The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts a field ambulance being unloaded by a number of men from the rear of the ambulance. Behind the ambulance are a number of hospital tents. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling to France in December 1916, remaining there until May 1917, making records of the Australian involvement in the war. He was formally appointed as an official war artist, attached to the AIF, in May 1917, working in France and London throughout the war. His commission was terminated in March 1920.
Depicts gassed soldiers lying resting on rows of portable beds, under canvas tents at the 3rd Field Ambulance hospital at Avesnes-Bapaume, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war arti
Depicts a number of tents amongst sand dunes at Nieport, France. The tents formed the camp of the 2nd Australian tunnelling company near La Paune. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war arti
Depicts soldiers sitting around two tents in a landscape, with a summer evening sky above.The soldiers are members of the 3rd Field Ambulance at Bapaume. Will Dyson was the first Australian official w
Depicts several tents at the 3rd Field Ambulance Hospital, at night. Inside the tent in the foreground can be seen gas attack patients lying on portable beds. Will Dyson was the first Australian offic
Depicts a soldier, a member of the Australian 3rd Field Ambulance, leaning up against a tree, playing a musical instrument, a Cornet, in a war damaged landscape. Two of his fellow soldiers lie on the
Depicts three standing, wounded soldiers outside a regimental aid post in Zonnebeke, Belgium. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, tra