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Mud lane, Gueudecourt
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Depicts a mud laneway leading round Gueudecourt, after the German retreat of 1917, with a war damaged landscape with smashed trees. In the background are a Nissen hut and pieces of sheet metal. Will D...ART09918
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In Bapaume the day after its occupation
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Depicts two soldiers, wearing waterproof capes and tin helmets, apprehensively walking through wreckage of the town of Bapaume in March 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to...ART02318
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Yanks and a veteran ('As long as you are there to tell us what to do!')
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Depicts a young soldier, wearing a tin helmet and carrying a rifle, standing talking to two other soldiers, in the trenches. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front ...ART02426
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Hanging about
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Depicts a group of soldiers, wearing uniforms and tin helmets, sitting idly and resting outside company headquarters. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during ...ART02416
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Not afraid of the Boche (An old French peasant who remained at work in the forward area)
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Depicts an elderly and unidentified French peasant woman pushing a handcart filled with straw past line of marching soldiers. The term 'Boche' in the title refers to French derogatory slang at the ti...ART02406
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Ribemont sugar refinery
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Depicts a soldier in the foreground, carrying a sheet of corrugated iron above his head. In the background are badly damaged buildings, including a large column. Will Dyson was the first Australian of...ART02375
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From an Australian Battalion Headquarters in Marrett Wood
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Depicts a view of a landscape, with a winding road, trees, piles of debris and a seated and standing soldier from the Australian Battalion's Headquarters in Marriot Wood, France. Will Dyson was the fi...ART02365
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Early morning on the Bazentin Road
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Depicts a road winding through a war damaged landscape in France, with smashed trees along the edge. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World W...ART02345
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Gas cases in the 3rd Field Ambulance, Aresnes- Bapaume
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Depicts several tents at the 3rd Field Ambulance Hospital, at night. Inside the tent in the foreground can be seen gas attack patients lying on portable beds. Will Dyson was the first Australian offic...ART02385
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Sunset near Ligny Thilloy
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Depicts a war damaged landscape, denuded of trees at sunset. A road way, leading to Ligny Thilloy, winds through the landscape to the right of the scene. The landscape is that immediately after the fa...ART09909
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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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Civilian cemetery on the Somme battlefield
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Depicts a war damaged and smashed tree and a number of broken tombstones in the civilian cemetery on the Somme battlefield, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the...ART02358
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Gun pit, wet day, Hill 60
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Depicts a field gun in a trench, under a temporary shelter, covered with a tarpaulin, in August 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World ...ART02388
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A Nissen hut camp on the Somme
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Depicts a camp site on the Somme in 1917, consisting of a number of Nissen huts, piles of supplies, a rubbish dump and men working on a power pole. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war art...ART02367
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Traffic control near Baizieux
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Depicts an Australian soldier mounted on a horse standing in a road way, in front of another soldier, who wears a long coat. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front ...ART02369
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Hill 60
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Depicts a landscape, with Hill 60 in the background, and the entrance to the Australian Brigade Headquarters in the foreground. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fro...ART02329
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On the Road
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Depicts a large number of soldiers, with horses, supplies and a portable kitchen, walking up a road. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World W...ART02319
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A night march past Querrieu
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Depicts a large number of troops marching along a roadway, as part of a march past, at night, under moonlight near Querrieu, France in April 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war arti...ART02413
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Back with the Civilians
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Depicts a seated soldier, in the foreground, observing a young French woman, who wears a head scarf. Behind them are the war damaged buildings of a French village. Will Dyson made the work in the Somm...ART02403
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War weariness ('Ain't this bloomin' war over yet?')
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Depicts a soldier sitting near the entrance steps to a cellar, near an improvised heater. The painting makes comments on 'the heroism of endurance'. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war ar...ART02425