The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts Captain George Hubert Wilkins, official war photographer, viewed from behind, standing in a war damaged landscape behind a cinema camera, near the Hindenberg Line in France. Dyson noted that this drawing of Wilkins was sketched in a shell hole in the early morning of the day of the last Australian attack on the Hindenberg Line, which likely means 5 October 1918, the Battle of Montbrehain, the last infantry action of the AIF in the First World War.
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 a full length portrait of Captain George Hubert Wilkins, reclining near a doorway, wearing long boots. Born in South Australia in 1888, Sir George Hubert Wilkins (1888-1958) studied engineerin
Depicts war damaged landscape near Vaux, the Somme with a line of soldiers with full kit returning to the front line, in the summer of 1918. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to
Depicts an image of the war damaged landscape of the German frontline near Pozieres, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, trav
Depicts the frontline with trenches, debris, concrete dugouts and damaged power lines above, at Albert, France. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the Fi
Depicts a view into the entrance of the 10th Machine Gun Company Headquarters on the Western Front, with duckboards, barbed wire and debris in front of it, in a war damaged landscape. Dyson wrote that
Depicts a portrait of a Signaller from the 2nd Main Line Gun Battalion, wearing a tin helmet and smoking a pipe, sitting on top of a wagon, holding the reins of the horse in front of him. Will Dyson w
