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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 Ypres Salient at Night

  (art) Made by: Nash, Paul (artist) 1918

  image: A night scene showing three soldiers on the fire step of a trench surprised by a brilliant star shell lighting up the view over the battlefield. On the left there is a flooded shell-hole, beyond which stand three other soldiers, overlooked by a...

• 'Stand To' Before Dawn

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

  image: British infantrymen stand-to in a duckboarded trench. They lean against the parapet looking over the breastworks into No Man's Land, with their rifles beside them. There are two large puffs of smoke from artillery fire hanging in the dawn sky to...

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

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

  image: a squared up preparatory drawing for John Nash's painting 'Oppy Wood'. The lower half of the composition has a view inside a trench with duckboard paths leading to a dug-out to the right. Two British infantrymen stand on the firestep to the left,...

• During a Battle

  (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918

  image: three British soldiers in yellow stand on a mound while a field gun pulled by horses moves past. A stretcher party bearing a figure in yellow walks out of the composition to the right and an infantryman of the Royal Scots Fusiliers stands guard in...

• Gunners. Turning Out for an SOS. Battery action at night

  (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918

  image: a group of gunners of the Royal Field Artillery hurriedly emerging from a dugout, still dressing as they run towards a battery firing into the distance. A Sergeant stands to the left of the composition, holding a torch in his hand shining down at...

• The Menin Road

  (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1917

  image: a view down the Menin Road in the Ypres sector of the Western Front. Two small columns of British troops march along the road, the foremost comprised of men of the Royal Field Artillery. Two ambulance trucks drive ahead of them. Alongside the road...

• The British Army

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1914

  whole: the image occupies the main, with the title and accompanying text positioned across the top in white. Further text is placed along the bottom in white and black. All are set against a brown background. image: the main image depicts a group British...

• Um die Festung [Round the Fortress]

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

  whole: the image occupies the majority, held within a narrow green border. The title and text is positioned in a text box beneath the image, in black Gothic typescript. Further text is separate and positioned across the top edge and across the bottom...

• A Hutted Encampment

  (art) Made by: Sorrell, Alan 1943

  image: a detailed view from above of an RAF camp set amongst trees. The camp is full of Nissen huts with troops walking and cycling along the connecting roads, the main one of which runs from the bottom right corner in the foreground to the top left in...