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Ready for take off (Flying Officer Walter Hogg)
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The subject of this painting, Flying Officer Walter Hogg, No 3 Squadron RAAF, went missing over Italy, and was a POW during the war. Here he is depicted adjusting his helmet while sitting in a Curtiss...ART23462
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Reception desk at Gowrie House, Eastbourne
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Upon arrival at the Australian prisoner of war repatriation centre at Eastbourne, the men were provided with a meal and accommodation. After settling in, they were allowed to send a free cable home an...ART26270
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Reclining Buddha, Tavoy
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
A sketch of the famous "Reclining Buddha" near the rice mills. The Buddha is approcimately 120' long. Buddha is believed to have died resting on his side with his head propped up on his right hand and...ART28535.017
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recto: A Changi P.O.W building Feb to May 1942; verso: Tavoy drome, POW Camp
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
One of the well constructed reinforced concrete barrack building of the former Gordon Highlander Barracks, which were built in 1937. This area is now the Changi Prisoner of War Camp and used by the Ja...ART28535.002
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recto: Captured Japanese weapons; verso: Japanese position after surrender
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
recto: A landscape with destroyed trees and a pile of captured Japanese weapons taken after their surrender in Wewak, New Guinea is depicted. verso: A landscape depiction of the Japanese position foll...ART29931
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recto: Drover; verso: Murphy's brindle cow
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
recto: Drawing of an Australian drover walking down a dirt track lined with gum trees. He is leading a horse and his dog is nearby. verso: cartoon of a stockman racing a cow past a horse to the finis...ART90378.006
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recto: How is it Ned you never "Drink" though I've seen you tempted oft; verso: Haw!
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
recto: a man is crouching next to a river. He turns and holds aloft an open can, turning to look at a mate who has a bottle of alcohol in his pocket. verso: a man is sitting in the theatre, looking u...ART90378.018
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recto: Only half; verso: Ringers from the North
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
recto: Australian prisoners of war are lining up to collect their food. verso: This appears to show a scene from Australia, where a stockman from the north is shown looking at his appearance in a mirr...ART90391
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recto: On the road from Kluang to Datu Pahat; verso: Not titled [four men and a jeep]
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
recto: Scene at a market along a roadside where people are buying food; verso: two men are standing new a jeep, and two are seated on it.ART90378.014
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recto: Rear verandah Australia House, Ye; verso: not titled [unfinised sketches]
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
The rear verandah of one of the dirty, dilapidated huts which was used as a staging camp for Australian and Allied prisoners of war during their shift from Tavoy up country to work on a Japanese railw...ART28535.030
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recto: The face on the bar room floor; verso: Smoke oh!
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
recto: Two men are standing at a bar having a drink, while in between them on the other side of the bar, is the publican. The heads of the three figures are reflecting in the mirror over the bar. ver...ART90378.017
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recto top image: Not titled [tank and aircraft]; recto bottom image: Not titled [beach scene]; verso top image: Not titled [homestead]; verso bottom image: Not titled [incomplete portrait sketches]
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
recto top image: tank featuring a kind of 'nose art', which is a drawing of an angel holding a Devil's pitchfork with the words 'Hell's Angel' on either side of her. Overhead flies an aircraft. rect...ART90378.009
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recto: We've got one dig; verso: Looking for Red Cross ships, Private - ?
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
recto: Two Australian prisoners of war are pushing around a large cog on a shaft. In the background, another Australian POW has surfaced; verso: an Australian prisoner of war has climbed up a palm tr...ART90378.016
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Rescued POWs broadcast to Australia
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
Surrounded by released POWs, ABC war correspondent Talbot Duckmanton holds the microphone while NX56669 Sgt Blain, 2/12th Field Coy, RAE, with Sgt Frank Martin and S/Sgt Joe James, sends a message to ...ART26826
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Rice grinder, Changi
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
A home made rice grinder made by the Australian prisoners of war during the period of captivity in the Changi Prisoner of War Camp. The rice is first soaked beforehand then fed through the hole on the...ART28535.005
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Rice grinding, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts two unidentified men using improvised rice grinder. An old native stone mill made to work more easliy with a lever, Changi, Singapore, 1943.ART26522
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Road menders gang
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A group of Japanese prisoners who were put to work repairing roads after their surrenderART23215
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Rogues Gallery (Portraits of officers at Kuching POW Camp) 150-170
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Maker: Horskins, W
Numerous portraits of heads, drawn in the Kuching POW camp in Borneo.ART90622
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Rolling down to the working face: the tunnel, Stalag Luft III
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Maker: Comber, Albert
A prisoner on a trolley going through the tunnel to the working face at Stalag Luft III in Sagan Germany. Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luftwasse III) was a German prisoner of war camp in Sagan (Sagan b...ART34781.015
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Sabotage, Tavoy
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
Burnt and wrecked buildings in the business centre of the town. In many cases only the walls remained of the brick and concrete buildings when the Japanese Forces captured the town. It is thought the ...ART28535.013