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Aaaaaaa-tention!
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Maker: Jose, Ellen
In 1992 Ellen Jose (b.1951) held an exhibition in Melbourne titled "Black Diggers-Ghost Fighters" to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the beginning of the Kokoda campaign in New Guinea, as well as ...ART29762
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A.A. lookout, Red Sea [Donald Hambleton-Johnson and Reginald Ward]
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts Reginald Ward DX621 (N76513) standing, Donald Hambleton Johnson QX18024 2/25th Battalion, 2 A.I.F, part of superstructure of ships during the voyage to Australia of H.M.T "Felix Roussel" a fr...ART22053
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2/3 A.A. Regt Searchlight Bty site
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Maker: Friend, Donald
anti-aircraft; 2/3rd Australian Anti-Aircraft Regiment; campaign; anti-aircraft searchlightART23260
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Able Seaman, Torpedoes
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Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of an unidentified Able Seaman from the Royal Australian Navy.ART23554
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A brisk day off Yokohama, HMAS Hobart
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Flying the Royal Naval ensign, light cruiser HMAS Hobart is moored in Tokyo Bay, Japan. Mount Fuji is seen in the background symbolising Japan territory. In the foreground and under a brisk wind, a sa...ART25503
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ACF gives and can keep on giving!
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Maker: Unknown Australian Comforts Fund Unknown
Second World War Australian Comforts Fund poster, depicting defence force members reciving gifts from a giant pair of hands. The Australian Comforts Fund was re-established on 9 January 1940. Based on...ARTV06426
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A Changi working party
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A group of prisoners of war forming a working party, one carrying a fire bucket to provide fire or a light for cigarettes. A Japanese guard walks amongst them. The men not sent to the Burma-Thailand r...ART25051
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A Concert in the Mess
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
One of the few members of No. 3 Squadron who played an instrument was one of the flight mechanics, Leading Aircraftman William Joseph (Chippy) Chipperfield, who would always bring his accordion along ...ART24444
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Acre - Australians passed this way!
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Acre - Australians Passed this Way. The bay and town of Acre through which Australian troops passed during their advance towards Beirut. It was in this ancient town that the Armistice Convention was a...ART30092
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Action at Parit Sulong, January 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This work depicts the fighting at Parit Sulong by the men of the 2/15th Australian Field Regiment. A 25 pounder gun is in the lower right corner. This battle became the scene of a massacre at the hand...ART24477
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Action at Sattelberg
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
The attack of the 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion, supported by tanks, attacking at Sattelberg, New Guinea.ART27627
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Action in the Vale of Tempe, Greece
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Maker: Dargie, William
Towards the end of 1940, Italian forces invaded Greece from Albania. In February 1941 the British advance in North Africa was halted and a force, which included the 6th Australian Division, was organi...ART27554
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A daylight raid
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Australian Halifax aircraft on a daylight raid over Germany. This is the view obtained from a position immediately alongside the pilot and shown two of the powerful Bristol Hercules motors of a Halifa...ART22193
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Adelaide River camp
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
The Adelaide River played a major role during the Second World War. It was in this area that the 119 Australian General Hospital and huge military base were established. The American and Australian ...ART27513
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Admiralty House
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
"The road to the sea-front, Mersa Matruh". Admiralty House on left, a destroyer in the harbour. The destroyer made trips from Tobruch, landing wounded for the Mersa Matruh hospital or for train transp...ART30086
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Advanced Field Dressing Station, near Damour, Syria
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts an advanced field dressing station near Damour (which is near Beirut and now located in Lebanon) during the Syrian Campaign. The Syrian Campaign involved Australian troops, mostly from the 7th...ART30073
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A hand of poker
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a portrait of Flying Garry Munro Blumer 413517, 450 Squadron Royal Australian Air Force, who was shot down at one time before the German line North of Pescara. He was fortunate in meeting Ital...ART24439
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AIF canteen, Selarang
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Where troops could purchase coconuts, Java weed (tobacco), guala malacca (brown sugar) etc. Selerang Barracks were in the Changi area and were also used as a prisoner-of-war Camp. Soldiers queuing at ...ART26481
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AIF POW theatre, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This building had been a workshop and was used for about a year by an Australian POW Concert Party until it was required for accommodation. All seats were made from palm logs. Rear stalls made of rubb...ART26496
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AIF seedling nursery, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Showing portion of the AIF nursery where seedlings were raised for planting in the unit gardens in the prisoner-of-war camp at Changi. Vegetables grown in these gardens were an essential addition to t...ART26509
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AIF theatre, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This drawing depicts an entertainment called '203' in progress with three of the cast on the stage - John Wood, Jack Smith and Harry Smith. The entertainment was suprisingly lavish considering the lac...ART26497
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Aircraft at Singapore airport with First Aid Nursing Yeomanry canteen
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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...ART23382
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Airman - Milne Bay
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Sketch depicting an unidentified airman, wearing tin (protective) helmet and gum boots.ART21684
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Airmen and gear (Flying Officer Skinner and Flying Officer Harold Rowell)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts Flying Officer Skinner and 406958 Flying Officer Harold M Rowell, both of No 22 Squadron RAAF, preparing for air attack, May 1943 at Ward's Drome.ART21709
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Air Picquet (Gunner K Thompson)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
The subject of this drawing is 261617 Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth William Thompson, ED. Thompson died on 5 November 2001 aged 77 years (BS). Royal Australian Artillery, 14 Anti Aircraft Battery; Gunner...ART21686
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Airstrip at night
