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[Afghanistan 2009]
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Maker: Thirkill, Julian
Green cloth bound sketchbook containing six drawings from Major Julian Thirkill when deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 to undertake operations as part of the Mentoring and Reconstruction Task Force (MRT...ART94173.003
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An Australian Field Artillery Brigade Headquarters, near Nieuport
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Depicts members of the 1st Australian Imperial Force, Australian Siege Artillery Brigade and a view from the headquarters of Artillery Brigade. One man is seated and talking on the telephone, while th...ART02343
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Anzac Day, As Sayliyah Qatar
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Maker: Miller, Lewis
Anzac Day at As Sayliyah Qatar. A satellite dish at the army compound, with tower in the background. Lewis Miller was appointed official war artist in April 2003 to document Australia's involvement in...ART92070
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Army hygiene
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Maker: Faulkner, Bob
Cartoon of a worried looking Australian soldier transferring calls on a switchboard whilst shirtless and half submerged in water. The voice on the other end of his line is demanding: "Get me the secon...ART92884
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Brigades, Organisation, Batteries
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Maker: Chappel, Herbert Horace
An illustration for the 4th Australian Divisional Artillery Commemorative Booklet. The illustration features a soldier and a donkey, various form of artillery and a rising sun badge.ART92600
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Cable-laying in a jungle clearing
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Before the introduction of reliable portable radios, army signallers maintained communications by telephone. As shown in this painting, the AIF had to lay the cables connecting positions. Murray Grif...ART24488
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Control room
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts the control room at Point Cook with radio receiving and transmitting sets. Remarks: WW1 served with AIF in France. WW2 official war artist from 30 Apr 1945 to 24 Jan 1946. Artist's file descri...ART21809
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Corporal Dickinson operating wireless, Signal Store 1944
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Corporal Dickenson of 2/5th Australian Cavalry Commando Squadron testing a wireless set in the Signal Store of the Squadron in Atherton, North Queensland.ART21030
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Corporal Phyllis Huggins talking on the telephone
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Maker: Sharpe, Wendy Elizabeth
Corporal Phyllis Huggins seated at her desk talking on the telephone, Robertson Barracks, Darwin. The soldiers were stationed in Darwin for de-briefing and training prior to moving to East Timor with ...ART91186.026
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Defence works at the Heads
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton David Syme & Co. Illustrated Australian News
This wood engraving was published in The Illustrated Australian News, 13 May 1885 and shows colonial defence works being built at Queenscliff, Victoria. The vignettes illustrate the defences at the He...ART19852
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Der feind : hort mit! vorsicht am fernsprecher [The enemy listens too! Careful on the phone!]
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Maker: Weber, E Unknown Unknown
German First World War poster warning soldiers to be vigilant while on the telephone as the enemy could be listening. In the upper two thirds it features a depiction of a Scottish infantryman, sitting...ARTV06679
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Doomed in advance
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Maker: Beattie, Ray
From Beattie's 'Definition of peace' series (1976) this work relates to the artist's feelings as he was waiting for the telephone call that would tell him when he had to leave for Vietnam. The title r...ART90130
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Enrol now in the National Salvage Corps
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Maker: Unknown Commonwealth Salvage Commission Unknown
Broadcast (radio) microphone; National Salvage Corps; poster urging people to enrol in the National Salvage Corps, one of many groups engaged in waste reduction and management, salvaging useable items...ARTV02743
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Keeping communication clear between Mersing and Endau
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Under machinegun fire and bombing attacks, Sgt Geoffrey Cyril Bingham, (NX32437) 8th Division Signals, with two other men, repairs damaged telephone wires between Mersing and Endau, Malaya. Bingham wa...ART24492
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Lieutenant Masotti on the telephone
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Maker: Sharpe, Wendy Elizabeth
Lieutenant Masotti talking on the telephone, Suai, East Timor. Page from large sketchbook no. 3.ART91188.020
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Linesmen at work, La Houssoye
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Depicts two linesmen up a telegraph pole, repairing or winding wires near La Houssoys, on the Somme in April 1918. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the...ART02408
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Macka McLean, signaller
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Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
Depicts a portrait of Macka McLean, a signaller with the Australian peacekeepers, United Nations Transitional Authority (UNTAC) in Cambodia in 1993. He is depicted surrounded by the signalling and com...ART90116
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[Memorial cross to those who fell at Villers-Bretonneux]; verso: [Mending wire]
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
A sketch of a memorial cross erected 'In memory of the officers, NCOs & Men who fell in action hereabouts in a night-attack resulting in the recapture of Villers Bretonneux 24th & 25th April 1918 R...ART19796.002
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Mending the wires at Wolff huts, Pozieres
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Depicts several Australian soldiers mending communication wires and power poles in a war damaged landscape in Pozieres. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front durin...ART02260
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[Naval equipment]
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Maker: Hall, Alan
Depicts communication equipment on board a warship. The artist Alan Hall (1919-1979) enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years. During the Second World War he served ...ART93339
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Night, Air operations room, HQ Milne Force
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Maker: Dargie, William
Dargie noted, "Drawn during an air raid, this drawing shows the Duty Officer of the night on the lefthand side of the drawing, below him the plotting table, and to the right, a Sergeant on the telepho...ART22079
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Officer commanding signals, St Gratien
