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• The Field of Passchendaele

  (art) Made by: Nash, Paul 1917

  image: 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...

• 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

  (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

  (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

  (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...

• 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

  (art) Made by: Orpen, William 1917

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

• Over the Top 'Britain's Efforts and Ideals'; Making Soldiers

  (art) Made by: Kennington, Eric Henri (RA)

  image: 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...

• 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...

• Evening, After A Push

  (art) Made by: Gill, Colin U 1919

  image: The original line, which the advancing army leaves behind in its forward movement, remains desolate and encumbered with the debris of battle. A dead German soldier lies at the foot of a smashed tree trunk while British soldiers holding rifles...