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• A Battery Shelled

  (art) Made by: Lewis, Percy Wyndham 1919

  image: Three officers stand to the left of the composition beside a pile of ammunition boxes. Each looks in a different direction. One has his back to the viewer and looks out over the scene of the painting. There are marionette-like figures moving over...

• The Old German Front Line, Arras, 1916

  (art) Made by: Sims, Charles (RA) 1919

  image: A view across a battle scarred landscape in northern France. In the foreground are the remains of the old German front line, with the remains of dugouts, trenches and shell craters in the chalky soil in the foreground. In the distance are fields...

• A Blockhouse Somewhere in England

  (art) Made by: Duffy, Louis 1943

  image: a blockhouse in a rural location. In the foreground there are six girders sunk into the ground, surrounded by rocks and cast concrete forms. In the background there is a row of similar concrete blocks running along the edge of a plowed field on a...

• Canadian Troops replacing Track

  (art) Made by: Lamb, Henry (MC) (RA) 1941

  image: four Canadian troops struggle to replace tank track in the countryside. Three troops stand with their backs to the viewer, along the side of the tank while the fourth lies on the ground, partially under the tank, holding a rope taught.

• Montreuil

  (art) Made by: Mayor, F 1913

  image: A view of Montreuil town square with the church to the left of the composition and a row of houses curving round to the right. There are dramatic clouds in the sky which cast shadows over the town square. A group of figures are visible...

• War in the Forest : Newfoundland lumberjacks at work in Scotland

  (art) Made by: Sutherland, David M (MC, RSA) 1940

  image: Lumberjacks at work in a Scottish forest. In the foreground two men are cutting a large tree trunk with a saw and a man tends to a white horse. In the background other men manoeuvre the large trunk of a tree that has just been felled.

• Tank Trap, 1979

  (art) Made by: Stevens, Norman 1979

  image: in the immediate foreground is a tank trap, a structure designed to prevent the movement of hostile tanks in the event of an invasion, set amongst a pile of large grey rocks. This structure appears to be placed on a stony beach, with a few...

• The Outskirts of Lens : in the foreground are the ruins of the mine buildings known as Fosse-St Louis

  (art) Made by: Strang, Ian 1919

  image: A battle-scarred, bomb-damaged landscape. In the foreground are the ruins of buildings, with another ruined building visible in the left background. The landscape is full of debris, barbed wire and destroyed trenches.

• Landscape with River, 1911-1912

  (art) Made by: Rosenberg, Isaac 1911

  image: A landscape with a river in the centre foreground and farm buildings in the background.

• A CH (Chain Home) Radar Station on the East Coast

  (art) Made by: Rawlinson, William Thomas 1946

  image: Standard steel transmitter towers in the foreground with wooden receiver towers in the background. In the foreground are piles of tires, some vegetation and a line of barbed wire fencing.