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  • Food - Don't Waste It Food - Don't Waste It

    (posters) Made by: F G C (artist)

    whole: the title and text are positioned across the whole, in black and in red, set against a white background. image: text only. text: Food 1 - buy it with thought 2 - cook it with care 3 - use less wheat and meat 4 - serve just enough 5 - use what is...

  • A Battery Shelled A Battery Shelled

    (art) Made by: Lewis, Percy Wyndham 1919

    image: Three officers stand to the left of the composition beside a pile of ammunition boxes. Each looks in a different direction. One has his back to the viewer and looks out over the scene of the painting. There are marionette-like figures moving over...

  • The Ypres Salient at Night The Ypres Salient at Night

    (art) Made by: Nash, Paul (artist) 1918

    image: A night scene showing three soldiers on the fire step of a trench surprised by a brilliant star shell lighting up the view over the battlefield. On the left there is a flooded shell-hole, beyond which stand three other soldiers, overlooked by a...

  • Gassed Gassed

    (art) Made by: Sargent, John Singer (RA) 1919

    image: A side on view of a line of soldiers being led along a duckboard by a medical orderly. Their eyes are bandaged as a result of exposure to gas and each man holds on to the shoulder of the man in front. One of the line has his leg raised in an...

  • The British Sovereign will Win The British Sovereign will Win

    (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1915-07

    whole: the image occupies the top third, with the title and text below banner form. image: a shilling, sovereign side up, showing the head of George V. text: THE BRITISH SOVEREIGN WILL WIN INVEST IN THE WAR LOAN TO-DAY ASK FOR DETAILS AT NEAREST POST...

  • One Pound for 15 Shillings and Sixpence One Pound for 15 Shillings and Sixpence

    (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1916

    whole: the title is placed across the top, with the subtitle across the bottom, both in blue. Further text is in blue. All held within a blue frame and set against a white background. image: text only. text: £1 FOR 15s 6d TO THE MEN AND WOMEN OF...

  • The War Refugees' Camp, Earl's Court 1918 The War Refugees' Camp, Earl's Court 1918

    (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA) 1918

    image: In the foreground a group of refugees stand and sit underneath an archway. The group is predominantly made up of women, as well as four young children and two men, one of whom has a white beard and is lighting a pipe. In the background through the...

  • 'Stand To' Before Dawn 'Stand To' Before Dawn

    (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1918

    image: British infantrymen stand-to in a duckboarded trench. They lean against the parapet looking over the breastworks into No Man's Land, with their rifles beside them. There are two large puffs of smoke from artillery fire hanging in the dawn sky to...

  • Study for 'Over The Top' (IWM ART 1656) Study for 'Over The Top' (IWM ART 1656)

    (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1918

    image: a squared up preparatory drawing for the oil painting 'Over the Top' (IWM ART 1656). On the left, a red earth trench lined with duckboards stretches away from the viewer. A group of soldiers clamber from the trench, going 'over the top'. Two lie...

  • Study for Oppy Wood, 1917 (IWM ART 2243) Study for Oppy Wood, 1917 (IWM ART 2243)

    (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1917

    image: a squared up preparatory drawing for John Nash's painting 'Oppy Wood'. The lower half of the composition has a view inside a trench with duckboard paths leading to a dug-out to the right. Two British infantrymen stand on the firestep to the left,...

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