A Cavalry Camp - the summer of 1916 Art.IWMART203
A Cavalry Camp - the summer of 1916 image: a view across a British cavalry camp in the countryside of northern France. In the foreground some British soldiers tend to some horses at the side of a road that runs... More
A church nr the Somme untouched by shell fire amid the Village ruins A...
A church nr the Somme untouched by shell fire amid the Village ruins image: a view from the windowless shell of a ruined building; a church with steeple on the horizon, against a deep blue sky
A Church, France, 1917 Art.IWMART1625017
A Church, France, 1917 image: a view of a church in pale stone, with a smaller outbuilding before it.
A Coast Defence - an 18-pounder anti-aircraft gun, Tyneside, 1917 Art....
A Coast Defence - an 18-pounder anti-aircraft gun, Tyneside, 1917 image: Searchlights scan the night sky over the coast at an anti-aircraft installation. One of the two guns is firing, with the flash from the ... More
A Concert Art.IWMART1408 - Egypt
A Concert image: a view of the covered promenade deck on a troopship completely full of British soldiers and, in the immediate foreground, nurses, who are watching a concert performance in the background left.
A Convoy Art.IWMART632. Warship photograph collection
A Convoy English: image: A merchant convoy at sea, with a ship that appears to be in the process of sinking in the right foreground. An airship is in the sky above.
A Convoy in the Channel Art.IWMART560
A Convoy in the Channel image: A convoy of dazzle-painted ships at sea, sailing from left to right. All is set against a clear sky, the reddish tones on the horizon suggestive of early evening.
A Convoy of Dazzled Ships in the Channel Art.IWMART4030
A Convoy of Dazzled Ships in the Channel image: A view of a distant convoy of 'dazzle' painted camouflaged ships at sea. By day, the ships are obviously visible, though from a distance the 'dazzle' effect still... More
A Convoy of Sick Animals being Despatched to a Railhead from a Mobile ...
A Convoy of Sick Animals being Despatched to a Railhead from a Mobile Veterinary Section image: a column of sick horses are moved through muddy country in rows of two. There is a horse-drawin cart to the left ... More
A Convoy, North Sea, 1918. From Ns 7- painted from an airship off the ...
A Convoy, North Sea, 1918. From Ns 7- painted from an airship off the coast of Norway image: An aerial view from an airship looking down onto a convoy in the North Sea. Two airmen look out towards the lower le... More
A Cook in the Galley, Hm Trawler Mackenzie Art.IWMART896
A Cook in the Galley, Hm Trawler Mackenzie image: three-quarter portrait of an man in overalls and cap, holding a mug in his left hand. He is sitting in a galley, with a large range, a pot and kettle on the left
A Corner of a Dockyard Art.IWMART561
A Corner of a Dockyard image: A view across a dockyard, with a stone tower in the centre of the composition and a large redbrick building to the right, which has a series of arches in front of it. In the left f... More
A Corner of the Dockyard, Rosyth- Winter Art.IWMART1354
A Corner of the Dockyard, Rosyth- Winter English: image: A winter scene set in Rosyth dockyard. A crowd of sailors cross the snow on the ground, leaving the warship moored at the quay in the background. From b... More
A Coup de Main, Maison de Champagne, 1st September, 1917 Art.IWMART332...
A Coup de Main, Maison de Champagne, 1st September, 1917 image: a view across a battlefield in Champagne during an artillery bombardment. In the foreground a disused-looking trench runs across the composition, ... More
A Crashed Fokker at Villers-bretonneux, France Art.IWMART2665
A Crashed Fokker at Villers-bretonneux, Somme, France image: the mangled remains of a crashed German Fokker aeroplane in a bomb-damaged landscape amongst several bare tree trunks. Another biplane is visible in... More
A Crashed Gotha Art.IWMART280
A Crashed Gotha image: a damaged German biplane in a battlefield landscape.
A Creek near Basra Art.IWMART1891
A Creek near Basra image: a landscape view of water and vegetation at night or in half light. The silhouetted prow of a native boat is in the centre.
