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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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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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Armoured car
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the Austin Armoured 1918 Pattern armoured car, with modified wheels and armoured cabinet at rear, on the Bapaume Road near Albert. In front is a partially sketched motor vehicle with its cabri...ART03511
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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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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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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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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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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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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 rebuilt at south Peronne
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a temporary timber bridge built across the Somme River in place of the wrecked bridge, with timber revetments on the banks and a truck travelling across. Arthur Streeton is best known as one ...ART03519
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Brigade headquarters
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a bunker with a roof of sheets of corrugated iron weighed down with sandbags, sand bag walls, a sentry on duty, chimney pipes above the roof, which was used as the headquarters of an unidentif...ART03532
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British planes flying towards the Lines over the Somme 1918
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Maker: Carline, Richard
Depicts a painting of either Australian Flying Corps (AFC) or the British Royal Flying Corps, biplanes flying over river valley in moonlight, Somme, Western Front during the First World War. The AFC w...ART50032
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Captured German casualty clearing station, 1918
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Depicts a captured German Casualty Clearing Station with several tents and soldiers being carried on stretchers into the larger tent in the background. There are two soldiers in the right foreground, ...ART03397
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Cleaning harness, l'Hallue Valley
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the horses and soldiers of the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 2nd Australian Divisional train, with harnesses and saddlery on rails with two soldiers are cleaning the harnesses and saddles. Ar...ART03483
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Communication trench
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Maker: Boyd, Penleigh
Depicts three soldiers in the trenches having a smoko with a group of soldiers above the trenches in the background.ART50243
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Corps Headquarters grooms' mess in Chateau Heilly
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Depicts a number of soldiers and officers seated, resting and talking at the grooms' and other ranks' mess in the Chateau at Heilly, France, the Headquarters of 1 Anzac Corps. Will Dyson was the first...ART02409
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Corps reserve ammunition dump
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the Australian Corps reserve ammunition dump at St Gratien, with a road through the woods camouflaged with hessian stretched above road to conceal ammunition dump. Arthur Streeton is best know...ART03507
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Dingbat Alley, Peronne
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 2nd Australian Division Ammunition Column headquarters and the houses on the street with some ruined. 'Dingbat' is Australian slang for idiot or simpleton. ...ART12641
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Entrance to citadel, Peronne
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of the damaged entrance to the Citadel at Peronne, with an Albion truck parked at the entrance. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbour...ART03516
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Feuilleres, section of bridge
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a bridge at Feuilleres across the Somme, destroyed by retreating German forces, and repaired next morning by the 5th Field Company AIF. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of...ART03522
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Field dressing station, Somme
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Painting depicts a Field Dressing Station on the Somme featuring a bell tent. A man in shirtsleeves washes hands in an enamel bowl supported on stand. A towel hangs from a nearby tree.ART02894
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Field telegraph, St Gratien
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts soldiers setting up telegraph wires at the Field telegraph at St Gratien in France. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late ninet...ART03490
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From behind Corbie
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of the Somme Valley from behind Corbie, looking towards Villers-Bretonneux. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nine...ART03494
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Gathering fuel, Delville Wood
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Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, gathering and carrying firewood from the broken and war damaged remains of Delville Wood during the winter, December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02281.004
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German 38 cm naval gun, captured near Chuignolles
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Chuignolles; 1st Australian Division, 1st Infantry Brigade; German 38 cm naval gun, captured by 1st Brigade AIF, gun destroyed before capture; Western Front, Hindenburg Line; South of Cappy Arthur Str...ART03521
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German observation post, Mont St Quentin
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
This German observation post, made of concrete with slit opening, was on Mont St Quentin. Mont St Quentin stood out in the surrounding country, making it a perfect observation point and a vital strate...ART03646
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G.O.C. Office 1st D.H.Q.
