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• Rifleman W Box : King's Royal Rifles

  (art) Made by: Staerck, John 1943

  image: a three-quarter length portrait of Rifleman W Box in uniform, seated with his arms crossed in his lap.

• A Wounded Rifleman

  (art) Made by: Staerck, John

  image: a three-quarter length portrait of a soldier in uniform sitting up in bed with his right arm in a sling.

• Loading Stores for Italy at Algiers

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1944

  image: a view looking down on the busy quay side, bustling with people, where cranes are loading military vehicles on to a ship.

• Traffic Signals : Eighth Army Area, Italy 1944

  (art) Made by: Seago, Edward Brian 1944

  image: A telegraph pole in the centre of a roundabout in an Italian town covered in British and Commonwealth military traffic signs pointing in all directions, including one at the top of the pole which reads 'Chaos Corner'. The signs spill out onto the...

• Begging for Food, Italy 1944

  (art) Made by: Houghton, Stanley 1944

  image: A woman stands with outstretched hands, begging for food from a group of four soldiers in a war-ravaged landscape.

• Children killed by a Grenade, Italy 1944

  (art) Made by: Houghton, Stanley 1944

  image:A woman stands in the foreground with the covered corpse of a child at her feet. Behind her two soldiers are carrying a limp body out of a ruined building. Next to them are two shrouded corpses on the ground. A third soldier is speaking to a group...

• British Infantry greeted by the Populace of Torre Annunziata, Bay of Naples, Italy, 1943

  (art) Made by: White, Tom 1943

  image: a crowd of civilians gather around some British troops in a narrow Italian street. They are greeting them from the balconies of the houses and running alongside the soldiers.

• Pax Britannica

  (posters) Made by: Bertoletti, G (artist) 1943

  whole: the image occupies the whole. An emblem of a 'V' held within a circle is positioned in the lower left. The title is integrated and positioned in the upper fifth, in red outlined black. image: a full-length caricature of John Bull dressed in a...

• Ravenna: Royal Engineers' working party collecting material for bridge repairs and road making at the Porta Cybo

  (art) Made by: Bawden, Edward 1945

  image: remains of a large gateway surrounded by debris from bombed buildings with soldiers moving among the piles of masonry, watched by a single female figure standing centre right.

• With the 8th Army: HQ in a Wine Cellar at Nettuno, 1944

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1944

  image: Offices have been set up in two alcoves in a wine cellar. Soldiers sit around dimly-lit tables on which signaling equipment is set up. One is drinking wine. Outside the alcoves a group of American soldiers stand around talking, leaning against the...