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  • Pour Achever La Croisade du Droit - Souscrivez! [To Finish the Just Crusade - Subscribe!] Pour Achever La Croisade du Droit - Souscrivez! [To Finish the Just Crusade - Subscribe!]

    (posters) Made by: Chavannaz, D (artist) 1918

    whole: the image occupies the majority of the poster surface, with the title incorporated and positioned upper left. Further text is placed across the top and bottom. image: Allied troops, mounted on horseback, drive the German eagle back towards a cloud...

  • 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...

  • SERVICE OF F G MORRISON AS A SIGNALS OFFICER WITH THE BRITISH AND BRITISH INDIAN ARMY 1936 - 1945 SERVICE OF F G MORRISON AS A SIGNALS OFFICER WITH THE BRITISH AND BRITISH INDIAN ARMY 1936 - 1945

    part of "MORRISON F G" (photographs)

    Exercise Golden Fleece, England 1936. These manoeuvres under the command of Major General Wavell were the last occasion on which horses were used by the British Army in England. Photo shows wagons and lumber of the Signal Section which is engaged in...

  • Divisional Pigeon Loft, Italy 1944 Divisional Pigeon Loft, Italy 1944

    (art) Made by: Burn, Guy 1944

    image: A mobile pigeon loft stands with its doors open, the pigeons free to fly around. The interior of the loft can be seen with the birds perched on their compartments. In the left background is a ruined farmhouse; a village on a steep hillside lies in...

  • In Billets, Winter: Rations Up In Billets, Winter: Rations Up

    (art) Made by: Budd, Herbert A 1921

    image: A scene showing distribution of rations among British soldiers billeted in a ruined farmhouse. A horse-drawn cart is delivering the rations in the left foreground. Some women are mingling with the soldiers, one holding a large basket. A woman is...

  • St David's Well, Snevice, Macedonia St David's Well, Snevice, Macedonia

    (art) Made by: Spencer, Stanley (Sir) (RA)

    image: a group of British soldiers sit and rest, with two mules or cattle standing between them. To the right a mule drinks water from a trough.

  • A Study of Soldiers and Mules A Study of Soldiers and Mules

    (art) Made by: Spencer, Stanley (Sir) (RA)

    image: three British soldiers lie on the ground to the left against a wall, whilst two other soldiers appear to be gathering water from a well in the centre of the composition. Three mules stand in a line to the right.

  • The Wadi Ghuzze : looking along the Wadi towards Beersheba The Wadi Ghuzze : looking along the Wadi towards Beersheba

    (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-09-12

    image: a view across the dry riverbed of the Wadi Ghuzze, with a sheer-faced bank running across the right of the composition and steeper hills further back. Two British soldiers on horseback stand to the right, with a column of troops, possibly also on...

  • Watering Camels in the desert near a Canal Post. The wire of the Suez Canal defences zigzags to the horizon. Watering Camels in the desert near a Canal Post. The wire of the Suez Canal defences zigzags to the horizon.

    (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-07-05

    image: a view across a desert landscape. A camel train is being watered near the Suez canal, with the outline of the wire defences protecting the canal visible in the distance.

  • Kantara. Morning Kantara. Morning

    (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-07-23

    image: a view of a column of British troops marching across a bridge at Kantara. The water of the Suez Canal fills the foreground, with the bridge to the left. A man riding on a camel follows behind the column, which is moving away from the viewer...

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