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• Arabs Bartering Eggs for Tea near Sirte

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1942

  image: Two Arab men and three children bargain with a soldier who is sitting on a petrol can. Behind them an officer is leaning against a truck and another soldier is climbing over the tailgate. A soldier stands lower right, tying up a bed roll.

• Bivouac in an Orchard of Figs near Burg-el-Arab

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1942

  image: Two soldiers are kneeling around a contained fire cooking some food. In the background there is man on a donkey and another figure in red crossing a sandy landcscape. In the distance there is a water tower on a hill.

• Supper at an HQ Officers' Mess in the Desert

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1942

  image: Officers sit around a table underneath a camouflaged awning attached to a truck. One soldier waits for a meal to be served by a soldier inside the truck. In the background there is desert.

• Cesena : Cooks of a Basuto Pioneer Company preparing the midday dinner on Christmas Day, 1944

  (art) Made by: Bawden, Edward 1944-12-25

  image: the cooks work around various stoves and fires under a wooden roof. Some are chopping wood with axes while others tend the pans and fires.

• With the 8th Army Brigade HQ in a Farmyard

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1944

  image: A view of a farmyard in which there is a jeep and a camouflaged truck parked. The yard is filled with soldiers. Two, just right of centre are examining a map. In the foreground a civilian woman is standing, facing away from the viewer, holding a...

• The Yard of our Farm House near Tripoli

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving

  image: Three men are gathered near the back of a truck parked in a yard, surrounded by trees. One man is leaning against the edge of a rectangular pool. Behind the group a woman is washing some clothes at the edge of the pool.

• Women and Children Carrying Baskets of Grapes at Bagnara, Italy

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1943

  image: Two women and two girls walk along the side of the road with large baskets balanced on their heads. They are being observed by two Officers driving past in an open jeep with their backs to the viewer.

• Soldiers Resting by the Roadside

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1943

  image: British soldiers rest by an orchard wall, with two soldiers lying on the wall. In the orchard behind, one soldier picks fruit, watched by another who is leaning across the wall. In the background to the left, another soldier relieves himself. In...

• Street Scene in Nicastro, 1943

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1943

  commission 1940 (War Office Artist)

• Sketch book- Various Second World War Scenes

  (art) Made by: Eadie, Ian G M 1943

  whole: ring-bound sketch book with a leatherette cover image: a variety of subjects varying from portraits and caricatures of military personnel and entertainers to sketches of military training and relaxation. There are also a number of preparatory...