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• Living Quarters on a Dispersed 'Z' (Rocket AA) Battery Site

  (art) Made by: Sorrell, Alan 1943

  image: a hutted camp with Nissen huts set amongst trees, with RAF airmen walking and cycling along the road in the foreground, seemingly on their way back to the camp. On the corner of the side road that leads to the camp is a sign marked 'Z Site',...

• The Battery Wagon Line

  (art) Made by: Holiday, Gilbert

  image: a large number of horses graze on grassy land behind the lines, wheeled artillery limbers lined up to the left. Artillery fire can be seen on the horizon.

• Arakan Campaign: Battle of Donbaik. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on the beaches, 18th February 1943

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1944

  image: a desolate beach scene with two dead British infantrymen lying in the foreground. A helmet, rifle and other equipment lie discarded in the sand near the soldiers, and there are a few other bodies in the background. Scorched trees and vegetation...

• Land Drainage: Overtime

  (art) Made by: Casson, Bernard

  image: a rural scene with women of the Women's Land Army working on land drainage. Four cranes are being used to create and maintain a series of drainage ditches filled with water. One of these cranes to the left has sunk into a water-logged patch of...

• Troops with Anti-Tank Mortar, West Germany: Preparations for 'Lionheart' September 1984

  (art) Made by: Lawson, Sonia (RA) 1984

  image: three British soldiers on exercise in a grassy landscape in West Germany. One of the men sits in the grass manning a large anti-tank mortar, with two comrades standing behind him, one looking towards a wood on the horizon.

• Stanley from Sapper Hill as it first appeared to the British Forces

  (art) Made by: Kitson, Linda 1982

  image: Looking down towards houses along the shore where ships are moored. In the foreground, the Union Jack flag is flying. Pieces of equipment have been left around, including a tripod.

• Soldier Guarding an Aerodrome

  (art) Made by: Knight, Alick 1940

  image: a single British soldier stands on a wide aerodrome runway, devoid of features except a camouflaged pattern. The featureless landscape has a strangely surreal and futuristic feel to it.

• Blue Beach Two, San Carlos. 5 June 1982

  (art) Made by: Kitson, Linda 1982

  image: Looking down to the shore from a hillside with houses. Helicopters are flying overhead carrying supplies and landing ships are approaching or moored at a jetty. A few soldiers appear to be unloading supplies on the jetty.

• Sapper Hill Rapier Position, 7 July 1982

  (art) Made by: Kitson, Linda 1982

  image: A hillside position, with the Rapier surface-to-air missile emplacement on the right.

• Mine Disposal by 9 Para Squadron on the Beach alongside Stanley Airport

  (art) Made by: Kitson, Linda 1982

  image: Two soldiers lie on their stomachs, probing the ground in front of them with mine detectors. The section of the beach around them is cordoned off by a flimsy wire fence.