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  • 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...

  • Living Quarters on a Dispersed 'Z' (Rocket AA) Battery Site Living Quarters on a Dispersed 'Z' (Rocket AA) Battery Site

    (art) Made by: Sorrell, Alan 1943

    image: a hutted camp with Nissen huts set amongst trees, with RAF airmen walking and cycling along the road in the foreground, seemingly on their way back to the camp. On the corner of the side road that leads to the camp is a sign marked 'Z Site',...

  • Recruits Leaving the Camp Recruits Leaving the Camp

    (art) Made by: Sorrell, Alan 1941

    image: a monochrome wintry night scene, with a column of RAF recruits wearing packs and greatcoats marching through the open gate of the camp. There are huts to the left and right and a full moon is visible in the night sky in the top left. The ground...

  • 'Z' Rocket AA Battery in Action, 1941 'Z' Rocket AA Battery in Action, 1941

    (art) Made by: Macleod, William Douglas

    image: numerous manned Z-rocket launchers are positioned over a flat landscape, all firing upward. Trails from the projectiles and the beams of the launchers searchlights illuminate the night sky.

  • School Cadets. A Corner of the Gymnasium School Cadets. A Corner of the Gymnasium

    (art) Made by: Macpherson, Alexander 1943

    image: A group of Cadets sit on benches in a gym, watching others climb ropes and wall bars. One boy stands with his back to the viewer, leaning on a pommel horse.

  • Professor P I Dee, OBE, FRS : Superintendent, Telecommunications Research Establishment, Ministry of Aircraft Production, 1939-
45 Professor P I Dee, OBE, FRS : Superintendent, Telecommunications Research Establishment, Ministry of Aircraft Production, 1939- 45

    (art) Made by: Macpherson, Alexander 1945

    image: A head and shoulder portrait of Professor P I Dee wearing a suit, sitting in front of a communication device.

  • T Roberts : of HM Trawler 'Waveflower' T Roberts : of HM Trawler 'Waveflower'

    (art) Made by: Lamb, Henry (MC) (RA)

    image: A half-length portrait of T Roberts looking to left, wearing a white vest.

  • George H McIntosh : cook of HM Trawler George H McIntosh : cook of HM Trawler "Corena"

    (art) Made by: Lamb, Henry (MC) (RA)

    image: A head and shoulder portrait of George H McIntosh in uniform, turning to the right.

  • Donald A R Martin : of HM Trawler Donald A R Martin : of HM Trawler "Corena"

    (art) Made by: Lamb, Henry (MC) (RA)

    image: A portrait of Donald A R Martin with his face leaning on his hand as he looks directly at the artist.

  • Baking Native Bread Baking Native Bread

    (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-06-21

    image: a view of a large room in which Egyptian cooks are in the process of kneading and baking bread. They work at long benches containing large sink-like recesses, within which the dough is contained.

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