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69888
  • Title
    [World War I] sketches / by L Cpl. R. Wenban, 1st Casualty Clearing Station, A.I.F. done on the spot 1916-1919
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXE 701
  • Level of description
    series
  • Date

    1916-1919
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    69888
  • Physical Description
    Drawings - 23 drawings (pencil, watercolour and wash) - 13 x 10.5 cm-31 x 24 cm.
  • Scope and Content
    1. `The Mill' Doulieu, France, 1916
    2. Bailleul Towers, 1917
    3. Bailleul (Rue Musee Puyt), 1917
    4. Looking towards the line, 1917, La Clytte
    5. Estaires, the Grand Place and Town Hall, 1917 ...
    6. Dog cart, Belguim 1917
    7. The Church, Merville, 1918, France
    8. Bethune - ruined farmhouse on Lens Bethune Road, 1918
    9. Bethune, 1918 - after the bombardment
    10. The Grand Place `Lille' France 1918 after the German retreat
    11. H.M.T. `Madras' & captured German ship `Prinz Luis' in Fremantle Harbour, 1919
    12. Tilbury Docks, 1919
    13. From boat, Cape Town Harbour
    14. Green Point Cricket Ground, Cape Town
    15. [sleeping male figure] France
    16. [chair]
    17. Bailleul
    18. Wounded but content [male portrait]
    19. [male portrait]
    20. [sleeping male figure]
    21. `Possum Payten'
    22. He who freezes the late comers with a look [caricature]
    23. Interior of church `Estaires' before the bombardment
  • Copying Conditions
    Copyright status:: In copyright - life of creator plus 70 years
    Approval for reproduction required:
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales<br>
  • General note

    A bibliography of servicemen's and women's diaries of World War I is held in the Mitchell Library Original Materials Reading Room at PXn 878
    State Library of New South Wales collection of World War I pictorial material
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Most sketches are signed by the artist and have text by the artist on the verso
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