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• 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...

• HMS Brecon escorting an Aircraft-carrier from Algiers

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1944

  image: a view looking back towards a ship painted with dazzle patterns, sailing ahead of the aircraft carrier on the horizon. In the foreground a sailor can be seen raising the Scottish flag.

• HMS Berkeley Castle at Gibraltar

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1944

  image: A view over ships anchored at sea near the coast of Gibraltar, seen from the deck of a ship's bow. In the foreground two figures dressed in overalls are scrubbing down the wooden deck. To the right there are several winches coiled with rope, and...

• Italians Surrendering at Famagusta, Cyprus : 13th September 1943

  (art) Made by: Georghiou, Georgios Polybius 1943

  image: Vessels of the Italian Navy surrendering within Famagusta harbour. In the right foreground a line of traditional sailing ships are moored in the water. In the background is the city of Famagusta, with merchant ships moored on the quayside. Several...

• A Partisan Camp, Yugoslavia

  (art) Made by: Hailstone, Harold William 1944

  image: A soldier stands between the guy ropes of two tents.

• Our First Glimpse of the Desert near Suez 'Convoy' series, 1941 - 1942

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1942

  image: Through a network of rigging a sailor looks towards a mountainous coastline. A light anti-aircraft gun facing the sky is immediately to his right and four ships lie in the water before the coastline.

• Alice Delysia gives a Concert Aboard a Fighting-French Warship

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1942

  image: A small room on a warship crowded with sailors listening to a concert given by a woman in uniform.

• Interior

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1942

  image: three officers sit at a table having tea with a woman in a blue uniform who is knitting. A pair of crutches leans on the arm of her chair. A fourth man is serving the tea in his shirtsleeves.

• The Camp of the British Druze Regiment

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1941

  image: An encampment in the desert with horses and camels grazing and soldiers marching. In the foreground, three soldiers are in conversation and three dogs look on.

• Swimming Horses across the River Jordan

  (art) Made by: Moss, W P 1941

  image: British soldiers, stripped to their underwear, lead a row of swimming horses across the River Jordan.