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  • A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Enemy HQ Taken at the Point of the Bayonet A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Enemy HQ Taken at the Point of the Bayonet

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

    image: A group of home guards are seen rushing down a country lane and turning to the right through a gate next to a house. There is one soldier lagging behind further down the lane.

  • The War in Maida Vale : 'There Is Life in the Old Dogs Yet' The War in Maida Vale : 'There Is Life in the Old Dogs Yet'

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

    image: A group of elderly home guards stand outside a pub watching a blonde girl weraing a black suit walk by.

  • The Captain of the ATS The Captain of the ATS

    (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1940

    image: A woman captain is seated in a window, smoking a cigarette and reading a letter. Another officer looks over her shoulder. A padre listens from an armchair.

  • Chungkai Camp 1943-44: Regimental Christmas Card Chungkai Camp 1943-44: Regimental Christmas Card

    (art) Made by: Gimson, George Stanley 1943

    image: A view of Father Christmas wearing a red loin cloth and traditional hat. He is climbing through a bamboo fence, carrying a sack on his shoulder.

  • Military Police Military Police

    (art) Made by: Clark, John Cosmo

    image: A German military policeman wearing a large overcoat, cap and clogs, standing with his hands in his pocket.

  • 'Bully' 'Bully'

    (art) Made by: Bairnsfather, Bruce

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  • Appeal for Artist's General Benevolent Institution, 1928-1929 Appeal for Artist's General Benevolent Institution, 1928-1929

    (art) Made by: Orpen, William

    image: an appeal in the form of a letter illustrated with a caricature of Orpen as a begging street artist. The figure sits slumped against a wall, holding out a cap in his right hand. There are two flower paintings leaning against the wall either side...

  • The Guard in a Block House (two soldiers) The Guard in a Block House (two soldiers)

    (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1940

    image: One soldier stands to attention, the other lies on a palette against the embrasure, through which can be seen the countryside. In front of the embrasure there is a theodolite on a tripod. There are rifles stacked against the wall.

  • "Headquarters" - A Caricature of Gordon Brinley Richards

    (art) Made by: Orpen, William

    image: a half-length caricature of Gordon Brinley Richards in uniform, his head hanging forward shown in profile and mouth agape.

  • Pulling off the Padre's Boots Pulling off the Padre's Boots

    (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1940

    image: The Padre, foreground left is in his bedroom, he lies exhausted in a chair. His batman kneeling foreground right, is pulling off his boots.

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