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• 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...

• Art and Architecture - Jerash

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1945-11

  whole: the main image is positioned in the upper right quarter, with six smaller images placed in the lower two-thirds. The title is separate and placed in the upper fifth, in black and in orange. The text is separate and located across the majority, in...

• An AA Site (Rockets)

  (art) Made by: Casson, Bernard

  image: a view through a corrugated iron arch, looking out on an anti-aircraft battery at night. In the centre of the site two men stand on the roof of a hut next to an aerial, keeping watch. They are surrounded by anti aircraft guns pointing up at the...

• Burma: Japanese Prisoners-of-War in the Cookhouse, Pegu Prison

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1945

  image: four Japanese prisoners-of-war prepare food in the cookhouse of Pegu prison camp. Two of the men stand underneath the corrugated iron roof of a hut, one chopping something at a table. The other two men stand and crouch immediately in front of the...

• Anti-aircraft Fire meeting Flying-bombs as they cross the Coast Defences, Dymchurch, July 1944

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1944

  image: View along the defended beach at Dymchurch with puffs of anti-aircraft fire in the sky and the fleeting shape of a flying-bomb in upper right corner

• 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...

• Subedar Lalbahadur Thapa, VC : 4th Indian Division

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1943

  image: An officer is seated on a chair in a tent in the desert. Three other officers are sat at his feet listening intently to what he is instructing them to do.

• Lieutenant-Colonel A S Pearson : DSO and BAR, 1 Bn, 1st Parachute Brigade

  (art) Made by: Carr, Henry 1943

  image: A head portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel A S Pearson wearing a beret, looking to the right.

• '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 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.