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Forging ahead
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Maker: Pears, Charles
Depicts three unidentified ships steaming through swell in rough seas.ART50127
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Captain Bean typing despatches after a hard day at Polygon Wood
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Depicts a profile portrait of the head of Charles Bean, official war correspondent, wearing glasses. Australian-born, though raised in Britain, Charles Bean returned to Australia in 1904. He became a ...ART09931
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Harleyville Wood, near Proyart, France [Chalk quarry]
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Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts the chalk quarry in the ravine which was 150 yards from the front line in the Harleyville Wood, near Proyart, France. The quarry was used by the Medical Officer (MO) as a regimental aid post, ...ART02562.016
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Trees used by the lookouts, Bita Paka Road, near second trench
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
The majority of the composition is filled with a large tree on the right. Two people are standing at the foot of this tree, and there is a smaller tree to the left. These are trees that were used by t...ART03640
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Khurbet Sihan
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Maker: Lambert, George
Khurbet Sihan is south-east of Gaza and a site of fighting during the first and second battles for Gaza in 1917. Major Charles Stodart, who had fought in the second of these battles of 19 April 1917, ...ART02707
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Bita Paka Road, near the second trench
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
An image of a dirt road, Bita Paka road near Kabakaul in New Britain, bending to the left and leading into dense foliage. Germans were encountered along Bita Paka road and it was the scene of fighting...ART03642
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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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Nganampa Manta (our Country)
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Maker: Fielding, Robert Punnagka
This drawing by Robert Fielding was made in response to the Memorial's 2017 commission with the APY Lands Art Centre Collective and tells the story of Aboriginal Australians defending Country. Using m...AWM2018.594.1
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Hill 63, Battalion Headquarters, winter
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Painting of Hill 63, the Battalion Headquarters in Belgium during the First World War. The shelter was known as the `Catacombs' (a massive system of underground bivouacs) was dug by the 1st Australian...ART00169
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Food will win the war
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Maker: Chambers, Charles Edward United States Food Administration Rusling Wood, Lithographers
First World War poster issued by the United States Food Administration (No.18). It features an illustration of immigrants arriving in New York harbour. The statue of Liberty is visible in the backgrou...ARTV00391
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Harleyville Wood
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Maker: Gould, Charles Henry
Depicts a battle scene in Harleville Wood, near Proyart, France. The sketch captures the moment when a tank crashed into a tree on a steep bank near the main road. In the right foreground are two Germ...ART02562.017
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Lieutenant Lawrence McCarthy
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Maker: Wheeler, Charles
Depicts a uniformed portrait of Lieutenant Lawrence Dominic McCarthy, VC, 16th Battalion, A.I.F, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his work on the 23 August 1918 near Madam Wood, east of Verman...ART09424
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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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recto: Achi Baba, from Tommy's Trench, Helles; verso: The top of the Taurus Mountains
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Maker: Lambert, George
Lambert wrote on 8 March 1919: "The old Bean [Charles Bean] had a great day among the old trenches about the plain before Krithia. Achi Baba makes a fine contour in the background and the plain is cov...ART02849
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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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Ford over the Jordan at Jisr Benat Yakub
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a scene of a ford over the Jordan River at Jisr Benat Yakub. A close up view of an Arab seated with goats and a donkey beneath a dark green sprawling tree, beside the Jordan river. To the left...ART02841
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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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Headquarters, 2nd Division, Glisy
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 2nd Australian Division Headquarters in woods near Glisy, with tents, Nissen huts, barracks and motor vehicles depicting camp life. There is a group of soldi...ART03495
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Night attack by 13th Brigade on Villers-Bretonneux
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
Depicts the action in which Cliff Sadlier and Charlie Stokes of the 51st Battalion were awarded the Victoria Cross and Distinguished Conduct Medal respectively. The battalion took part in the counter ...ART03028
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Mont St Quentin
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Maker: Gilbert, Charles Web Mountford, Arlo McCubbin, Louis Frederick
This diorama relates to Mont St Quentin on 1 September 1918 when the Germans fell back to the line of the Somme west and south of Péronne, closely followed by the 5th and 2nd Divisions. Here the right...ART41018