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AIF cemetery, Changi: front entrance
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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
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AIF cemetery, Changi: interior
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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
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AIF embarking at Stonewall Wharf, Sydney
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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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All services canteen Mackay
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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
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Anti-aircraft defence
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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
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At canteen
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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
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Aussie rules...
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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
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Australian POWs embarking for home on the Largs Bay at Singapore docks
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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
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Awaiting emergency landing
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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
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Back to Aussie again [sketchbook containing 12 pages of humorous sketches relating to army life]
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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
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Battle equipment, Derna
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of an Australian soldier standing with rifle, head slightly lowered.ART22875
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Boer War - Last war - this war (Sapper Harold Knudsen)
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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
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[Boxing under the palms]
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a drawing of a boxing match under the palms, New Guinea.ART90432
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Camouflaged artillery
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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
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Camp at Mena, Cairo
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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
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Camp at Mena, Cairo
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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
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Camp Panorama
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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
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Captain Albans
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of Captain Albans, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, 5th Camouflage Unit, AIFART29877
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Captain J A McNulty
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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
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Captain L L Gilbert
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of Captain L L Gilbert, 2nd Australian Imperial Force.ART26294
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Captain Sir James Bisset
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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
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Company Quarter Master Sergeant Carl Short
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of Carl Short, Company Quarter Master Sergeant, WX271, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, 2/11 Australian Infantry Battalion.ART26284
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Conference at Morotai
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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
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Corporal Arnold Robinson
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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
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Corporal Jim Watson
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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
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Corporal Sammy Walsh
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of Corporal Sammy 'the wild Irishman' Walsh (NX52951) of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force.ART29879
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Deir Suneid Village, near Camp
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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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Dick Ashton sketching Japanese Warrant Officer doing batman duties
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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
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drawing for headpiece for "Ack-I-Foofs"
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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
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[Escaping from explosion]
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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
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Ex-POWs leaving Eastbourne for return to Australia via Liverpool
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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
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Flares over the docks, Tobruk
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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
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Flight Lieutenant John Hipwell
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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
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For you the war is over
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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
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Fred Anderson
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Maker: Milgate, Eric Lovell
Portrait depicting NX46224 Fred E Anderson, 2nd A.I.F, probably drawn while a prisoner of war.ART29251
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Greece [first version]
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon
