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• Escaped Prisoners' Camp, Algiers 1943

  (art) Made by: Hailstone, Bernard 1943

  image: A prison camp comprised of several reddish coloured nissen huts made from corrugated iron, which have been constructed amongst a copse of trees. In the left foreground a number of men gather outside the doorway of one of the nissen huts. In the...

• Constantine, Algeria, August 1943

  (art) Made by: Nicholson, Roger 1943-08-23

  image: view over a steep-sided gorge. In the foreground, a road winds along the edge of the gorge and through a tunnel in the rock face. On the right side of the composition another road winds along the edge of the gorge to a town in the distance.

• Troops Resting

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving

  image: A group of soldiers sit on the ground. One is slumped forward the other is cleaning his rifle. A third has his back to the viewer and is lying stretched out on the ground. To the left of this group some other solders stand around chatting. In the...

• The Yard of our Farm House near Tripoli

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving

  image: Three men are gathered near the back of a truck parked in a yard, surrounded by trees. One man is leaning against the edge of a rectangular pool. Behind the group a woman is washing some clothes at the edge of the pool.

• Merchant Seamen Exercising in Bone Internment Camp, Algeria

  (art) Made by: Cook, John Kingsley

  image: A view of a yard outside a long, low building, lined with trees on the left side. The trees cast dramatic shadows across from the left. Some isolated groups of figures walk up and down the yard.

• Mosquito Nets

  (art) Made by: Carr, Henry 1943

  image: ghostly, white mosquito nets hang between trees in a clearing in early morning, partially concealing the soldiers that sleep beneath them.

• Brigadier L Howard-Jones, OBE, REME : 8th Army, 1942-43

  (art) Made by: Howard-Jones, Ray 1943

  image: A half length portrait of Howard-Jones wearing uniform and a coat with fur neck and cuffs. He is holding a pair of binoculars and there is a hilly desert landscape in the background.

• The Battle of Egypt, 1942: Desert Scene

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1942

  image: A desolate, desert scene with a scattering of tents, military vehicles and a solitary Hurricane aircraft.

• A Mobile GCI (Ground-controlled Interception) Radar Station

  (art) Made by: Rawlinson, William Thomas 1946

  image: a mobile radar mounted on a wheeled trailer with two military trucks and another trailer in a line behind it. All are painted in a desert camouflage scheme and there are RAF roundels on the foremost truck. Three men in desert uniform are visible...

• The First Lancaster Bomber Aircraft to Land in North Africa from England after Bombing the German Base at Friedrichshafen, 1943: This inaugurated a 'shuttle-bombing service'

  (art) Made by: Stafford-Baker, Julius 1943

  image: a Lancaster bomber on a desert airfield after having landed, with three ground crew in the foreground. Another Lancaster is landing on the runway in the background to the right. All is set against an arid mountainous backdrop.