The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Watercolour sketch from artist's sketchbook attached to scrapbook leaf, depicting the Somme battlefields, near Delville Wood. In the foreground is a large shell casing. A cross in the centre of the sketch marks out a grave plot in the undulating, war-ravaged terrain. War damaged and shell blasted trees scatter the landscape against a bleak sky. Delville Wood was the site of an intense battle between British and German troops during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, the wood changing hands a number of times during that period.
Left leaf of a double page sketch, depicting Delville Wood ravaged by the war. Barren, war damaged trees, muddy, undulating terrain littered with the refuse of war. In the foreground, the butt of a ri
Right leaf of a double page sketch of Delville Wood, depicted here ravaged by the war. Situated in the Somme region, it is adjacent to the small village of Longueval and was the scene of intense fight
Double leaf with watercolour drawings recto and verso attached to scrapbook leaf. Recto: depicts a bomb-damaged church in Ypres. Verso: Fricourt - Somme, depicting a landscape sketch of the Fricourt c
Sketchbook leaf attached to scrapbook depicting a black ink and sepia watercolour sketch of the shell damaged Cloth Hall and St Martin's Cathedral. The surrounding landscape is barren, evidence to the
Scrapbook leaf with a watercolour sketch of the bomb damaged sugar mill in Cartigny, France.
Scrapbook leaf with a watercolour on artist's paper, depicting German prisoners marching from the Somme through the Reninghelst. Benson notes that Lieutenant W. Coleman of the 4th Light Horse is in ch
