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  • Brigade Headquarters: Signallers and Linesmen Brigade Headquarters: Signallers and Linesmen

    (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918

    image: a group of stylised figures installing communication lines outside a Brigade Headquarters housed in a dugout. Light shines down on the scene from the left illuminating one side of the figures.

  • HMS Lord Clive : shelling the German forts on the Belgian Coast with her 18-inch gun HMS Lord Clive : shelling the German forts on the Belgian Coast with her 18-inch gun

    (art) Made by: Parkes, Oscar (OBE) 1918

    image: a starboard stern quarter view of a large warship at sea, firing her large gun.

  • Royal Engineers Royal Engineers

    (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

    whole: the image occupies the majority of the lower three-quarters, with the title and text separate and positioned in the upper quarter, in blue. Further text is separate and positioned lower right, also in blue. The title and text are set against a...

  • The War Told for You in Pictures The War Told for You in Pictures

    (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1941-10-02

    whole: the 14 images occupy the majority. The title is separate and positioned across the top edge, in black. The text is separate and placed in the upper centre and beneath each image as a caption, also in black. All set against a white background....

  • London Docks: Building Caissons for Mulberry London Docks: Building Caissons for Mulberry

    (art) Made by: Macdonald, Frances 1944-04-01

    image: A dockyard scene with three large caissons in the background. A large number of wooden planks float in the water in the foreground.

  • A Pumping Station A Pumping Station

    (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-07-21

    image: a British Army military policemen, wearing khaki shorts and pith helmet, stands beside a checkpoint hut at the entrance to a water pumping station. Behind him is a building, with a bell tent just visible in the left background. The landscape to...

  • Australian Engineers excavating a Well Australian Engineers excavating a Well

    (art) Made by: McBey, James 1918-05-01

    image: two Australian Army engineers at work in a trench immediately before a narrow slit in the side of a brick-built well. A pick lies on the ground to the right.

  • The First Anzac Jordan Bridge : Australian Light Horse crossing the swollen flood of the Jordan on the first pontoon bridge thrown across the river The First Anzac Jordan Bridge : Australian Light Horse crossing the swollen flood of the Jordan on the first pontoon bridge thrown across the river

    (art) Made by: McBey, James 1918-03-23

    image: men on horseback of the Australian Light House look on from the left as one of their number begins to move across a pontoon bridge over the River Jordan.

  • Tank Trap, 1979 Tank Trap, 1979

    (art) Made by: Stevens, Norman 1979

    image: in the immediate foreground is a tank trap, a structure designed to prevent the movement of hostile tanks in the event of an invasion, set amongst a pile of large grey rocks. This structure appears to be placed on a stony beach, with a few...

  • Bomb Disposal : Lashing a bomb before hauling it to the surface Bomb Disposal : Lashing a bomb before hauling it to the surface

    (art) Made by: Town, N B

    image: a bomb is wedged next to a rocky ledge in a crater. One man lies on top of the ledge helping another, who stands underneath, to pass a rope around the bomb.

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