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  • Passing Bells - Untitled 9 Passing Bells - Untitled 9

    (art) Made by: Walker, John 1998

    image: the figure of a dead or badly wounded soldier beside a shattered tree stump. The soldier's visible leg has been reduced to a stump, as has his left arm.

  • Passing Bells - Untitled 2 Passing Bells - Untitled 2

    (art) Made by: Walker, John 1998

    image: a soldier with an unusual shaped head, possibly bandaged, sits on the ground in a grassy or corn field.

  • Passing Bells - Untitled 15 Passing Bells - Untitled 15

    (art) Made by: Walker, John 1998

    image: a depiction of a soldier with an oversized bandaged head, shown side on with a bleak landscape visible behind. A series of marks in the background suggest shattered tree stumps.

  • The First Sight of Jerusalem The First Sight of Jerusalem

    (art) Made by: McBey, James 1920

    image: a group of soldiers wearing pith helmets shelter in a trench in the foreground. They are facing away from the viewer, towards Jerusalem which can be seen on the horizon in the background. There are explosions above and in front of the trench. In...

  • The Camp at Ismaila: The Camp at Ismaila: "HMS Euryalus", Flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir R Wemyss, and the French Cruiser "Requin"

    (art) Made by: Mason, Frank

    image: a military camp at Ismailiya, with numerous bell tents and huts assembled alongside a desert oasis that lies on the bank of the Suez Canal in Egypt. Two warships are visible on the water, HMS Euryalus of the Royal Navy to the left and Requin of...

  • Sunset: Wadi-um-Mukhsheib Sunset: Wadi-um-Mukhsheib

    (art) Made by: McBey, James 1919

    image: a camel patrol rests at Wadi-um-Mukhsheib in the Egyptian Sinai desert. The camels sit on the ground with a gathering of troops sitting to their left around a small fire. Two other men sit before a pair of trees, the rest of the landscape largely...

  • Dawn. Camel Patrol setting out, C 1922 Dawn. Camel Patrol setting out, C 1922

    (art) Made by: McBey, James 1919

    image: a patrol of troops mounted on camels sets out into the featureless desert near Jerusalem. The landscape is completely flat, the patrol the only visual feature.

  • The Desert of Sinai The Desert of Sinai

    (art) Made by: McBey, James 1919

    image: a camel patrol in the Sinai desert. A soldier sitting on a camel inspects some bleached animal bones on the ground. His comrades are further in the distance in a desert landscape devoid of features.

  • La Moisson La Moisson

    (art) Made by: de Bruycker, Jules

    image: a skeletal deathly miller stands underneath a windmill holding a German officer by the shoulders. The officer has his arm outstretched towards a skeletal Death, who stands in a field harvesting corpses with a scythe. A long line of skulls leads...

  • Saint Mihiel Monument Commemoratif de 1870 [Monument in Commemoration of 1870, st Mihiel] Saint Mihiel Monument Commemoratif de 1870 [Monument in Commemoration of 1870, st Mihiel]

    (art) Made by: Bertin

    image: The ruins of Saint-Mihiel. Left of centre of the composition stands a small corner or stump of a building demolished by bombardment and surrounded by rubble. In the foreground, to the right, a memorial obelisk to the fallen of the Franco-...

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