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A Digger [Portrait of Tom Herket]
Art
Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
Hilda Rix Nicholas returned to Australia in 1918 and took a studio in Mosman, Sydney in 1919. She made drawings of soldiers who had returned from the war and were yet to find employment. During this ...ART96812
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[Alten-Grabow prisoner of war camp]
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Maker: Greidenborg, Victor
Depicts a number of buildings, prisoners and a fenced area at Alten-Grabow prisoner of war camp, Germany, during the First World War. The painting was originally donated to the War Memorial in Decembe...ART92193
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[Ambulance wagon]
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Maker: Lambert, George
This drawing of an ambulance of sand wagon is from behind, showing the beds stacked inside the vehicle.ART11393.036
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Another batch of Jerrys
Art
Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts a mounted Australian officer with his bayonet rifle stowed on his back, leading a groupe of German soldiers, or 'Jerrys', along a road lined with bomb damaged trees. Standing on the side of th...ART02656.004
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A Turkish prisoner (Bash Shawish, Ghezireh)
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of a Turkish prisoner wearing a hat with tassel, long moustache and Turkish shirt. Turkish prisoners in Egypt, lived under perhaps the best conditions of any prisoners during the Fi...ART02800
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Aug 8: Find the Turk
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Maker: Bean, C E W Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
An illustration demonstrating soldier humour. The central figure is a Turkish prisoner, who is being escorted by two Australian soldiers that have taken on a similar appearance to the Turks. August 8 ...ART00022.005
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Breaking the Hindenburg Line
Art
Maker: Longstaff, Will
The Battle of the Hindenburg Line which began September 18, 1918, was a key turning point in the Hundred Days Offensive that eventually led to the end of World War 1. British forces spearheaded the at...ART03023
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Capture of Mont St Quentin
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts Australian soldiers (17th Battalion) and German soldiers in a captured German trench on the flank of Mont St. Quentin. The 17th Battalion colour patch, diamond shape and horizontally divided b...ART02929
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Craterland
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts a wounded man on a stretcher being carried by four German prisoners of war while under armed escort of an Australian soldier. They are walking along a duckboard track past shell holes filled w...ART02925
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Dawn at Hamel, 4 July 1918
Art
Maker: Bell, George
Depicts the Battle of Hamel, July 1918. Australian Corps were under the command of General John Monash (the Battle of Hamel was his first operational success; the Australians had artillery support of ...ART03590
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Die drei starken [The three strong ones]
Art
Maker: Unterholzer, Josef E
This sculpture consists of the figures of an old woman with a rosary, a young mother with a baby in her arms and in between them, an Austrian soldier who is protecting them all. The sculpture suggests...ART92944
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Digger's boot
Art
Maker: Unknown
Chalk carving of a digger's boot. Details of the boot are carved into the surface, including tread, eyelets and stitching. The piece was made by a Turkish prisoner of war who presented it to General...ART16815
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'Digger' you tink you vas going to the dressing station
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
An Australian soldier leads a crying German prisoner of war over to a puddle of water. He seems about to push him in. Gladys Blaiberg didn't work at the Australian Forces canteen until 1917. While it...ART40957
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Dutch prisoner of war
Art
Maker: Unknown
Depicts a Dutch prisoner of war dressed in a Russian fur cap, long coat, pantaloons and clogs. The painting was originally donated to the War Memorial in December 1947 by Mr. Robert Emil Luks. R.E.Luk...ART92187
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Exposition de tableaux de maitres modernes [Exhibition of paintings by modern masters]
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Maker: Poulbot, Francisque PARIS : GALERIE GEORGES BERNHEIM, 1916 (PARIS : DEVAMBEZ) Devambez Imprimerie
Depticted behind a barbed wire fence of a German prison camp, a French soldier sketches as he watches the German guards supervising other prisoners unloading packages, presumably of clothing. This po...ARTV07349
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Figures behind wire
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Maker: Winzer, Charles
Depicts a young man standing behind wire fence with a group of men behind him. Lieutenant Charles Winzer was a POW at Ruhleben (racecourse) Berlin 1914-18 period. In September 1914, about forty Britis...ART19343
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Gefangen [Captured]
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Maker: Grosz, George
Depicts tired and exhausted German soldiers who have been captured as prisoners of war, walking down a road in a bedraggled fashion. A dead soldier lies beside the road and a landscape with houses and...ART19997
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German Cruelty to British Prisoners
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Maker: Unknown Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Hudson & Son
Text based British poster. There is no image. The text is framed by a red and brown border, and the writing is also red or brown ink. The title runs from the upper left corner to to the upper right...ARTV03928
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German prisoner before the intelligence officer, Heilly
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts the interrogation of a German prisoner of war at the Heilly headquarters of the 5th Division, 15th brigade, AIF. The Brigade Intelligence officer is sitting at a table with the German prisoner...ART02501
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German prisoners at Dickebusch
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Depicts the head and shoulders portraits of three German prisoners, one wearing glasses, held at Dickebusch. Now called Dikkebus, Dickebusch is a village and commune in the province of West Flanders, ...ART02405