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  • 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...

  • The Soldiers' Buffet, Charing Cross Station, 1918 The Soldiers' Buffet, Charing Cross Station, 1918

    (art) Made by: Hayward, Alfred 1918

    image: A view from behind a table laid with flowers and tea pots. Beyond the table is a train carriage, and several officers and civilians standing in front.

  • 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.

  • Drinking Water, Mirova, Macedonia Drinking Water, Mirova, Macedonia

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

    image: three British soldiers in a trench, two of the men standing beside a section cut out of the side of the earth, within which is some kind of water tap or well. There are two trees and a hill top in the background.

  • The Cook The Cook

    (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-09-10

    image: a British Army cook tends to food within a frying pan beside an improvised stove housed in the side of a trench. Smoke emerges from the small chimney of the stove. Three other British soldiers stand further along the trench system.

  • Wounded passing through Snow Hill Railway Station, Birmingham Wounded passing through Snow Hill Railway Station, Birmingham

    (art) Made by: Lobley, J Hodgson 1918

    image: A scene at a railway station with walking wounded British soldiers and a nurse on the station platform, with a stationary train on the left. The men drink from white mugs and there is a food stall in the foreground.

  • A Court-Martial : Prisoner in the witness box A Court-Martial : Prisoner in the witness box

    (art) Made by: Chance, Miles 1944

    image: A soldier in uniform sits unsmilingly in a witness box facing the viewer. On the ledge in front of him there are some paper and pencils, a labelled pocket watch and a packet of margarine, .

  • Potato-peeling Fatigue Potato-peeling Fatigue

    (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1942

    image: A group of officers sit on a large coil of rope on the deck of a ship peeling potatoes. Another group of five play cards in the centre.

  • Camp Life at Etaples: one of five sketches Camp Life at Etaples: one of five sketches

    (art) Made by: Leese, Gertrude

    image: a crowded scene in the canteen of a military camp; three soldiers stand conversing in the foreground, while many others sit eating at tables and benches, reading, or are entering the hut.

  • The Troops' Galley
'Convoy' series, 1941 - 1942 The Troops' Galley 'Convoy' series, 1941 - 1942

    (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1942

    image: A kitchen on board a ship with a group of officers preparing meals. Other officers peer through hatches and watch the preparation.

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