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Depicts the headquarters office of the General Officer Commanding of the 1st Division AIF, set in Buire Wood, part of the Hindenberg out post line. There are several huts and duckboard paths depicted ...ART03402
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Graves in a battlefield
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Maker: Chapman, Evelyn
Makeshift war graves in a battlefield in France. The bright red flowers suggest vegetation re-growth. In 1918, only a few weeks after the end of the First World War, Chapman travelled to the battlefie...ART19587
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Gun repair park
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting British 6 inch Howitzers and artillery pieces in a maintenance park with a tripod crane for lifting heavy components. There are three soldiers in the mid ground of the ima...ART03066
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Horse lines on the Somme
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Power depicts a large number of horses being prepared for battle in the Somme area in France. He was a skilled draughtsman of horses as seen in this work.ART03335
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8" howitzer, near Glisy, destroyed by premature burst, defective fuse
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts an 8 inch Breech Loading (BL) Howitzer Mark VI near Glisy, destroyed by a premature burst of shell due to defective fuse. The ordnance has been destroyed completely and only the broken carria...ART03503
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...il faut maintenant souscrire a l'Emprunt [...we must subscribe to the loan]
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Maker: Scott, Georges Bertin Avenir - Publicite Joseph - Charles
This poster depicts a worn and tattered French flag. The central white panel there is a list of battle honours for regions in France (la Marne, l'Yser, Champagne, Verdun, Artois, Argonne, l'Aisne, la...ARTV00086
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Interior of a ruined church at Villers-Bretonneux
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Maker: Chapman, Evelyn
Inside a war-damaged church at Villers-Bretonneux, France. In 1918, only a few weeks after the end of the First World War, Chapman travelled to the battlefields of France with her father, who was atta...ART19586
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Interrogation of a prisoner
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English officer JJW Herbertson is shown interviewing a German soldier in the officer's living quarters at Montauban, north of the Somme. The German soldier is seated on a wooden crate, while the offic...ART02228
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Lewis Gun in action
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts two soldiers in chalky trench firing a Lewis gun, one wearing tin (protective) helmet, other wearing slouch hat, water bottle and haversack on ground of trench nearby.ART02901
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L'Hallue valley
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the 1st AIF Divisional Train in the L'Hallue Valley with a section of horse lines, a row of general service wagons, and soldiers formed up near the road. Arthur Streeton is best known as one o...ART03512
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L'Hallue valley
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of the L'Hallue valley, with positions of roads and Pont-Noyelles indicated. There are also horses grazing and encampments set up. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters ...ART03527
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Mill, Reninghelst
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Watercolour and charcoal sketch depicting the mill at Reninghelst. The image contains a group of buildings, roofs, walls and a damaged chimney situated in a valley among low hills. The mill was chiefl...ART02903
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Mont St Quentin
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting the battlefield at Mont St Quentin. The image has a view of Mont St Quentin with trenches, the ruins of a civilian building and the stubble of trees. Will Longstaff was bo...ART03001
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Mont St Quentin
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of Mont St Quentin, with lines of trenches visible on the hillside. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth ce...ART03524
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Nissen hut, Mont St Quentin
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Depicts the interior of a Nissen hut used as officers' quarters by the 1st Division AIF. Beds and personal effects are evident in the background, and improvised heater and flowers in the foreground. J...ART03413
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Old S13, struck off strength after 10 months' service
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts an RE8 aircraft on the No. 3 Squadron airfield at Poulainville, Villers Bocage, stripped of engine cowling and wings (RE = Research Experimental). The Australian Flying Corps (AFC) was establi...ART03508
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One of the Old Platoon
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An Australian soldier in full uniform, with a large pack on his back, standing in a war damaged landscape. He is bending over to pay tribute at the grave of a dead Australian soldier in Pozieres. The...ART02245.003
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Ordnance workshops, Cambrai Road
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Depicts a number of Australian soldiers preparing and working with field guns and ordnance at a workshop near Bapaume. The image shows a view of part of the ordnance workshop, with ruined buildings in...ART02258.006
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Panorama of the Somme
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of the Somme Valley possibly near St Gratien, with the ruins of a brick wall of an old chateau, and the towns of Sucrerie[?], Ribemont, Mericourt, Morlancourt, and Sailly-le-Sec in the ...ART03493
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Peronne
