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• THE BRITISH ARMY IN GERMANY, 1978

  part of "MINISTRY OF DEFENCE POST 1945 OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Defence official photographer

  Exercise Full House: Close-up of two soldiers wearing their Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare protective clothing, or 'Noddy' suits.

• German Prisoners : the Deputy Controller's Camp, Rouen

  (art) Made by: Lithiby, Beatrice (OBE)

  image: beyond a pathway and low wattle fence and gate, prisoners in uniform are working among the wooden huts of a camp, carrying and inserting large wooden stakes. A soldier stands guard, while in the distance a small female figure carries buckets.

• A Wrecked Railway Bridge Near The Hindenburg Line : Near Villers Guislain

  (art) Made by: Henderson, Keith (OBE) 1917

  image: a railway bridge that has been completely destroyed by bomb damage and artillery fire. The composition is framed by two sections of thick wall and structure that are still standing, with the middle a mass of rubble and fallen blue girders.

• The Railway Cutting : Behind Bailleul

  (art) Made by: Hill, Adrian

  image: a shell is bursting to the right of some structures on the horizon, above dugouts in the foreground.

• 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...

• 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.

• A German Observation Tree

  (art) Made by: Orpen, William 1917

  image: ruined farm buildings lie to the left and right either side of a tree which stands in the centre of the composition. The tree has ladders against the trunk, leading up to a small wooden platform used by German forces for observation. A wheeled...

• Bernafay Wood, Looking Towards Trônes Wood

  (art) Made by: Handley-Read, E 1929

  image: a view across a desolate and battle-scarred Somme landscape. There are flooded shell holes in the foreground, and clouds of smoke rising from the land in the distance. There are the shattered tree trunks of Bernafay Wood jutting out from the...

• A Captured German Munition Dump

  (art) Made by: Orpen, William 1917

  image: a scene of the remains of a German ammunition dump. There are three dead German soldiers slumped in the foreground amongst boxes of ammunition. A column of British soldiers marches along the road beyond to the right of the composition. They walk...

• The Railway Bridge near Cuinchy

  (art) Made by: Handley-Read, E

  image: a view of a railway bridge over the Canal-d'Aire near the French village of Cuinchy. There are two large clouds of smoke emanating from the railway, as well as two smaller black clouds of anti-aircraft fire in between the larger clouds.