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  • The Menin Road 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...

  • Journée Nationale des Tuberculeux [National Tuberculosis Day] Journée Nationale des Tuberculeux [National Tuberculosis Day]

    (posters) Made by: Lévy Dhurmer, Lucien (artist) 1916

    whole: the image covers the main, with a hand-lettered title placed separately across the top in orange-brown. Further text is located bottom left, also in orange-brown. image: a convalescent French soldier stands in profile beneath the branches of a...

  • Journée Serbe [Serbia Day] Journée Serbe [Serbia Day]

    (posters) Made by: Steinlen, Théophile Alexandre (artist) 1916

    whole: the image occupies the whole and is held within a narrow hand-drawn black border. The title and text are integrated and positioned across the lower quarter, in brown. image: set in a desolate winter landscape, a large group of Serbian soldiers and...

  • The Latest Despatch - Send More Men The Latest Despatch - Send More Men

    (posters) Made by: Keene, Norman (artist)

    whole: the image covers the whole, with the title incorporated and positioned across the top, and the text incorporated and positioned across the bottom, both in black. All held within a red border. image: a full-length depiction of an Australian...

  • Stuck Fast in the Mud, Zonnebeke Stuck Fast in the Mud, Zonnebeke

    (art) Made by: Jamieson, Alexander 1918

    whole: the image fills the upper three quarters of the composition, with handwritten text in black ink incorporated in the bottom quarter. image: a British infantryman is stuck fast in a large pool of liquid mud in a shell hole. To the right one of his...

  • Arakan Campaign: Battle of Donbaik. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on the beaches, 18th February 1943 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...

  • Pour que la Terre leur Soit Légère [So that the earth may lie lightly on them] Pour que la Terre leur Soit Légère [So that the earth may lie lightly on them]

    (posters) Made by: Nicolet, Frank Lucien

    whole: the image covers the majority, with the title integrated and positioned upper left, in black. The text is separate and positioned across the bottom edge, in white against a blue background. image: a Canadian soldier stands in a field of poppies,...

  • The Building of the Main Bridge over the Salween River The Building of the Main Bridge over the Salween River

    (art) Made by: Thrale, Charles 1942

    image: A view from afar of a large bridge being constructed across a river. Both river banks are covered in jungle vegetation with a few buildings visible immediately on both banks. Many people are also visible though only as tiny dots in the distance....

  • The Burning of the Cholera Dead The Burning of the Cholera Dead

    (art) Made by: Thrale, Charles 1942

    image: A grim scene in a clearing in the jungle. There is a large fire in the centre of the composition with several naked corpses on the ground in the foreground. Able bodied prisoners, only wearing shorts, lift corpses towards the fire and maintain the...

  • 'F' and 'H' Force Hospital, Canchanburi, Siam 'F' and 'H' Force Hospital, Canchanburi, Siam

    (art) Made by: Thrale, Charles 1943

    image: A view across 'F' and 'H' Force Hospital camp in Kanburi in Thailand. There is a line of several large bamboo huts to the left, with a more rudimentary hut beside three tall palm trees in the centre. The wooden fence of the camp is to the right.

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