Bluey Burke

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Accession Number ART27888
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 40 x 23.8 cm
Object type Work on paper
Physical description conte crayon on paper on cardboard mounting with tracing paper attached
Maker Baird, John
Place made Australia: Northern Territory, Darwin
Date made 1943
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Description

Portrait of 'Bluey' Burke, Australian Military Forces, 15th Australian Water Transport Company, Small Craft, wearing a slouch hat. Burke was born in Alice Springs and had worked in the Northern Territory and around the Gulf of Carpenteria from boyhood.

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