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Period: The war years

Private, Gowrie House Private, Gowrie House
painted in Eastbourne, Sussex, England, 1945
oil on canvas on board 30.4 x 25.4 cm
signed l.r., pencil “SB”, not dated
Australian War Memorial
acquired under official war art scheme, 1945
ART26277

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  • Group Captain Hughie Edwards
  • D-Day, 0300 hours, interrogation hut
  • Flying Officer Frederick Syme, Sunderland captain
  • Pilot Officer Ronald Warfield
  • A Sunderland crew comes ashore at Pembroke Dock (F. Syme, Ron Warfield, Ron Tyson, Eric Genders, Charlie Martin, Spud Murphy, Bob Meade, Merv Pike, Jock Beattie, Curly Rowland and John Bishop)
  • At the Churchill Club, large and small worlds
  • RAAF airmen at Mongewell Park Medical Rehabilitation Unit
  • Private, Gowrie House
  • Repatriated prisoner of war is processed
  • Brigadier George Langley
  • Reception desk at Gowrie House, Eastbourne
  • Theaden in Kensington
  • [Flowers in a green Norwegian pot]
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