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A.A. lookout, Red Sea [Donald Hambleton-Johnson and Reginald Ward]
Art
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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"A clarion call to Australian manhood. The A.I.F. needs every available man NOW!"
Published Collection
Black and white recruitment leaflet containing a message from Major Norman Whitfield, Director General of Recruiting, entreating men to enlist into the army. "A clarion call to Australian manhood. The...RC00282
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Acre - Australians passed this way!
Art
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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Admiralty House
Art
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
Art
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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AIF canteen, Selarang
Art
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 Ex-POW
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
A portrait of an unidentified member of the AIF recently recovered from a German prisoner of war camp. Alan Moore was appointed an official war artist in November 1943 and his commission was to depict...ART25724
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AIF POW theatre, Changi
Art
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
Art
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
Art
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
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...ART23382
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A 100 metre hut, Changi
Art
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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An incident on the Burma railway
Art
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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Anzac Day marching banner : 104 Casualty Clearing Station Association
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Banner of green silk taffeta with a gold fringe along the lower edge. The words '104 C.C.S.' appear at the top in blue letters on a silver grey ribbon. Below this is the colour patch of the unit (a bl...REL31560
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Artificial Limb Factory, Changi
Art
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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Ascending the Pimple
Art
Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
On his tour of New Guinea in 1944 Wep visited 'Guy's Post' , an advanced dressing station on Shaggy Ridge in the Finisterre Ranges. Visiting the site of 3 months of fighting between the Japanese and A...ART29338
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A soldier and his doover (Private Charles Dury)
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Portrait depicting Private Charles T Dury VX48227, driver to Brigadier Whitehead, Commanding Officer of the 26th Australian Infantry Brigade. Private Dury is standing in front of his 'doover', an imp...ART21721
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A trailer party, Changi 1944
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Two prisoners dragging an improvised trailer loaded with full sacks and escorted by a Japanese guard.ART25100
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A trailer party passing through a Kampong
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men pushing trailer near a village well with Malay and Chinese children in the foregroundART25087
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Attack on Japanese tanks on the Bakri-Parit Sulong Road
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Reconstruction of action against Japanese tanks by 2/4th Anti Tank Regiment along Bakri-Parit Sulong Road. This was the scene of intense fighting by withdrawing Australian troops as the Japanese rapid...ART27570
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Australian Comforts Fund: don't let them down, the Blueys and Curleys
Art
Maker: Unknown Australian Comforts Fund Unknown
Depicts a 2nd Australian Imperial Force poster appealing for donations of reading matter (books and magazines) for distribution by the Australian Comforts Fund to soldiers. Soldiers are shown in the j...ARTV05272
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Australian infantryman (Staff Sergeant Ian Thomson)
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of Staff Sergeant Ian Thomson, shown in full uniform with day pack and bayonet in his left hand, Syria.ART22223
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Australian soldier
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of an unidentified Australian soldier wearing a tin helmet, Buna, New Guinea, 1943.ART25025
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Australian soldier, Libya (Sergeant Frank Collins)
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of NX2630 Sergeant Frank Robert Collins, 6th Division 2nd Australian Imperial Force, in Tobruk. Like many of the official war artists, Hele painted portraits not only of high-ranking officers...ART28474
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Australian troops disembarking at Alexandria after the evacuation from Greece
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Study for the large painting Hele executed of this subject, depicting exhausted troops from the 6th Australian Division disembarking on the docks at Alexandria after the evacuation from Greece.ART23954
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Australia Service Medal : Corporal A W G Friedewald, Royal Australian Engineers
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL35348.004
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Australia Service Medal : Major C J Clarke, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Royal Australian Mint
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL/09718.007
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Back of a truck, moving up
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts several troops lying in the back of a truck in Libya.ART21890
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Back up your cobbers!
