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  • War Weapons Week in a Country Town War Weapons Week in a Country Town

    (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1941

    image: A street scene in a small town. A brass band, Girl Guides, Police and Home Guard participate in War Weapons Week outside a community hall and are watched by a crowd of civilians. Union flags are on display and a speech is being made from a...

  • Home Guards brewing Tea just before Dawn Home Guards brewing Tea just before Dawn

    (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1941

    image: Two Home Guards inside a small wooden hut, brewing tea by candlelight.

  • A Battery Shelled A Battery Shelled

    (art) Made by: Lewis, Percy Wyndham 1919

    image: Three officers stand to the left of the composition beside a pile of ammunition boxes. Each looks in a different direction. One has his back to the viewer and looks out over the scene of the painting. There are marionette-like figures moving over...

  • Gassed Gassed

    (art) Made by: Sargent, John Singer (RA) 1919

    image: A side on view of a line of soldiers being led along a duckboard by a medical orderly. Their eyes are bandaged as a result of exposure to gas and each man holds on to the shoulder of the man in front. One of the line has his leg raised in an...

  • Some Civilian Casualties at the Main Dressing-station of the 36th Field Ambulance, Flines-les-Raches, October 1918 Some Civilian Casualties at the Main Dressing-station of the 36th Field Ambulance, Flines-les-Raches, October 1918

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

    image: The interior of a large room with soldiers and civilians seated on a bench. Many of the soldiers have bandaged limbs. They are all waiting to be attended to by the medical orderly, who is dressing the foot of an elderly civilian holding a young...

  • 'Rigids' At Pulham, 1918. R23 Type British Airships at Pulham St Mary, Norfolk 'Rigids' At Pulham, 1918. R23 Type British Airships at Pulham St Mary, Norfolk

    (art) Made by: Lavery, John (Sir) (RA) (RSA) 1918

    image: A view of the interior of an airship hangar showing the rear fins of two rigid airships. There is a tank and a number of figures walking across the hangar floor. A long ladder reaches from the ground to the rear point of the airship on the left.

  • Self Portrait in Uniform Self Portrait in Uniform

    (art) Made by: Carline, Richard C 1918

    image: A head and shoulders self-portrait of the artist wearing uniform.

  • The Queue at the Fish-shop The Queue at the Fish-shop

    (art) Made by: Dunbar, Evelyn Mary 1944

    image: A long line of women queue outside the shop of H. Hill and Son, fishmongers, poulterers. The slabs are being washed down in anticipation of a fresh delivery.

  • Valve Testing: The Signal School, RN Barracks, Portsmouth Valve Testing: The Signal School, RN Barracks, Portsmouth

    (art) Made by: McCormick, Arthur David 1919

    image: Three Women's Royal Naval Service ratings are at work using communications equipment inside a room of a Royal Navy barracks. A WRNS officer stands talking to a Royal Navy officer behind them.

  • Captain M E Nasmith, VC, RN : 1918 Captain M E Nasmith, VC, RN : 1918

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

    image: A half-length portrait of Nasmith in naval uniform, shown in profile looking to the right. He has his hands in his pockets.

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