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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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Mending the wires at Wolff huts, Pozieres
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Depicts several Australian soldiers mending communication wires and power poles in a war damaged landscape in Pozieres. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front durin...ART02260
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Cease firing, enemy aeroplanes above
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Depicts a group of officers standing near an 8-inch howitzer gun in a war damaged landscape. They have ceased firing and one officer looks upwards, and indication of an aeroplane firing overhead. The ...ART02230
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Back at the waggon lines comparing souvenirs
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Depicts four soldiers standing around looking at their souvenirs collected during the war, including bayonets and a small gun. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fron...ART02220
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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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The batman (Compree washing madame)
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Depicts an Australian soldier leaning against a doorway with a bundle of dirty laundry at his feet, talking to a civilian French woman and asking her if she will do his washing for him. Will Dyson was...ART02431
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Wintery day on the Somme
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Depicts a soldier in uniform, wearing a great coat, standing at the entrance of a dugout, with a kerosene lamp hanging near the door, looking out onto a snowy winter landscape on the Somme in December...ART02411
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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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Reporting at the Battery
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Depicts two soldiers entering the tent of an Officer in Charge after returning from Forward Observation Post, reporting back to their battery. The Officer in Charge has been woken at night and sits up...ART02277
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The Lagnicourt guns
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Depicts a number of Australian soldiers inspecting field guns and ordanance at rest on the battlefiled, at Lagnicourt. In April 1917 Germans attacked Lagnicourt and Noreuil, initially successful, but ...ART02247
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Evening at Flers
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Depicts a war damaged landscape with ruined buildings, destroyed trees and power lines and parts of machinery. Flers is near Guedencourt, in north-eastern France, near the Somme. Will Dyson was the fi...ART02217
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Near Mametz
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Depicts an unidentified soldier, wearing greatcoat and cape and carrying protective (tin) helmet, standing near the trunk of a war damaged tree near Mametz, on the Western Front. Will Dyson was the f...ART02207
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The Shack, Trone's Wood
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Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, sitting forlornly under the edge of a shelter. Beside him is a standing figure, wearing a protective rain coat. Will Dyson was the first Australian official wa...ART02420
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Chateau ramparts, Heilly
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Depicts a number of soldiers at the base of the ramparts for the chateau at Heilly in April 1918. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War,...ART02400
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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
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3rd Machine Gun Battalion headquarters, Ribemont
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Depicts a landscape, with a large tree and fields, with the small figures of men and horses in the foreground. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the Fir...ART02357
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Reinforcements 1917
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Depicts a number of Australian soldiers in uniform seated and standing, reinforcements for the front line. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First W...ART02222.005
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Abandoned gun pit outside Flers
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Depicts an abandoned gun pit with sandbags, barbed wire and a wooden infrastructure, outside Flers about January 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during...ART09920
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Kaiser
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Depicts a caricature of a German officer; he is depicted as overweight, and wearing a helmet and greatcoat. The painting was 'removed from a house used as an Officer's Mess in Henencourt 1917', north ...ART00766
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On the road to Nieuport
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Depicts a war-damaged landscape with broken trees, destroyed artillery and an upturned, broken cart near Nieuport, Belgium. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front d...ART02205
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[Digger lying on his stomach] verso: [Reclining officer with spyglass]
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Depicts an image of an Australian digger in uniform lying on his stomach on the ground, observed from behind. On the verso is an image of an officer, seated on the ground, looking through a spyglass o...ART19710
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The misery of rest camps
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Depicts two Australian soldiers at rest inside a tent. They are huddling in the tent while it rains outside somewhere on the Western Front, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war art...ART02240.003
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Albert
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Depicts an image of the French village of Albert in December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling to France in Decemb...ART02401
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Unloading the wounded from ambulance at ACCS
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Depicts a field ambulance being unloaded by a number of men from the rear of the ambulance. Behind the ambulance are a number of hospital tents. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist...ART02264
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Peace at Martinpiuch
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Depicts a scene of a battlefield with war damaged trees in the left background, a damaged truck and a resting cannon. Martinpiuch is in north -western France, close to the Somme battlefield. Will Dyso...ART02204
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The Old Flers Road
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Depicts the war damaged landscape and snow covered roadway of the old Flers Road, near the Somme, France, with an upturned wagon, damaged tools and snow barricades. Will Dyson was the first Australian...ART90833
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Exchanging furphies
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Depicts two soldiers, one standing and one seated, in front of a large tent. The seated soldier is pulling something out of a bag on the ground. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist...ART02259
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Looking for the battalion
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Depicts two soldiers with full kit walking along a road, within a war damaged landscape, somewhere along the Western Front, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the...ART02239
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Entrance to Mouquet Farm dugouts
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Depicts the entrance, with wooden poles, covered in snow to the Mouquet Farm dugouts in France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, t...ART02219
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The Butte of Warlencourt
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Depicts a war damaged landscape in Belgium, with the Butte of Warlencourt in the background topped by two crosses. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the...ART02261
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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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Reinforcements 1917
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Depicts a number of Australian soldiers in uniform seated and standing, reinforcements for the front line. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First W...ART02222.012
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Reinforcements 1917
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Depicts a number of Australian soldiers in uniform seated and standing, reinforcements for the front line. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First W...ART02222.002
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The Raider, P...