A Cwm Lake in the Italian Alps, 1918 Art.IWMART4530
A Cwm Lake in the Italian Alps, 1918 image: the main sketch shows an aerial view over the Alps with a cwm lake in a valley to the right of the composition. A smaller sketch above left shows an aerial cloudscap... More
A Dazzled Merchantman Art.IWMART2878
A Dazzled Merchantman English: image: A Merchant vessel at sea during choppy weather conditions. The ship is painted in a dazzle camouflage scheme, which incoporates shades of blue, pale green, mauve and also ... More
A Dazzled Oiler, With Escort Art.IWMART567
A Dazzled Oiler, With Escort image: A large dazzle-painted oiler at sea being escorted by a smaller vessel, with the white chalk cliffs of the coastline visible in the background.
A Death among the Wounded in the Snow Art.IWMART2985
A Death among the Wounded in the Snow image: A group of wounded soldiers gathered around a dead soldier. The body lies facing the viewer, eyes closed and mouth open pain; he is still lying on a stretcher, his s... More
A Deck Hand, North Sea Patrol, 1917 Art.IWMART1397
A Deck Hand, North Sea Patrol, 1917 image: A half length portrait of a naval deck hand wearing a waterproof coat and souwester hat. He stands on the deck of a ship and the coastline can be seen behind him, wit... More
A Derelict Tank, D.22, 1917 Art.IWMART13
A Derelict Tank, D.22, 1917 image : a tank stands in a battlefield landscape. A number of graves marked by wooden crosses surround the tank.
A Derelict Tank, Ypres Art.IWMART579
A Derelict Tank, Ypres image: a bleak battlefield landscape, with a tank in the centre right on the horizon.
A Desert Sentry - one of the Lancers on the listening post Art.IWMART1...
A Desert Sentry - one of the Lancers on the listening post image: an Indian Army Lancer on sentry duty in the desert, lying on the ground on his front with his rifle in firing position. He wears uniform and a s... More
A Design for a Calendar for No. 8 Veterinary Hospital for the Year 191...
A Design for a Calendar for No. 8 Veterinary Hospital for the Year 1919 image: a design for a calendar with a board displaying 'No 8 Veterinary Hospital' in the centre of the composition, surrounded by a series... More
A Destroyed Aerodrome at Rayak, Lebanon Mountains Art.IWMART2675
A Destroyed Aerodrome at Rayak, Lebanon Mountains image: the ruins of a destroyed aerodrome lie in a green valley with large mountains beyond. There are badly damaged buildings in the left foreground.
A Destroyed Turkish Aerodrome at Rayak, Lebanon, 1919 Art.IWMART3139
A Destroyed Turkish Aerodrome at Rayak, Lebanon, 1919 image: The scene of a destroyed aerodrome. The remains of burnt-out aircraft, three nose-down in the earth, one on it's side with part of the fuselage still... More
A Destroyer Art.IWMART1287 during World War I
A Destroyer image: A view along the length of a moored destroyer from the bridge of the ship, possibly looking along the port side towards the stern. The destroyer's three funnels are visible towards the left w... More
A Destroyer in a Heavy Sea- From HMS Melampus Art.IWMART1317
A Destroyer in a Heavy Sea- From HMS Melampus image: A view from the upper deck of the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Melampus, looking back towards the stern. The destroyer's three funnels, rearmost mast and one of ... More
A Destroyer Torpedoed. (hms Ullswater) Art.IWMART1351
A Destroyer Torpedoed. (HMS Ullswater) English: image: The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Ullswater in the process of sinking, having been torpedoed amidships. The destroyer is shown port side on and has virtually b... More
A Devastated Village, France c.1915 Art.IWMART1651011
A Devastated Village, France c.1915 image: a view of a heavily bomb damaged French village. Barbed wire crosses the foreground with a tree to the right. Further back are the shells of several bombed houses, wit... More
A Dirty Day in Flanders Art.IWMART3245
A Dirty Day in Flanders image: a view of a desolate flooded battlefield. Two stretcher parties are carrying the wounded across a muddy field. In the foreground is a flooded crater with smashed debris and the lo... More
A Diver's Tender Art.IWMART2255
A Diver's Tender image: A three quarter length portrait of a diver's tender of the Admiralty Salvage Section. He sits on the deck of a boat smoking a pipe, with the sea behind him.
