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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...

  • Recruit's Progress: Medical Inspection Recruit's Progress: Medical Inspection

    (art) Made by: Weight, Carel Victor Morlais (CBE, RA) 1942

    image: New recruits are lined up for inspection; all are stripped to the waist. The inspector sits at a table, head leaning on an elbow, while a recruit faces him, arms in the air and trousers round his ankles. Foreground right, a recruit, full...

  • Britons. Join Your Country's Army! Britons. Join Your Country's Army!

    (posters) Made by: Leete, Alfred (artist) 1914

    whole: the image occupies the centre, with the title separate and positioned across the top edge, in red. The text is separate and positioned in the lower quarter, also in red. Further text is integrated and positioned lower right, in black. All set...

  • An Army Discussion Group An Army Discussion Group

    (art) Made by: Spurrier, Steven (RA) 1943

    image: the interior of a high-ceilinged room with a group of soldiers sitting facing an officer, who sits at a table with his back to the viewer in the foreground. There is a fire place to the left and a door in the far wall in the background.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Captain G B McKean, VC, MC, MM, 14th BN Canadian Infantry : 1919 Captain G B McKean, VC, MC, MM, 14th BN Canadian Infantry : 1919

    (art) Made by: Underwood, G C Léon 1919

    image: A half length portrait of Mckean wearing uniform, who stands with his right hand placed on a book.

  • A Group of Soldiers A Group of Soldiers

    (art) Made by: Nevinson, C R W 1917

    image: A group of four British soldiers in full kit standing beneath a heavy sky. The two men on the left are locked in discussion, and the third seems to be listening in. The other stands in the front of the composiion, his hand gripping his rifle, his...

  • Mud Mud

    (art) Made by: Rogers, Gilbert (MBE) 1919

    image: A British soldier standing against a background of thick grey clouds heavy with rain. He looks dejectedly down at the earth, his hands hanging loosely by his sides. He has an oilskin draped over his shoulders, a tin helmet on his head, and his gas...

  • Galeries de Paris, Boulogne Galeries de Paris, Boulogne

    (art) Made by: Hennell, Thomas Barclay 1944

    image: a group of British soldiers to the left, and a single British NCO to the right, sit amidst the rubble of the bomb damaged Galeries de Paris in Boulogne-sur-Mer in northern France. The building is a mass of twisted, rusty girders, the roof having...

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