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Abandoned trench, the Somme
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Depicts an abondoned trench on the Somme. The trench is in the foreground, with smashed trees on the edge and there are Nissan huts and tents in the background. The portion of the trench depicted is p...ART09912
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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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Bei Unseren Helden ad Somme [With our heroes on the Somme]
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Maker: Erdt, Hans Rudi Hollerbaum & Schmidt
A German First World War propaganda poster that advertises a German film, "Bei Unseren Helden ad Somme [With our heroes on the Somme]". This film was produced in response to the British film "The Batt...ARTV10348
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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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Death in the trenches
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Two soldiers have been fired upon in their trench at the Somme. One has died and lays face down in the mud, the other stands upright but is bleeding and in pain.ART02173
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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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Overhead cover in a deserted trench, the Somme
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Depicts the overhead cover, with piles of sandbags on top, of a trench on the Somme in 1917. In the foreground are used shells and debris. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to vi...ART09916
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recto: Coisy; verso: [sketch]
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Sketch of barbed wire entanglements and trenches with Coisy church spire in the background. The verso has an unfinished sketch that has been crossed out. Purchased with the assistance of the Austra...ART93173.007
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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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Somme winter
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Maker: Anderson, Wallace McCubbin, Louis Frederick Modelling Sub-section, Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne
The scene shown in this diorama is near a sunken road, “Fritz’s Folly”, mainly held by the Germans and taken and lost in some of the most difficult fighting of the war. It illustrates the appalling c...ART41020
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Switch trench, the Somme
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Depicts a soldier standing in a trench on duckboards, in the Somme, with a war damaged landscape in the background. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during th...ART09929
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The Last bit of the German trench on the Somme
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Depicts a German trench with the remains of debris, shells and duckboards on the Somme. Dyson wrote that this scene was of 'the last bit of the German trench on the Somme, drawn immediately after the ...ART09921
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The Somme front
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Maker: McBey, James
The work depicts the desolation of the battlefield emphasising the sombreness. Under a dull leaden sky the landscape is a mire of trenches and water-filled shell craters with a handful of broken trees...ART92519
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Trench raid near Houplines, April 1917
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Maker: Summerhayes, Edwin
A night scene of a trench raid near Houplines: ruined buildings and troops are silhouetted against a red sky with shell bursts and rockets. Major Edwin Summerhayes, originally an architect in Perth, W...ART03534
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Working party in trenches
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
This depiction of the Western Front shows Australian soldiers on the move across the landscape littered with the remnants of battle. In the right foreground, a medical officer searches the battle grou...ART00238