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Advances in warfare
Art
Maker: Faulkner, Bob
Cartoon of two Australian soldiers standing in a deep trench or crater, with only their heads visible. They are surrounded by a host of battlefield remains, including a half buried skeleton, an old ar...ART92887
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Anzac Day
Art
Maker: de Kessler, Thomas
The bodies of a number of soldiers in uniform, without heads, in a grave yard.ART91461
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A raid on enemy machine gun positions
Art
Maker: Hornby, Lester G.
Depicts a small group of soldiers crawling through barbed wire and over crops in a field in Marne, France, during the First World War. Inscribed on a piece of paper for merely attached to the drawing ...ART50026
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At the Great Castle, Qualat
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Maker: Delaney, Stephen
Depicts a scene of the Qalat Castle from FOB Apache. Qalat castle was a prominent landmark, and according to Afghan folklore, was built by Alexander the Great. Based inside the castle was a company of...ART96263.004
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Barbed wire and bamboo
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Maker: Unknown Australian War Memorial Unknown
Australian War Memorial advertising poster for the exhibition 'Barbed Wire and Bamboo' of 1976. The central image is of a stuffed toy kangaroo with a joey behind three horizontal lines of barbed wire....ARTV05244
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Barbed wire entanglement
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Gallipoli soldier entangled in barbed wire. Nolan viewed many photos of the soldiers at Gallipoli at the Imperial War Museum, London and would have seen photos of many dead soldiers, both Allied and T...ART91222
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Barbed wire entanglements
Art
Maker: Watson, Douglas
Barbed wire entanglements along a beach in Melbourne. Edward Albert Douglas Watson born 1920, served as an official war artist in Australia, New Guinea and Borneo from 1943 to 1946. He became the youn...ART22195
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Barbed wire fence, hills vista
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Maker: Annand, Douglas
Depicts a barbed wire fence with hills in the background.ART92452
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Beach Dunkerque
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Depicts the beach at Dunkerque Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Mrs Kate Hodgkinson in memory of Frank HodgkinsonART94190
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Be up to date Be a U.S. Marine
Art
Maker: Rogers, William Allen
First World War U.S. Marines recruitment poster depicting a marine putting on a modern helmet as he looks over the battlefield. His old campaign hat hangs below him on a barbed wire fence post and his...ARTV00109
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[blank]; verso: Vaux
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A sketch of a landscape at Vaux-Sur-Somme with an encampment on the far bank. There is barbed wire in the foreground of the sketch. ART12644 correlates to this sketch and seems to have been excised fr...ART93170.004
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Bomb crater: illustrating the poem 'Proem', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
Art
Maker: Nash, Paul
Hand-coloured woodcut illustrating the poem 'Proem', the first illustration in a book of poems by British poet and novelist Richard Aldington (1892-1926), published by Beaumont Press, London, 1919. Th...ART20002.001
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Bomb damage, Hamburg
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
Buildings in Hamburg wrecked by aircraft bombing. Building debris and barbed wire litter the street, a Cathedral can be seen in the background.ART25011
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Breaking the Hindenburg Line
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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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Bringing pickets up the ridge
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian infantrymen from 3 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, Commonwealth Division in Korea, distributing pickets in a jeep and a trailer. The pickets were for shoring up fences and barbed wire ...ART40392
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Capture of Mont St Quentin
Art
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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Concentration camp
Art
Maker: de Kessler, Thomas
Several ghost-like figures behind barbed wire in a concentration camp.ART91466
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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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Dead bodies on barbed wire: illustrating the poem 'Trench idyll', in a book of poems by Richard Aldington
Art
Maker: Nash, Paul