Art
Maker: Simmins, Claude Butler Department of the Army Unknown
Recruiting poster showing a soldier from the 2/9th Australian Infantry Battalion, about to board a troop ship with his full kit. Other soldiers can be seen ascending the gangway. The 2/9th was the fir...ARTV04316
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Bar of washing soap made at Changi Prisoner of War Camp
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Bar of washing soap made at the Changi Soap Factory. Originally brown, but now with a grey external film. The original hand written label has stuck to the bar and is no longer legible.RELAWM27461
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Base ball with Australian badge
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
White horse hide baseball stitched with red and black waxed thread. An enamelled bronze badge of the Australian Coat of Arms has been attached to the ball with a pin that extends through the centre to...RELAWM30021
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2/32 Battalion holding German counter-attack, El Alamein, 31 October 1942
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
2/32nd Australian Infantry Battalion holding German counter-attack at El Alamein, Western Desert, Egypt, on 31 October 1942. The men are from B Company and the tank depicted is a German Mark IV C mode...ART22251
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Battle casualties, Malaya
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Convalescent Depot for rehabilitation of men (all amputees) playing deck golf. It was located in part of barracks formerly occupied by Gordon Highlanders. The workshop run by the prisoners were able t...ART25088
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Bill 'Barlow' Williams
Art
Maker: Milgate, Eric Lovell
Portrait depicting NX45986 Sapper William Johnson 'Bill' Barlow Williams, a member of 2/3 Field Company 9th Division (formerly 6th Division). He was in POW camp in Grupignano, Italy, after capture ne...ART29257
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Binoculars : Gunner J K Vonow, 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Small pair of non military style, nickel plated field glasses, partly covered in textured brown leather. There is a centrally mounted adjusting wheel fitted for focus. Both eye pieces are dented and b...REL31827.001
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Bombardment of Damour
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Bombardment of Damour. Evacuees leaving Damour with their packs and donkeys. Transport has stopped. The town is being shelled by the Navy and allied artillery. Large fires were started. The impression...ART30074
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Bookbinding, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
When the Japanese gave permission for a stock of books to be brought into the camp from Raffles Library in Singapore, their constant repair was essential. This was carried out with odds and ends of ra...ART25062
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Brigadier David Whitehead
Art
Maker: Rowed, Reg
2 Australian Imperial Force; NX376 Brigadier David Adie Whitehead, CBE, DSO and Bar, MC, MID (twice), Commanding 26 Bde; North AfricaART31775
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Brigadier Heathcote Hammer, Nunn's Post, Salamaua
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of Brigadier Heathcote Howard Hammer, DSO, VX24325, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, Commanding Officer 15th Brigade, Miteirya Ridge (El Alamein), Bobdubi Ridge, Wau, Salamaua, New Guinea.ART22539
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Brigadier William Windeyer
Art
Maker: Godson, John Barclay
Depicts a portrait of NX396 Brigadier William John Victor Windeyer, CBE, DSO and Bar, MID (x3), joined the AIF to command the 2/48th Battalion during its training and in the siege of Tobruk in 1941, w...ART31763
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British 1 penny coins for Two Up set : Leading Aircraftman B D Beath, No. 348 Radar Station, RAAF
Technology
Maker: Royal Mint
Set of five Edward VII British One Penny coins, divided up as follows: three 1903 issue, one 1906 issue and one 1907 issue. All the coins feature the head of King Edward VII on the obverse, facing ri...RELC02639
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British War Medal 1939-45 : Corporal A W G Friedewald, Royal Australian Engineers
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL35348.003
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British War Medal 1939-45 : Major C J Clarke, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1939-45. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL/09718.006
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Broom making, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Showing various aspects of the manufacture of brooms by Australian prisoners-of-war captured at Singapore. At the time the drawing was made the brooms were made from sliced bamboo, later they were mad...ART26505
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Cable-laying in a jungle clearing
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Before the introduction of reliable portable radios, army signallers maintained communications by telephone. As shown in this painting, the AIF had to lay the cables connecting positions. Murray Grif...ART24488
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Captain Arthur Hence
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of NX70153 Captain Arthur William Hence (later MBE), 2/18 Bn 2 AIF. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. B...ART28403.020
