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• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Storming an Enemy Post

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

  image: A country lane with a group of home guards rushing along. They are turning a corner, through a gate next to a small low building. There is one man, further down the lane, lagging behind.

• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Advance on the First Objective

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

  image: A group of Home Guards moving through parkland towards a large house. The men at the front, near the house, are lying on the ground while the others appear to be running.

• 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,...

• Study for 'Stand To' before Dawn. (No 1160)

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

  image: a squared up study of five British infantrymen at 'Stand To' in a front line trench at dawn. Four of the men stand on the firestep, carefully looking over the parapet towards No Man's Land. One of the men, in the centre, stands lower down in a...

• Brigade Headquarters: Signallers and Linesmen

  (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918

  image: 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.

• The Tube: October 1940

  (art) Made by: Topolski, Feliks 1940-10-01

  image: The interior of Leicester Square underground station with figures lying asleep on the floor of the station platform. There is a large man sitting smoking a pipe in the foreground, and several ARP wardens wearing helmets standing further down the...

• HMS Lord Clive : shelling the German forts on the Belgian Coast with her 18-inch gun

  (art) Made by: Parkes, Oscar (OBE) 1918

  image: a starboard stern quarter view of a large warship at sea, firing her large gun.

• Behind Ruweisat Ridge

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1942

  image: a desert scene with a Bren Gun Carrier, upon which a British soldier is sitting, placed behind a wall of sandbags. Various bits of equipment are scattered about and other men are engaged in various fatigue duties. In the background two men are...

• An Indian Military Policeman, Batavia, 1945

  (art) Made by: Rafty, Tony 1945

  image: a half-length portrait showing an Indian Military Policeman in uniform, turning towards the left.

• A Hutted Encampment

  (art) Made by: Sorrell, Alan 1943

  image: a detailed view from above of an RAF camp set amongst trees. The camp is full of Nissen huts with troops walking and cycling along the connecting roads, the main one of which runs from the bottom right corner in the foreground to the top left in...