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• 'Z' Rocket AA Battery in Action, 1941

  (art) Made by: Macleod, William Douglas

  image: numerous manned Z-rocket launchers are positioned over a flat landscape, all firing upward. Trails from the projectiles and the beams of the launchers searchlights illuminate the night sky.

• Catch 22 Snowden's Funeral

  (art) Made by: Lee, Dick 1970

  image: A funeral scene, with troops at the grave side, and a chaplain in robes conducting the ceremony. In the background is an Italian landscape, with a city on the hill to the right. In the middle distance a naked figure is visible, sitting in a tree.

• Sketch of a Soldier

  (art) Made by: Laboureur, Jean-Emile

  image: a line drawing of an army officer standing with his back to the viewer. He leans on a cane and has his other hand on his hip, as though surveying the scene in front of him. There are stylised trees and houses beyond the figure.

• Canadian Troops replacing Track

  (art) Made by: Lamb, Henry (MC) (RA) 1941

  image: four Canadian troops struggle to replace tank track in the countryside. Three troops stand with their backs to the viewer, along the side of the tank while the fourth lies on the ground, partially under the tank, holding a rope taught.

• The Hospital at Mahemdia : for a mile along the beach stretch the tents of a Stationary Hospital. Beyond the boat is the screen of an open-air cinema.

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-10-09

  image: in the foreground two British soldiers in pith helmets sit within a rowing boat on a beach at Mahemdia, before a large hospital. White tents stretch right across the horizon, with figures walking amongst them. Beyond the men can be seen a large...

• Building a Sea Wall : the Egyptian Labour Corps

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917

  image: a party of men of the Egyptian Labour Corps are busy constructing a sea wall on a beach, supervised by a British officer wearing pith helmet, shorts and white shirt. A ditch has been dug, with a wall made with sandbags on the seaward side.

• Near the Coast

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-09-15

  image: a view of two artillery emplacements in an arid landscape near a coastline. Both emplacements are dug into the earth and concealed with camoflage netting. The outline of a few soldiers are visible, as are silhouettes of belll tents near the sea in...

• A Morning Mist

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-07-09

  image: a view over a desert scene in the morning mist. The sun shines through, weakened by the mist. An Australian soldier strides across the scene from left to right. A herd of camels are visible through the fog in the distance, with two bell tents to...

• The Long Patrol: Drifting Sand

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-07-11

  image: a view of an Imperial Camel Corps patrol in the desert, seen from the perspective of the artist's position on the back of a camel. The camel's head and neck is in the immediate foreground. Further in front are several soldiers mounted on camels,...

• The Long Patrol: The Wadi

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-07-11

  image: an Imperial Camel Corps patrol have halted in a wadi, a dried out riverbed, in the desert. A group of soldiers sit and stand on the right, immediately behind several saddles that have been removed from the backs of the camels, who are lined up at...