A Dressing-station Art.IWMART1452
A Dressing-station image: two medical personnel tend to a wounded British soldier, who lies on a stretcher with his head bandaged and his left arm in a splint. One man kneels on the right, tending to the soldie... More
A Drifting Mine Art.IWMART1350 during World War I
A Drifting Mine English: image: A seascape with a mine floating in the surface of the water in the foreground. There is a cloudy blue sky above.
A Dugout in a Trench near Gavrelle Art.IWMART151793
A Dugout in a Trench near Gavrelle image: entrance to a dugout with seated figure inside
A Fallen Aeroplane at Semakh Art.IWMART1590
A Fallen Aeroplane at Semakh image: the remains of a biplane lie on flat, arid ground with a few bell tents of a military camp in the distance to the right. The plane leans forward with the nose in the ground, ... More
A Farmhouse Kitchen, France, 22nd January 1916 Art.IWMART1625015
A Farmhouse Kitchen, France, 22nd January 1916 image: the interior of a farmhouse kitchen. A woman sorts through a laundry basket watched by a soldier smoking a pipe and wearing jodhpurs. A small child sits at ... More
A Fighting Emir- Mohammed Ali-el-mauyed El Aden. Aged 65 Art.IWMART156...
A Fighting Emir- Mohammed Ali-el-mauyed El Aden. Aged 65 image: a half length portrait of an old Emir wearing a blue robe and white headdress. He has a thick white beard and has his left hand placed on the hilt... More
A Filtering Plant - water is taken from the Sweetwater Canal, which fl...
A Filtering Plant - water is taken from the Sweetwater Canal, which flows from the Nile, and after being filtered is pumped across the desert. the engineer examines the water in the glass tube. image: a view do... More
A Franco British Snowball Fight Art.IWMART17001
A Franco British Snowball Fight image: A snowball fight between two small groups of soldiers in front of some ruined buildings,
A Freight of Pain - on the way to the hospital at Port Said Art.IWMART...
A Freight of Pain - on the way to the hospital at Port Said image: several wounded soldiers and attending personnel lie and sit on the deck of a boat on the way to hospital at Port Said. To the right four men l... More
A French Highway Art.IWMART1162
A French Highway image: British troops march across the foreground. They walk in rows of three, every man wearing full kit. Behind them are two mounted French officers, in their distinctive helmets and dark blu... More
A French Troopship, April 22nd 1915 Art.IWMART4266
A French Troopship, April 22nd 1915 image: A view of a French troopship surrounded by other vessels in Mudros Bay in Lemnos.
A Front Line Post, 1916 Art.IWMART4824
A Front Line Post, 1916 image: a view along a section of partially flooded front line trench.
A Garden at Mametz Art.IWMART183
A Garden at Mametz image: a view across a severely bomb damaged village garden. In the foreground is a narrow trench or gully, with a ruined building to the left. The ground is a mess of rubble, with a few bare... More
A German Attack on a Wet Morning, April 1918 Art.IWMART1986
A German Attack on a Wet Morning, April 1918 image: An attack in misty, wet weather. From the cover of a low breastwork riflemen and a Lewis gun team face the German attackers. In the foreground a soldier lies ... More
A German Double Pill-box- Gheluvelt Art.IWMART1602
A German Double Pill-box- Gheluvelt image: a heavily damaged German pillbox looms large in the right foreground, some debris littered outside the entrance doorway. There is a tree stump and another damaged str... More
A German Gunners Shelter, Warlencourt Art.IWMART2965
A German Gunners Shelter, Warlencourt image: A view along a trench from underneath a camouflage net. Stone and shards of wood lie on the ground, and there is a white topped hill visible in the distance.
