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(art) Made by: Lewis, Percy Wyndham 1919
A Battery Shelledimage: 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...
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(art) Made by: Sargent, John Singer (RA) 1919
Gassedimage: 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...
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(art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1918
'Stand To' Before Dawnimage: 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...
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(art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1918
Study for 'Over The Top' (IWM ART 1656)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...
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(art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1917
Study for Oppy Wood, 1917 (IWM ART 2243)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,...
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(art) Made by: Mackey, Haydn Reynolds (MM) 1918
Some Civilian Casualties at the Main Dressing-station of the 36th Field Ambulance, Flines-les-Raches, October 1918image: 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...
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(art) Made by: Nash, John (RA)
Study for 'Stand To' before Dawn. (No 1160)image: a squared up study of five British infantrymen at 'Stand To' in a front line trench at dawn. Four of the men stand on the firestep, carefully looking over the parapet towards No Man's Land. One of the men, in the centre, stands lower down in a...
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(art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918
Brigade Headquarters: Signallers and Linesmenimage: a group of stylised figures installing communication lines outside a Brigade Headquarters housed in a dugout. Light shines down on the scene from the left illuminating one side of the figures.
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(art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918
Rosieres Valley, 1918image: the figures of four stylised signallers laying a wire across a heavily battle-scarred landscape. Clouds of dark smoke billow from the ground not far away. There is a village on the horizon in the distance, and another in the valley beyond the...
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(art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918
During a Battleimage: three British soldiers in yellow stand on a mound while a field gun pulled by horses moves past. A stretcher party bearing a figure in yellow walks out of the composition to the right and an infantryman of the Royal Scots Fusiliers stands guard in...