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Comines, Belgium. c. 1917. The city square showing severe war damage to most of the buildings.
Photograph
Comines, Belgium. c. 1917. The city square showing severe war damage to most of the buildings.H03465
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"Contalmaison". This inscription was recorded on the back of the original photograph by the ...
Photograph
Maker: Nenke, Robert Willie
"Contalmaison". This inscription was recorded on the back of the original photograph by the photographer. This photograph is one of a series taken by Cpl Nenke, or with his camera. Cpl Nenke was a des...P07670.013
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Corbel
Art
Maker: Unknown
Among the souvenirs that Sir John Monash gathered during the First World War, which were later displayed in his home, was a marble corbel taken from the ruins of Ypres and reputed to have been from th...ART15052
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Corbie Abbey
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Sketch depicting the war damage ruins of Corbie Abbey and surrounding buildings. Corbie is situated near the Somme battlefield and was the stage for the third battle of the Somme. Louis McCubbin enlis...ART03072
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Corbie Abbey
Art
Maker: Power, H Septimus
Depicts the ruins of Corbie Abbey church and the village buildings of Corbie, with rubble everywhere. Corbie village is on the Somme and was close to the fighting, with AIF soldiers passing through so...ART03648
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Corbie, France. 1918. The remains of buildings on the streets of Corbie. The roof of the ...
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Corbie, France. 1918. The remains of buildings on the streets of Corbie. The roof of the Cathedral has been damaged. The Allies often used Corbie as a resting point after battle. A soldier on a bicycl...P02527.019
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Corbie, morning of August 8th 1918
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
A plane filies over the village of Corbie on the Western Front. Clouds of smoke billow from explosions or shell Louis McCubbin enlisted with the 14th Battalion AIF in 1916, serving in France from No...ART03121
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Courcelette, France. 1916. Ruined Courcelette. A town captured by the Canadians. (Official ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Canadian Official Photographer
Courcelette, France. 1916. Ruined Courcelette. A town captured by the Canadians. (Official Canadian Photograph No. 0.852)H07173
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Courcelette, France. 1916. The last house in Courcelette. German artillery shelled the house. ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Canadian Official Photographer
Courcelette, France. 1916. The last house in Courcelette. German artillery shelled the house. (Official Canadian PhotographH07251
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Damaged buildings at La Coupe Guerle, on the Albert-Bapaume road near Bapaume. Philip Gibbs, ...
Photograph
Maker: Edmondson, Arthur George
Damaged buildings at La Coupe Guerle, on the Albert-Bapaume road near Bapaume. Philip Gibbs, correspondent of the London Daily Chronicle, described La Coupe Guerle as 'that haunted looking place'.P08003.018
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Dans des faubourgs de Londres (In the suburbs of London)
Art
Maker: Forain, Jean-Louis
A body of a girl lies among the smoking ruins of a bombed house. London was bombed many times. Coutin 1987 (48D). This work was published in 'L'Opinion, 23 October 1915, pp. 328-9 (48A). There is a dr...ART50147
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DEAD SEA, PALESTINE. C. 1917. A GERMAN BUILT BUILDING ON THE NORTH SHORE OF THE DEAD SEA SHOWING ...
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DEAD SEA, PALESTINE. C. 1917. A GERMAN BUILT BUILDING ON THE NORTH SHORE OF THE DEAD SEA SHOWING DAMAGE RESULTING FROM AN ALLIED AERIAL BOMB.H02513
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Defend your homes, your women and children. Enlist now!
Art
Maker: Watkins, John Samuel NSW Government W. A. Gullick, Government Printers
Australian First World War recruitment poster. Depicts a woman wrapped in a blanket with a baby in her arms. The smoking remains of a house occupies the background. The image occupies the centre of th...ARTV00034
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DEIR EL BELAH, PALESTINE. ?1917-05. WRECKAGE FROM GERMAN BOMBING OF THE CASUALTY CLEARING ...
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DEIR EL BELAH, PALESTINE. ?1917-05. WRECKAGE FROM GERMAN BOMBING OF THE CASUALTY CLEARING STATIONS AT BELAH HOSPITAL. TO THE LEFT A STONE WITH A RED CROSS MARKS THE LOCATION OF THE FORMER DISPENSARY. ...P00036.003
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Digger with packhorse passing through ruins
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
A digger with a pack horse passes through ruins and debris in the Somme area, France.ART16638
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Digger with packhorse passing through ruins
Art
Maker: Crozier, Frank
An Australian soldier leads his pack horse through the war torn landscape of the Somme in Western France.ART00234
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Dingbat Alley, Peronne
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 2nd Australian Division Ammunition Column headquarters and the houses in the street, with some ruined. In Australian military slang 'dingbat' is a derogatory...ART50115
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Dingbat Alley, Peronne
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the 1st Australian Imperial Force, 2nd Australian Division Ammunition Column headquarters and the houses on the street with some ruined. 'Dingbat' is Australian slang for idiot or simpleton. ...ART12641
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Directional notices in a battle scarred village in the Kemmel area. (Donor German War Museum: ...
