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• Sketch of a Soldier

  (art) Made by: Laboureur, Jean-Emile

  image: a line drawing of an army officer standing with his back to the viewer. He leans on a cane and has his other hand on his hip, as though surveying the scene in front of him. There are stylised trees and houses beyond the figure.

• Protest der Deutschen Frauen Gegen die Farbige Besatzung am Rhein [German Women’s Protest Against the Coloured Occupation Troops on the Rhine]

  (posters) Made by: Rieuiey (artist) 1923

  whole: the image occupies the majority of the upper two-thirds, with the title separate and positioned in the lower half, in red and black gothic script. All set against a white background. image: a caricatured depiction of an African soldier sitting on...

• Soldiers and a Cannon

  (art) Made by: Cheffer, Henri Lucien 1915

  image: a French artillery team manoeuvre a heavy gun into a prepared position. Two men to the left adjust the elevation of the gun's barrel, whilst men at either end of the gun manoeuvre it with large rods. The position is well sandbagged and there is a...

• Fay c.1915

  (art) Made by: Cheffer, Henri Lucien 1915

  image: a view of a battle scarred landscape with a shell hole surrounded by tree stumps in the foreground. Beyond this are a few buildings largely reduced to empty shells, with further bare trees.

• A Devastated Village, France c.1915

  (art) Made by: Cheffer, Henri Lucien 1915

  image: a view of a heavily bomb damaged French village. Barbed wire crosses the foreground with a tree to the right. Further back are the shells of several bombed houses, with rubble on the ground.

• Company Lines by a Church, France c.1915

  (art) Made by: Cheffer, Henri Lucien 1915

  image: there is a line of buildings on either side of the composition, leading up to a church with a spire. A small cluster of tall trees stands on the left, with barrels and a few wheeled carts beside them.

• Souscrivez au Quatrième Emprunt [Subscribe to the Fourth Loan]

  (posters) Made by: Hansi (artist)

  whole: the image occupies whole, with the text positioned in the top left corner. image: three French 'poilus' standing in a trench beneath a pine tree. They look across the occupied Alsatian countryside to a vision of Strasbourg Cathedral on the horizon...

• Camouflage

  (art) Made by: Gillot, E Louis 1916

  image: two French infantrymen wearing large green camouflaged capes standing in a wood.

• 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...

• 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...