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• 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...

• 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 Man in a Trench: April 1917, two miles from the Hindenburg Line

  (art) Made by: Orpen, William 1917-04-01

  image: The study of a soldier in full battle-kit. He leans against the side of a trench; his rifle stands between his legs and he holds the muzzle loosely in his hands.

• A Tank

  (art) Made by: Orpen, William 1917

  image: The underside of a tank cresting a low rise, with the sky above obscured by clouds of exhaust smoke.

• Blown Up

  (art) Made by: Orpen, William 1917

  image: a full length depiction of a soldier, seemingly shell-shocked, standing in front of the edge of a dugout. It seems that his clothes have literally been blown away from his body, for he is naked but for a scrap of blanket across his hips, his boots...

• 'Good-bye-ee': Cassel

  (art) Made by: Orpen, William 1917

  image: A British soldier waving farewell to a young French girl standing in a shop doorway. She stands with her hands clasped in front of her, a sad look on her face as she watches him walk away.

• A Trench, Thiepval

  (art) Made by: Orpen, William 1917

  image: a view of a trench scattered with debris. Splintered wood and sandbags protrude from the large earth trench walls, with a British Army steel helmet and a few boots scattered on the trench floor in the foreground. A few tree stumps stand in the...

• Frozen Feet: Fleurs

  (art) Made by: Orpen, William 1917

  image: A sketch of a British soldier sitting dejectedly. He wears full kit, holds his head in hands and has his rifle leaning on his left knee.

• The Château, Thiepval

  (art) Made by: Orpen, William 1917

  image: a delicate drawing of a lone Scottish soldier sitting on a mound looking out to the right of the composition. In the foreground there is a marked grave lined with brick.

• Lieut-Col A N Lee, DSO, OBE, TD, Censor in France of Paintings and Drawings by Artists at the Front. 1919

  (art) Made by: Orpen, William 1919

  image: A half-length portrait of Lee in uniform, sitting astride a reversed chair.