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• Boys from South-East London gathering Sticks in Cookham Wood Children in Wartime - Five Lithographs by Ethel Gabain

  (art) Made by: Gabain, Ethel Leontine (artist) 1940

  image: A group of boys collecting sticks in a clearing of a wood. Two of the younger boys squat close to the ground, three others bend their heads towards the floor as though scouring for sticks. The boy standing on the far left holds a small scythe....

• Studies for Oppy Wood, 1917. (NO 2243)

  (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1917

  image: a view along a British trench running through Oppy Wood. Four British soldiers are visible in the trench, one of whom is only apparent from his feet, which stick out of a hole dug into the side of the trench. The trench has duckboards at the...

• Study for Oppy Wood, 1917. (IWM:ART 2243)

  (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1918

  image: the lower half of the composition has a view inside a trench with duckboard paths leading to a dug-out. Two infantrymen stand to the left on a firestep looking over the parapet into No Man's Land. There is a wood of shattered trees littered with...

• Oppy Wood, 1917. Evening

  (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1918

  image: the lower half of the composition has a view inside a trench with duckboard paths leading to a dug-out. Two infantrymen stand to the left of the dug-out entrance, one of them on the firestep looking over the parapet into No Man's Land. There is a...

• Echo of the Bombardment

  (art) Made by: Vaughan, John Keith 1942

  image: a surreal moonlit scene featuring a large primeval coiled form in the foreground right. In the background stand the bombed-out shells of two buildings. From the window cavities of each emerge conical forms also reminiscent of prehistoric...

• Prisoners of War Working on Thai-Burma Railway at Kanu Camp, Thailand 1943

  (art) Made by: Mennie, John G

  image: Thin men suffering from starvation are shown at work in a valley. In the foreground a man is digging at the face of a bank, with another passing a boulder to a fellow POW, with a chain of men passing rocks running behind. In the centre left a man...

• A Trench Mortar Firing at Evening

  (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1918

  image: Five soldiers in a trench. The two central figures are firing a mortar at a target to the right of a copse of decapitated trees. There are three vertical clouds of smoke rising from the ground where the mortar has hit. The soldier on the far right...

• Ile de Ré, Charente-Maritime

  (art) Made by: Mackertich, Peter 1996

  image: A German concrete blockhouse on the edge of a chalk escarpment, Ile de Ré, Charente-Maritime, France.