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• Study for "Gassed" Studies of a medical orderly and wounded men

  (art) Made by: Sargent, John Singer (RA) 1918

  image: studies of a medical orderly holding and supporting a gassed British infantryman under the right armpit. There are two almost identical depictions of the two men, with a detailed study of the orderly in close-up to the right, and a detail of his...

• Australian Engineers excavating a Well

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1918-05-01

  image: two Australian Army engineers at work in a trench immediately before a narrow slit in the side of a brick-built well. A pick lies on the ground to the right.

• A Road Officer : a heavy battery changing position at night in open ground near the line. The Road Officer.

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1918

  image: a British officer stands directly behind the rear of a tractor used to move heavy artillery guns. He is holding a large torch to illuminate the dark night.

• The First Anzac Jordan Bridge : Australian Light Horse crossing the swollen flood of the Jordan on the first pontoon bridge thrown across the river

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1918-03-23

  image: men on horseback of the Australian Light House look on from the left as one of their number begins to move across a pontoon bridge over the River Jordan.

• An Observer

  (art) Made by: Handley-Read, E 1915

  image: a British infantryman on observation duty in a trench on the Western Front. The man stands at a heavily sandbagged parapet looking through a loophole out into No Man's Land. He stands with his back to the viewer, his rifle, with bayonet attached,...

• Study for an Advanced Post: Night. (No 1158)

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

  image: a night scene inside the trench of an advanced post with four British infantrymen on duty, all posed with their backs to the viewer. Two stand at the bottom of the trench, while the others sit and lean higher up on firesteps on the parapet,...

• Frère: Hommage à la Maman du Canadien Crucifié, 1915

  (art) Made by: Widhopff, D O 1915

  image: a Canadian infantryman crucified on a wooden cross, his hands and feet nailed to the wood. He is comforted by the spirit of his mother, an ethereal presence by his shoulder.

• Coming Down : the balloon's fins and rudder are full of air. A girl pulls the air vent from underneath as the bag sinks down

  (art) Made by: Austin, Robert Sargent 1941

  image: a female WAAF balloon worker, wearing overalls and with her back to the viewer, pulls the air vent of a large balloon, which is in the process of deflating.

• WRNS Packing a Salvaged Float

  (art) Made by: Austin, Robert Sargent 1942

  image: two Wrens at work packing a salvaged float, with various small circular components spread out on the table in front of them.

• WRNS Issuing Grog to a Working Party

  (art) Made by: Austin, Robert Sargent 1942

  image: a woman of the Women's Royal Naval Service dispenses the rum ration to seven queuing sailors, who gather around her eagerly.