Originally entitled 'Patrol', this is the first version of 'Greece' produced by Dadswell while in the Middle East. The sculpture shows three soldiers of the 16th Brigade of the 6th Division on a forc...ART26395
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Harry Pike and Ken Joseph
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Portrait drawings of Harry Pike, Driver, Mid East AIF (left) and Ken Joseph, Militiaman, 5th Camouflage Unit (right) are depicted.ART29868
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Head of soldier - dyed for jungle camouflage
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of an Australian soldier with green face paint for camouflage and concealment in the jungles of New Guinea during the Second World War.ART29390
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Head study
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Portrait depicting an unidentified serviceman, wearing slouch hat.ART26574
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Helping a wounded comrade
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Infantryman of the 9th Australian Infantry Division helping his comrade to the Regimental Aid Post. This is often a necessary occurrence when, owing to a temporary shortage of stretcher bearers, a wou...ART22765
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Hi boot it Spanner
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Maker: Wilesmith, Arthur Joseph
Page 12 of sketchbook relating to the service of Sgt Arthur Joseph Wilesmith (QX7653) 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion. Depiction of a humorous incident during a rugby game. The artist noted ' Lastly it woul...ART94536.012
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How proud they'll be to pass around your snaps, Join the A.I.F
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Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
One of a series of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment posters issued under the title "JOIN THE AIF". This poster is subtitled 'How proud they'll be to pass around yo...ARTV09583
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How proud they'll be to pass around your snaps, Join the A.I.F
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Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
One of a series of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment posters issued under the title "JOIN THE AIF". This poster is subtitled 'How proud they'll be to pass around yo...ARTV09587
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How proud they'll be to pass around your snaps, Join the A.I.F
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Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
One of a series of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment posters issued under the title "JOIN THE AIF". This poster is subtitled 'How proud they'll be to pass around yo...ARTV09588
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How proud they'll be to pass around your snaps, Join the A.I.F
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Maker: Unknown Commonwealth of Australia Unknown
One of a series of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment posters issued under the title "JOIN THE AIF". This poster is subtitled 'How proud they'll be to pass around yo...ARTV09542
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How proud they'll be to pass around your snaps, Join the A.I.F
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Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
One of a series of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment posters issued under the title "JOIN THE AIF". This poster is subtitled 'How proud they'll be to pass around yo...ARTV09543
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How proud they'll be to pass around your snaps, Join the A.I.F
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Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
One of a series of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment posters issued under the title "JOIN THE AIF". This poster is subtitled 'How proud they'll be to pass around yo...ARTV09544
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In a section post, Tobruk
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts a group of soldiers in Section Post during air attack (blitz), North African.ART21883
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Into action
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Maker: Dargie, William
Painting of three unidentified male Australian soldiers going into action in the Middle East. This work was reproduced in the frontispiece of the 1942 Australian War Memorial publication 'Soldiering ...ART22232
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Japanese guards buying vegetables, March 1945
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This composition depicts the Japanese guards from the prisoner-of-war camps in Changi area purchasing the better class vegetables for themselves from Chinese stalls, Australians providing improvised t...ART25082
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Jeep train for Beaufort
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
On his last assignment as war correspondent Wep was sent to Borneo for two months. Here Jeeps were used in place of broken down steam engines to pull up to three cars. This sketch shows one with a gro...ART29344
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Join the AIF now!: They'll be proud of you in this
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Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces
Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment poster. It features a black and white drawing of a soldier in full uniform with two admiring women, the older one holding his rifle...ARTV02566
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Join the AIF Now! ..You love them, fight for them! [red Australian flag backdrop]
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Maker: Unknown Australian Imperial Force Unknown
Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment poster. The image of a woman holding her baby wrapped in a blanket in brown monotones against the colour backdrop of a red Australi...ARTV07232
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Join the AIF Now! ..You love them, fight for them! [red Australian flag backdrop]
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Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment poster. The image of a woman holding her baby wrapped in a blanket in brown monotones against the colour backdrop of a red Australi...ARTV09528
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Join the AIF Now! ..You love them, fight for them! [red Australian flag backdrop]
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Maker: Unknown Unknown
Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment poster. The image of a woman holding her baby wrapped in a blanket in brown monotones against the colour backdrop of a red Australi...ARTV07233
