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• The Gymnasium : Dermatological Ward, Colchester Military Hospital

  (art) Made by: Bawden, Edward 1943

  image: A view of a low red brick building on the top of an embankment, drawn from below. Men wearing blue trousers and khaki shirts lie about in the sunshine on the grass below the building.

• 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...

• 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.

• The Guard in a Block House (two soldiers)

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1940

  image: One soldier stands to attention, the other lies on a palette against the embrasure, through which can be seen the countryside. In front of the embrasure there is a theodolite on a tripod. There are rifles stacked against the wall.

• The Commandant

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

  image: a British Army officer emerges from the entrance of a command post dug into the side of a mound. To the left a British infantryman stands in front of some bushes, carrying his rifle on his back.

• German Prisoners : the Deputy Controller's Camp, Rouen

  (art) Made by: Lithiby, Beatrice (OBE)

  image: beyond a pathway and low wattle fence and gate, prisoners in uniform are working among the wooden huts of a camp, carrying and inserting large wooden stakes. A soldier stands guard, while in the distance a small female figure carries buckets.

• Blargies, Arms, France 1917

  (art) Made by: Chapman, H M 1917

  image: A naive painting on a tin sheet showing a British Army prison camp by a railway line. There is a soldier bearing a rifle in the left of the composition and railway signals in the upper right.

• France 1917

  (art) Made by: Chapman, H M 1917

  image: A naive painting of a British Army Camp with a railway line running through the centre of the composition.

• Skipton Camp, Reykjavik : August 1943

  (art) Made by: Hennell, Thomas Barclay 1943-08-01

  image: A hill covered in what appears to be piles of scrap metal with soldiers standing amongst the piles. At the top of the hill there are two low, red buildings made from curved sheet metal. Next to one of the buildings is a guarded entry point to the...

• The Mark of the Navy : the bridge over the Wadi Hesy Deir Seneid. The hole was made by a 12-inch shell fired at a range of over 9 miles.

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-11-13

  image: a view of an arched bridge crossing a wadi in a desert landscape. There is a large shell hole on the road of the bridge, with military vehicles driving across the dry riverbed itself rather than going over the bridge, and a few men walking over...