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• Study for 'Over The Top' (IWM ART 1656)

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

  image: a squared up preparatory drawing for the oil painting 'Over the Top' (IWM ART 1656). On the left, a red earth trench lined with duckboards stretches away from the viewer. A group of soldiers clamber from the trench, going 'over the top'. Two lie...

• 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...

• 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...

• Catch 22 Snowden's Funeral

  (art) Made by: Lee, Dick 1970

  image: A funeral scene, with troops at the grave side, and a chaplain in robes conducting the ceremony. In the background is an Italian landscape, with a city on the hill to the right. In the middle distance a naked figure is visible, sitting in a tree.

• Romani. Mount Meredith : the southern side of the ridge. Sand bagged graves of the Australian Light Horse are on the near slope, and on the further end the Turks lie buried.

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-10-10

  image: a view of the arid landscape near Romani, with the steep-sided peak of Mount Meredith in the middle ground. A few graves are marked in the foreground, with one marked with a cross to the left.

• Turkish Transport Wrecked by Machine Gun Fire, Near Dumar Station on the Outskirts of Damascus

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1918-10-02

  image: the scene of the remains of a Turkish transport lying on a road. Dead Turkish soldiers and horses lie amongst the wreckage of a waggon in the foreground; details that seem to spread the length of the road. A high bank lines the left of the road,...

• Wimereux Cemetery

  (art) Made by: Spare, Austin O

  image: a view across the rows of wooden crosses in the military cemetery at Wimereux in northern France. The well maintained cemetery hold numerous long rows of graves that lead off into the distance, with a green hill beyond. A small chapel , crucifix...

• Hier Sehen Euch Feindliche Flieger! [Enemy Airmen Will See you Here!]

  (posters) Made by: Dohl

  whole: the image occupies the upper three-fifths. The title and text are separate and positioned in the lower half, in white. All held within a wavy white border and set against a black background. image: a depiction of a small village which is being...

• The Cemetery At Mont St Eloi

  (art) Made by: Hughes-Stanton, Herbert (Sir) (RA) 1918

  image: A view across the cemetery at Mont-Saint-Éloi, with several rows of various different crosses. The cemetery is bordered by trees and the ruined twin towers of the church at Mont-Saint-Éloi are visible on the hill in the background.

• 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...