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Join the AIF: This is serious!
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Maker: Northfield, James Director- General of Recruiting F.W. Niven
Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment poster. Released in 1941 before Japan had entered the war, at a time when many Australians were reluctant to enlist to fight on the...ARTV04319
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Jungle training 2
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Maker: Wilesmith, Arthur Joseph
Page 6 of sketchbook relating to the service of Sgt Arthur Joseph Wilesmith (QX7653) 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion. Humorous depiction of a jungle training exercise involving carrying a wounded soldier on...ART94536.006
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Jungle training river crossing
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Maker: Wilesmith, Arthur Joseph
Page 5 of sketchbook relating to the service of Sgt Arthur Joseph Wilesmith (QX7653) 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion.ART94536.005
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Lake Tiberias
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts three Australian troops consulting a map with the stunning vista of Lake Tiberius (Sea of Galilee) as a backdrop. Herbert was appointed as an Official War Artist in February 1941, and served ...ART30089
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Lathe, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
2 Australian Imperial Force; lathe made from salvaged materials, set in heavy wooden bedART26523
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1914-40, Libya (Private Lance Rosser)
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of SX7048 Private Lancelot Frederick Rosser 'Pop', 6th Australian Division, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, North African campaign. When the artist was instructed by Blamey to select someone ...ART22881
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Lieutenant A Lapin
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of Lieutenant Allenby A. Lapin (VX13848). Lapin was of Jewish faith and was enrolled university student in Melbourne at the time of his enlistment in May 1940. He served with the 2/6th Battal...ART26292
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Lieutenant Colonel Arnold Brown
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of NX393 Lieutenant Colonel Arnold Brown, DSO, OBE, MC, Area Commandant, Bulldog Lines of Command area in New Guinea during the Second World War.ART26173
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Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Allan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Portrait depicting NX12229 Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Trangmar Allan, OBE, MC, MID, Commanding Base Sub-Area, Finschhafen. Served with 30th and 5/45 Infantry Battalions and awarded Military Cross, 191...ART22685
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Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Honner
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Portrait depicting WX15 Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Honner, DSO, MC, Commanding 39 Battalion when battalion was fighting on the Kokoda Track 2 Australian Imperial Force, 2/11th Australian Infantry Battal...ART31769
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Lieutenant C R Pittaway
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of VX5253 Lieutenant Callum Ridley Pittaway, 2/5th Battslion, 2nd Australian Imperial Force.ART26287
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Lieutenant E Armstrong
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of VX6205 Lieutenant Ernest Charles Armstrong, 2nd Australian Imperial Force. Lieutenant Ernest Charles Armstrong (VX6205) served with the 2/8th Battalion before being captured in Greece. Arm...ART26290
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Lieutenant E Leonard Isherwood
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of Lieutenant Eric Leonard Isherwood, VX9728, 6th Division Australian Army Service Corps, Second Australian Imperial Force.ART26293
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Lieutenant General John Lavarack
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
VX20310 Lieutenant General Sir John Dudley Lavarack, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO, General Commanding 7th Australian Division. Painted at Mersa Matruh and unfinished owing to troops movements at short notice, Eg...ART23616
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Lieutenant H Henderson
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of Lieutenant Hugh Hunter Henderson, 2nd Australian Imperial. Lieutenant H Henderson (VX9994) served in the 2 Advanced Ordnance Workshop. Henderson was a prisoner of war, held captive in seve...ART26295
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Lieutenant Norman Harris
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of NX8804 Lieutenant Norman Alexander Harris, MBE, 2 Australian Imperial Force, 6th Australian Division, Australian Intelligence Units,Libya.ART22871
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Lieutenant S R B Hardy
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of QX6094 Lieutenant S R B Hardy, 2nd Australian Imperial Force.ART26289
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Major Gerald O'Day
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Maker: Nakanishi, J
Portrait of Major (later Colonel) Gerald O O'Day, VX14097, (later OBE), 2/14th Infantry Battalion 2 AIF.ART27784
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“67 ½ mile peg, Mersing road”
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Unidentified Australian Medical Officers tending wounded by the roadside. A recess in the jungle which had been built for the purpose.ART24469
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Mobile press unit in operation
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depiction of the mobile Army newspaper press at Morotai in operation at night. The machine is mounted onto a regular Army truck. Often working until two or three o'clock in the morning the staff, all ...ART29226
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Mughar Village
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts five soldiers outside of the town of Mughar, Palestine. Three of the soldiers in the foreground are standing under pencil pines sketching, while two in he middle ground are simply looking. T...ART30040
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Nature Morte
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Maker: Friend, Donald
This work depicts the remains of a party of Japanese who crossed in canoes from the mainland of Borneo to the island of Labuan and hid in the swamps of Garankak. After carrying on commando tactics for...ART22182
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Never been so fit...
