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  1. Dead beat, the tunnel, Hill 60

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    Depicts an exhausted Australian soldier wearing full kit and greatcoat, sleeping in a tunnel during the Third Battle of Ypres. Indistinct figures of two other soldiers seen in the background. Dyson, a...

    ART02210

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    Gibralter (A German strong post at Pozieres)

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    Depicts a war grave and ruins of a German strong point known as ''Gibralter", finally taken by Australians on the Western Front in 1918. Dyson was on the Pozieres battlefields in April 1917 and August...

    ART02306

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    Stepping stones to higher things

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    Depicts a caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II climbing up a huge pile of human skulls, representing war dead, while smoking ruins appear in the background. Dyson's distinctive biting satire aimed at war a...

    ART02265

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    A reputation befouled

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    Maker: Daily News

    Depicts the cartoon published in the London 'Daily News', 26 October 1915, commenting on the execution of Edith Cavell, a British nurse accused by the Germans of being a spy. The slumped and bloodied ...

    ART02419

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    Coming out on the Somme

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    This work is from Dyson's early battlefield observations. It shows exhausted Australian troops, draped in waterproof sheets, plodding through the rain and mud as they reach Montauban, a ruined village...

    ART02276

  6. Tommies staging in the tunnels (In the Tunnel- Hill 60)

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    Maker: Vincent, Day, Brooks and Sons

    Depicts an image of soldiers from the British Army, possibly the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) sleeping in tunnels. The 'Vine Street' sign on wall refers to street of that name in London. The e...

    ART02246.001

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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

  8. 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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    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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    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 s...

    ART02299.002

  11. 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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    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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    Messines, morning of the offensive

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    Depicts a war damaged landscape at dawn, part of the front line at Messines, with the remains of trees, trenches and barbed wire visible and shells exploding on the horizon. The 11th Machine Gun Compa...

    ART02221.003

  14. First bombardment of Hazebrouch

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    Depicts a soldier carrying an officer's valise on his shoulders as he walks along a road way in a French village. He walks along with women and children also carrying their belongings and bags. The wo...

    ART02291

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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...

    ART02285.005

  16. Easter dawn and anti-Christ

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    Depicts a caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II amid wreckage and chaos. One of his feet rests on a skull and the other on a broken column, symbolising the death of civilisation. He holds a sword and globe ...

    ART02233

  17. Compensation (back at the waggon lines)

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    Maker: Vincent, Day, Brooks and Sons

    Depicts a young Australian soldier with his horse talking to young French woman near waggon lines. In the background are other horses and waggons. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war arti...

    ART02274.001

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    Deserted horse lines near Pommier Redoubt

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    Depicts a deserted wooden building draped with cloths, next to a Nissan hut in a war damaged landscape on the Western Front. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front...

    ART02286.007

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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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    Our pillbox, Westhoek Ridge, October

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    Depicts three soldiers wearing tin helmets looking out across the battlefield at Westhoek Ridge. A wrecked pillbox appears in the background with two gun limbers near it. Will Dyson was the first Aust...

    ART02268

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