Filters
Filters (3 applied)
Clear All- has image : no (remove)
- has video : no (remove)
- related units : 2nd Australian Imperial Force (remove)
-
Conflict (6)
-
related places (80)
- Oceania: Australia (41)
- Europe: United Kingdom, England, Sussex, Eastbourne (14)
- Middle East: Syria (12)
- Oceania: New Guinea1 (7)
- Africa: North Africa, Libya (6)
- Africa: North Africa, Libya, Cyrenaica, Tobruk Area, Tobruk (6)
- Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Officer (6)
- Asia: Singapore, Changi (5)
- Africa: Egypt (4)
- Asia: Singapore (4)
- Europe: Greece (4)
- Middle East (4)
- Middle East: British Mandate of Palestine, Palestine (4)
- Oceania: Australia, Victoria, Melbourne (4)
- Africa: Egypt, Alexandria (3)
- Africa: North Africa, Western Desert (3)
- Asia: Malaya (3)
- Europe: United Kingdom, England (3)
- Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney (3)
- Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Port Moresby (3)
- Africa: Egypt, Cairo (2)
- Africa: North Africa, Libya, Cyrenaica, Derna (2)
- Africa: North Africa, Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), Mersa Matruh (2)
- Asia: Borneo (2)
- Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Halmahera Island, Morotai Island (2)
- Asia: Timor (2)
- Oceania: Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Canberra (2)
- Oceania: Australia, Queensland, Brisbane (2)
- Oceania: Australia, Queensland, North Queensland, Atherton Tableland, Atherton (2)
- Oceania: Australia, Queensland, North Queensland, Townsville (2)
- Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Finschhafen, Finschhafen area (2)
- Oceans: Indian Ocean (2)
- Africa: North Africa (1)
- Africa: North Africa, Libya, Cyrenaica, Tobruk Area (1)
- Africa: North Africa, Western Desert, Western Desert (Egypt), El Alamein Area, El Alamein (1)
- Asia: Borneo, Beaufort (1)
- Asia: Borneo, Tarakan (1)
- Asia: Ceylon (1)
- Asia: China (1)
- Asia: India (1)
- Asia: Malaysia (1)
- Asia: Malaysia, Labuan (1)
- Asia: Netherlands East Indies (1)
- Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Celebes (1)
- Asia: Netherlands East Indies, Dutch New Guinea (1)
- Europe: France, Picardie, Somme, Amiens Harbonnieres Area, Villers-Bretonneux Area, Villers-Bretonneux (1)
- Europe: Greece, Ekali (1)
- Europe: Italy (1)
- Europe: United Kingdom (1)
- Europe: United Kingdom, England, Greater London, London (1)
- Europe: United Kingdom, England, Merseyside, Liverpool (1)
- Middle East: British Mandate of Palestine, Haifa (1)
- Middle East: British Mandate of Palestine, Palestine, Gaza (1)
- Middle East: French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon, Lebanon (1)
- Oceania: Australia, New South Wales (1)
- Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Newcastle (1)
- Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Darling Harbour (1)
- Oceania: Australia, New South Wales, Sydney, Pyrmont (1)
- Oceania: Australia, Northern Territory (1)
- Oceania: Australia, Northern Territory, Darwin (1)
- Oceania: Australia, Queensland (1)
- Oceania: Australia, Queensland, Mackay (1)
- Oceania: Australia, Queensland, North Queensland, Rockhampton (1)
- Oceania: Australia, South Australia, Adelaide (1)
- Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Ramu River Finisterre Ranges Area, Ramu River Area, Faria River Area, Shaggy Ridge (1)
- Oceania: New Guinea1, Huon Peninsula, Ramu River Finisterre Ranges Area, Ramu River Area, Gusap River Area (1)
- Oceania: New Guinea1, Mubo Salamaua Area, Salamaua (1)
- Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Lae (1)
- Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua (1)
- Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Milne Bay (1)
- Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Buna Area, Buna (1)
- Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Owen Stanley Range, Kokoda Trail (1)
- Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Papuan Islands, D'Entrecasteaux Islands, Goodenough Island (1)
- Oceania: New Guinea1, Papua New Guinea, Papua, Papuan Islands, Trobriand Islands (1)
- Oceania: New Guinea1, Wau Area, Wau (1)
- Oceania: Pacific Islands, Bismarck Archipelago, New Britain, Gazelle Peninsula, Rabaul Area, Rabaul (1)
- Oceania: Pacific Islands, Coral Sea (1)
- Oceania: Pacific Islands, Solomon Islands (1)
- Oceania: Pacific Islands, Solomon Islands, Bougainville (1)
- Oceans: Indian Ocean, Red Sea (1)
-
maker (60)
- Unknown (29)
- Australian Commonwealth Military Forces (22)
- Herbert, Harold (17)
- Bowen, Stella (14)
- Wilesmith, Arthur Joseph (13)
- Hele, Ivor (11)
- Cinesound (7)
- Dargie, William (7)
- Griffin, Murray (7)
- Warner, Ralph Malcolm (6)
- Ashton, Richard (5)