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a wrecked building in the town of Peronne. On the verso is the sketch 'Road up to Mont St Quentin' which depicts the war damaged town of Mont St Quentin and wrecked trees and forest in the dis...ART12636
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Peronne
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a street in the town of Peronne at the Western Front with war damaged buildings and debris scattered throughout the street. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelbe...ART12634
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Peronne
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A number of houses that have been damaged as the result of the bombardment of Peronne.ART03382
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Peronne
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the view of the town of peronne and its ruined buildings. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November 1917 with the 10th F...ART03142
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Peronne. Heavy artillery advancing through the town
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
The 1st Australian Imperial Force going through the ruins of Peronne with heavy artillery such as 8 inch howitzers. A biplane can be seen flying overhead. Smoke from burning villages is visible in t...ART03043
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Peronne, looking towards Mont St Quentin
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
View across the Somme River, with Mont St Quentin in background; Mont St Quentin, Hindenburg Line, Western Front. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melb...ART03520
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60-pounder gun off Albert Road
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
The drawing shows the trail end of a 60-pounder Breech Loading (BL) gun, off Albert Road near Albert, France. The Mark I gun is placed under camouflage netting showing its interrupted thread single mo...ART03531
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18 pounder quick firing gun
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Depicts an 18 pounder quick firing gun, Mark II, with camouflage paint, with a half limber wagon for ammunition, which is also camouflaged, behind the gun. The gun was used by the 1st Australian Imper...ART03378
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Preparing the brazier
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Depicts two soldiers, each wearing heavy long coats and hats, in front of a tent. One is standing and gazing into a small fire burning in a brazier, while the other is seated, warming his hands in fro...ART02297.004
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Prisoner-of-war compound, Abbeville
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Abbeville; barbed wire, encampment; fences of barbed wire reinforced with wire entalglements surrounding Nissen huts accommodating German prisoners Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters...ART03528
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Ruined church at Villers-Bretonneux
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Maker: Chapman, Evelyn
Bomb-damaged church at Villers-Bretonneux, France. In 1918, only a few weeks after the end of the First World War, Chapman travelled to the battlefields of France with her father, who was attached to ...ART19588
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Ruins in Peronne
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the shell of a ruined house in the town of Peronne on the Western Front with piles of debris. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the...ART03514
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Ruins in Peronne, Hotel de Ville
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the ruins of a house and, in the background, Peronne town hall. A pile of rubble and debris is in the foreground. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg Schoo...ART03518
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Sanitary section camp, St Gratien
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the encampment of the 1st AIF sanitary section with tents in the woods and stores nearby. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late...ART03530
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Screened road
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Watercolour sketch depicting a stretch of Amiens-Albert road, with hessian screens erected along one side. In the foreground two Australian soldiers are seated by the side of the road and another sold...ART02491
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Searching for German booby traps near Ligny-Thilloy
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Depicts two Australian soldiers, in uniform, wearing tin helmets, walking through a stretch of German trenches on the Somme, warily inspecting their surroundings for booby traps. One soldier holds a t...ART02282.004
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Shell-fire, St Gratien
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts shell damage on the wall of a house in the town of St Gratien. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. His na...ART12651
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Shell-hole, Allonville
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a shell hole and fallen tree in a field near Allonville. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. His name is...ART03498
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Signals Office, Headquarters, St Gratien
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a soldier sitting on a high stool operating a telephone switchboard, with larger switchboard and handsets to the right. The soldier is wearing a blue and white dispatch rider's armband. Arthur...ART03499
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Snow scene near Mametz
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts an image of soldiers, wearing tin helmets and winter uniforms, with horses and supplies in a snow-covered valley near Mametz, a village near Pozieres in France. Frank Crozier (1883-1948) worke...ART02158
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Staff clerks at work, headquarters, St Gratien
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the 2nd Australian Division staff clerks at work in Divisional Headquarters communication facilities, in an improvised office at St Gratien. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painte...ART03502
