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• A Blockhouse Somewhere in England

  (art) Made by: Duffy, Louis 1943

  image: a blockhouse in a rural location. In the foreground there are six girders sunk into the ground, surrounded by rocks and cast concrete forms. In the background there is a row of similar concrete blocks running along the edge of a plowed field on a...

• Civilian Maintenance Reserve

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

  whole: the image occupies the whole, with the title integrated and positioned in the upper half, in red. The text is integrated and placed in the upper quarter and across the centre, in black, and across the bottom edge, in red. image: a shoulder-length...

• RAF Station: New arrivals at the Guard Room

  (art) Made by: Sorrell, Alan 1945

  image: A night scene at a temporary barracks. A guard holding a small lantern stands outside a Nissen hut directing two men over to the huts on the left of the composition. Each of the new arrivals carries a large bundle over his shoulder. On the...

• 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',...

• 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...

• 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...

• Listening-post at Spyglass, Gibraltar

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1943

  image: British soldiers gathered at a listening post at Spyglass, Gibraltar, looking out over the Mediterranean. The machinery of the post dominates the centre of the composition, its four cone shaped receivers facing skywards. It is incorporated on the...

• The Main Dressing-station of a Field Ambulance : Templeux-la-Fosse, 18th September 1918

  (art) Made by: Mackey, Haydn Reynolds (MM) 1918

  image: The site of a main dressing station near Templeux-la-Fosse in the Somme region. There are a series of tents, with a few wheeled carts in the central foreground. A red cross flag and a Union Jack fly above the camp. The landscape beyond is green...

• An Advanced Dressing-station of the 36th Field Ambulance at Liéramont

  (art) Made by: Mackey, Haydn Reynolds (MM) 1918

  image: A group of huts form the advanced dressing station of the 36th Field Ambulance, situated next to a road near Liéramont in the Somme. There is a flagpole next to the largest hut bearing a red cross flag to try to prevent aerial attack. A motor...

• School Cadets Practising the 'Crawl'

  (art) Made by: Macpherson, Alexander

  image: cadets crawl across the ground on a hillside, watched by an instructor who stands over them. In the background there are some houses behind a low wall with a gateway.