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  • 'Stand To' Before Dawn 'Stand To' Before Dawn

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

    image: British infantrymen stand-to in a duckboarded trench. They lean against the parapet looking over the breastworks into No Man's Land, with their rifles beside them. There are two large puffs of smoke from artillery fire hanging in the dawn sky to...

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

  • Study for Oppy Wood, 1917 (IWM ART 2243) Study for Oppy Wood, 1917 (IWM ART 2243)

    (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1917

    image: a squared up preparatory drawing for John Nash's painting 'Oppy Wood'. The lower half of the composition has a view inside a trench with duckboard paths leading to a dug-out to the right. Two British infantrymen stand on the firestep to the left,...

  • An Advanced Post, Night An Advanced Post, Night

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

    image: a night scene inside the trench of an advanced post with four British infantrymen; they are all posed with their backs to the viewer. Two stand at the bottom of the trench, the others sit and lean higher up the trench wall. They all appear to be...

  • A Bombing Post in the Snow A Bombing Post in the Snow

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

    image: Four British infantrymen wearing greatcoats and winter clothing lie in a shell hole in snow-covered No Man's Land, which is littered with barbed wire.

  • A Pill-box in the Hindenburg Line near Fontaine-les-Croisilles, captured by the Royal Naval Division A Pill-box in the Hindenburg Line near Fontaine-les-Croisilles, captured by the Royal Naval Division

    (art) Made by: McEvoy, Ambrose (ARA) 1918

    image: A view of a scarred landscape, with a concrete pill-box in the centre of the composition amongst undulating ground.

  • The Counter-attack; Study for 'Over the Top' (IWM ART 1656) The Counter-attack; Study for 'Over the Top' (IWM ART 1656)

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

    image: a small squared up study for the painting 'Over the Top' (IWM ART 1656). On the left, a trench lined with duckboards stretches away from the viewer. A group of soldiers clamber from the trench, going 'over the top'. Two lie dead in the trench and...

  • An Advanced Post, Day An Advanced Post, Day

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

    image: Three British soldiers shelter under a corrugated iron roof in an advanced post. Another soldier sits in the immediate foreground on sentry duty, looking towards one of the stacked rifles on the left, which has a small mirror mounted on the...

  • 'Over The Top'. 1st Artists' Rifles at Marcoing, 30th December 1917 'Over The Top'. 1st Artists' Rifles at Marcoing, 30th December 1917

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

    image: a landscape in the snow. 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 dead in the trench and another has fallen lying face down in...

  • Oppy Wood, 1917. Evening Oppy Wood, 1917. Evening

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

    image: the lower half of the composition has a view inside a trench with duckboard paths leading to a dug-out. Two infantrymen stand to the left of the dug-out entrance, one of them on the firestep looking over the parapet into No Man's Land. There is a...

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