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Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
One of a series of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment posters issued under the title "JOIN THE AIF". This poster subtitled ' Make them proud of you!...Never been so f...ARTV10095
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No offence meant
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Maker: Wilesmith, Arthur Joseph
Page 4 of sketchbook relating to the service of Sgt Arthur Joseph Wilesmith (QX7653) 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion. Humorous depiction of the camp sign writer at work. Digger in tropical uniform stands in...ART94536.004
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O.C.: Retreat! preposterous sir, not me
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Maker: Wilesmith, Arthur Joseph
Page 2 of sketchbook relating to the service of Sgt Arthur Joseph Wilesmith (QX7653) 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion.ART94536.002
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On guard
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Australian soldier standing sentry at an encampment. This work was produced as part of the artist's Syrian Campaign series. The artist writes, 'On guard - Typical scene at any Australian camp betwee...ART30051
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Original landing at Usapa-Besar, Timor
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Recalling the Australian activities on the island of Timor during the Second World War. Japanese forces invaded both Dutch and Portuguese Timor in February 1942, where a small Australian force - 'Spar...ART26362
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Palms and gardens, Richon
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a man in a red pot-like hat (called a tarboosh) and a group of Australian soldiers gathered near the Eagle Brewery Annex at Rishon le Zion. The scene is one of a lush oasis in the heat. with ...ART30043
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Portrait of General Herring
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Maker: Dargie, William
This is a portrait of Major General Edmund Francis Herring CBE DSO MC ED, General Office Commanding 6th Australian Division. He stands, dressed in full military uniform and holding a map. Dargie me...ART23428
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25-pounder in action, Sollum
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicting a 25-pounder field gun in action near Sollum in the Western Desert, Egypt.ART26566
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Prisoners gardening at Changi, 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Landscape looking south to the Singapore Harbour in the distance. In the foreground right and centre groups of prisoners are engaged in gardening to grow their own food. In the foreground left a priso...ART28104
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Private Bill Conway
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
San Remo; 2/24th Australian Infantry Battalion; VX57458 Private Bill Conway, 2/24 BtnART23729
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Private C R Clegg
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of WX1033 Cyril Rex Clegg, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, 2/11 Australian Infantry Battalion.ART26282
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Private L McLeod
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of NX7544, Private L McLeod, 2/1 Battalion, 2nd Australian Imperial Force.ART26283
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Private M W Ellis
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of VX30848 Private M W Ellis, repatriated prisoner of war, 2nd Australian Imperial Force.ART26285
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Private Stan McCloy
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of NX2643 Private Stan McCloy, 2/1st Battalion, 2nd Australian Imperial Force.ART26286
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Queue at cookhouse, Julis camp
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Maker: Dargie, William
A rapid impression of one of the most familiar and important aspects of army life at Julis camp, Palestine. Depicts a drawing of the open air cookhouse at Julis Camp.ART22042
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Raid on Carrier Hill (by a company of the 2/48th Battalion), 22 April 1941
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
A retrospective representation of the raid on Carrier Hill during the North Africa campaign of the Second World War. Carrier Hill was a small feature about a thousand metres outside the Australian per...ART27551
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Re-fuelling HMT Queen Elizabeth Red Sea
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Trincomalee; tanker, anti-aircraft, refuelling; British Merchant Navy; unidentified soldiers watching refuelling operations; Shell Company tanker Scalantor, part of upper deck of SS Queen Elizabeth (b...ART21267
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Resting
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
A portrait of a soldier from the 2nd Australian Imperial Force, 6th Australian Division wearing battle dress and a protective tin helmet, drawn after the capture of Tobruk.ART22877
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Route march
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a route march through the village of Gedera. The artist writes: ' This was produced as part of the artist's Syrian Campaign series. The campaign involved Australian troops, mostly from the 7...ART30078
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Scene of operations W.C.C.
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Maker: Wilesmith, Arthur Joseph
Page 1 of sketchbook relating to the service of Sgt Arthur Joseph Wilesmith (QX7653) 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion. Humorous sketch of a group of soldiers constructing the timber frame of a hut.ART94536.001
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Searchlight
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Searchlight - Final touches before evening manoeuvres. Time is about sunset'.ART30087
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Selarang buildings
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Occupied by NCO prisoners-of-war captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. The buildings were previously part of Selarang Barracks occupied by the British troops garrisoning Singapore. The ar...ART26473
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Sergeant John Kent
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of Sergeant John Kent, Australian Imperial Forces and driver to Correspondents' MessART29849