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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Kite Balloons, Roehampton, 1915 Kite Balloons, Roehampton, 1915

    (art) Made by: Lavery, John (Sir) (RA) (RSA) 1915

    image: A view of tethered kite balloons flying high in the sky. They hover over an army camp site with canvas bell-tents. There are trees in the background and a cow standing in the foreground.

  • 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...

  • 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...

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