and haversack at the end of the wagon. Frederick Leist was a painter, illustrator and teacher. He studied at the Sydney Art Sc...ART02922
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Working the heavies
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Charcoal and watercolour sketch depicting the gun crew of a 9.2 inch Breech loading howitzer at the Third Battle of Ypres. Four men are lifting a shell on a support for loading, there are other guns i...ART02923
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Ypres
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Maker: Power, John
This painting symbolically depicts the aftermath of battle in France. A figure in a hooded gown stands with their head bent, ruined buildings are visible in the background. John Power enlisted in the...ART19570