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Captain John Vernon
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Griffin has composed this portrait to tell the story of Captain John Murray Vernon (NX34879), MC, of the 2/18th Australian Infantry Battalion. He is posing in front of the Kranji river at the place wh...ART24496
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Captain Ray Griffin
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of NX34712 Captain Ray S Griffin, 2/18 Btn, prisoner of war (killed in air raid while prisoner), defence of and, 'A' Force Railway. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of t...ART28403.086
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Captain Reg Saunders
Art
Maker: Thalben-Ball, Pamela
Reginald Walter Saunders was born in 1920, in Purnim, Victoria, near the Framlingham Aboriginal Reserve. He came from a long line of soldiers. Both his father and his uncle served in the First World W...ART28159
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Captain Robert Black
Art
Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of QX36074 Captain Robert Black, Australian Army Medical Service, pathologist, 106 Casualty Clearing Station, 2 AIF. His head is turned to the right, and he holds a cigarette in his left han...ART22662
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Captured Japanese H.Q. Don Company, Labuan
Art
Maker: Friend, Donald
This local house was previously used as Japanese commander's headquarters, but had since been claimed for use by the Australians.ART23246
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Caravan, Chevrolet C60L : General L Morshead, Mobile Headquarters, 2nd Australian Imperial Force
Technology
A standard, three ton Canadian Military Pattern (CMP) Chevrolet C60L 4x4, six cylinder overhead valve cab chassis truck with a 'Cab 13' cabin. It has been fitted with a timber caravan body. The exteri...REL/11086
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Case for binoculars : Gunner J K Vonow, 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Leather storage case for field glasses. The case is kidney shaped with a hinging lid. The lid has a small brass release clasp fitted to the front. The base is missing and the interior lining, consisti...REL31827.002
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Casualty
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
This work shows three unidentified soldiers, two assisting a third who has been wounded. This work was reproduced in the Australian War Memorial publication 'Khaki and Green' in 1943 with the title '...ART25494
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Casualty clearing station, Mersa Matruh
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Scene in an underground casualty clearing station at Mersa Matruh. The clearing station was filled with wounded from forward areas mostly from two Australian battalions, with a few from British units....ART28473
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Changi gaol from the 100 metre huts
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicted is a prisoner hanging out washing with the concrete structure of Changi gaol in the background. Griffin captured the scene in October 1944. In 1944 all the POWs, some 10,000 men, held at Ser...ART25067
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Changi library
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Stocked with books brought into the prison camp by the men, mainly in the march from Tanglin Camp in 1942. Later the Japanese allowed prisoners-of-war to bring in more books from Raffles Library, Sing...ART26501
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Changi trailer party carrying logs
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
This party of prisoners-of-war in Japanese hands in Changi POW Camp, are seen carting coconut tree logs into camp for firewood. The logs have been cut just outside the camp by troops of the Australian...ART26488
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Cigarette Case : Private J P Saunders, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Chrome plated cigarette case with an impressed diamond pattern finish on the front and back. The case is hinged along the left side and opens by pushing a clasp on the right. The initials 'J.P.S.' are...REL31818
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Colonel Charles Anderson
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of NX12595 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson, VC, MC, Commanding 2/19 Btn, 2AIF; defence of Malaya and, Muar River, 'A' Force Railway (also First World War in German East Afri...ART28403.087
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Colonel Thomas Hamilton
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of NX70505 Lieutenant Colonel Thomas, MB ChM, FRACS, FACS, Commanding 2/4 CCS; defence of Malaya and, 'A' Force Railway, (also First World War 30 Btn AIF). The artist, Jim Collins, was a memb...ART28403.085
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Colour patch : HQ 2 Australian Armoured Regiment
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Horizontally aligned colour patch for Headquarters 2 Australian Armoured Regiment, showing a grey tank silhouette over a yellow felt background on a grey border. Worn as a distinguishing unit indicat...REL32371.002
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Colour patch : South Australia Line of Communication Area Horse Transport and Remount Units
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Square colour patch for South Australia Line of Communication Area Horse Transport and Remount Units, 1942-44, showing a central white circle on a navy blue square, mounted on a horizontally alligned ...REL32371.001
