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  1. Sentry on duty at Brigade Headquarters, Fricourt

    Art

    Depicts the figure of a soldier in uniform, wearing a tin helmet, and holding a rifle with a bayonet attached, standing on sentry duty in a war damaged landscape at Fricourt, France. Will Dyson was th...

    ART02407

  2. The Old Flers Road

    Art

    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

  3. German prisoners at Dickebusch

    Art

    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

  4.

    Work done, Bazentin

    Art

    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

  5.

    Exchanging furphies

    Art

    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

  6. Reinforcements 1917

    Art

    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

  7. Front line in railway cutting, Albert

    Art

    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

  8.

    The batman (Compree washing madame)

    Art

    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

  9.

    Wintery day on the Somme

    Art

    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

  10. The misery of rest camps

    Art

    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

  11. Traffic control near Baizieux

    Art

    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

  12.

    Reinforcements 1917

    Art

    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

  13. Reinforcements 1917

    Art

    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

  14. Resting near Querrieu

    Art

    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

  15.

    Patrolling in no-man's-land on the Somme

    Art

    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

  16. Sunset from Wolfe Huts

    Art

    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

  17. German prisoners at the Corps Cage, Bazentin

    Art

    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

  18.

    Unloading the wounded from ambulance at ACCS

    Art

    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

  19.

    German prisoners near Messines

    Art

    Depicts a standing Australian soldier guarding two German soldiers seated on the ground. One of the seated soldiers wears a German Field Cap, while the soldier on the right has a bandaged head and han...

    ART02214

  20.

    Peace at Martinpiuch

    Art

    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

  21. Mud lane, Gueudecourt

    Art

    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

  22. Tired, wet and disillusioned

    Art

    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

  23. Ypres from the ramparts

    Art

    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

  24. Runners' relay post near Albert

    Art

    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

  25. Corps troops supply columns camp near Poperinghe

    Art

    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

  26. Corp Troops 'K' column, mechanical workshop, Morbecque

    Art

    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

  27. Bapaume church

    Art

    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

  28.

    The Cook's Return ("Didn't I just make Paris sit up!")

    Art

    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

  29.

    Linesmen at work, La Houssoye

    Art

    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

  30. War weariness ('Ain't this bloomin' war over yet?')

    Art

    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

  31.

    The end of the Somme Offensive

    Art

    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

  32. In the Switch Trench near Flers

    Art

    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

  33.

    [Japan and Australia brought together by the Pacific]

    Art

    Depicts a figure of a man, representing 'Australia', shaking hands with another figure of a man, representing 'Japan'. They both stand on the palms of the hands of a mythical creature, emerging from t...

    ART50297

  34. A Nissen hut camp on the Somme

    Art

    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

  35. 3rd Machine Gun Battalion headquarters, Ribemont

    Art

    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

  36. Refugees after German offensive

    Art

    Depicts a French man and women viewed from the rear, carrying their belongings, with their cow walking behind them. The man and woman are refugees, driven from their homes by the German offensive on t...

    ART02317

  37.

    Opposite my billet, Rue d'Au

    Art

    Depicts a view of the back of a man, wearing a cloak and hat, looking up towards the face of a young woman, who peers out of a loft window at him. The window is above an old barber's shop with a tiled...

    ART02203

  38.

    Old German front line outside Pozieres

    Art

    Depicts an image of the war damaged landscape of the German frontline near Pozieres, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, trav...

    ART02213

  39. Switch trench, the Somme

    Art

    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

  40. Old Left Brigade Headquarters near Flers

    Art

    Depicts a image of a shelter, the old Left Brigade Headquarters, near Flers, France, covered in sandbags, with piles of debris, duckboards and power lines near by. Will Dyson was the first Australian ...

    ART02378

  41. Gun pit, wet day, Hill 60

    Art

    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

  42. Blown out water point, Pozieres

    Art

    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

  43. Gun Avenue, near Martinpuich, after the German retreat

    Art

    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

  44.

    2nd Australian Division's memorial at the Windmill, Pozieres

    Art

    Depicts the 2nd Australian Division's memorial, a cross mounted on a pyramid of stones, at the location of the Windmill in Pozieres, France. Behind the memorial is a landscape with hills and a cloud f...

    ART02311

  45. Nieuport under shell fire

    Art

    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

  46. Reinforcements 1917

    Art

    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

  47. Australian Horse Lines near Bapaume

    Art

    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

  48.

    The Deserted Somme, evening, near Bazentin

    Art

    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

  49. Bringing up the rations near Suzanne

    Art

    Depicts a cart with rations and supplies on it being pulled by two horses. One soldier is seated on the horse, while one sits on the cart. They are moving through a war damaged landscape. Will Dyson w...

    ART02350

  50. The peasant who refused to leave Barleux

    Art

    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

  51. Australian motor repair shop, Morbecque

    Art

    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

  52. Collecting props for Bullecourt

    Art

    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

  53. The misery of rest camps

    Art

    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

  54.