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts the 5th Australian Division, Signals Company at the St Gratien headquarters, with two men sitting at desk in office used by Commanding 5th Division Signals Corp, on left is a despatch rider, a...ART02497
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One of our Battalion in the Front Line
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Maker: Hawkins, Weaver
Depicts a communications officer sitting at a small wooden table talking on a telephone. He sits outside a dugout in Ypres, where Hawkins was stationed during July 1915 before his evacuation from the ...ART19998
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Private Greaves
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Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Portrait of Private Greaves of Delta Company, 7 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, Nui Dat, Phuoc Tuy Province, Vietnam. Greaves has an AN PRC 25 set on his back.ART40471
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Radar ops
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Maker: Freedman, Harold
Depicts two unidentified radar operators, Fighter Control Unit, using a Light Weight Air Warning (LW/AW) radar. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war art...ART26779
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Sailor
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Maker: Ewers, Ray Battaglia & Co, Milan, Italy
A sailor from the First World War in unifrom about to blow his Bosun's pipe (or whistle). A Bosun's Mate Blue Rig Class II uniform consists of serge bell bottom trousers with seven horizontal creases,...ART40977
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SDO
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Maker: Hall, Alan
This drawing depicts the Ship's Duty Officer (SDO), HMAS Australia, hard at work. The artist Alan Hall enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years. During the Second Wo...ART93325
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Signaller at work
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of an unidentified member of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force sending a telegram at Royal Australian Air Force Group 824, Cairns, Queensland.ART24288
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Signals Office, Headquarters, St Gratien
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a soldier sitting on a high stool operating a telephone switchboard, with larger switchboard and handsets to the right. The soldier is wearing a blue and white dispatch rider's armband. Arthur...ART03499
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'Sigs' (Signallers) crossing Wompit River
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts Australian soldiers carrying a reel of signal wire across the Wompit River, Markham area, New Guinea.ART26089
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Soldier talking on the telephone
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Maker: Miller, Lewis
Depicts an Australian soldier seen from behind, seated on a chair, talking on the telephone, As Saliyah Qatar. Lewis Miller was appointed official war artist in April 2003 to document Australia's invo...ART92037
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"So you don't know what your regiment is doing..."
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Maker: Unknown 517 (Corps Fld Svy) Coy, Royal Engineers 517 (Corps Fld Svy) Coy, Royal Engineers
civilian, woman; cautionary poster depicting a young woman in evening dress reclining on a sofa while talking to someone on the telephone who is not giving any information to her, and who 'must have b...ARTV07966
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Study for `HMAS Sydney passing through Sydney Heads on her return from war' 1929
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Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch of HMAS Sydney passing through Sydney Heads on her return from war. The image also depicts Australian light cruisers, Australian aircraft (WW1 period) and Ferry. The Australian ligh...ART09866.001
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[switchboard]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
A study of a switchboard with notes about light, colours and small sketches of headsets. The verso of this page presents a pencil sketch, possibly a diagram. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known a...ART96487
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Telegraphists and teleprinters, LHQ Signals, Melbourne
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Land Head Quarters Signals 'Grosvenor'. In the foreground a telegraphist takes a message and behind him AWAS operate teleprinters and one an oscillator. The signal master keeps his eye on the work in ...ART23434
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The Runner, dug out near Ligny Thilloy
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Depicts three soldiers in a dug out. One stands and holds a candle, while the other, seated, writes a message on a piece of paper. Behind him, another soldier talks on the telephone. The 'runner ' (se...ART02395
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Valves For Defence Come First
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Maker: Jardine, Walter Lacy William Brooks & Co. Ltd
Australian Second World War poster designed by artist Walter Jardine. The poster highlights the importance of valves and that first priority for their use should be for defence purposes. Valves were a...ARTV02859
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Voice reading exercise
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Maker: Hall, Alan
A sailor walks along the side deck of a ship as a voice booms from a speaker nearby. The artist Alan Hall (1919-1979)enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years. During...ART93329
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Volunteer Defence Corps wireless lecture
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
Sketch shows members of Volunteer Defence Force receiving lecture on wireless telegraphy, Port Phillip, Melbourne.ART25183
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Wireless station, Bita Paka, Rabaul
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Painting of the wireless station at Bita Paka in Rabaul. There is a large signals tower rising up over civilian buildings, the scene set against lush green hillside and cloudscape.ART03639
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Wireless station, St Gratien
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts the wireless station at St Gratien. Ensconsed in a temporary communication station in the chateau at St Gratien, Australian Head Quarters, two Australian soldiers seated on crates wearing head...ART02876
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Wireless telegraphy operators
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Maker: Freedman, Harold
Unidentified Wireless Telegraphy Operators, RAAF. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war artist attached to the RAAF Historical War Records Section and he...ART26775
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Wireless tender, Libya
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Maker: Norton, Frank
One of the communication sections of No.3 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. Three men off duty warm themselves in the winter sun, the fourth, with headphones, keeps contact with Headquarters. Acc...ART21152