Hand-coloured woodcut illustrating the poem 'Trench idyll', the sixth illustration in a book of poems by British poet and novelist Richard Aldington (1892-1926), published by Beaumont Press, London, 1...ART20002.006
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Death of Second Lieutenant N J Greig 12 July 1915
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
This work was commissioned from the artist for 250 pounds. The subject is the death of Second Lieutenant N J Greig of the 7th Battalion who was killed on 12 July 1915 at Gallipoli. CEW Bean suggested ...ART02191
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Dugouts near Villers Bretonneux
Art
Maker: Longstaff, Will
Depicts a group of Australian soldiers, and one American soldier, standing in front of dugouts near Villers Bretonneux in France, during the First World War. This painting was previously titled 'Group...ART03024
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Escape
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Drawing of man crouching near barbed wire entanglements. Waiting until the guard had passed on, an emaciated prisoner-of-war is ready to slip over, or under, a known spot in the wire entanglements.ART26464
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Fears and memories
Art
Maker: Moore, Peter
A thin, weary soldier surrounded by two other tortured faces, one enclosed with barbed wire. Three helicopters fly in the background. Their windows are blue, while the remaining work is in black fib...ART45075
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Forgotten beach head
Art
Maker: Scott-Findlay, James
Sketch of a beach head with barbed wire and boats in the distance; depicts the beach near the Australian base at Vung Tau. The image was painted by Dr. J Scott-Findlay, a doctor in Canberra, appointed...ART40859
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From the centre of Slater's Knoll defences
Art
Maker: Abbott, Harold
The main Japanese attack was made directly on to this front at Slater's Knoll, however only one Japanese soldier penetrated beyond the barbed wire. There was thick foliage in the background.ART21463
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Gateway of compound, Quang Tri
Art
Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
A lone guard at a sentry post located at the gateway to Quang Tri Province. Barrels, timber logs and barbed wire entanglements are visible at right.ART40525
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German submarine under construction, Hamburg
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
Moore has recorded a German submarine under construction in Hamburg, Germany. The submarine is not complete and is surrounded by scaffolding. The site is littered with building materials and barbed ...ART25012
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Give now
Art
Maker: Carcett BRISBANE : AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY, 1942 (S.L. : N.F. & CO.)
The Australian Red Cross was established in 1923 and is guided by the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It is a secular, neutral, impartial and independe...ARTV02169
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Greetings from the 17th Garrison Battalion
Art
Maker: White, Cyril Leyshon
Two Australian soldiers greet each other, the soldier on the left is in full Australian uniform and carries a 303 rifle complete with bayonet attachment. The soldier on the right wears Australian unif...ART28577
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Helft uns Siegen! zeichnet die Kriegsanleihe [Help us win! Subscribe to the War Loan]
Art
Maker: Erler, Fritz Unknown Hollerbaum & Schmidt
German First World War poster issued by the Government to promote the Sixth German War Loan. Designed by Fritz Erler (1868-1940) it features a three quarter portrait of a German soldier, staring into ...ARTV07323
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Helft uns Siegen! zeichnet die Kriegsanleihe [Help us win! Subscribe to the War Loan]
Art
Maker: Erler, Fritz Unknown Hollerbaum & Schmidt
German First World War poster issued by the Government to promote the 6th German War Loan. Designed by German painter Fritz Erler, it features a three quarter portrait of a German soldier, staring int...ARTV00789
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Japanese beach defence at Namosain
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts the Japanese Defences at Namosan, Timor. Native boats and Japanese barges engaged in ammunition dumping in background.ART26143
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Japanese war criminal stockades, Koepang
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
View of the barbed-wire compound where Japanese prisoners were held pending investigation as to their responsibility for war crimes.ART26145
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left image: Just as well we have a good fence round us; right image: Its about time we knocked off work
Art
Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
left image: A guard is jumping in the air in front of a tangled fence of barbed wire. An Australian prisoner of war is running away from him. right image: Three Australian prisoners of war stand nex...ART90381
