| Places | |
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| Accession Number | ART03192 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | Overall: 18.4 x 23.5 cm |
| Object type | Sketchbook |
| Physical description | combination pencil ink and watercolour on paper |
| Maker |
Meldrum, J B |
| Place made | Belgium |
| Date made | c.1916-1919 |
| Conflict |
Period 1910-1919 First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
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Sketchbook containing 24 pages of drawings made behind the battle lines in France and Belgium
Description
A sketch book containing 24 pages of pencil drawings and watercolours of various scenes behind the battle lines in France and Belgium. This includes pen and ink and watercolour sketches of trench life, camping facilities, ruins and abandoned battlefields. The sketchbook is Australian War Records issue, with khaki coloured linen covers and an elastic strap on the front cover. The artist, Joseph Burton Meldrum (service no. 7257), was a Sapper with the 5th Field Coy Engineers, Australian Imperial Force.
- Not titled [Australian soldier in front of ruins]
- Not titled [Convoy of troops on a French road]
- Not titled [Military camp huts]
- Not titled [Workshop and base for trench supplies]
- Not titled [bow huts]
- not titled [dead horses in snow]
- not titled [soldiers creating souvenirs]
- not titled [track and dump looking towards the front line]
- not titled [buildng ruins at Pozieres]
- not titled [mine crater at La Boiselle]
- Not titled [German monument at Bapaume Cemetery]
- Not titled [interior of Nissan hut]
- Not titled [Traffic on Cambrai Road]
- Not titled [German night bombing]
- Not titled [Sapper at Ploegsteert]
- Not titled [Entrance to trench dug out]
- Not titled [A digger's home]
- Not titled [triptych of a Zeppelin]
- Not titled [Three wheeled cart and team]
- Not titled [Destroyed German gun]
- Not titled [St Quentin canal]
- not titled [grave of Edith Cavell]