A German Gunners Shelter, Warlencourt
A German Gunners Shelter, Warlencourt image: A view along a trench from underneath a camouflage net. Stone and shards of wood lie on the ground, and there is a white topped hill visible in the distance.
A German Observation Tree Art.IWMART3039
A German Observation Tree image: ruined farm buildings lie to the left and right either side of a tree which stands in the centre of the composition. The tree has ladders against the trunk, leading up to a smal... More
A German Pill-box - used as British battalion headquarters, Ypres Art....
A German Pill-box - used as British battalion headquarters, Ypres image: a concrete pill-box, with the entrance on the right side. A soldier stands to the right, while mud and debris is on the left. Communicati... More
A German Soldier Art.IWMART16987
A German Soldier image: A full length portrait of a uniformed German soldier looking to the right, with his hand resting on a shovel.
A German Trench-mortar with Gun Crew, concealed in a Front Line Dug-ou...
A German Trench-mortar with Gun Crew, concealed in a Front Line Dug-out image: an interior view of a dug-out, with three German soldiers manning a mortar; one is about to load a shell, a second is preparing ano... More
A Grave and a Mine Crater at La Boisselle, August 1917 Art.IWMART2378
A Grave and a Mine Crater at La Boisselle, August 1917 image: A landscape scarred with mine craters on which weeds, flowers and grasses have begun to grow. A single white cross marking a grave stands in the cen... More
A Grave in a Trench Art.IWMART2976
A Grave in a Trench image: A view along the remains of an old trench, scattered with debris. Among the weeds and rocks there is a helmet, a boot, a rifle. A grave with a wooden marker cross stands in the cent... More
A Greaser. Admiralty Salvage Ship Art.IWMART2252
A Greaser. Admiralty Salvage Ship image: A full length portrait of an Admiralty salvage worker, who stands in a doorway smoking a pipe.
A Greek Boat Tacking Across the Bay, Mudros, July 21st 1915 Art.IWMART...
A Greek Boat Tacking Across the Bay, Mudros, July 21st 1915 image: an annotated sketch in five stages showing a traditional Greek sailing boat tacking across Mudros Bay. The boat is shown from various angles, t... More
A Greek Boat Tacking Across the Bay, Mudros, July 21st 1915 Art.IWMART...
A Greek Boat Tacking Across the Bay, Mudros, July 21st 1915 image: an annotated sketch showing a Greek sailing boat tacking across Mudros Bay in various stages, with a depiction of a seagull to the left. In the... More
A Grenadier Guardsman Art.IWMART3045
A Grenadier Guardsman image: A half-length portrait of a British soldier set against a deep blue sky. He sits in full kit, his arms resting on his thighs, his rifle gripped firmly in his hands.
A Grey-day, Ypres, 1919 Art.IWMART4761
A Grey-day, Ypres, 1919 image: a landscape of the ruined buildings of Ypres, with blasted and bare trees against a lowering dark sky.
A Group of Soldiers Art.IWMART520
A Group of Soldiers image: A group of four British soldiers in full kit standing beneath a heavy sky. The two men on the left are locked in discussion, and the third seems to be listening in. The other stands i... More
A group of soldiers relaxing - at Wisques Art.IWMART1517962
A group of soldiers relaxing - at Wisques image: a group of four soldiers relaxing, three on the ground and the fourth on a camp stool
A Gun at Thelus Art.IWMART3997
A Gun at Thelus image: a British artillery position, with one heavy gun and two gunners shrouded by camouflage netting suspended from thin poles. The gun is protected by a wall of sandbags and a large number o... More
A Gun's Crew, Ml 558 Art.IWMART1100
A Gun's Crew, Ml 558 image: four uniformed crew members are working on a deck gun; they appear to be demounting or remounting it.
A Gunner Art.IWMART2281 during World War I
A Gunner image: A head and shoulders portrait of a British soldier of the Royal Artillery. He is wearing uniform and a steel helmet.
