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  • Promontoire. Dug-outs Promontoire. Dug-outs

    (art) Made by: Cotterell, Arthur N

    image: a view of a hillside on the Western Front scattered with numerous dug-outs. The hillside has been terraced, with dug-outs carved into the hillside and then extended outwards with sandbagged walls and corrugated iron roofs. Several chimneys emerge...

  • Landscape Landscape

    (art) Made by: Cotterell, Arthur N

    image: a view from a trench across a Western Front battlefield. Barbed wire runs across the left foreground, with a view down into a small valley crossed with lines of trees and hedges. Up on the distant slopes are a few puffs of smoke from artillery...

  • A BRCS and OSJJ Hospital Barge Orderly on the Tigris A BRCS and OSJJ Hospital Barge Orderly on the Tigris

    (art) Made by: Rogers, Gilbert (MBE) 1919

    image: A three quarter length portrait of a Red Cross and Order of St John barge orderly, wearing sandy coloured shorts, pith helmet and white shirt. He stands side on and holds a wooden barge pole in his right hand. He appears to be standing on the deck...

  • A BRCS and Order of St John Barge on the Tigris at Amara : BRCS and Order of St John Headquarters in the distance A BRCS and Order of St John Barge on the Tigris at Amara : BRCS and Order of St John Headquarters in the distance

    (art) Made by: Rogers, Gilbert (MBE) 1919

    image: Two Red Cross boats sail along the Tigris River alongside a local sailing boat. Both boats contain British Red Cross and Order of St John personnel, wearing sandy coloured shorts and pith helmets. There is a line of buildings on the riverbank in...

  • The 14th General Hospital, Wimereux The 14th General Hospital, Wimereux

    (art) Made by: Baxter, David A

    image: the collection of huts and buildings that made up the Wimereux 14th General Hospital. A road with telegraph poles runs through the middle distance, and to the right a Red Cross ambulance drives along the road from left to right. To the left is a...

  • A Coup de Main, Maison de Champagne, 1st September, 1917 A Coup de Main, Maison de Champagne, 1st September, 1917

    (art) Made by: Cotterell, Arthur N 1917-09-01

    image: a view across a battlefield in Champagne during an artillery bombardment. In the foreground a disused-looking trench runs across the composition, with the ground falling away down to a shallow valley. Numerous explosions of falling shells are...

  • On the Menin Road, Near Ypres: BRCS and order of St John Motor Ambulances On the Menin Road, Near Ypres: BRCS and order of St John Motor Ambulances

    (art) Made by: Baxter, David A

    image: four motor ambulances drive along a road that runs across the composition. In the foreground German prisoners carry a wounded man on a stretcher across a bridge over a large flooded shell hole, whilst a man of the Royal Army Medical Corps and...

  • A BRCS and OSJJ Officer in Mesopotamia A BRCS and OSJJ Officer in Mesopotamia

    (art) Made by: Rogers, Gilbert (MBE) 1919

    image: A full length portrait of a British Red Cross and Order of St John officer, who wears sandy coloured shorts, a pith helmet, shirt and tie. Behind him is a view of the River Tigris, with buildings along the far riverbank.

  • Entering Gornji Vakuf 1993-1994 Entering Gornji Vakuf 1993-1994

    (art) Made by: Howson, Peter 1993

    image: An aid convoy of Red Cross vehicles proceed through a winding road in a dense valley of woodland. A Warrior tank in the foreground follows closely behind.

  • Italy 1945: Red Cross Convoy Italy 1945: Red Cross Convoy

    (art) Made by: Houghton, Stanley 1945

    image: landscape with Red Cross convoy and farm buildings