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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...

  • Souscrivez pour la Victoire [Subscribe for Victory] Souscrivez pour la Victoire [Subscribe for Victory]

    (posters) Made by: Richard, M (artist) 1916

    whole: the image covers the majority of the poster area, with the title positioned across the top in red. Further text is positioned across the bottom, also in red. image: Victory leads the Allied armies, atop rolling clouds, across a battlefield of dead...

  • Werbt und Zeichnet alle Achte Kriegsanleihe [All Promote and Subscribe to the Eighth War Loan] Werbt und Zeichnet alle Achte Kriegsanleihe [All Promote and Subscribe to the Eighth War Loan]

    (posters) Made by: Lehmann Steglitz (artist) 1918

    whole: the image covers the majority of the surface, with the text, in black, positioned across the top and the title set along the bottom, in red. image: a pipe-smoking Landwehr soldier standing guard over five Russian POWs at work in a rural landscape...

  • Harret Aus! Zeichnet Die Neunte! [Hold Out! - Subscribe to the Ninth!] Harret Aus! Zeichnet Die Neunte! [Hold Out! - Subscribe to the Ninth!]

    (posters) Made by: Walch, T (artist) 1918

    whole: the image covers the whole surface, with the title integrated and placed across the top and upper right. image: a full-length depiction of a German infantryman, standing on a wall, calling out with his hand raised to his mouth. The war-torn...

  • Captured German Guns Parked near Bourlon, October 1918 Captured German Guns Parked near Bourlon, October 1918

    (art) Made by: Rose, Geoffrey K (MC) 1918-10

    image: a sketch of four German field guns standing in an open landscape, with hills lining the horizon.

  • St Quentin on Fire During German Retreat, 8.15pm 21 April 1917 St Quentin on Fire During German Retreat, 8.15pm 21 April 1917

    (art) Made by: Rose, Geoffrey K (MC) 1917-04-21

    image: a sketch view across a flat landscape with a tree in the centre foreground, looking towards the buildings of Saint-Quentin ablaze after being set on fire by retreating German forces. A large cloud of smoke drifts skywards.

  • Cemetery in Plugstreet Wood, May 1915 Cemetery in Plugstreet Wood, May 1915

    (art) Made by: Rose, Geoffrey K (MC) 1915-05

    image: a view of several graves marked with wooden crosses and plaques in Ploegsteert Wood. A duckboard path runs across the wood in the middle ground.

  • Graves in Ploegsteert Wood, May 1915 Graves in Ploegsteert Wood, May 1915

    (art) Made by: Rose, Geoffrey K (MC) 1915-05

    image: a view of several graves marked with wooden crosses and plaques in Ploegsteert Wood. A duckboard path runs across the wood in the middle ground.

  • Mametz Wood : after the autumn advance, 1916. 'The abomination of desolation'. Mametz Wood : after the autumn advance, 1916. 'The abomination of desolation'.

    (art) Made by: Morrall, J B

    image: a view across the devastated Mametz Wood, with splintered tree stumps and flooded shell holes. The body of a dead German infantryman lies in the foreground, the legs visible but the torso and head hidden by the water of a flooded shell hole.

  • A German Double Pill-box: Gheluvelt A German Double Pill-box: Gheluvelt

    (art) Made by: Nash, Paul 1918

    image: a heavily damaged German pillbox looms large in the right foreground, some debris littered outside the entrance doorway. There is a tree stump and another damaged structure in the distance.

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