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  • Study for 'Gassed'
Studies of standing soldiers with rifles Study for 'Gassed' Studies of standing soldiers with rifles

    (art) Made by: Sargent, John Singer (RA) 1918

    image: a study of different elements of a gassed British infantryman standing side-on with his hands on the shoulders of another man in front of him. It includes a full length depiction of the man, with a blanket role over his right shoulder and his...

  • 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 Field of Passchendaele 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 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.

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