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Carroll, Percy Thomas (Private, b.1893 - d.1954)
Private Record
Maker: Carroll, Percy Thomas
Collection relating to the First World War service of 1101 Private Percy Thomas Carroll, 23rd Infantry Battalion, 1915-1917. Collection consists of a black covered diary spanning the period 8 May 1915...PR04389
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[Delousing the soldiers]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the soldiers preparing for delousing. All of those portrayed wear goggles and simple masks over their faces. A man on the far left is ringing a bell, perhaps to alert the soldiers that the ch...ART93070.014
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[Directing digging in the trenches]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist directing some consternated soldiers to dig a trench. The protagonist is standing on the far left, and appears to be telling the private in the middle something. The protagon...ART93070.010
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[Frontispiece '1916 Paul Prangere']
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts a decorative title page. A bouquet of wild roses tied together with a ribbon climb the left side of the page. The bouquet frames the title - '1916 Paul Prangere' - which is written on the ...ART93070.001
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[Letters from home]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist and his bearded friend being given letters from home by a private. The long coats of the protagonist and his bearded friend are those of a corporal, while the short coat of th...ART93070.009
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[Maintenence of the trenches]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist and two privates walking through the trenches. The protagonist has a pipe in his mouth, and his rifle slung over his shoulder. The privates follow him, and are carrying a lar...ART93070.016
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[Manoeuvres at night]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist and other soldiers advancing towrds the enemy at night. They are out of the trenches in an open space. Above them a shell bursts, illuminating the scene. All of the oldiers ...ART93070.015
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[Mishap while making fortifications]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
A farcical scene in the trenches depicting a private accidentally smacking himself in the head with a tool for knocking posts into the ground. He is wearing a shocked expression as the tool impacts w...ART93070.011
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[Near miss]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist lying down, grimacing with fear in the trench. A small shell or a gunshot appears to have exploded near his head. The trench is very shallow, and barbed wire entanglements ar...ART93070.018
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[Nocturnal visitation]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist sleeping in a dugout, using his haversack as a pillow. His half-naked wife hovers above him in a negligee. She seems to be a manifestation of his dream. From a supporting po...ART93070.013
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[Preparing food in a dugout]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts a man wearing a French army chefs uniform preparing a meal. He is working in a dugout. Holding an enormous ladle, he is tranferring food from a large cooking pot into buckets or squad boilde...ART93070.017
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[Procession carrying food]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the mustachioed protagonist leading two men who are carrying food. The protagonist is carrying his rifle and striding confidently through the trenches. Behind him is a man with no facial hai...ART93070.005
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[Reading the newspaper]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts two French soldiers relaxing in the trenches. The soldier with the moustache, the protagonist, is having the newspaper read to him by the bearded soldier, who is smoking a pipe. The title of...ART93070.004
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[Sleeping in the dugout]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist and his bearded friend sleeping in a dugout on crudely made bunk-beds. The scene has a cosy atmosphere, due to the artists's enclosing of the characters in a soft, rounded spa...ART93070.006
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[Soldiers in trench surveying the battlefield]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts two French soldiers standing in a trench and relatively at ease. The bearded soldier in the backbround is smoking a pipe with his hands at his sides. He is looking over the top of the trench...ART93070.003
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'Souvenir des tranchèes de CHAMPAGNE 1914 - 1915, 1916'
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist of the story, a French soldier, in full uniform in the foreground standing on a decorative sprig of leaves. He is leaning with his right arm on a shield upon which is written:...ART93070.002
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Souvenir des tranchèes de CHAMPAGNE 1914 - 1915 [Souvenir of the trenches of Champagne, 1914 - 1915]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
This sketchbook belonging to Paul Prangère was found on the WWI battlefields in France by Private Charles Edward Goldspink M.M., 17th Infantry Battalion. The sketches enclosed depict life in the tren...ART93070
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Wallet 1 of 1 - Diary of Percy Thomas Carroll, May 1915 - February 1917
Digitised Collection
Maker: Carroll, Percy Thomas
Diary relating to the First World War service of 1101 Private Percy Thomas Carroll, 23rd Infantry Battalion, May 1915 - February 1917. In this diary Carroll documents his active service with the 23rd...AWM2019.22.91
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[Wife writing to her husband at the front]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist's wife sitting at a table writing a letter to her husband. It is a counterpoint to the preceding drawing in the sketchbook - which is of the man writing to his wife. Again, i...ART93070.008
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[Writing a letter to the wife]
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Maker: Prangere, Paul
Depicts the protagonist sitting on a box of grenades in the bottom left corner, writing a letter on a makeshift table. It is a rather symbolist piece; his imagining of his wife is drawn in the upper ...ART93070.007