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  • War Weapons Week in a Country Town War Weapons Week in a Country Town

    (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1941

    image: A street scene in a small town. A brass band, Girl Guides, Police and Home Guard participate in War Weapons Week outside a community hall and are watched by a crowd of civilians. Union flags are on display and a speech is being made from a...

  • Home Guards brewing Tea just before Dawn Home Guards brewing Tea just before Dawn

    (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1941

    image: Two Home Guards inside a small wooden hut, brewing tea by candlelight.

  • Snap into it - Men 18-19 1/2 - Home Defence Snap into it - Men 18-19 1/2 - Home Defence

    (posters) Made by: Scott, Frederick George Alfred (artist)

    whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters, set against a blue background. The title is integrated and positioned in the upper quarter, in red cursive script. The subtitle is separate and placed in the lower quarter, in white, set against a green...

  • 'Let 'em All Come' - Home Defence Battalions 'Let 'em All Come' - Home Defence Battalions

    (posters) Made by: Scott, Frederick George Alfred (artist) 1939

    whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters, set against a green background. The title is integrated and positioned in the upper quarter, in white outlined red cursive script. The subtitle and text are separate and placed in the lower quarter, in...

  • Let 'em All Come - Home Defence Battalions Let 'em All Come - Home Defence Battalions

    (posters) Made by: Scott, Frederick George Alfred (artist) 1940

    whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters, set against a green background. The title is integrated and positioned in the upper quarter, in white outlined red cursive script. The subtitle and text are separate and placed in the lower quarter, in...

  • A Battery Shelled A Battery Shelled

    (art) Made by: Lewis, Percy Wyndham 1919

    image: 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...

  • The Ypres Salient at Night The Ypres Salient at Night

    (art) Made by: Nash, Paul (artist) 1918

    image: A night scene showing three soldiers on the fire step of a trench surprised by a brilliant star shell lighting up the view over the battlefield. On the left there is a flooded shell-hole, beyond which stand three other soldiers, overlooked by a...

  • Gassed Gassed

    (art) Made by: Sargent, John Singer (RA) 1919

    image: 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...

  • Captain Pauline Gower of the Women's Air Transport Auxiliary
Women's Work in the War (Other than the Services) - Six lithographs by Ethel Gabain Captain Pauline Gower of the Women's Air Transport Auxiliary Women's Work in the War (Other than the Services) - Six lithographs by Ethel Gabain

    (art) Made by: Gabain, Ethel Leontine (artist) 1941

    image: An image of a female pilot poised above the cockpit of a plane. She is dressed in a flying cap, goggles, and wears a shirt and tie underneath her jacket. The plane's wing struts run diagonally across the image.

  • 'Stand To' Before Dawn 'Stand To' Before Dawn

    (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1918

    image: 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...

  • Study for 'Over The Top' (IWM ART 1656) Study for 'Over The Top' (IWM ART 1656)

    (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1918

    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...

  • Study for Oppy Wood, 1917 (IWM ART 2243) Study for Oppy Wood, 1917 (IWM ART 2243)

    (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA) 1917

    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,...

  • Some Civilian Casualties at the Main Dressing-station of the 36th Field Ambulance, Flines-les-Raches, October 1918 Some Civilian Casualties at the Main Dressing-station of the 36th Field Ambulance, Flines-les-Raches, October 1918

    (art) Made by: Mackey, Haydn Reynolds (MM) 1918

    image: 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...

  • Study for 'Stand To' before Dawn. (No 1160) Study for 'Stand To' before Dawn. (No 1160)

    (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA)

    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...

  • Brigade Headquarters: Signallers and Linesmen Brigade Headquarters: Signallers and Linesmen

    (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918

    image: 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.

  • Rosieres Valley, 1918 Rosieres Valley, 1918

    (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918

    image: 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...

  • During a Battle During a Battle

    (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918

    image: 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...

  • Gunners. Turning Out for an SOS. Battery action at night Gunners. Turning Out for an SOS. Battery action at night

    (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918

    image: a group of gunners of the Royal Field Artillery hurriedly emerging from a dugout, still dressing as they run towards a battery firing into the distance. A Sergeant stands to the left of the composition, holding a torch in his hand shining down at...

  • Signallers Signallers

    (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1918

    image: a scene with six British signallers laying a wire in a trench. The two men in the centre appear to be shouting at one another, perhaps as a result of the noise of artillery fire, and the others look on, transfixed in their pose. A wounded man lies...

  • The Menin Road The Menin Road

    (art) Made by: Roberts, William (RA) 1917

    image: a view down the Menin Road in the Ypres sector of the Western Front. Two small columns of British troops march along the road, the foremost comprised of men of the Royal Field Artillery. Two ambulance trucks drive ahead of them. Alongside the road...

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