- Parer, Damien Peter (5)
- Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP) (5)
- Curtis, R Emerson (4)
- Norton, Frank (3)
- Blamey, Thomas Albert (2)
- Bush, Charles (2)
- James, Richard Haughton (2)
- Moore, Alan (2)
- Movietone News (2)
- Ternes (2)
- Warner, R Malcolm (2)
- Watson, Douglas (2)
- Allcot, John (1)
- Australian Imperial Force (1)
- Bagnall, Frank N (1)
- Black, Robert Hughes (1)
- Bowden, Barry (1)
- Brindley, John (1)
- Buckmaster, Ernest (1)
- Carty, William Montague (1)
- Colahan, Colin (1)
- Commonwealth of Australia (1)
- Dadswell, Lyndon (1)
- Dent, Aileen (1)
- Department of the Army (1)
- Director- General of Recruiting (1)
- Dowie, John Stuart (1)
- Dreyfus, George (1)
- F.W. Niven (1)
- Finch, Peter (1)
- Friend, Donald (1)
- Gurr, Tom (1)
- Hall, Alan (1)
- Hele, Ivor Henry Thomas (1)
- Herman, Sali (1)
- Hodgkinson, Roy (1)
- Howes, Oliver F (1)
- Hurley, James Francis (Frank) (1)
- Irvine-Brown, L (1)
- Jones, Vernon (1)
- Look Television Productions Pty Ltd (1)
- MacDougal, David Campbell (1)
- Milgate, Eric Lovell (1)
- Murch, Arthur (1)
- Nakanishi, J (1)
- Northfield, James (1)
- Thompson, Robert (1)
- Trerise, John William (1)
- Victorian State Recuiting Committee (1)
Show More
Show More
Collection
167 Results
-
Aerial panorama, a composite of six individual photographs, of ten of the 13 ships from the first ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Aerial panorama, a composite of six individual photographs, of ten of the 13 ships from the first Allied convoy, on the day it left Sydney. Carrying over 13 000 soldiers to the Middle East, comprising...P02510.001
-
AIF adopts new training method at Bacchus Marsh (Cinesound News No. 509)
Film
Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. "The mad half mile", a specially prepared training course has been set up for training soldiers in modern "blitz" methods.F00538
-
AIF cemetery, Changi: front entrance
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Griffin shows the entrance path to the AIF cemetery, with gardens and trees on either side. The AIF rising sun symbol strung on two poles at the path entrance.ART26477
-
AIF cemetery, Changi: interior
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
In this cemetery are buried all the AIF prisoners-of-war of the Japanese who died in captivity in Changi Goal, Selerang. When this was drawn there was a great difference between the first start of the...ART26478
-
AIF embarking at Stonewall Wharf, Sydney
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
In April 1941 Norton recorded troops from 2 Australian Imperial Force disembarking from a train to board a ferry at Pyrmont in Sydney. The ferry would then take them out to a transport ship. Several...ART21100
-
AIF in Adelaide
Film
Maker: Movietone News
South Australians of the 2nd AIF parade through the Streets of Adelaide. Governor Sir Malcolm Bartley-Harvey takes the salute. The parade almost ends in an enthusiastic riot by the spectators.F01906
-
AIF in Palestine marathon
Film
Maker: Cinesound
AIF men in 8 kilometre cross country run near Gaza. Commentary, Charles Lawrence Cinesound Review. (See also F01144 for Department of information unedited footage.)F00832
-
AIF march, Sydney (Cinesound News No. 467)
Film
Sydney sees 6,500 men of the AIF march through the city on Australia Day, Lord Gowrie takes the salute.F00509
-
AIF return from Middle East
Film
Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
AIF on board troopships in Suez Canal area and at sea.F01217
-
All services canteen Mackay
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
This canteen was the voluntary effort of the women of Mackay. It stood alongside the railway station and throughout the war it never closed, day or night. Its welcome hot meals will not be forgotten b...ART25616
-
Anti-aircraft defence
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
A Bofors 40mm anti aircraft gun and a slit trench. Emplacements are sand - bagged for protection. In the foreground is an observer's position. The occupant left his steel helmet lying on the ground ou...ART30066
-
1. "Assassinated" Philippines President here 2. AIF returns. (Cinesound News No. 544)
Film
Maker: Cinesound
1. (1 min) Dr Manuel Kathong arrives in Melbourne and is greeted by General Douglas MacArthur 2. (8 min) AIF returns to Australia from the Middle East. General Allen keeps fit playing deck tennis.F00570
-
At canteen
Art
Maker: Brindley, John
Lieutenant J.M. Brindley, Pioneer Platoon O.C. (NX70592) created this quick sketch while a member of the 2/19th Battalion in Malaya in 1941. The subject of the drawing is a line up of Australian sold...ART94503
-
Aussie rules...
