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ACCS in France
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts an Australian Casualty Clearing Station (ACCS) in France. Red Cross tents are in the foreground with artillery shells are exploding just beyond them. Nurses and soldiers are in the foreground....ART13334
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A hundred years
Art
Maker: Mesiti, Angelica
Australian artist Angelica Mesiti was commissioned by the Australian War Memorial to explore new ways of interpreting the Australian experience of the Western Front and its legacy. The film she create...AWM2019.57.1
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Anderson, James (Private, b. - d.1916)
Private Record
Maker: Anderson, James
Collection relating to the service of 815 Private James Anderson, 13 Battalion, France 1916. Collection includes letters to family describing recent trench action.1DRL/0035
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A Nissen hut camp on the Somme
Art
Depicts a camp site on the Somme in 1917, consisting of a number of Nissen huts, piles of supplies, a rubbish dump and men working on a power pole. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war art...ART02367
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[Army camp, Somme desert]
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the Australian Army Camp at the Somme desert, Somme, Western Front. The foreground contains horses, tents, supplies and wagons. The background also contains tents as well ...ART03082
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A 'Stonkered' Barn, Somme
Art
Depicts a ruined barn with a heavy gabled roof and a hay waggon in front of it, in a landscape in France during the First World War. George Benson (1886- 1960) studied at the National Gallery School, ...ART03610
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At a water point
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting several Australian soldiers with articulated general service wagons and limber wagons, traveling past a village in the Somme region. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th ...ART03068
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Aubigny
Art
Near Aubigny; an improvised plank bridge over a river, with three trucks parked near the Aubigny end.ART03371
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Australian aid post outside Vaux
Art
Depicts a view of the interior of an Australian Regimental aid Post, outside Vaux, near Bullecourt, with an officer and two orderlies inside. In the foreground is a table with piles of dressings and b...ART02356
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Australians and Americans on the Somme, 1918
Manuscript
Maker: Ward, Meleah Elizabeth
67 page manuscript. The manuscript provides a brief background to both the AIF and the American Expeditionary Force (AEF). The relationship between the AIF and AEF is examined in respect to training b...MSS2079
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Back at Buire
Art
Maker: Vincent, Day, Brooks and Sons
Depicts two Australian soldiers, one wearing a heavy long coat and smoking a pipe, the other in uniform with his hands in his pocket, standing near a doorway. A young French woman, wearing a scarf, cl...ART02298.001
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Back with the Civilians
Art
Depicts a seated soldier, in the foreground, observing a young French woman, who wears a head scarf. Behind them are the war damaged buildings of a French village. Will Dyson made the work in the Somm...ART02403
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Bailey, Herbert Austin (Sapper, b.1873 - d.1963)
Private Record
Maker: Bailey, Herbert Austin
Collection relating to the First World War service of 19636 Sapper Herbert Austin Bailey, 5th Australian Division Engineers. Collection consists of two diaries (one very brief) and six separate diary ...PR90/018
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Baker, Eric Arthur Ormond (Lieutenant, b.1889 - d.1976)
Private Record
Maker: Baker, Eric Arthur Ormond
Collection relating to the First World War service of 3238 Lieutenant Eric Arthur Ormond Baker, 59th Battalion, England and France. Collection consists mainly of letters (some with envelopes) and pos...PR00983
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Bamford, James
Manuscript
Maker: Bamford, James
"One of Fifty Nine Thousand" narrative history of the life of Private Robert Bamford. It was written in the first person from the letters and recollections of friends by his nephew James Bamford. Cove...MSS0844
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Battalion H. Q. Camon, Somme
Art
Maker: Brewster, William Hill
Depicts 50th Battalion Head Quarters, Camon, (Somme).ART00154
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Beinke, Berthold Walter MM France 1918
Private Record
Maker: Beinke, Berthold Walter
Letter of Private (Berthold) Walter Beinke MM (43 Battalion) to his parents from beside the Somme, dated 3 April 1918. It describes the penetration of the British lines by the German offensive of Marc...PR01005
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Binskin, Alfred William (Private, 20th Bn, AIF)
Private Record
Maker: Binskin, Alfred William
DETAILS OF ACTIVE SERVICE FROM TIME OF JOURNEY TO EGYPT, CANAL DUTY, TRANSFER TO FRANCE INCLUDING EXPERIENCES ON THE SOMME, POZIERES, FLERS, YPRES, MESSINES AND MONT ST QUENTIN. ALSO COVERS THE ARMIST...PR83/047
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Bivouacs in the snow (alternate title: 'On the duckboards')
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
A winter scene with three figures huddled together in foreground. In the middle distance are Nissen hut and bivouacs.ART15465
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[blank]; verso: [Encampment under trees]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A sketch of trees with an encampment situated under them. This sketch could possibly relate to 'Greys under cover, Glisy' ART12633 and ART14637. This sketchbook is from Streeton's first official war a...ART93170.003
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[Blank]; verso: [Landscape]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a partial landscape with telegraph poles. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account, 2007ART93169.009
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[blank]; verso: [Landscape]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A sketch of a wooded landscape ojn the Somme River. This sketchbook is from Streeton's first official war artist commission to France 14 May-13 August 1918 where he worked mainly around the Somme batt...ART93170.001
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[Blank]; verso: Landscape]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts an incomplete landscape sketch. The page has some scribble on most probably by Streeton's young son Oliver. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National C...ART93169.015
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[Blank]; verso: [Landscape]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Verso depicts the left hand side page of a sketch of a landscape with railway and road indicated through trees and a village on the right of the image. Purchased with the assistance of the Australi...ART93169.012