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Colour Patch 11th Australian Division Royal Australian Engineers
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Colour patch of the 11th Australian Division Royal Australian Engineers consisting of an arrow head shaped purple felt colour patch inside a grey border.REL35349
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'Come 'Ngetit', Finschhafen
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
The stoves are standard mobile kitchen equipment. The cook is seen shouting "Come and get if or I'll chuck it out!" In the sawn-off 40 gallon drumon the left may be seen the empty tins of the ration f...ART21726
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Cooking rice on deep fry stove, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
To cope with the requirements of many thousands of men, three large deep-fry cooking stoves were constructed in Changi Goal. Here a round-the-clock staff turned the monotonous rice into more appetisin...ART26493
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Corona Four Typewriter : Captain M B Tindale, British Commonwealth Occupation Force
Heraldry
Maker: Smith-Corona Typewriters
Black non-folding, manual, portable, desktop typewriter complete with wooden and leatherette carry case. The aluminium and tin body is finished in black enamel paint. Forty two full size individual ke...REL38910
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Corporal Edward Weller
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a portrait of VX64848 Corporal Edward Harding Weller. A portrait demonstration at Men's Recreation hut, Lae. Subject selected at random from the audience, New Guinea.ART23703
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Corporal John Edmondson
Art
Maker: Smith, Joshua
Portrait of NX15705 Corporal John H Edmondson, VC, 2/17 Battalion, AIF, was in a small group that attacked with the bayonet a party of Germans which had broken through a point of the Tobruk defences i...ART27532
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Dental centre, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
At the prisoner-of-war camp at Changi Goal. Dental treatment was affordable at the fall of Singapore and who took their equipment into captivity with them. The Centre is housed in a native-built attap...ART26467
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Digger, Libya
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Like many of his fellow official war artists, Hele painted portraits not only of high-ranking officers but also of the 'ordinary' men in the field, for whom he felt a great sense of empathy. The name...ART22879
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Digger resting (Study for 'Australian troops disembarking at Alexandria'
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Recumbent figure of a 6th Australian Division soldier wearing only a pair of shorts.ART26565
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Digger walking
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian infantrymnan walking in the Western Desert in North Africa.ART21896
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Digger with captured Breda gun
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts an unidentified soldier wearing battle dress, captured 6.5 millimetre model 30 Breda light machine gun, 2 Australian Imperial Force, Libyan campaign, Western Desert, North African Campaign.ART21912
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Duck yard, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
When the rice ration at Changi POW Camp was sufficient, a certain amount of swill enabled many men to keep poultry, (mostly ducks) and a motley assortment of pens sprang up everywhere, composed of wir...ART26508
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Everard Watt
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Captain Everard J I Watts (or Watt), of 11 Stewart Street. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the ...ART28403.017
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Ex-prisoner of war (Corporal Wickson)
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
Portrait depicting Corporal Wickson, recovered prisoner of war, 2 AIF.ART26296
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Field Dressing
Heraldry
Maker: Johnson & Johnson Pty Ltd, Sydney
Field dressing made from cotton material. on the front is printed 'JOHNSON & JOHNSON PTY LTD SYDNEY 1944'.REL39504
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Field hospital, Northern Australia
Art
Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
A vivid and impressionistic oil sketch bringing to life a field hospital in Northern Australia described as being 'fully under canvas and capable of being moved at a moment's notice'. Several orderlie...ART94591
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First Australian prisoners of war from Malaya arrive in Cairns by catalinas
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Large numbers of Australian prisoners of war are arriving at the wharf in Cairns and being greeted by Australian officers and soldiers in uniform. A genial major reassures a POW who has misplaced his ...ART25628
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"Flying start campaign"
Published Collection
Black and white recruitment leaflet for March 1940. "Flying start campaign. Last call for a fighting finish. March 1940. Keep your eye on Easter. It's now or never if you want to be a prize winner."RC00280
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Fools talk...Men drown!
