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• 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,...

• 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...

• Study for 'Stand To' before Dawn. (No 1160)

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

  image: a squared up study of five British infantrymen at 'Stand To' in a front line trench at dawn. Four of the men stand on the firestep, carefully looking over the parapet towards No Man's Land. One of the men, in the centre, stands lower down in a...

• Rosieres Valley, 1918

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

  image: the figures of four stylised signallers laying a wire across a heavily battle-scarred landscape. Clouds of dark smoke billow from the ground not far away. There is a village on the horizon in the distance, and another in the valley beyond the...

• 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...

• Near Hell-Fire Corner, Menin Road, Ypres

  (art) Made by: Mackey, Haydn Reynolds (MM) 1918

  image: A view along a section of the Menin Road near the notorious Hell Fire Corner, the junction of the Menin Road and the Ypres-Roulers railway kept under constant observation by German artillery. There are trees on either side of the road that have...

• Entering Damascus: Australians galloping along the Beyrout Road.

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1918-10-01

  image: a view of a column of mounted Australian troops riding down a tree-lined road. The column passes a wrecked artillery piece and dead horses lying on one side of the road. In the distance there is a town with twin minarets visible to the right of...

• Ephéhy : in a sunken roadway near the Regimental Aid Post of the 7th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment

  (art) Made by: Mackey, Haydn Reynolds (MM) 1918-09-20

  image: A view along a sunken roady near Épéhy on the Somme. A dugout has been constructed into the side of the earth bank with various bits of equipment and corrugated iron by the entrance. A large tree that has been split at the trunk lies across the...

• 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.