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Artist's scrapbook comprising 56 pages with 143 drawings and watercolours from sketchbooks attached to leaves of the scrapbook with notes. The works describe the artist's travels from Australia to Egypt, Turkey, the Mediterranean, Belgium and France as a soldier and official war artist. The book has a buff dust jacket covering a blue cardboard cover.
George Benson (1886 - 1960) studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, from 1903 to 1904 and worked with the poster designer, Harry J Weston. He was subsequently engaged in cartoon work and verse illustrations for various magazines including the 'Bulletin', Australian 'Punch' and 'Sporting and Dramatic News'. Benson enlisted in September 1914, with the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade, serving in Egypt and Gallipoli. He served in France in 1916 with the British Expeditionary Force, later undertaking a camouflage course in England and being appointed an official war artist working as Officer in Charge of Camouflage attached to the 4th Division AIF in France in 1918. Following the war he undertook work with the Australian War Records at St. John's Wood in London. Benson returned to Melbourne in 1919 and his commission was terminated in 1920.
Artist's sketchbook covering the campaign on the Western Front during July - November 1918. The sketchbook comprises 27 pages with 46 drawings of landscapes, artillery, animals, camp life and battlefi
Depicts a soldiers trudging through the mud on the Somme, during winter. George Benson (1886- 1960) studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, from 1903 to 1904 and worked with the poster desi
Depicts the Noreuil Valley, Western Front, France, during the First World War with soldiers, war damage, horses and ambulance wagons. George Benson (1886- 1960) studied at the National Gallery School,
Depicts a soldier with a group of horses, standing in a line, feeding from nose bags, in Egypt during the First World War. George Benson (1886- 1960) studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne,
Depicts a ruined barn with a heavy gabled roof and a hay waggon in front of it, in a landscape in France during the First World War. George Benson (1886- 1960) studied at the National Gallery School,
Depicts three Australian soldiers in a trench, carrying boxes and supplies, heading towards a Regimental Aid Post near Villers Bretonneux in France, during the First World War. George Benson (1886- 1
