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• 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...

• Traffic Signals : Eighth Army Area, Italy 1944

  (art) Made by: Seago, Edward Brian 1944

  image: A telegraph pole in the centre of a roundabout in an Italian town covered in British and Commonwealth military traffic signs pointing in all directions, including one at the top of the pole which reads 'Chaos Corner'. The signs spill out onto the...

• The 51st Division on the Road to Linguaglossa: the Last Stages of the Sicilian Campaign

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

  image: a view of a patrol of Scottish infantry of the 51st Highland Division moving along a windy road on the Sicilian coast. In the lower foreground four soldiers march along the road, appearing fairly casual and with small gaps between them. Slightly...

• Looking Over the Straits of Messina before the Invasion of Italy : the observation post was in Messina Lighthouse

  (art) Made by: Eadie, Ian G M 1943-08-30

  image: A uniformed soldier sits on a stool with his back to the viewer. He is watching the sea through a window, using a telescope balanced on a stool.

• Gerbini, Sicily

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

  image: A view of a field on a hill scattered with bare bushes and trees. At the top of the hill there is a ruined building. Lower down the hill are two tanks. One is upright, the other is lying on its side rusting, with broken treads trailing in the...

• An Italian Medium Tank demolished by Sappers : with the buildings of Bir Gubi in the background, March 1942

  (art) Made by: Hayes, Colin (RA) 1942-03-01

  image: A tank with its upper casing blown up into a vertical position in a desert landscape.

• Begging for Food, Italy 1944

  (art) Made by: Houghton, Stanley 1944

  image: A woman stands with outstretched hands, begging for food from a group of four soldiers in a war-ravaged landscape.

• Children killed by a Grenade, Italy 1944

  (art) Made by: Houghton, Stanley 1944

  image:A woman stands in the foreground with the covered corpse of a child at her feet. Behind her two soldiers are carrying a limp body out of a ruined building. Next to them are two shrouded corpses on the ground. A third soldier is speaking to a group...

• Billets in a Shelled Village across the Volturno River, Italy 1943

  (art) Made by: White, Tom 1943

  image: a soldier sits on a chair staring into a smoking fire outside a ruined house hung with a long washing line. There are two other men near the fire, one sitting, the other leaning over a water trough.

• British Infantry greeted by the Populace of Torre Annunziata, Bay of Naples, Italy, 1943

  (art) Made by: White, Tom 1943

  image: a crowd of civilians gather around some British troops in a narrow Italian street. They are greeting them from the balconies of the houses and running alongside the soldiers.