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• Fortified Islands in the Bristol Channel: 2" Naval UP Projector on an earlier fortification

  (art) Made by: Howard-Jones, Ray 1943

  image: A Naval UP Projector standing on top of an old fortification. The gun is manned by two uniformed figures, one on either side. In the foreground there are two sets of steps: one leading up to the soldiers and the second leading down to a doorway in...

• First Aid Practice

  (art) Made by: Medley, Robert (RA) 1940

  image: a scene in a hall with large windows. Three soldiers are carrying a patient in a makeshift strecher on the left. In the background another soldier is practicing putting a sling on a patient who sits on a chair next to stack of furniture hung with...

• Leslie Croft, GM : of Sheffield

  (art) Made by: Wheatley, John (ARA)

  image: A head and shoulders portrait of Leslie Croft, who wears a beret and has the ribbon of a George Medal on his chest.

• A.R.P. Messenger

  (art) Made by: Curr, Thomas 1940

  image: A male ARP messenger, wearing dark ARP uniform and steel helmet and with a messenger bag over his shoulders, is shown in profile riding a bicycle. In the background is a silhouetted cityscape, the dark sky illuminated by three searchlight beams.

• National Service Evacuation Scheme

  (posters) Made by: Games, Abram

  whole: blue text is placed at the top with a royal crest, in gold, in the middle of it. Below is the image which fills the majority of the design and incorporates blue text. All is set against a black background, which at the bottom fades to a greyer...

• Edward Roche : a head melter at a Sheffield munition factory

  (art) Made by: Wheatley, John (ARA)

  image: A head and shoulders portrait of Edward Roche wearing protective glasses pushed up onto his forehead.

• Wapping

  (art) Made by: Minton, John 1941

  image: A slender, head and shoulder self-portrait of the youthful John Minton. He stands in a bomb damaged slum street in Wapping. In the middleground right a female figure wearing a red dress stands in the road with her back to the viewer.

• Exercise Kruschen (Dunwich Common): Tank Fascines; the 'Snake' Ronson flame-throwers

  (art) Made by: Bawden, Edward

  image: a large landscape scene of military exercises on Dunwich Common. On the far left soldiers are seen constructing tank fascines and defences. Churchill tanks are in the centre of the composition with four tanks in the middle distance, one of which...

• Blitzed City with Self-Portrait

  (art) Made by: Minton, John 1941

  image: A slender, dark-haired youth with a melancholic gaze leans against a brick pillar. He wears an open-necked shirt and a short jacket with one button fastened. His trouser belt is shown slightly unfastened. Behind him is a cityscape of bombed...

• Riding into Barmouth

  (art) Made by: Adshead, Mary 1941

  image: Four British soldiers wearing uniform, including steel helmets camouflaged with leafy twigs, ride bicycles down a steep street into the town of Barmouth. A few civilians watch them from the doorways of buildings.