Photograph
Maker: Deutsche Reichsarchiv
Directional notices in a battle scarred village in the Kemmel area. (Donor German War Museum: Bufa 8555)H13270
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[Donkey's Anatomy]; verso [Villers Bretonneux water point]
Art
Maker: Longstaff, Will
Four pencil drawings of a donkey and anatomical parts of the donkey including the head, the back half and the forelegs and chest in profile. Verso: A pencil drawing of the town of Villers Bretonneux. ...ART19796.009
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Don't waste food while others starve!
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Maker: Clinker, L C United States Food Administration Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co. N.Y.
First World War poster issued by the United States Food Administration. It features an image of a starving woman and her children standing in front of the bombed ruins of a cathedral. The title and te...ARTV00179
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Doorway still standing amidst the ruins of a catherdral at Ypres, Belgium. From the collection of ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Doorway still standing amidst the ruins of a catherdral at Ypres, Belgium. From the collection of Mr Alfred Thomas Sharp. Mr Sharp was the Commonwealth Immigration Officer of Victoria and was based in...J00633
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[Dugouts near Villers-Bretonneux]; verso: [Covered trucks parked]
Art
Maker: Longstaff, Will
The right hand panel of a panorama sketch for 'Dugouts near Villers-Bretonneux'. This painting depicts dugouts set in the side of earth works, a corrugated iron lean-to and two soldiers. Verso: three ...ART19796.005
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Easter dawn and anti-Christ
Art
Depicts a caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II amid wreckage and chaos. One of his feet rests on a skull and the other on a broken column, symbolising the death of civilisation. He holds a sword and globe ...ART02233
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EGYPT. C. 1915. TWO OFFICERS FROM THE 2ND AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE BRIGADE WITH THEIR HORSES ...
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EGYPT. C. 1915. TWO OFFICERS FROM THE 2ND AUSTRALIAN LIGHT HORSE BRIGADE WITH THEIR HORSES STANDING IN WHAT APPEARS TO BE ANCIENT RUINS.H02762
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Entrance to citadel, Peronne
Art
Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of the damaged entrance to the Citadel at Peronne, with an Albion truck parked at the entrance. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbour...ART03516
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Etinehem
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Sketch depicting the war damaged village of Etinehem at the Western Front. The image has been drawn from a sloping street of Rue Sainte Anne which allows a partial view of the main street. The bell to...ART03090
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Evacuation by motor ambulance, France 1914-1918
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts a motor ambulance driving through rubble, evacuating the wounded from a war damaged urban area. One of a series of oil paintings accompanying the dioramas that depict the scheme of evacuation ...ART16865
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Evening at Flers
Art
Depicts a war damaged landscape with ruined buildings, destroyed trees and power lines and parts of machinery. Flers is near Guedencourt, in north-eastern France, near the Somme. Will Dyson was the fi...ART02217
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Exterior of an extensively damaged convent school where members of No. 1 Field Company, Royal ...
Photograph
Exterior of an extensively damaged convent school where members of No. 1 Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, lived for a time. Lieutenant Cyril Lawrence notes in his caption for the photograph:...P02226.040
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Fighting in Flanders
Film
Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank) Wilkins, George Hubert
This film deals with the participation of the Australian troops in the third battle of Ypres during the autumn of 1917. Scenes include Australians preparing for the attack; being reviewed by Sir Doug...F00056
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First World War and family photographs collected by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood, 1917-1918
Digitised Collection
Maker: Various
This file contains 81 black and white photographs collected by Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood. These photographs include family photographs as well as official war photographs of the Western Fron...RCDIG0000520
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Flanders, 1917 (verso: two crayon drawings)
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Depicts an atmospheric and war damaged landscapes and the remains of a battlefield on the Western Front. In May 1916 Louis McCubbin enlisted with 14th Battalion AIF. He served in France from 2 Nov 191...ART09450
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Flattened section of copper organ pipe, St Martin's Cathedral, Ypres : Lieutenant General Sir J Monash, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Rectangular sheet of 1 mm copper, with impact and burn marks. A square of paper, cut from an old administrative letter, is glued to the reverse, with the following caption written in ink: 'This Sheet ...REL/00730
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Forgotten men: the war as it was
Film
Maker: Lee, Norman
An Associated British Picture Corporation Ltd production. Commentary written and spoken on camera by Sir John Hammerton, war historian in conjunction with the representatives of the fighting forces 1...F00172
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Forward to victory : Enlist now
Art
Maker: Kemp-Welch, Lucy Elizabeth David Allen & Sons Ltd
British Parliament Recruiting Committee poster, number 133, depicting a cavalryman charging, his sword pointing forward, while buildings burn in the background. Issued with the simple injunction 'Forw...ARTV00442
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France. 1918. A distribution station operated by the Australian Electrical Mechanical Mining and ...
