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• 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...

• 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

  (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...

• direction sign, to Hell Fire Corner

  (equipment)

  Hell Fire Corner was a particularly dangerous point on the Menin Road on the eastern edge of the City of Ypres

• 'Trenchman' belt

  (souvenirs and ephemera)

  First World War period commercially produced (unofficial) personal kit in the form of a broad waist belt, which was claimed by its manufacturers to provide protection for the wearer from body infestations (notably lice) and 'chills' resulting from the...

• location sign, Menin Gate

  (equipment)

  First World War period British Army location sign: this was the original British Army sign erected at the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium. It was replaced in 1917 after being damaged. 'At the time of the Great War, there was no actual gate on the site. It was...

• Respirator, Veil or Pad Type (British)

  (equipment)

  This early First World War British anti-gas 'respirator' consisted of a pad of cotton waste enclosed in a pad of muslin that was tied over the nose and mouth of the wearer. The pad was soaked in a solution of sodium hyposulphite, washing soda, glycerine...

• location sign, 'Yellow Line

  (equipment)

  First World War period signboard used by British forces in a captured German trench at Beaumont Hamel (on the Somme front). During a major offensive when the objective was to penetrate and capture the German front and supply lines, the enemy trenches...

• 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

  (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...