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Depicts two soldiers in uniform standing on the edge of a battlefield watching, through binoculars, air raids on the battlefield. A number of search lights can be seen in the background of the image, ...ART02275
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An angry runner on the ridge
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Depicts a soldier wearing a tin helmet, in the lower right corner, moving away from a war damaged ridge. A dark and stormy sky, filled with shell bursts looms in the right hand corner of the drawing. ...ART02235
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The Windmill near Baizieux
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Depicts an old windmill, with a few small shrubs beside it, in a barren landscape, near Baizieux, France in May 1918. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during ...ART02372
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Nightfall near Delville Wood
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Depicts a scene of a war damaged, empty landscape, with a smashed tree and an electricity power pole, evening, near Delville Wood, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to vi...ART02362
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The end of the Somme Offensive
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Depicts a roadway filed with the heavy guns going out of action along the Pozieres Road, in France, after the end of the Somme offensive. In the foreground is a war damaged landscape, with areas of du...ART02332
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In the sand dunes at Nieuport
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Depicts a number of tents amongst sand dunes at Nieport, France. The tents formed the camp of the 2nd Australian tunnelling company near La Paune. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war arti...ART02312
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Church at Grevillers
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Depicts the remains of a very badly war damaged church, attacked by the Germans, near Grevillers, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First Wo...ART02382
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The misery of rest camps
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Depicts two Australian soldiers at rest inside a tent. They are huddling in the tent while it rains outside somewhere on the Western Front, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war art...ART02240.001
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Work done, Bazentin
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Depicts a soldier at rest, wearing his uniform, seated on a chair, covered with a coat, reading a book, in front of a small heater. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the...ART02218
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Bapaume church
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Depicts the severely damaged remains of the Bapaume church, with a statue in the foreground. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, trav...ART02285.001
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The Deserted Somme, evening, near Bazentin
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Depicts a deserted Somme landscape, with wide fields, a road in the foreground, and a small bush on the right. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the Fir...ART02360
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Camouflaged gun position, Hill 60
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Depicts a camouflaged gun position, with field guns and piles of artillery draped in camouflage netting at Hill 60, near Ypres, in August 1917. In the foreground is a soldier and on the horizon are pu...ART09913
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Reinforcements 1917
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Depicts a number of Australian soldiers in uniform seated and standing, reinforcements for the front line. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First W...ART02222.003
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The Cook's Return ("Didn't I just make Paris sit up!")
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Depicts the figure of a cook returning from a visit to Paris, talking to a group of seated soldiers, inside a tunnel or bunker. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fro...ART02428
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Linesmen at work, La Houssoye
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Depicts two linesmen up a telegraph pole, repairing or winding wires near La Houssoys, on the Somme in April 1918. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the...ART02408
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Sunset from Wolfe Huts
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Depicts a sunset over a barren landscape at the Somme, France, from Wolfe Huts, in 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelli...ART02373
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German prisoners at the Corps Cage, Bazentin
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Depicts a group of German soldiers in a temporary holding 'cage' at Bazentin, France, before being sent to permanent prisoner of war camp.The soldiers all have forlorn expressions on their faces. Wil...ART02363
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Resting near Querrieu
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Depicts a landscape, with a large tree in the foreground, and men setting up tents in the background, near Querrieu, France, during the summer of 1917. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war...ART02353
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Deserted, Cocoa Avenue, Delville Wood
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Depicts a deserted roadway, surrounded by the debris of broken fences, war damaged buildings and damaged trees at Delville Wood. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fr...ART02333
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Signaller, 2nd Main Line Gun Battalion
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Depicts a portrait of a Signaller from the 2nd Main Line Gun Battalion, wearing a tin helmet and smoking a pipe, sitting on top of a wagon, holding the reins of the horse in front of him. Will Dyson w...ART02323
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Patrolling in no-man's-land on the Somme
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Depicts two unidentified soldiers walking through the mist in the war damaged landscape of No-Man's-Land, the Somme in France. The soldier in the rear has his rifle over his shoulder. Will Dyson was t...ART02313
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Front line in railway cutting, Albert
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Depicts the frontline with trenches, debris, concrete dugouts and damaged power lines above, at Albert, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the Fi...ART09924
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The peasant who refused to leave Barleux
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Depicts an elderly French peasant woman, wearing a scarf and apron, digging and working on farm. In the background is an 8 inch Breech Loading Howitzer Mark IV field gun and behind this, the silhouett...ART02340
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Australian motor repair shop, Morbecque
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Depicts the interior of an Australian motor repair workshop, with mechanics working on engines, at Morbecque, near Picarde in northern France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist t...ART02320
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Collecting props for Bullecourt
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Depicts a covered wagon on a roadway collecting 'props', such as poles and bits of wood, in a war damaged landscape. In the background are two Nissan huts. Will Dyson was the first Australian official...ART02310