Art
Maker: Wilesmith, Arthur Joseph
Page 11 of sketchbook relating to the service of Sgt Arthur Joseph Wilesmith (QX7653) 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion. 'The Yanks have been teaching us baseball but of course the aussie boys have their own...ART94536.011
-
Australian POWs embarking for home on the Largs Bay at Singapore docks
Art
Maker: Buckmaster, Ernest
Ernest Buckmaster was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne on July 3 1897. After being rejected for military service due to his physical frailty Buckmaster attended the National Gallery Art School from 1918-24...ART23374
-
Awaiting emergency landing
Art
Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Sketch of a tense moment on an airstrip in Northern Australia awaiting a plane reportedly coming in for emergency landing. Wep captured the activities of U.S Bomber Squadron 319 while on his first tou...ART29341
-
Back to Aussie again [sketchbook containing 12 pages of humorous sketches relating to army life]
Art
Maker: Wilesmith, Arthur Joseph
Sketchbook of 12 pages relating to the service of Sgt Arthur Joseph Wilesmith (QX7653) 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion. Humorous incidents diary recorded in an Army training camp in Australia on return from...ART94536
-
Battle equipment, Derna
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of an Australian soldier standing with rifle, head slightly lowered.ART22875
-
Black, Robert Hughes (Professor, b.1917 - d.1988)
Private Record
Maker: Black, Robert Hughes
Papers of Professor Robert Hughes Black who was an Australian Army Medical Corps captain and physician at LHQ Medical Research Unit, Cairns during the Second World War (1941 - 1946). The papers includ...PR01437
-
Blamey, Thomas Albert, GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, ED, PSC (Field Marshal, b.1884 - d.1951)
Private Record
Maker: Blamey, Thomas Albert
Folder of mixed papers principally related to biographical details covering Blamey's military career, Order of Service for the presentation of the Field Marshal's Baton by the Governer General, Willia...PR00332
-
Boer War - Last war - this war (Sapper Harold Knudsen)
Art
Maker: Colahan, Colin
Sapper Harold Ferdinand Knudsen (NX11833) served with the 2/1st Australian Forestry Company in Scotland during the Second World War. Note Knudsen is wearing ribbon bar indicating his previous service ...ART26227
-
[Boxing under the palms]
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a drawing of a boxing match under the palms, New Guinea.ART90432
-
Camouflaged artillery
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a 25 pounder gun camouflaged outside of Damour, Syria (now in Lebanon). Produced during the Syrian campaign and painted in July 1941. The artist wrote of the work 'Camouflaged artillery - Un...ART30090
-
Camp at Mena, Cairo
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Camp at Mena, Cairo - Tents are interesting, as the troops live underground, the floor level being well dug-in for anti-aircraft protection. Pyramids in the distance!'.ART30063
-
Camp at Mena, Cairo
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Tents are interesting, as the troops live underground, the floor level being well dug down for anti-aircraft protection. Pyramids in the distance, Egypt.ART30061
-
Camp life at Gaza
Film
Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
General shots taken of Australians in camp and training around camp area Gaza, Palestine. General Sir George Giffard GCB, DSO, GOC British Forces, Palestine inspects Australian camp.F01012
-
Camp Panorama
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Qastina encampment and water tower. The town was in what is now the Gaza Strip - it was totally destroyed, (in what conflict is not clear) and no longer exists. The artist writes, 'An extensive view o...ART30071
-
Captain Albans
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of Captain Albans, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, 5th Camouflage Unit, AIFART29877
-
Captain J A McNulty
Art
Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of Captain John Albert McNulty, DX1, 2nd Australian Imperial Force. In August 1945, McNulty was appointed the Quarter Master of No. 1 AIF Reception Camp U.K. Following the liberation of priso...ART26291
-
Captain L L Gilbert
Art
Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of Captain L L Gilbert, 2nd Australian Imperial Force.ART26294
-
Captain Sir James Bisset
Art
Maker: Allcot, John
Portrait of Captain Sir James Gordon Partridge Bisset, Kt, CBE, Commodore of Cunard White Star Company Ltd. He commanded SS Queen Mary from 1942, (during the war it was a troop ship carrying 2 Austral...ART27770
-
Christmas message recorded in Cairo, Egypt on 23 December 1941 by the Commander of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force (2nd AIF), General Thomas Blamey for playing to the Australian troops in the Middle East
