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  • 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...

  • Arakan Campaign : Battle of Rathedaung, 1943 Arakan Campaign : Battle of Rathedaung, 1943

    (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony 1944

    image: an Indian soldier lies dead with his arms above his head in the thick undergrowth of the jungle. His Bren gun and helmet lie by his side. Through the jungle a river is just visible on the horizon.

  • 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...

  • Evening, After A Push 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...

  • A British Cemetery on the Bucquoi Road A British Cemetery on the Bucquoi Road

    (art) Made by: Hill, Adrian

    image: in a thicket lies a life size figure of Christ on a cross. In the foreground, more than twenty informal wooden crosses stand in a row.

  • Beaucourt Cemetery Beaucourt Cemetery

    (art) Made by: Hill, Adrian 1917

    image: a landscape of rough ground and blasted trees. On the right, some cemetery structures.

  • Etaples: British Military Cemetery Etaples: British Military Cemetery

    (art) Made by: Mudie-Cooke, Olive

    image: a view through a few trees across the large field of crosses of the British military cemetery at Etaples on the French coast. The coastline is bordered by trees and a sailing boat is visible in the English Channel.

  • View from the Graveyard looking North, Kanyu River Camp View from the Graveyard looking North, Kanyu River Camp

    (art) Made by: Chalker, Jack Bridger 1942

    image: A pen and ink drawing of a view looking up to hills and mountains in the distance. A low cane fence runs along the bottom of the composition, and beyond this the land is ense with shribbery and grassland. There appears to be a river running down...

  • IV. Unloading Sick and Dead From Up-country Working Camps and Chungkai Base Hospital Camp IV. Unloading Sick and Dead From Up-country Working Camps and Chungkai Base Hospital Camp

    (art) Made by: Chalker, Jack Bridger

    image: Prisoners-of-war, supervised by soldiers, unload stretchers carrying dead and sick prisoners from small boats, which are visible on the left.

  • The Church of England Church and Cemetery, Kanyu River Camp, Nov 1942 The Church of England Church and Cemetery, Kanyu River Camp, Nov 1942

    (art) Made by: Chalker, Jack Bridger 1942

    image: A rough pen and ink drawing of a makeshift outdoor cemetery and church. There are several marked graves in the left, and a cleared space with wooden benches on the right; both are enclosed by a low wooden fence. The river lies beyond. There are...

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