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  • Mont St Eloi Mont St Eloi

    (art) Made by: Nash, Paul 1917

    image: a scene showing the ruins of the church at Mont St Eloi. The figures of lifeless trees dominate the foreground, and there is a soldier standing on the hill to the left. He appears to be looking out at the brilliant sun that beams down over the...

  • The Mule Track The Mule Track

    (art) Made by: Nash, Paul 1918

    image: The view across a battlefield undergoing heavy bombardment. The shattered landscape is disected by an angular duckboard path, along which a mule train is travelling, their small figues just visible in the distance. The animals rear and panic at a...

  • Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917 Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917

    (art) Made by: Nash, Paul 1918

    image: Three British soldiers waiting in a trench. One stands leaning against the wall of the trench, another sits on a step resting one arm behind his head. The third stands up looking out over the broken landscape beyond. There are the remains of a...

  • The Menin Road The Menin Road

    (art) Made by: Nash, Paul 1919

    image: A devastated battlefield pocked with rain-filled shell-holes, flooded trenches and shattered trees lit by unearthly beams of light from an apocalyptic sky. Two figures pick their way along a tree-lined road, the road punctuated by shell-holes and...

  • Men Marching at Night Men Marching at Night

    (art) Made by: Nash, Paul 1918

    image: a view along a straight road lined with tall trees. The trees stand uniformly glowing in a ghostly light, looming over a column of British soldiers marching down the road. The rain drives across the composition from the left, and the soldiers...

  • In their Cellar in Amiens: Captain R Maude, DAPM, who was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Authorities, and Colonel du
Tiel, Commandant d'Armes Amiens In their Cellar in Amiens: Captain R Maude, DAPM, who was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Authorities, and Colonel du Tiel, Commandant d'Armes Amiens

    (art) Made by: Orpen, William 1918

    image: The interior of a cellar furnished to resemble a study. There are chairs, a desk, a rug, a map on the wall, lamps and a waste-paper basket. Sunlight shines in through the window at the top of the room casting a shadows from the objects around the...

  • The Harvest of Battle The Harvest of Battle

    (art) Made by: Nevinson, C R W 1919

    image: The aftermath of a battle showing a muddy and flooded battlefield. A long line of wounded men, some with limbs bandaged, men carrying their comrades, straggling from right to left. Corpses lie in and around water-filled shell holes. Artillery...

  • Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, KT, GCB, GCVO, KCIE, Commander-in-Chief, France, From December 15th 1915. Painted at General
Headquarters, May 30th 1917 Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, KT, GCB, GCVO, KCIE, Commander-in-Chief, France, From December 15th 1915. Painted at General Headquarters, May 30th 1917

    (art) Made by: Orpen, William 1917

    image: A head and shoulders portrait of Haig in uniform against an abstract background.

  • A Group of Soldiers A Group of Soldiers

    (art) Made by: Nevinson, C R W 1917

    image: A group of four British soldiers in full kit standing beneath a heavy sky. The two men on the left are locked in discussion, and the third seems to be listening in. The other stands in the front of the composiion, his hand gripping his rifle, his...

  • Mud Mud

    (art) Made by: Rogers, Gilbert (MBE) 1919

    image: A British soldier standing against a background of thick grey clouds heavy with rain. He looks dejectedly down at the earth, his hands hanging loosely by his sides. He has an oilskin draped over his shoulders, a tin helmet on his head, and his gas...

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