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  1. Aid post near Doyle's Post

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    Depicts a soldier walking along a snow covered road, towards the damaged remains of a post, with a gate and road sign nearby. The image was created by Dyson on the 'morning of second Messines offensiv...

    ART02330

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    Towards Lagnicourt

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    Depicts a soldier seated in a trench, wearing a steel helmet, while explosions can be seen on the horizon. Dyson noted that this scene was of 'communication trench in the neighbourhood of Lagnicourt'....

    ART09922

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    Eternal waiting

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    Depicts three soldiers, two sitting on ground, all wearing great coats and waterproof capes and carrying full kit. This drawing was originally intended by Dyson as a battalion Christmas card, and he w...

    ART02303

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    A sketch made in France in 1916

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    Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of a soldier, wearing a steel helmet. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling to France ...

    ART19770

  5. 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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    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

  7. 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

  8. 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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    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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    Going up to the line near Vaux

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    Depicts war damaged landscape near Vaux, the Somme with a line of soldiers with full kit returning to the front line, in the summer of 1918. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to ...

    ART02272

  11. Breakfast at Ypres

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    Depicts three soldiers, two sitting and one standing, around a small brazier preparing breakfast, near Ypres in France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front durin...

    ART02314

  12. 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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    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...

    ART02299.009

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    Labour battalion man

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    Depicts an unidentified labourer, wearing waterproof cape, rubber boots and a scarf tied over a protective tin helmet, resting on a spade. He has a contemplative expression on his face. Dyson was a so...

    ART02301

  15. Watching a German barrage on Villers-Bretonneux, from the brick stack, Bray Road

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    Depicts a soldier, wearing a tin helmet, sitting in a trench, watching the German barrage on the horizon. He is seated near a brick stack. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to vi...

    ART02328

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    [Company awaiting relief]

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    Depicts the 2nd Division, 22nd Battalion, a group of soldiers, most standing, one sitting on rock near Ville-sur-Ancre. The company of soldiers, wearing helmets and carrying packs, await relief. Will ...

    ART19603

  17. Walking wounded

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    Depicts two soldiers seen from behind, the one on the right has his head bandaged beneath his helmet, while the soldier on the left has his uniform tunic over his shoulders, and his right arm over the...

    ART02370

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    One of the old platoon

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    Depicts an Australian soldier in full uniform, with a large pack on his back, standing in a war damaged landscape bending over to pay tribute at the grave of a dead Australian soldier in Pozieres. The...

    ART02245.002

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    Fatigue parties in the moonlight near Flers

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    Maker: Crozier, Frank

    Depicts a group of soldiers some carrying kit bags, one carrying some duckboard through a battlefield nears Flers at night. Frank Rossitor Crozier was a painter and illustrator. Born in Maryborough, ...

    ART00224

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    Stretcher bearers near Butte de Warlencourt

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    Depicts two stretcher bearers in full uniform, wearing tin helmets, carrying a stretcher with a wounded man across a war damaged landscape. This work was reproduced in 'Australia at War: Drawings at t...

    ART02266

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