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• WVS Settlement, Fairford. Ivor Tully, an evacuee from Barking

  (art) Made by: Allan, Rosemary

  image: A young boy sits on a chair, looking out of the frame towards the right. He is wearing wellingtons and shorts and appears to be in a domestic setting.

• The 'L' Press. Forging the Jacket of an 18-inch Gun: Armstrong-Whitworth Works, Openshaw, 1918

  (art) Made by: Airy, Anna 1918

  image: The interior view of a munitions factory showing the manufacture of 18' guns with munition workers. A figure in suit and bowler hat stands in the foreground. There is a warm orange light spread over the scene emitted from the forge in the right of...

• 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

  (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

  (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

  (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

  (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

  (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...

• The Control-room at South West Regional Headquarters, Bristol

  (art) Made by: Piper, John (CH) 1940

  image: a room lit by electric light. On the right hand wall is an abstract map, with areas marked with numbers and letters. On the adjacent wall are more symbols, another smaller map and a clock. In the foreground are tables with a glass and carafe.

• The Tube: October 1940

  (art) Made by: Topolski, Feliks 1940-10-01

  image: The interior of Leicester Square underground station with figures lying asleep on the floor of the station platform. There is a large man sitting smoking a pipe in the foreground, and several ARP wardens wearing helmets standing further down the...