Sound
Maker: Blamey, Thomas Albert
"Fellow members of the AIF (Australian Imperial Force), I have just had the privilege of visiting home for a very short period. I was called home by the Australian Government to discuss with them all ...S00176
-
Company Quarter Master Sergeant Carl Short
Art
Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of Carl Short, Company Quarter Master Sergeant, WX271, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, 2/11 Australian Infantry Battalion.ART26284
-
Conference at Morotai
Art
Maker: Jones, Vernon
2nd Australian Imperial Force, United States Army Air Force; included in work are: Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Morshead, Commanding 1 Australian Corps, Major General G F Wootten, General Commanding ...ART27563
-
Corporal Arnold Robinson
Art
Maker: Dowie, John Stuart
Depicts Corporal Arnold Robinson. Robinson went to the Middle East in 1940. Plaster cast by Dowie in 1942. This bronze was cast in 1985.ART40968
-
Corporal Jim Watson
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
Two portrait studies of Corporal Jim Watson are depicted; one profile and one three-quarter view. Corporal Watson was a driver for the Australian Imperial Force, attached to Correspondents, Middle Eas...ART29876
-
Corporal Sammy Walsh
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of Corporal Sammy 'the wild Irishman' Walsh (NX52951) of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force.ART29879
-
1. Darwin diggers have definite opinion 2. On guard home guard. (Cinesound News No. 526)
Film
Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No 526. 1. (1 min 42 sec) AIF men back from Darwin have a few grouches to make about not being sent overseas 2. (1 min 55 sec) Home guard training with Molotov C...F00555
-
Deir Suneid Village, near Camp
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Army transport, on the wrong side of the road, has pulled up to give "Baksheesh". A typical native village, through which runs a military tarmac road, Palestine.ART30050
-
Dick Ashton sketching Japanese Warrant Officer doing batman duties
Art
Maker: Thompson, Robert
Dick Ashton, most likely official war artist with the Army Military History Section, Julian Richard Ashton, sketches a Japanese prisoner of war undertaking batman duties.ART28711
-
Diggers messages home
Film
Maker: Cinesound
War's spotlight on Palestine. Cheerful Aussies say "Hello homefolks". Commentary, Charles Lawrence, Cinesound Review. (See also F01079 for unedited Department of Inforamtion footage.)F00829
-
Disembarkation at Suez and Canal
Film
Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Australian and New Zealand soldiers, RAAF personnel and army nurses disembark from troopship at Suez and entrain.F01006
-
drawing for headpiece for "Ack-I-Foofs"
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Drawing by Herbert for the inaugural header for the 'ACK-I-FOOFS' page 5 in the 'A.I.F News'. Launched in July 1941 the page was to be a 'Diggers page' for the A.I.F. Readers were invited to send in '...ARTI03458
-
[Escaping from explosion]
Art
Maker: Hall, Alan
Depicts several soldiers quickly escaping from a surprise explosion. The artist Alan Hall (1919-1979)enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years. During the Second Worl...ART93342
-
Ex-POWs leaving Eastbourne for return to Australia via Liverpool
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
AIF ex-prisoners of war boarding the train at Eastbourne, England, bound for Liverpool and Australia. Moore was an official war artist who served in New Guinea, the Middle East and Europe before retur...ART26068
-
Flares over the docks, Tobruk
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
The destroyers night visit over, men of Docks Operating Unit proceed to remove the precious supplies from the destroyer berths and quais to dumps outside the town. Time is important for in the light o...ART27549
-
Flight Lieutenant John Hipwell
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A portrait of Flight Lieutenant John Buckland Hipwell from the Royal Australian Airforce radar unit in Gusap, Papua New Guinea.ART28167.003
-
Football match at Palestine
Film
Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Beirut, Lebanon 28 May 1940. Australian Army Rugby Football Team plays against a Free French team.F01027
-
For you the war is over
Art
Pencil sketch created in Ekali, Greece depicting the capture of an Australian officer and one soldier by German troops at an Australian hospital camp in 1941. The men had stayed behind to look after t...ART94378
-
Fred Anderson
Art
Maker: Milgate, Eric Lovell
Portrait depicting NX46224 Fred E Anderson, 2nd A.I.F, probably drawn while a prisoner of war.ART29251