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Maker: Thake, Eric
57 Operational Base Unit; view of airfield at night with flares illuminating runway.ART26971
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Air Vice-Marshal Frank McNamara
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Maker: Honisett, Ray
Depicts a montage portrait of First World War and Second World War No. 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corp and No. 5 Flying Training School; Air Vice Marshal Frank Hubert McNamara, VC, CBE, RAAF. The wo...ART29094
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Albury railway station
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Maker: Drysdale, Russell
Depicts a group of soldiers wearing great-coats outside a darkened 'RTO' sign at the Albury railway station. A dark railway carriage forms the left hand side of the work. In wartime Australia the ra...ART28078
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Albury Station, January 1943
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a large number of sailors, officers and soldiers on the Albury Railway station platform with their luggage and bags, during the Second World War. This railway station is the scene of great com...ART21560
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All Change
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Maker: Nichol, Arthur John
A poster for a theatrical performance in German POW camp Stalag VIII-B, Lamsdorf, Poland (later renamed Stalag 344) by artist NX4185 Sergeant Arthur John Nichol. This poster was one of many produced b...ART28414.002
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Alongside in Tokyo docks
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
vessel, warship, destroyer, sentry, harbour; RAN River Class destroyer HMAS Warramunga at wharf in, 40mm Bofors gun on deckART25678
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Americans and Aborigines
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Originally titled 'Australian Aborigines rescue shot down U.S. pilot'. Depicts the story associated with the rescue of 2nd Lieutenant Clarence T Johnson, 7th Squadron, 49th Fighter group, USA. On 15 J...ART22732
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A 100 metre hut, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men relaxing outside an atap hut, which is made from split bamboo, with the sides of hut raised for ventilation in November 1944. The garden beds out the front are those of individual prisoners. In 1...ART25063
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A Mosquito
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A De Haviland Mosquito aircraft with RAF camouflage scheme, white and black stripes on lower fuselage, known as 'invasion stripes'. These indicate that this is after D-Day, 6 June 1944.ART23488
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And now!
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Maker: Uptton, Clive Ministry of Supply Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British poster number 167 poster depicting a British soldier advancing past the bodies of German soldiers towards Japanese soldiers, the horizon is obscured by a Japanese flag (under the 'Beat Hitler...ARTV00049
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An incident on the Burma railway
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Reconstruction of a scene witnessed by Colonel Dillon of the British Army, of the bashing of two British and one Australian prisoners of war by Japanese on the Burma-Thailand railway. Griffin original...ART26525
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Ansons on the Tarmac
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Avro Anson training planes at No.10 Air Observers School, a unit of the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS), through which many trainees of the Royal Australian Air Force passed, on the tarmac ready to ...ART21983
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Anti aircraft all the way
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Maker: Gilman, Don Office of AC of S, G-2, 14th Antiaircraft Command 650th Engineering Battalion
A poster issued by the Assistant Chief of Staff of the 14th Anti aircraft Command. The poster depicts a broad arrow heading towards a Japanese flag, on the flag is a listing of a number of battles, ...ARTV00538
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Anti-aircraft defences, Marsa Matruh
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts unidentified Australian soldiers standing with a Bren gun mounted on a tripod for anti-aircraft defence in the Western Desert during the North African campaign. Hele was serving as a private i...ART22868
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Anti-submarine defences, Darwin
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
An unidentified crew on fo'csle of boom defence vessel looking towards the horns; second boom defence vessel in background. Anti-submarine boom across Harbour maintained and serviced by boom defence v...ART22740
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"A" party moves at dawn
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
In the distance, a Sunderland aircraft is preparing to land as air Force trucks are being loaded at an air base, possibly Plymouth, where Australian RAAF squadrons were based.ART26244
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Apparatus for final test for respirators (Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
At the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, which was the only factory in the Commonwealth where these masks were assembled and tested. The operation, which was hitherto performed at the Munitions Supply ...ART22600
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Appearance of a long-nosed Blenheim
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Maker: Nash, Paul
Depicts a Second World War Blenhein airplane emerging from a cloud filled sky. Nash was appointed as a British official war artist in March 1940 by the War Artists' Advisory Committee, working for the...ART26679
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Arm operation at advanced Markham dressing station
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts a scene in an Advanced Dressing Station of the Australian Army Medical Corps in the Markham area, New Guinea.ART22498
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Army Camp, Caulfield
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Mainwaring is likely to have painted this scene when he was an Australian army artist on probation. An Army camp established at Caulfield Racecourse, grandstands and track in view. In the background...ART23397
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Army command boat in building
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Army command boat under construction at Halvorsen's Yard, River, Ryde. All the craft are of timber construction and range from Fairmile motor launches to fast supply boats and search and rescue launch...ART21361
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Army Workshop
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
An electrical and mechanical workshop of 12 Australian Army Troops Company. The central figure is QX41927 Sapper Edward "Shorty" Kellow, shown welding, assisting him is Q153295 Sapper Roy Edward Emery...ART22210
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Artificial limb construction, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Showing some of the limbs manufactured a the AIF POW Convalescent Depot. Series of drawings showing construction of artificial leg, including knee and ankle joints, 'Limb Factory', under supervision o...ART26502
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Artificial Limb Factory, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
The 'factory' was housed in the coolie lines at rear of Convalescent Depot, Changi Goal. Depicts three unidentified men engaged in different aspects of making artificial limbs.ART26503
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Artillery Lieutenant (Lieutenant Graham)
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Graham, RAA, who served in Crete and Syria, where he was wounded.ART21490