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[blank]; verso: [Partial roof]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A partial sketch of a roof. This sketchbook is from Streeton's first official war artist commission to France 14 May-13 August 1918 where he worked mainly around the Somme battlefields. Purchased ...ART93170.009
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[Blank]; verso: [Riverscape with fallen tree]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a road/river? with a fallen tree. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account, 2007ART93169.005
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[blank]; verso: [Rooftop]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A partial sketch of a rooftop. This sketchbook is from Streeton's first official war artist commission to France 14 May-13 August 1918 where he worked mainly around the Somme battlefields. Purchase...ART93170.007
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[Blank]; verso: [Sketch of a review of 2nd Division by General Sir Charles Rosenthal]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
The verso also depicts a sketch of the 2nd Division in review formation for General Sir Charles Rosenthal. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural H...ART93169.007
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[Blank]; verso: [Smith's side of road and railway]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a sketch of a landscape with a village along the horizon line. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account, 2007ART93169.010
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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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[Blank]; verso: [View of Amiens]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of Amiens with wagons and encampments in the foreground. Purchased with the assistance of the Australian Government through the National Cultural Heritage Account, 2007ART93169.016
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[blank]; verso: [Villers-Bretonneux memorial cross]
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the memorial cross at Villers-Bretonneux erected in memory of those who fell in battle from the 13 Australian Infantry Brigade on 24 and 25 April 1918. Purchased with the assistance of the ...ART93169.019
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Bois d'Ecardrineuse
Art
Depicts a view of the Bois d'Ecardrineuse (woods of Ecardrineuse) , Ecardrineuse, Somme, France.ART03166
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Bomb dump near Chuignolles
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A sketch of an ammunition dump near Chuignolles that has been bombed. This sketchbook is from Streeton's first official war artist commission to France 14 May-13 August 1918 where he worked mainly ar...ART93170.010
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Bray-sur-Somme showing Red Cross Station
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the Red Cross Station at Bray-sur-Somme on the Western Front. The station is in the mid ground of the image with the town and landscape of Bray-sur-Somme around it. Louis ...ART03110
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Buchanan, Harold Keith (Bombardier, b,1892- d.1917)
Private Record
Maker: Buchanan, Harold Keith
Collection relating to the First World War service of 2004 Bombardier Harold Keith Buchanan, 39 Battery, Australian Field Artillery [AFA] . Collection consists of a typescript copy of five original d...PR83/192
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[Buildings] verso: [Landscape with church in distance]
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting war damage ruins of a village. The verso has a Watercolour sketch depicting a landscape with a church in the background. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AI...ART03077
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Burton, Colin John Combe (Sapper, b.1897 - d.1974)
Private Record
Maker: Burton, Colin John Combe
Photocopied diary of Sapper Burton for the period 1917-1919. The diary details the journey from Australia to England, working with A Company, No. 1 Section, Engineers Training Camp in Essex, his time ...PR00377
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Butte de Warlencourt
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
Depicts walking figure and portion of a tent in right foreground. Red Cross wagon and two-horse General Store wagon in middle foreground.ART15466
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Caldwell, David Wallace (Lieutenant, 27 Battalion, AIF d.1917)
Private Record
Maker: Caldwell, David Wallace
LETTERS WRITTEN BY LT CALDWELL PRIOR TO SERVICE ON THE SOMME AND LATER LETTERS OF CONDOLENCE FOLLOWING HIS DEATH ON 2 MARCH, 1917PR83/174
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Cameron, Lindsay George (Gunner, 5th Div Arty HQ, AIF)
Private Record
Maker: Cameron, Lindsay George
DIARY DETAILING HIS DUTIES IN EGYPT AND FRANCE AS A DESPATCH CARRIER AT DAHQ, SERVICE AT BAPAUME, MESSINES AND THE SOMME UNTIL EVACUATED, VARIOUS POSTCARD LETTERS SENT TO HIS FAMILY AND OFFICIAL RECOR...PR83/073
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Camouflaged tents
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting camouflaged tents in a wood in the Somme region. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November 1917 with the 10th Field Ambu...ART03096
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Campac Station, R.G. dump
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Painting of Campac Station with a wrecked landscape nearby in France during the First World War. Charles Bryant (1883-1937) had some early art lessons before beginning his career as a clerk in the Ba...ART00165
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1. Cardwell, Edward Thomas 2. Cardwell, Claude Edward (1. Private, 1st Stationary Hospital, Bendigo 2. Gunner, 31 Battery, 8th Field Artillery Brigade)
Private Record
Maker: Cardwell, Claude Edward
Diary of Gunner Claude Cardwell covers the period 25 July 1918-29 January 1919 in France. Describes air raids, bombardments, mules and donkeys transporting ammunition and guns, stretcher bearing, role...PR90/134
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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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Caterpillar Gully, Mametz Road, Somme
Art
Depicts a war damaged landscape with a roadway winding through it. Dyson wrote that this scene depicted, 'Caterpillar Gully, Mametz Road, Somme, 1917'. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war...ART09932
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Chataway, Thomas Percival (Lieutenant, 15 Battalion, AIF)
Manuscript
Maker: Chataway, Thomas Percival
CONTAINS TWO TYPESCRIPTS, "MOURNING GLORY", A PLAY SET PARTIALLY IN THE TRENCHES IN FRANCE IN 1916, AND "DEATH RIDES ABROAD", AN ACCOUNT BASED ON THE AUTHOR'S EXPERIENCES AT GALLIPOLI (QUINN'S POST) A...MSS0652
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Chateau Coisy
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the Chateau at Coisy with three Australian soldiers in the right of the image. Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from November...ART03078
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Cherry, Percy Herbert, VC MC (Captain, b.1895 - d.1917)
Private Record
Maker: Cherry, Percy Herbert
Original letter from King George V offering condolences on the death of Captain Cherry V.C., M.C., and regret at being unable to present the VC to Cherry before his death. The collection also contains...PR00110