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• RAF Station: New arrivals at the Guard Room

  (art) Made by: Sorrell, Alan 1945

  image: A night scene at a temporary barracks. A guard holding a small lantern stands outside a Nissen hut directing two men over to the huts on the left of the composition. Each of the new arrivals carries a large bundle over his shoulder. On the...

• Living Quarters on a Dispersed 'Z' (Rocket AA) Battery Site

  (art) Made by: Sorrell, Alan 1943

  image: a hutted camp with Nissen huts set amongst trees, with RAF airmen walking and cycling along the road in the foreground, seemingly on their way back to the camp. On the corner of the side road that leads to the camp is a sign marked 'Z Site',...

• A Hutted Encampment

  (art) Made by: Sorrell, Alan 1943

  image: a detailed view from above of an RAF camp set amongst trees. The camp is full of Nissen huts with troops walking and cycling along the connecting roads, the main one of which runs from the bottom right corner in the foreground to the top left in...

• Recruits Leaving the Camp

  (art) Made by: Sorrell, Alan 1941

  image: a monochrome wintry night scene, with a column of RAF recruits wearing packs and greatcoats marching through the open gate of the camp. There are huts to the left and right and a full moon is visible in the night sky in the top left. The ground...

• Listening-post at Spyglass, Gibraltar

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1943

  image: British soldiers gathered at a listening post at Spyglass, Gibraltar, looking out over the Mediterranean. The machinery of the post dominates the centre of the composition, its four cone shaped receivers facing skywards. It is incorporated on the...

• 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...

• School Cadets Practising the 'Crawl'

  (art) Made by: Macpherson, Alexander

  image: cadets crawl across the ground on a hillside, watched by an instructor who stands over them. In the background there are some houses behind a low wall with a gateway.

• Catch 22 Bombing the airfield

  (art) Made by: Lee, Dick 1970

  image: Airmen running across an airfield, with planes burning on either side of them. Above them an aircraft is flying low over the airfield, completing a bombing run. Puffs of smoke from gunfire hang in the air.

• The Hospital at Mahemdia : for a mile along the beach stretch the tents of a Stationary Hospital. Beyond the boat is the screen of an open-air cinema.

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-10-09

  image: in the foreground two British soldiers in pith helmets sit within a rowing boat on a beach at Mahemdia, before a large hospital. White tents stretch right across the horizon, with figures walking amongst them. Beyond the men can be seen a large...