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Le guetteur [The lookout]
Art
Maker: Vallotton, Felix
Depicts a pile of war damaged debris, broken carriages and other bombed detriment with a small figure of a soldier peeping over the trench in the background. This is one of a series of six anti-German...ART93018
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Lend as they fight: Buy more liberty bonds
Art
Maker: Riesenberg, Sidney H United States Government Unknown
United States First World War poster issued to promote the sale of Liberty Bonds. The image fills the whole and features two soldiers fighting at the front. Positioned in the foreground the first sold...ARTV00823
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Les fils de fer [Barbed wire]
Art
Maker: Vallotton, Felix
Depicts the corpses of three French soldiers caught in barbed wire entanglements on a battlefield. Beneath a starry night sky, their bodies lie in fixed, awkward poses; one soldier's upturned hand poi...ART93016
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Messines 1917
Art
Depicts a group of Australian soldiers moving across a war damaged battlefield, while aeroplanes fly overhead, shell bursts and explosions occur on the horizon and tanks move across the landscape. The...ART03611
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Messines, morning of the offensive
Art
Depicts a war damaged landscape at dawn, part of the front line at Messines, with the remains of trees, trenches and barbed wire visible and shells exploding on the horizon. The 11th Machine Gun Compa...ART02221.002
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Messines, morning of the offensive
Art
Depicts a war damaged landscape at dawn, part of the front line at Messines, with the remains of trees, trenches and barbed wire visible and shells exploding on the horizon. The 11th Machine Gun Compa...ART02221.014
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Not titled [A digger's home]
Art
Maker: Meldrum, J B
A tongue in cheek description for a 'digger's home' that has been fashioned from a dugout and built with sand bags and sheets of galvanised tin. A post box has been erected out the front. On top is ...ART03192.019
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Not titled [bow huts]
Art
Maker: Meldrum, J B
A bow hut has exploded sending up a huge blast. Soldiers duck or run for cover around the other bow hut. The huts are covered in snow, while in the foreground a man on horseback, and a horse and sup...ART03192.006
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Obstacles are made to be overcome...
Art
Maker: Hunt, P.I 3 Aust. Corps Sands & McDougall Pty Ltd
Australian poster issued by 3 Australian Corps, based in Perth in December 1942. It is aimed at Army recruits to boost morale. The image takes up the whole and shows a group of soldiers charging over ...ARTV10401
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Outpost at Duc Thanh; verso: Vietnamese girl
Art
Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
An outpost, fortified with timber defences, sandbags and barbed wire entaglements, situated on Route 2 at the Duc Thanh Military Base. Verso: portrait of a young Vietnamese girl, possibly named Khong ...ART40464
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Peanut's gym, Rove camp
Art
Maker: eX de Medici
Patrols of nine personnel operate on a rotational basis to Rove Prison. Their job is to guard the prison complex, which includes conducting random perimeter patrols. There are often quiet times, wit...ART94153
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[POW camp fence and huts]
Art
Maker: Macfarlane, Gordon Henry
Depicts the fence and huts of Oflag 7B POW camp in Eichstatt, Germany. The artist, Gordon Henry MacFarlane, was born in Sydney in 1915, and was a member of the pre-war permanent army. He joined the AI...ART93164
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[POWs marching]
Art
Maker: Macfarlane, Gordon Henry
Depicts a column of Prisoner of War camp inmates being marched along a fence of the compound. A German guard marches to the left of them. In the foreground is a pile of personal belongings being left ...ART93144
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Practising cutting barbed wire
Art
Maker: Le Ngoc Hieu
Soldiers cutting through barbed wire. Created during a period of socialist transformation and cultural revolution in Vietnam, such art was viewed by the North Vietnamese Government as a very importan...ART93130
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Prisoner-of-war compound, Abbeville
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Abbeville; barbed wire, encampment; fences of barbed wire reinforced with wire entalglements surrounding Nissen huts accommodating German prisoners Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters...ART03528
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Prisoner of War! Did your Careless Chatter Put Him There!
Art
Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Australian Second World War poster highlighting the importance of being careful about conversations that are overheard and that seemingly 'careless chatter' can negatively impact the Allied war effort...ARTV02493