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  • Trieste per Gorizia-Gradisca [Trieste for Gorizia-Gradisca] Trieste per Gorizia-Gradisca [Trieste for Gorizia-Gradisca]

    (posters) Made by: Könich (artist) 1918

    whole: the image is positioned in the lower four-fifths, held within a blue border. The title and text are separate and placed in the upper fifth and lower fifth, in blue. All set against a white background. image: a half-length depiction of a woman,...

  • Street-fighting in Capua : On the River Volturno, Italy, October 1943 Street-fighting in Capua : On the River Volturno, Italy, October 1943

    (art) Made by: Stafford-Baker, Julius 1945

    image: a street scene in which the houses are all severely war-damaged or simply piles of rubble. Two British soldiers can be seen rushing forwards holding their rifles, towards a barricade of barbed wire. In the clouds of smoke at the end of the street...

  • The Dock Area, Messina, Sicily The Dock Area, Messina, Sicily

    (art) Made by: Eadie, Ian G M 1943-08-29

    image: A few derelict buildings stand in an expanse of rubble and twisted metal. In the background there are some low hills.

  • Church Army - Open to all Church Army - Open to all

    (posters) Made by: Holloway, Edgar A (artist)

    whole: the image occupies the majority. The title is integrated and positioned in the upper centre, in black. The text is separate and positioned in the centre, also in black. Further text is integrated and positioned in the upper left, in black. All set...

  • Battle in an Orchard of Almond Trees in Sicily: Morning of July 21st 1943 Battle in an Orchard of Almond Trees in Sicily: Morning of July 21st 1943

    (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1943

    image: a track running through an orchard with a stationary tank on the right. Two bodies lie at the side of the track and the ground is covered in debris. In the centre of the image is a group of injured or exhausted soldiers sitting under a tree.

  • Children Playing on a Captured Enemy Tank in Forlì Children Playing on a Captured Enemy Tank in Forlì

    (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1945

    image: A view of a dilapidated German Tiger tank in a town square. Children are climbing over the gun and the turret, watched by their mother who stands in front of the gun, holding a baby. A dog is urinating on the track of another tank just out of...

  • Tank Attack on an Italian Village, 1945 Tank Attack on an Italian Village, 1945

    (art) Made by: Dodd, Francis (RA) 1945

    image: An Italian village under attack with the buildings of the village, some damaged and some intact, partially obscured by artillery fire. In the foreground a road runs towards and into the village, with a damaged armoured vehicle by the left side of...

  • Cassino from Cervaro Cassino from Cervaro

    (art) Made by: Lee, L S 1944

    image: A view across a valley. In the foreground there is small farmhouse among some trees. In the background plumes of smoke rise from several points across the valley floor, partially obscuring the grey hills in the distance.

  • Benghazi: Sunken Shipping in the Harbour Benghazi: Sunken Shipping in the Harbour

    (art) Made by: Bawden, Edward

    image: a scene in Benghazi harbour with two partly submerged ships in the water in the foreground. Another ship with only its funnels and bridge visible above the water line is in the left background. Fully afloat merchant ships are in the left and right...

  • The Temporary Ponte Santa Trinita The Temporary Ponte Santa Trinita

    (art) Made by: Thornbery, Mary 1950

    image: a view looking down on pedestrians and vehicles crossing a Bailey bridge, temporarily constructed to replace the Ponte Santa Trinita in Florence over the Arno. The Cupola is visible in the upper right of the painting.

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