A Gunner, Rn Art.IWMART2739
A Gunner, Rn
A Gunners' Shelter in a Trench, Thiepval Art.IWMART2963
A Gunners' Shelter in a Trench, Thiepval image: A view along a deserted trench, with the doorway to a dugout on the corner. The floor of the trench is littered with debris, both German and British helmets, frag... More
A Heavy Gun near Arras Art.IWMART3032
A Heavy Gun near Arras image: a heavy gun, covered with camouflage netting and attached to a wheeled limber, is pulled by a tractor along a road running across the composition. A lone British infantryman holdin... More
A Highlander Passing a Grave Art.IWMART2995
A Highlander Passing a Grave image: A soldier from a Highland regiment standing on a mound of white chalky soil against a dark blue sky. He holds his rifle in his right hand, and looks down at a grave marked wi... More
A Horse Ambulance Pulling a Sick Horse out of a Field Art.IWMART2922
A Horse Ambulance Pulling a Sick Horse out of a Field image: Two strong horses pulling a deep cart over the brow of a hill. The bony frame of an ill horse can be seen standing in the cart. Their hoves send up ... More
A Horse Injured by a Loose Nail Art.IWMART2485
A Horse Injured by a Loose Nail
A Horse-dipping Bath Art.IWMART2608
A Horse-dipping Bath image: two horses are led through a dipping bath, a narrow concrete structure with ramps at either end and a pool of water in the middle. One horse is submerged up to the neck in the pool i... More
A Hospital Ship- Night Art.IWMART645
A Hospital Ship- Night English: image: A Royal Navy hospital ship, painted white and marked with large red crosses, at sail on a starlit night. This ship is shown port side on.
A Hospital Ward - a dysentery ward of the General Hospital at Port Sai...
A Hospital Ward - a dysentery ward of the General Hospital at Port Said image: a view of the interior of a large hospital ward crowded with many white-linened beds, most occupied by recuperating soldiers. Two f... More
A House at Peronne Art.IWMART2997
A House at Peronne image: The remains of a shell-damaged house showing the rooms exposed by the force of the explosion. The floors sag under the weight of fallen rubble, and the ground is piled high with mound... More
A Howitzer Gun in Elevation Art.IWMART514
A Howitzer Gun in Elevation image: A howitzer gun, with the barrel raised for firing, against a pale sky. The gun is in the lower left corner, and is cropped at the edge of the canvas.
A Howitzer in Action Art.IWMART2957
A Howitzer in Action image: The scene around a howitzer, with barrel pointed to the back of the composition, manned by seven soldiers. All the men are stripped to the waist, have their trousers rolled up at the... More
A Land Girl Art.IWMART1182 - Public domain drawing
A Land Girl image: a worker of the Women's Land Army standing and crouching over, engaged in work. She wears typical WLA overalls and hat and reaches down with her right arm to something not depicted in the drawing.
A Land Girl Ploughing Art.IWMART2618
A Land Girl Ploughing image: A scene showing two grey horses harnessed to a plough being driven by a Land Girl, moving from right to left of the composition. Beyond the girl is a view of the distant countrysid... More
A Leaky Roof Art.IWMART17067 during World War I
A Leaky Roof image: a group of prisoners, including several missionaries, gather around a row of camp beds in a large room. Two lie on a bed under an umbrella, while another stands next to them, opening his ow... More
A Lewis Gun- Anti-aircraft Pit Art.IWMART2703
A Lewis Gun- Anti-aircraft Pit image: a British soldier stands next to a mounted Lewis gun in an anti-aircraft pit dug into the ground, looking up at a biplane in the sky with a pair of binoculars. Immediately ... More
A Lieutenant on the Bridge, Hm Trawler - (lieut G Maccoll Smith, Rnr) ...