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1st Battalion Transport Cookhouse
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Unidentified cooks of 1 Battalion Australian Imperial Force AIF, in cookhouse (cooks doubled as drivers for Battalion transport) messing equipment, cooking utensils, temporary shelter.ART03372
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Sugar factory, Peronne
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the ruins of a sugar beet factory at Peronne on the Western Front. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century. Hi...ART03515
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Sugar refinery, Pozieres
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Depicts the damaged remains and wreckage of sugarbeet processing and refining plant at Pozieres, on the Western Front in France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fr...ART02308
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Summer day near Ville-sur-Ancre
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Depicts two Australian soldiers resting and dozing against the wheel of a cart. On top of the cart is an empty wine barrel. The soldiers are seated on the edge of a trench in a war damaged landscape. ...ART02295.008
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Supply tank at Villers-Bretonneux
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Watercolour sketch depicting the wreckage of a destroyed Gun Carrier MK I supply tank, outside Villers-Bretonneux, in France during the First World War. The tank is fully loaded with mortar ammunition...ART03007
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8th August 1918
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Somme area; battlefield; 3rd Australian Division, 4th Australian Division; infantry, supported by horse drawn artillery and two British Mark IV male tanks, moving towards front line - this depicts par...ART12208
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The cookers near Villers-Bretonneux
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Maker: Vincent, Day, Brooks and Sons
Depicts a field kitchen near Villers Bretonneux, Western Front, with cooks standing around a field kitchen preparing meal. Horse drawn wagons are passing by to the right of the kitchen, while a queue ...ART02296.001
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The death of Major Black
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Maker: Wheeler, Charles
Major Percy Black had established a reputation for great courage. On 11 April 1917 at Bullecourt, Black led his men through gaps in the dense entanglements under heavy fire, capturing the first trench...ART03558
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The drover
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Depicts a group of German prisoners being escorted by an Australian soldier on horseback on the Somme battlefield, walking past a windmill on their way to prisoner of war camp in France. This paintin...ART00142
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The old tank at Flers
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A battle damaged British Mark 1 female tank, with rear external steering mechanism and sponsons on the side, at Flers, on the Western Front. The tank is resting in a war damaged landscape with a numbe...ART02249
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The Somme from above Corbie
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of the Somme valley from above Corbie and 'Smith's Farm' Advanced Dressing Station, Villers-Bretonneux is indicated as being beyond the hills on the right side. Arthur Streeton is bes...ART12652
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Tired out
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts a number of fatigued Australian soldiers, wearing greatcoats and helmets, seated on a hillock, or standing in the background, in a war damaged landscape in the Somme, France. Frank Crozier (18...ART00214
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Traffic block, early morning near Cosy Corner on the Somme
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Depicts a row of mule drawn wagons, riders and soldiers stopped in the snow at 'Cosy Corner' on the Somme, France. 'Cosy Corner' was a traffic police control point leading to access to Trones Wood. Wi...ART02393
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Tunnel dressing station, Villers-Bretonneux
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the entrance to a dressing station situated in a tunnel under a hill near Villers-Bretonneux, the entrance is sandbagged, an ambulance is outside with stretcher bearers carrying wounded on str...ART03509
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Unloading 18-Pounder ammunition at night
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Depicts soldiers from the 1st Battery, Australian Field Artillery, 41st battery AFA unloading shells for an 18 pounder gun from a limber, pulled by horses, at night, during the First World War. George...ART00132
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Wireless station, St Gratien
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts the wireless station at St Gratien. Ensconsed in a temporary communication station in the chateau at St Gratien, Australian Head Quarters, two Australian soldiers seated on crates wearing head...ART02876
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With the guns at Lavieville
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Depicts two soldiers at rest with their ammunition, guns and a donkey at Lavieville, near Amiens, in north-western France. The gun is an 18-pounder and piles of shells rest in right fore- ground of th...ART02226.009
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Woman drawing water
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Maker: Chapman, Evelyn
Depicts bomb-damaged buildings in a small French town. A woman is seen drawing water at centre left. In 1918, only a few weeks after the end of the First World War, Chapman travelled to the battlefiel...ART19591
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Writing to catch the home mail
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Depicts two soldiers from the 4th Australian Division sitting near billets writing letters in the Somme during winter 1917. One is wearing a greatcoat and scarf. Will Dyson was the first Australian of...ART02397