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• The Ypres Salient at Night

  (art) Made by: Nash, Paul (artist) 1918

  image: A night scene showing three soldiers on the fire step of a trench surprised by a brilliant star shell lighting up the view over the battlefield. On the left there is a flooded shell-hole, beyond which stand three other soldiers, overlooked by a...

• The 'Vindictive' at Zeebrugge: The storming of Zeebrugge Mole

  (art) Made by: de Lacy, Charles John 1918

  image: A high stone sea-defence wall ('mole') on the left borders a choppy sea. In the centre of the painting lies a cruiser, flying the British naval ensign. The vessel lies up against the mole and is seen from the stern where a Lewis gun is mounted. A...

• The Main Dressing-station of a Field Ambulance : Templeux-la-Fosse, 18th September 1918

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

  image: The site of a main dressing station near Templeux-la-Fosse in the Somme region. There are a series of tents, with a few wheeled carts in the central foreground. A red cross flag and a Union Jack fly above the camp. The landscape beyond is green...

• An Advanced Dressing-station of the 36th Field Ambulance at Liéramont

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

  image: A group of huts form the advanced dressing station of the 36th Field Ambulance, situated next to a road near Liéramont in the Somme. There is a flagpole next to the largest hut bearing a red cross flag to try to prevent aerial attack. A motor...

• A Covering for a Gun-site

  (art) Made by: Richards, Albert 1942

  image: soldiers at work in a clearing, assembling a framework which is partly covered in tarpaulin. There is snow on the ground and several soldiers are prodding the tarpaulin with sticks to dislodge the snow from the roof of the structure.

• 'Kilkenny's Circus' : Parachute Training School. Paratroops undergoing synthetic training

  (art) Made by: Richards, Albert 1944

  image: inside a training hall. In the foreground there are several trainees hanging from harnesses suspended from the ceiling. In the background there are more trainees jumping in turn from a platform near the ceiling, some swing from the rafters.

• A Searchlight Battery

  (art) Made by: Richards, Albert 1942

  image: a searchlight on a small paved area of a promenade, next to a lighthouse. The area is surrounded by barbed wire and also contains a small, manned anti-aircraft gun emplacement. There are several men in uniform in the battery, including one asleep...

• Sergeant Edwards, MM, 9th Queen's Royal Lancers

  (art) Made by: Elwes, Simon (RA) 1942

  image: A head and shoulders portrait of Edwards, who has turned to his left to face the viewer. He is wearing a desert issue shirt, with the badge of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers on the shoulder epaulette, and a forage cap.

• Corporal Guise DCM, Rifle Brigade

  (art) Made by: Elwes, Simon (RA) 1942

  image: A head and shoulders portrait of Guise, who has turned to his left to face the viewer. He wears a desert issue shirt, with the ribbon of his Distinguished Conduct Medal visible on his chest.

• Shoeing Under Difficulties, The Jordan Valley : field forge in the Jordan Valley Shoeing 'Jimmy'

  (art) Made by: Dugdale, Thomas Cantrell (RA) 1918

  image: A British soldier is shoeing a brown horse, with three other British soldiers beside him. One of the men works at a forge, a cigarette hanging from his mouth. All of this is performed under the shade created by a canvas roof held by wooden...