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  • Sketch of a Soldier Sketch of a Soldier

    (art) Made by: Laboureur, Jean-Emile

    image: a line drawing of an army officer standing with his back to the viewer. He leans on a cane and has his other hand on his hip, as though surveying the scene in front of him. There are stylised trees and houses beyond the figure.

  • Soldiers and a Cannon Soldiers and a Cannon

    (art) Made by: Cheffer, Henri Lucien 1915

    image: a French artillery team manoeuvre a heavy gun into a prepared position. Two men to the left adjust the elevation of the gun's barrel, whilst men at either end of the gun manoeuvre it with large rods. The position is well sandbagged and there is a...

  • Defences made from Barrels in a French Farmyard c.1915 Defences made from Barrels in a French Farmyard c.1915

    (art) Made by: Cheffer, Henri Lucien 1915

    image: in the foreground, on either side of the composition, there are two mounds of debris, with barrels stacked on top of one another. There are several red-bricked buildings in the background.

  • Fay c.1915 Fay c.1915

    (art) Made by: Cheffer, Henri Lucien 1915

    image: a view of a battle scarred landscape with a shell hole surrounded by tree stumps in the foreground. Beyond this are a few buildings largely reduced to empty shells, with further bare trees.

  • A Devastated Village, France c.1915 A Devastated Village, France c.1915

    (art) Made by: Cheffer, Henri Lucien 1915

    image: a view of a heavily bomb damaged French village. Barbed wire crosses the foreground with a tree to the right. Further back are the shells of several bombed houses, with rubble on the ground.

  • Company Lines by a Church, France c.1915 Company Lines by a Church, France c.1915

    (art) Made by: Cheffer, Henri Lucien 1915

    image: there is a line of buildings on either side of the composition, leading up to a church with a spire. A small cluster of tall trees stands on the left, with barrels and a few wheeled carts beside them.

  • Souscrivez au Quatrième Emprunt [Subscribe to the Fourth Loan] Souscrivez au Quatrième Emprunt [Subscribe to the Fourth Loan]

    (posters) Made by: Hansi (artist)

    whole: the image occupies whole, with the text positioned in the top left corner. image: three French 'poilus' standing in a trench beneath a pine tree. They look across the occupied Alsatian countryside to a vision of Strasbourg Cathedral on the horizon...

  • Camouflage Camouflage

    (art) Made by: Gillot, E Louis 1916

    image: two French infantrymen wearing large green camouflaged capes standing in a wood.

  • Old French Front Lines, North East of Toutvent Farm, Hebuterne Old French Front Lines, North East of Toutvent Farm, Hebuterne

    (art) Made by: Rose, Geoffrey K (MC) 1915-12-21

    image: a view along a long, deep trench in northern France, which appears to be no longer in use. A wide firestep and the parapet of the trench run along the right, with a few sheets of corrugated iron and a few trunks of wood on the firestep. The land...

  • Study for Old French Front Lines, North East of Toutvent Farm, Hebuterne, November 1915 Study for Old French Front Lines, North East of Toutvent Farm, Hebuterne, November 1915

    (art) Made by: Rose, Geoffrey K (MC) 1915-11

    image: an annotated sketch of a view along a long, deep trench in northern France, which appears to be no longer in use. A wide firestep and the parapet of the trench run along the right, with a few sheets of corrugated iron and a few trunks of wood on...

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