The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Depicts a thousand small German soldiers marching in the foreground, while above them rises the giant figure of a German officer. He shovels the soldiers into the barrel of gun, which is already gorged with the bodies of soldiers. Perched on the German officer's helmet is a vulture. This caricature comments on the extraordinarily high casualty rate of French defenders during the Battle of Verdun (as well as among attacking German troops) in February 1916. After six months the casualties from both sides exceeded half a million men.
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 an image of the figure of Death, a skeleton, wearing a cloak, riding a dark horse. The figure of Death bears a German standard (flag with Imperial eagle on it) and rides up an embankment befor
View of a badly war-damaged hilly landscape after the battle of Verdun in 1916, with smashed and burnt trees and a pathway in the foreground. The Germans commenced the year 1916 by launching a massive
Depicts a caricature of a German officer in his dress uniform, wearing a sash and leather boots standing behind a plump and buxom woman, who looks affectionately up towards him, while holding menu car
Depicts the figure of a bareheaded Kaiser Wilhelm II kneeling at foot of steps before God, who is a larger version of the Emperor himself. Beside the Kaiser incense rises from a bowl containing the re
Depicts a caricature of a German officer; he is depicted as overweight, and wearing a helmet and greatcoat. The painting was 'removed from a house used as an Officer's Mess in Henencourt 1917', north
Depicts a number of soldiers seated, resting, reading or drinking near two tents in the French countryside, near the Somme. The soldiers are probably members of a salvage company operating on the dese