    Kaiser

    Art

    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

  55. The Sugar refinery, Le Transloy

    Art

    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

  56.

    The Raider, P...

    Art

    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

  57.

    An angry runner on the ridge

    Art

    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

  58.

    On the road to Nieuport

    Art

    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

  59.

    Reporting at the Battery

    Art

    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

  60.

    The Lagnicourt guns

    Art

    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

  61.

    Evening at Flers

    Art

    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

  62.

    Near Mametz

    Art

    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

  63. Reinforcements 1917

    Art

    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...

    ART02222.014

  64. Hill 60

    Art

    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

  65.

    Going up to the line near Vaux

    Art

    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

  66. Delville Wood, looking towards Flers

    Art

    Depicts the war damaged and bomb blasted landscape of Delville Wood, looking towards Flers on the horizon. In the foreground are the remains of a number of damaged trees and some barbed wire. Will Dys...

    ART02242

  67.

    Sunrise at Gueudecourt

    Art

    Depicts a war damaged landscape at Guedecourt, France, at sunrise with remnants of buildings and smashed trees. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the Fi...

    ART02232

  68. Domestic scene in the Somme

    Art

    Depicts a number of soldiers seated, resting, reading or drinking near two tents in the French countryside, near the Somme. The soldiers are probably members of a salvage company operating on the dese...

    ART09908

  69. Dressing a wounded runner, Hill 60

    Art

    Depicts several soldiers, either kneeling or standing, around a runner who is having a wound bandaged. The soldiers and the wounded man are inside a tunnel at Hill 60, near Ypres in August 1917. Will ...

    ART02404

  70. Overhead cover in a deserted trench, the Somme

    Art

    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

  71.

    Abandoned gun pit outside Flers

    Art

    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

  72.

    Abandoned trench, the Somme

    Art

    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

  73.

    The Windmill near Baizieux

    Art

    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

  74. Nightfall near Delville Wood

    Art

    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

  75.

    Near Henencourt

    Art

    Depicts a landscape with trees and people on a road, near Henencourt, France in 1918. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling ...

    ART02342

  76. In the sand dunes at Nieuport

    Art

    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

  77. Road near Ribemont

    Art

    Depicts several soldiers walking along a road near Ribemont, in the French countryside, with hills in the background during the Summer of 1918. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist ...

    ART09907

  78. Near Bresle, or Buire

    Art

    Depicts a landscape, with the badly damaged buildings of the village of Bresle or Buire, in France. The front line of Bresle or Buire, April 1918, with the German line beyond the copse. Will Dyson was...

    ART09917

  79.

    Signaller, 2nd Main Line Gun Battalion

    Art

    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

  80. Deserted, Cocoa Avenue, Delville Wood

    Art

    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

  81. A guest

    Art

    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

  82. Back with the 'Heads', Querrieu

    Art

    Depicts a Nissan hut and other buildings beside a road, in a French landscape. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling to Fran...

    ART02327

  83.

    The Shack, Trone's Wood

    Art

    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

  84.

    Chateau ramparts, Heilly

    Art

    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

  85. From an Australian Battalion Headquarters in Marrett Wood

    Art

    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

  86. Early morning on the Bazentin Road

    Art

    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

  87. Ribemont sugar refinery

    Art

    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

  88. Starlight Steve interrupts a friendly game

    Art

    Depicts a group of officers in uniform playing cards in the billet at Albert on the Western Front. They are about to be interrupted by 'Starlight Steve', a notorious German nocturnal raider. Will Dyso...

    ART02315

  89. Gas cases in the 3rd Field Ambulance, Aresnes- Bapaume

    Art

    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

  90.

    [Digger lying on his stomach] verso: [Reclining officer with spyglass]

    Art

    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

  91. Yanks and a veteran ('As long as you are there to tell us what to do!')

    Art

    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

  92. Hanging about

    Art

    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

  93. Not afraid of the Boche (An old French peasant who remained at work in the forward area)

    Art

    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

  94.

    Looking for the battalion

    Art

    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

  95.

    Entrance to Mouquet Farm dugouts

    Art

    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

  96. A night march past Querrieu

    Art

    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

  97. Back with the Civilians

    Art

    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

  98. Along the Bapaume Road

    Art

    Depicts a convoy of covered trucks, carrying soldiers, moving along the Bapaume Road, France. A number of soldiers, carrying accessories and packs are walking along following the trucks. Will Dyson wa...

    ART02387

  99. Evening with the 3rd Field Ambulance, Bapaume

    Art

    Depicts soldiers sitting around two tents in a landscape, with a summer evening sky above.The soldiers are members of the 3rd Field Ambulance at Bapaume. Will Dyson was the first Australian official w...

    ART02324

  100. Breakfast at Ypres

    Art

    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

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