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  • A Blockhouse Somewhere in England A Blockhouse Somewhere in England

    (art) Made by: Duffy, Louis 1943

    image: a blockhouse in a rural location. In the foreground there are six girders sunk into the ground, surrounded by rocks and cast concrete forms. In the background there is a row of similar concrete blocks running along the edge of a plowed field on a...

  • Um die Festung [Round the Fortress] 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...

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

  • A Hutted Encampment 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...

  • The Main Dressing-station of a Field Ambulance : Templeux-la-Fosse, 18th September 1918 The Main Dressing-station of a Field Ambulance : Templeux-la-Fosse, 18th September 1918

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

    image: The site of a main dressing station near Templeux-la-Fosse in the Somme region. There are a series of tents, with a few wheeled carts in the central foreground. A red cross flag and a Union Jack fly above the camp. The landscape beyond is green...

  • An Advanced Dressing-station of the 36th Field Ambulance at Liéramont An Advanced Dressing-station of the 36th Field Ambulance at Liéramont

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

    image: A group of huts form the advanced dressing station of the 36th Field Ambulance, situated next to a road near Liéramont in the Somme. There is a flagpole next to the largest hut bearing a red cross flag to try to prevent aerial attack. A motor...

  • The Hospital at Mahemdia : for a mile along the beach stretch the tents of a Stationary Hospital. Beyond the boat is the screen of an open-air cinema. The Hospital at Mahemdia : for a mile along the beach stretch the tents of a Stationary Hospital. Beyond the boat is the screen of an open-air cinema.

    (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-10-09

    image: in the foreground two British soldiers in pith helmets sit within a rowing boat on a beach at Mahemdia, before a large hospital. White tents stretch right across the horizon, with figures walking amongst them. Beyond the men can be seen a large...

  • A Pumping Station A Pumping Station

    (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-07-21

    image: a British Army military policemen, wearing khaki shorts and pith helmet, stands beside a checkpoint hut at the entrance to a water pumping station. Behind him is a building, with a bell tent just visible in the left background. The landscape to...

  • A Command Post, H.A.A. : Royal Canadian Artillery A Command Post, H.A.A. : Royal Canadian Artillery

    (art) Made by: Lamb, Henry (MC) (RA) 1942

    image: an anti-aircraft battery. On the left is a soldier keeping look out. On the right three other soldiers lean against the brick walls of the battery. Behind them a large piece of equipment stands covered in a green tarpaulin. An anti-aircraft gun...

  • A Veterinary Hospital A Veterinary Hospital

    (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-06-08

    image: a man, who appears to be wearing a British vet's gown, sits on a wooden crate on a balcony, looking out over six long and open-sided huts in a semi-arid landscape. The buildings are all part of a British veterinary hospital. Before the huts a few...

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