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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 1917
The Field of Passchendaeleimage: a battle scarred Western Front landscape near Passchendaele in Flanders. A large water-filled shell hole dominates the foreground, with two dead soldiers lying nearby on the left. Beyond them is the entrance to a dugout, a small bomb damaged brick...
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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: Kennington, Eric Henri (RA)
Over the Top
'Britain's Efforts and Ideals'; Making Soldiersimage: a British infantryman about to climb over the top of the parapet into No Man's Land, as part of an attack. He stands within a duckboarded trench, various equipment on the ground beside him. In the background, several of his comrades have crossed...