Photograph
France. 1918. A distribution station operated by the Australian Electrical Mechanical Mining and Boring Company was situated under these ruins. The cable from the main generating plant at Givenchy can...H12184
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FRANCE. 1919-03-04. A VIEW OF THE RUINS OF THE TOWN OF LA BASSE WHICH HAD VIRTUALLY BEEN IN THE ...
Photograph
FRANCE. 1919-03-04. A VIEW OF THE RUINS OF THE TOWN OF LA BASSE WHICH HAD VIRTUALLY BEEN IN THE FRONT LINE OF THE WAR FOR FOUR YEARS. (ORIGINAL PRINTS HELD IN AWM ARCHIVE STORE) (DONOR M. CORKHILL)P00826.130
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France. c.1917. A large crucifix stands intact beside an extensively damaged church and other ...
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France. c.1917. A large crucifix stands intact beside an extensively damaged church and other buildings in a country area possibly known as Crucifix Corner. It is an example of the remarkable phenomen...P00437.019
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FRANCE, C. 1917. AMIENS MAIN STREET AFTER THE BOMBARDMENT BY THE GERMANS.
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FRANCE, C. 1917. AMIENS MAIN STREET AFTER THE BOMBARDMENT BY THE GERMANS.H02108
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France. c. 1918. Canadian soldiers and nurses picking up souvenirs from the wreckage of a German ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Canadian Official Photographer
France. c. 1918. Canadian soldiers and nurses picking up souvenirs from the wreckage of a German Gotha aircraft which was shot down in flames in Canadian lines near their hospital.H06957
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France. c. 1917. Devastated buildings and trees at a road junction known as Windy Corner. (Donor ...
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France. c. 1917. Devastated buildings and trees at a road junction known as Windy Corner. (Donor Mrs M.A. Morse)H12806
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FRANCE, C 1918. MENIN ROAD CEMETERY, SURROUNDED BY RUINED BUILDINGS. DONOR: K. INCE
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FRANCE, C 1918. MENIN ROAD CEMETERY, SURROUNDED BY RUINED BUILDINGS. DONOR: K. INCEP00743.021
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FRANCE, C 1918. RUINED BUILDINGS IN ST. QUENTIN TOWN AFTER HEAVY SHELLING. DONOR: K. INCE
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FRANCE, C 1918. RUINED BUILDINGS IN ST. QUENTIN TOWN AFTER HEAVY SHELLING. DONOR: K. INCEP00743.022
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FRANCE, C. 1918. THE DAMAGED CATHEDRAL AT VILLERS-BRETONNEUX. (DONOR: T. R. LYON).
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FRANCE, C. 1918. THE DAMAGED CATHEDRAL AT VILLERS-BRETONNEUX. (DONOR: T. R. LYON).H02119
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France. c. 1917. Wrecked and war damaged houses in a French village.
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France. c. 1917. Wrecked and war damaged houses in a French village.H04131
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France. March 1917. A destroyed village on the battlefield between St Quentin and Laon. (Donor ...
Photograph
Maker: Deutsche Reichsarchiv
France. March 1917. A destroyed village on the battlefield between St Quentin and Laon. (Donor German War Museum: Bufa 2191)H13120
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France. 11 November 1918. An intersection of three roads in the eastern end of the ruined ...
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France. 11 November 1918. An intersection of three roads in the eastern end of the ruined village. It was in this vicinity that the 5th Division concentrated for their attack at Fromelles on 19 July 1...E04033
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Fremicourt, France, 1917. Houses damaged by enemy bombardment lining a road in the town which is ...
Photograph
Fremicourt, France, 1917. Houses damaged by enemy bombardment lining a road in the town which is located northeast of Bapaume. The road has been cleared of debris and rubble.P01835.021
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Fremicourt, France, 1917. Interior of the eastern end of the ruined church in the town, damaged ...
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Fremicourt, France, 1917. Interior of the eastern end of the ruined church in the town, damaged by enemy bombardment, northeast of Bapaume. Broken masonry and other debris lie on the floor. (Donor B. ...P01836.005