The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A soldier on guard, equipped with rifle, outside a tent housing prisoners. Rae has shown the typical bell tents used by the British Army. The front tent, brilliantly lit with a red warm glow and with a pile of guns would have been the guards' tent. The gas stoves used to boil the billies and the glowing hurricane lamps were a privilege exclusive to the guards. The surrounding prisoners' tents are in darkness after an early lights out. The sentries in the front tent are British. While it is likely the prisoners in the rear tents are German, they could be British prisoners undergoing sentences of field punishment, principally for infractions of discipline committeed in or around Etaples. At most, there would have been no more than a few dozen men confined in this way. Artist's inscription indicates that the work was executed in the Spring of 1915.
In this scene, three Turkish prisoners sit on the ground with their legs crossed. All have moustaches and are wearing Fezzes, with the centre figure smoking a cigar. Turkish prisoners in Egypt lived u
Columns of Turkish prisoners are escorted by British and Indian troops. These prisoners were captured at Khan Baghdadiya (on the Euphrates) 26 March 1918. There are scenes of prisoners preparing foo
Landscape looking south to the Singapore Harbour in the distance. In the foreground right and centre groups of prisoners are engaged in gardening to grow their own food. In the foreground left a priso
Showing the officers' messing tents and home-made oil-and-water drip stove of No. 194 Transport Squadron, Royal Air Force, Akyab. Of the stove Hodgkinson noted that they '...belched oily acrid smoke a
Australian and English medical officers and soldiers working in No 1 Australian Field Hospital in Reserve Gully, Gallipoli. Ari Burnu is to the right and Plugge's Plateau is behind. In the distance th
The final print in Bacon's series of South African Battle Pictures. The New South Wales Lancers are depicted in a parade with Field Marshall Lord Roberts and General Lord Kitchener (South Africa 1899-
