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(art) Made by: Lewis, Percy Wyndham 1919
A Battery Shelledimage: 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...
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(art) Made by: Nash, Paul (artist) 1918
The Ypres Salient at Nightimage: 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...
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(art) Made by: Sargent, John Singer (RA) 1919
Gassedimage: 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...
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(art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1918
'Stand To' Before Dawnimage: 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...
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(art) Made by: Mackey, Haydn Reynolds (MM) 1918
Some Civilian Casualties at the Main Dressing-station of the 36th Field Ambulance, Flines-les-Raches, October 1918image: The interior of a large room with soldiers and civilians seated on a bench. Many of the soldiers have bandaged limbs. They are all waiting to be attended to by the medical orderly, who is dressing the foot of an elderly civilian holding a young...
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(art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918
Brigade Headquarters: Signallers and Linesmenimage: a group of stylised figures installing communication lines outside a Brigade Headquarters housed in a dugout. Light shines down on the scene from the left illuminating one side of the figures.
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(art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918
Rosieres Valley, 1918image: the figures of four stylised signallers laying a wire across a heavily battle-scarred landscape. Clouds of dark smoke billow from the ground not far away. There is a village on the horizon in the distance, and another in the valley beyond the...
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(art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918
During a Battleimage: three British soldiers in yellow stand on a mound while a field gun pulled by horses moves past. A stretcher party bearing a figure in yellow walks out of the composition to the right and an infantryman of the Royal Scots Fusiliers stands guard in...
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(art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918
Gunners. Turning Out for an SOS. Battery action at nightimage: a group of gunners of the Royal Field Artillery hurriedly emerging from a dugout, still dressing as they run towards a battery firing into the distance. A Sergeant stands to the left of the composition, holding a torch in his hand shining down at...
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(art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918
Signallersimage: a scene with six British signallers laying a wire in a trench. The two men in the centre appear to be shouting at one another, perhaps as a result of the noise of artillery fire, and the others look on, transfixed in their pose. A wounded man lies...