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• An Army Discussion Group

  (art) Made by: Spurrier, Steven (RA) 1943

  image: the interior of a high-ceilinged room with a group of soldiers sitting facing an officer, who sits at a table with his back to the viewer in the foreground. There is a fire place to the left and a door in the far wall in the background.

• Familiar Silhouettes

  (art) Made by: Carr, Henry 1942

  image: Three Soldiers standing in front of an illuminated Underground sign.

• In their Cellar in Amiens: Captain R Maude, DAPM, who was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Authorities, and Colonel du Tiel, Commandant d'Armes Amiens

  (art) Made by: Orpen, William 1918

  image: The interior of a cellar furnished to resemble a study. There are chairs, a desk, a rug, a map on the wall, lamps and a waste-paper basket. Sunlight shines in through the window at the top of the room casting a shadows from the objects around the...

• spike socket bayonet, cruciform section, for No 4 Mark I Lee-Enfield rifle & No 4 Mark I

  part of "spike socket bayonet, cruciform section, No 4 Mark I with scabbard" (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Singer Manufacturing Co (Clydebank, Scotland) 1942

  Second World War period British No 4 Mark I spike socket bayonet [cruciform section]. This example is a wartime mass-produced version of the Enfield Trials spike socket bayonet. The wartime issue No 4 Mark I bayonets were all made by the Singer...

• spike socket bayonet, cruciform section, No 4 Mark I with scabbard

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Singer Manufacturing Co, Clydebank, Scotland 1942

  Experience gained during the First World War suggested that the British Pattern 1907 bayonet (see WEA 475) was unwieldy to use and could give troop positions away by reflecting light from its long flat-sided blade. As a consequence a short "spike"...

• The Guard in a Block House (two soldiers)

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1940

  image: One soldier stands to attention, the other lies on a palette against the embrasure, through which can be seen the countryside. In front of the embrasure there is a theodolite on a tripod. There are rifles stacked against the wall.

• The Harvest of Battle

  (art) Made by: Nevinson, C R W 1919

  image: The aftermath of a battle showing a muddy and flooded battlefield. A long line of wounded men, some with limbs bandaged, men carrying their comrades, straggling from right to left. Corpses lie in and around water-filled shell holes. Artillery...

• Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, KT, GCB, GCVO, KCIE, Commander-in-Chief, France, From December 15th 1915. Painted at General Headquarters, May 30th 1917

  (art) Made by: Orpen, William 1917

  image: A head and shoulders portrait of Haig in uniform against an abstract background.

• Captain G B McKean, VC, MC, MM, 14th BN Canadian Infantry : 1919

  (art) Made by: Underwood, G C Léon 1919

  image: A half length portrait of Mckean wearing uniform, who stands with his right hand placed on a book.

• Over the Top 'Britain's Efforts and Ideals'; Making Soldiers

  (art) Made by: Kennington, Eric Henri (RA)

  image: a British infantryman about to climb over the top of the parapet into No Man's Land, as part of an attack. He stands within a duckboarded trench, various equipment on the ground beside him. In the background, several of his comrades have crossed...