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Abu Gosh
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Abu Gosh, A village beside the road, close to Jerusalem'. Principal leave centre for troops in Palestine.ART30084
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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
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Anderson air raid shelter: Adams family home, Mascot
Technology
Maker: John Lysaght Pty Ltd Lysaght's Newcastle Works Pty Limited
Anderson air raid shelter. The outside of the shelter is painted black and consists of an internal timber frame which is covered by six sheets of corrugated steel sheeting (three each side). The corru...REL29034
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Bombed house in Elasson
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
This is a watercolour sketch of a bombed house in the Greek town of Elasson. Two men stand in the foreground of the image. Elasson was on the line of withdrawal of ANZAC Corps from Greece in 1941.ART23979
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Boom town, Dafoe
Art
Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Boom towns or shanty towns have made their appearance at most of the remote air stations in Canada. Enterprising farmers build and tent these little shacks to the families of Air Force personnel and t...ART23090
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Buoys on the beach
Art
Maker: Friend, Donald
Enormous buoys have washed up on a beach at Labuan. The buoys are almost twice the height of the soldier who walkd amongst them.ART23300
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Buoys, Victoria Town, Labuan
Art
Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Depicts a pile of mooring buoys resting on the edge of a lake, beside an old building in Labuan, Borneo during the Second World War.ART93836
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Camouflaged truck
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a camouflaged truck at Richon-le Zion Palestine (now in Israel). The artist wrote that the truck was depicted "in a setting of date palms - proving the effectiveness of Army camouflage". Ris...ART30042
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Camp area designed as homestead for camouflage purposes
Art
Maker: Ragless, Max
A camp in an unknown location designed to resemble a homestead and outbuildings for camouflage purposes. This is one of six drawings purchased from the artist in 1944 prior to his appointment as an o...ART30199
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Car park, Main Street, Atherton
Art
Maker: Abbott, Harold
View from a verandah of a Barrett's Railway Hotel on the main street of Atherton. The street is lined with military vehicles, the post office on the right is surrounded by anti-blast barricades and t...ART23872
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Chinese Temple
Art
Maker: Friend, Donald
Chinese temple used as billets for Australian soldiers, 4th Australian Bulk Petrol Company, but shared by an aged Chinese priest called 'Wong', who vigorously repelled all attempts to move him to othe...ART23233
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Church on Hill 'C' above the village of Perivolia, Crete
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
The scene of heavy fighting between the German paratroops and 2/11th Australian Infantry Battalion supported by Greek troops during the invasion of Crete by the Axis forces in May 1941.ART24054
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Damascus
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts Sultan Selim Mosque in Damascus, probably after the Battle of Damascus. This was the final conflict in the Syria-Lebanon campaign, in which Allied forces took the city from the Vichy french o...ART30297
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Das ist das Heil, das sie bringen! (That is the salvation, that they bring)
Art
Maker: Heartfield, John Heartfield Archive and GDR Government
A skeleton hand with bomber planes issuing from its five fingers, raised imposingly over the destroyed city with bodies of dead children in the foreground. This work was horribly prophetic when first ...ARTV09077
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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
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drawing for tailpiece for To one at home
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
A woman in a dress and high heeled shoes is held by a man in a civilian suit. The scene appears windy as her long hair is swept to the side. they are on a hill over looking an industrial city with hig...ARTI00792
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Druce's Store, Baker St
Art
Maker: Meeson, Dora
A lone man walks past a row of damaged and destroyed buildings in Baker Street, London, following an air raid. Note the milk bottle on the doorstep at centre and the airship in the sky. Despite being ...ART26909
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Elasson
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
This sketch shows two men walking along a path on the side of a hill, overlooking the Greek town of Elasson from the north during a storm. Elasson was on the line of withdrawal of the ANZAC Corps, whi...ART23977
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Entraining at Calgary
Art
Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
General view of Canadian Pacific Rail depot showing Royal Australian Air Force personnel entraining for return to Australia on completion of their training at Canadian Air Schools under the Empire Air...ART22819