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A guest
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Depicts three men seated in a room, talking and resting. A wine bottle and two cups can be seen on the floor in front on them. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fron...ART02380
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The Sugar refinery, Le Transloy
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Depicts a badly damaged sugar refinery, with the remains of buildings in the background and scaffolding and barbed wire in the foreground at Le Transloy, France, April 1917. Will Dyson was the first A...ART02371
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In the Switch Trench near Flers
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Depicts an image of part of a switch trench, with duckboards and sandbags, and a soldier wearing a tin helmet in the foreground, near Flers, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war ar...ART02361
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Blown out water point, Pozieres
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Depicts a damaged water point, with a water tank and scaffolding, in the landscape at Pozieres, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First Worl...ART02351
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Gun Avenue, near Martinpuich, after the German retreat
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Depicts a lone soldier walking along a roadway, a gun avenue, through a war damaged landscape, after the German retreat. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front duri...ART02331
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Nieuport under shell fire
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Depicts two soldiers, one standing and one seated, observing the shelling of Nieuport, on the horizon. The shelling took place outside the 13th Battery Head Quarters near Pelican Bridge, Nieuport. Wil...ART02391
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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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German prisoners at Dickebusch
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Depicts the head and shoulders portraits of three German prisoners, one wearing glasses, held at Dickebusch. Now called Dikkebus, Dickebusch is a village and commune in the province of West Flanders, ...ART02405
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Australian Horse Lines near Bapaume
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Depicts a number of horses tethered under a temporary sheltar, with a soldier and cart nearby. The image is of the Australian horse lines near Bapaume. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war...ART02346
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Tired, wet and disillusioned
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Depicts three weary soldiers, dressed in their coats and tin helmets, seated or leaning against a pole in a war damaged landscape in France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to ...ART02326
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Ypres from the ramparts
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Depicts a view of war damaged Ypres, including the ruins of the Cloth Hall and houses in the town. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War...ART02316
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Runners' relay post near Albert
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Depicts a road going through a war damaged landscape, with two soldiers seated on the left of the road. War damaged trees and power lines can be seen in the background. Will Dyson was the first Austra...ART02386
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Corps troops supply columns camp near Poperinghe
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Depicts a number of tents, with sandbags around the base, in the foreground at Coulmn's Camp near Poperinghe, France and trucks, huts and power poles in the background. Will Dyson was the first Austra...ART02376
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Corp Troops 'K' column, mechanical workshop, Morbecque
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Depicts a soldiers seated, working on a machine engine, while another leans up against a piece of machinery and observes the other soldier working in the mecahinical workshop at Morbecque, France. Wil...ART02366
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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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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 sh...ART02299.015
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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 sh...ART02299.001
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The cookers near Villers-Bretonneux
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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 ...ART02296.002
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With the tunnellers near Nieuport
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Depicts a group of Australian soldiers (tunnellers). One is seated and reading a letter, while another three are seated and playing cards. One tunnellers stands, wearing a tin helemt, his head resting...ART02300.008
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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 sh...ART02299.016
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With the tunnellers near Nieuport
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Depicts a group of Australian soldiers (tunnellers). One is seated and reading a letter, while another three are seated and playing cards. One tunnellers stands, wearing a tin helmet, his head resting...ART02300.009
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Pommiers Redoubt
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Depicts two unidentified soldiers of the 5th Division, 14th Brigade getting a hot meal. One is wearing a scarf around his head, the other a cape, and both are wearing gum boots. Will Dyson was the fir...ART02212
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Alone with his God
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Depicts the figure of a bareheaded Kaiser Wilhelm II kneeling at foot of steps before God, who is a larger version of the Emperor himself. Beside the Kaiser incense rises from a bowl containing the re...ART19896
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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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German pathos
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Depicts a forlorn looking Kaiser Wilhelm II, wearing formal attire and a hat, crying and clasping hands with a hairy, two horned beast. The cartoon was published in the 'Daily Sketch', London, 10 Apri...ART02241
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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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With the tunnellers near Nieuport
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Depicts a group of Australian soldiers (tunnellers). One is seated and reading a letter, while another three are seated and playing cards. One tunnellers stands, wearing a tin helemt, his head resting...ART02300.002
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The cookers near Villers-Bretonneux
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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 ...ART02296.008
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Resting after the stunt
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Depicts men of either 1st or 2nd Division at the waggon lines behind the front on 21 September 1917, after the fighting at Polygon Wood on 20 September. 'Stunt' was a common term to describe military ...ART02271