A Lieutenant on the Bridge, Hm Trawler - (lieut G Maccoll Smith, Rnr) image: a three-quarter length portrait of a figure in naval uniform, holding a pair of binoculars; behind, wooden boarding and canvas screen... More
A Listening Post in the Desert - Indian Lancers Art.IWMART1437
A Listening Post in the Desert - Indian Lancers image: in a bleak desert landscape, two soldiers are kneeling with their rifles, and kit between them. To the right, another soldier is lying on his front in the ... More
A Man in a Trench- April 1917, two miles from the Hindenburg Line Art....
A Man in a Trench- April 1917, two miles from the Hindenburg Line image: The study of a soldier in full battle-kit. He leans against the side of a trench; his rifle stands between his legs and he holds the muz... More
A Man Resting, near Arras. Mont St Eloi on the left, Vimy Ridge in the...
A Man Resting, near Arras. Mont St Eloi on the left, Vimy Ridge in the distance image: a young British infantryman in full kit lying asleep on the ground. He rests his head on his hands, his steel helmet on the... More
A Man Thinking Art.IWMART2987 during World War I
A Man Thinking image: A full length sketch of a British soldier in full kit standing and leaning on his rifle. There is a colourful landscape of rolling hills in the background, but the figure and ground on wh... More
A man wearing a raincoat and balaclava, in Hesdin Art.IWMART1517945
A man wearing a raincoat and balaclava, in Hesdin image: figure of a man wearing a raincoat and headgear, holding a cigarette
A Man with a Cigarette Art.IWMART2953
A Man with a Cigarette image: A gaunt, shell-shocked and wounded British soldier stands in a trench, smoking a cigarette. He has a jacket and shirt draped over his shoulders covering his right arm, a tin helme... More
A Mark Iv Female Tank - the Experimental Ground, Dollis Hill, London, ...
A Mark Iv Female Tank - the Experimental Ground, Dollis Hill, London, N.w. image: a Mark IV female fank stands on rough ground facing out to the right of the drawing. In the background is a wall of sight screen... More
A Mark Iv Male Tank Art.IWMART3889
A Mark Iv Male Tank image: a side on view of the front of a Mark IV Male Tank facing to the left with trees in the background. It is on broken ground at the Experimental Depot for Tanks at Dollis Hill.
A Mark Iv Tank - the Experimental Ground, Dollis Hill, London, N.w. Ar...
A Mark Iv Tank - the Experimental Ground, Dollis Hill, London, N.w. image: a Mark IV tank stands side on facing left on broken ground. At the rear of the tank stands a man in overalls and blue cap, leaning on ... More
A Mark V Male Tank Art.IWMART3886
A Mark V Male Tank image: a view of the rear of a Mark V Male Tank, the sides and tracks of which are caked in mud. There is a line of trees standing in the distance.
A Mark V Tank Going Into Action Art.IWMART2267
A Mark V Tank Going Into Action image: The rear view of a Mark V tank climbing over broken ground, the front of the tank raised up at a sharp angle. The exhaust pipe runs from front to back over the top of the ... More
A Marsh Arabs' Bellam under Sail- Tigris Art.IWMART2417
A Marsh Arabs' Bellam under Sail- Tigris image: a sketch of a local sailing boat under sail, with the outline of a river bank in the background.
A Marsh Arabs' Village in the Narrows, Tigris Art.IWMART2438
A Marsh Arabs' Village in the Narrows, Tigris image: a view of a group of local traditional buildings in a desert landscape
A Merchant Ship off Deal Art.IWMART2526
A Merchant Ship off Deal image: a left broadside view of a dazzle-painted armed merchant ship at sea; in the distant background is another merchant ship.
A Mesopotamian Railhead at the entrance to Persia Art.IWMART2674
A Mesopotamian Railhead at the entrance to Persia image: a railhead in a Middle Eastern landscape. Two railway lines run horizontally across the composition, parallel to one another. There are railway trucks o... More
A Mess Cook - the Egyptian cook of No 10 Mess, at General Headquarters...
A Mess Cook - the Egyptian cook of No 10 Mess, at General Headquarters image: a half length portrait of an Egyptian cook wearing blue robes and standing beside some form of oven.