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(art) Made by: Nash, Paul 1917
Mont St Eloiimage: 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...
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(art) Made by: Nash, Paul 1918
The Mule Trackimage: 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...
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(art) Made by: Nash, Paul 1918
Spring in the Trenches, Ridge Wood, 1917image: 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...
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(art) Made by: Nash, Paul 1919
The Menin Roadimage: 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...
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(art) Made by: Nash, Paul 1918
Men Marching at Nightimage: 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...
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(art) Made by: Orpen, William 1918
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 Amiensimage: 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...
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(art) Made by: Nevinson, C R W 1919
The Harvest of Battleimage: 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...
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(art) Made by: Orpen, William 1917
Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, KT, GCB, GCVO, KCIE, Commander-in-Chief, France, From December 15th 1915. Painted at General
Headquarters, May 30th 1917image: A head and shoulders portrait of Haig in uniform against an abstract background.
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(art) Made by: Nevinson, C R W 1917
A Group of Soldiersimage: 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...
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(art) Made by: Rogers, Gilbert (MBE) 1919
Mudimage: 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...