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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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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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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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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
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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
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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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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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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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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
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Summer day near Ville-sur-Ancre
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Depicts two Australian soldiers resting and dozing against the wheel of a cart. On top of the cart is an empty wine barrel. The soldiers are seated on the edge of a trench in a war damaged landscape. ...ART02295.008
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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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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
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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
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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...ART02240.004
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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 ...ART02215.007
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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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Sugar refinery, Pozieres
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Depicts the damaged remains and wreckage of sugarbeet processing and refining plant at Pozieres, on the Western Front in France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the fr...ART02308
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Gathering fuel, Delville Wood
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Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, gathering and carrying firewood from the broken and war damaged remains of Delville Wood during the winter, December 1916. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...ART02281.004
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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
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Sink on sight
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Depicts the figure of a German naval officer, possibly Admiral Scheer (who conducted the German submarine campaign against shipping) and the ghost of SS Lusitania, in the form of a young woman, wearin...ART90449
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Going over the old ground with B..., Pozieres
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Depicts three men standing in what had been the battlefield of Pozieres on the Western Front. The three men are, from right to left, a soldier in uniform with full kit, wearing a tin helmet, C.E.W. Be...ART02225
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Corps Headquarters grooms' mess in Chateau Heilly
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Depicts a number of soldiers and officers seated, resting and talking at the grooms' and other ranks' mess in the Chateau at Heilly, France, the Headquarters of 1 Anzac Corps. Will Dyson was the first...ART02409
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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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Back at Mouquet Farm
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Depicts two unidentified infantrymen, of the 4th Australian division, possibly part of a Vickers machine gun squad, near Mouquet Farm. The man in front is holding a water cooling can for a Vickers Mar...ART02248
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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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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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An Australian Field Artillery Brigade Headquarters, near Nieuport
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Depicts members of the 1st Australian Imperial Force, Australian Siege Artillery Brigade and a view from the headquarters of Artillery Brigade. One man is seated and talking on the telephone, while th...ART02343
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Traffic block, early morning near Cosy Corner on the Somme
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Depicts a row of mule drawn wagons, riders and soldiers stopped in the snow at 'Cosy Corner' on the Somme, France. 'Cosy Corner' was a traffic police control point leading to access to Trones Wood. Wi...ART02393
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Shopping in Albert
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Depicts two soldiers, one in a great coat and hat, the other in uniform, boots and a tin helmet, standing near a window in a building where a French woman sells 'various articles' (French sign on the ...ART02396
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Home comforts in the tunnels, Hill 60
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Depicts members of the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 1st Australian Tunnelling Company showing two men sitting in dug out in a tunnel, furnished with camp beds and boxes for tables and seats. The dug...ART02280.005
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With Manton's Guns, Hill 60
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Depicts several soldiers seated in trenches and dugouts, some checking over canteen accounts, on the battlefield, while explosions go off on the horizon. The soldiers are members of the 1st Australian...ART02262.008
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The village, I think, is Ribemont
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Depicts a scene of the village of Ribemont with a view of the village showing damage to buildings, and a notice in the foreground warning of the presence of gas in the village. This drawing was likel...ART09927
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Preparing the brazier
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Depicts two soldiers, each wearing heavy long coats and hats, in front of a tent. One is standing and gazing into a small fire burning in a brazier, while the other is seated, warming his hands in fro...ART02297.004
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With the guns at Lavieville
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Depicts two soldiers at rest with their ammunition, guns and a donkey at Lavieville, near Amiens, in north-western France. The gun is an 18-pounder and piles of shells rest in right fore- ground of th...ART02226.009
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Ordnance workshops, Cambrai Road
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Depicts a number of Australian soldiers preparing and working with field guns and ordnance at a workshop near Bapaume. The image shows a view of part of the ordnance workshop, with ruined buildings in...ART02258.006
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The Dynamo, Hill 60
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Depicts two Australian miners of the First Australian Tunnelling Company who at Hill 60, near Ypres in Belgium, were involved in tunnelling through sandy dunes with machinery; here a dynamo for electr...ART02209.013
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Fletch and Dan coming back to Igri Corner from Lagincourt
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Depicts two soldiers of 2nd Australian Division in full kit going along a communication trench near Igri Corner, France. Drawn near the front line at Bullecourt. 'Fletch' was possibly the head of the ...ART02236.015
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The waggon-loading post, Vaux
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Depicts two Australian soldiers in uniform, near Vaux, in Belgium; one of the soldiers is a stretcher bearer, with two General Service wagons, converted to horse drawn ambulances beside the road. The ...ART02211.004
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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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Camel cacolet
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Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts a camel with a cacolet on his back which is used for carrying sick or wounded men, being led by an Arab on foot. Henry Gullett stated 'It would be scarcely possible to devise a more acute tort...ART00217