The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This work (also known as 'Character Study of the Runner') depicts a First World War battle scene, with a young soldier in uniform in the foreground crawling along the ground, in a war damaged landscape, with his left arm outstretched holding a note. He is lying in a battlefield with bombed buildings and explosions in the background. It demonstrates the peril that runners and soldiers alike faced during the course of the First World War. Charles Wheeler (1881-1977) was a painter and teacher, who studied at the National Gallery of Victoria School from 1898 to 1907. He enlisted with the Royal Fusiliers in 1914 and won the DCM at Vimy in 1916 and was severely wounded. He exhibited with the Royal Academy in London and at the Paris Salon after the First World War. Returning to Australia, he taught drawing at the National Gallery of Victoria School from 1927 until 1945 and at various schools.
The ramparts at the Battle of Verdun c. 1916 during the First World War. The French soldier standing upright against the ramparts with his arms outstretched and the light directed onto his chest, is a
Depicts an image of St Souplet, near the Somme on the Western Front during the First World War. George Bell (1878-1966) studied at the National Gallery of Victoria School, Melbourne from 1896 until 19
Portrait of VX44907 Lieutenant Colonel (later Sir) William Watt Leggatt, DSO, MC, MID, Commanding 2/40th Battalion, 2nd A.I.F also First World War, Western Front. Aileen Rose Dent (1890-1978) was an
This large painting was completed in Scott's studio at St John's Wood, London in 1919 refers to a battle on the Somme in 1918. In the foreground a runner is depicted in muddy terain with soldiers behi
Depicts the war damaged and bombed railway viaduct near the French village of St Benin on the Western Front during the First World War. George Bell (1878-1966) studied at the National Gallery of Victo
Soldiers wearing helmets and carrying rifles travelling across a snow covered battle field towards Pozieres. Frank Crozier (1883-1948) worked as a decorator and clerk and attended the National Gallery