Art
Maker: Unknown
A careless talk poster produced by 1 Australian Mobile Lithographic Section A Survey Company during the Second World War. It features a depiction of soldiers being rescued after their ship has been t...ARTV10231
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Garden area inside Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men working at firewood stacks, making compost and tending gardens within the Changi camp. This works portrays the organised system the prisoners had established for the smooth running of the camp. Th...ART25053
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Garrison cinema, Qastina
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
The camp is Qastina, but the cinema building is identical with those provided for the entertainment of troops at all camps in the area. The theatre was a much-favoured spot, two shows nightly being pr...ART30062
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Gaza Ridge Camp
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts an encampment at Gaza Ridge, with the town of Deir Suneid in the distance. The artist writes 'Part of Gaza Ridge camp (Kilo 89) - new trenches on the site of old Turkish earthworks.' This wa...ART30076
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General Sir Thomas Blamey
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of General Sir Thomas Blamey, CB, CMG, DSO, Deputy Commander in Chief Middle East Forces and General Commanding AIF seated and wearing field battle-coat. Blamey was a former school teacher wh...ART28252
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Generals MacArthur and Allen at Owers' Corner
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
Depicts General Douglas MacArthur, the Commander of the South West Pacific Area during the Second World War with NX2 Major General A S Allen, DSO, Commanding the 7th Division. In the background is the...ART27780
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G I R Watson
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Gavin I R Watson, of Maxgate, Pennant Hills Road, Carlingford, New South. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand R...ART28403.021
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Goal cell, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Living accommodation in Changi gaol. In the middle of 1944 all the POWs, some 10,000 men, held at Selarang Barracks and surrounds had to move to Changi goal proper, which was designed to accommodate 6...ART25092
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Group of soldiers, sailors and airmen
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
A frieze-like group of nine sailors, soldiers and airmen wearing assorted uniforms. Hele was serving as a private in the AIF, when in January 1941 he was commissioned in the field by General Blamey an...ART28483
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Gunner in tin hat and sheepskin coat
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of an unidentified gunner from the 2nd Australian Imperial Force during the North African campaign. Dargie noted, "Typical of the garb of the troops in the winter in Lebanon. He wears a Syr...ART22226
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Halt for midday rice
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Five prisoners of the log loading party sitting in the shade for their midday ration of rice.ART25093
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Hand made butter knife : Sergeant L Crump, 2/2 Lines of Communication Provost Company
Heraldry
Maker: Crump, Laurie
Butter knife made from aircraft aluminium and plastic toothbrush handle by Sergeant L Crump, AIF, while serving in New Guinea. The handle of the knife has a decorative end in alternating bands of blue...REL30606.005
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Hand made cake fork : Sergeant L Crump, 2/2 Lines of Communication Provost Company
Heraldry
Maker: Crump, Laurie
Cake fork made from aircraft aluminium and plastic toothbrush handle by Sergeant L Crump, AIF, while serving in New Guinea. The handle of the fork has a decorative end in alternating bands of blue, re...REL30606.003
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Hand made honey spoon : Sergeant L Crump, 2/2 Lines of Communication Provost Company
Heraldry
Maker: Crump, Laurie
Honey spoon made from aircraft aluminium and plastic toothbrush handle by Sergeant L Crump, AIF, while serving in New Guinea. The spoon has a heart-shaped bowl, and the handle has a decorative end in ...REL30606.007
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Hand made letter opener in shape of a dagger : Sergeant L Crump, 2/2 Lines of Communication Provost Company
Heraldry
Maker: Crump, Laurie
Letter opener in shape of a dagger made from aircraft aluminium and plastic toothbrush handle by Sergeant L Crump, AIF, while serving in New Guinea. The handle of the opener is made of bands of clear ...REL30606.001
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Hand made letter opener in the shape of a scimitar : Sergeant L Crump, 2/2 Lines of Communication Provost Company
Heraldry
Maker: Crump, Laurie
Letter opener in the shape of a scimitar made from aircraft aluminium and plastic toothbrush handle by Sergeant L Crump, AIF, while serving in New Guinea. The handle of the sword has a decorative end ...REL30606.004
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Hand made mustard spoon : Sergeant L Crump, 2/2 Lines of Communication Provost Company
Heraldry
Maker: Crump, Laurie
Mustard spoon made from aircraft aluminium and plastic toothbrush handle by Sergeant L Crump, AIF, while serving in New Guinea. The spoon's handle has a circular decorative tip made of three bands of ...REL30606.002
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Hand made sugar spoon : Sergeant L Crump, 2/2 Lines of Communication Provost Company
Heraldry
Maker: Crump, Laurie
Sugar spoon made from aircraft aluminium and plastic toothbrush handle by Sergeant L Crump, AIF, while serving in New Guinea. The curved handle of the spoon has a decorative end in alternating bands o...REL30606.006
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Harry Johnson
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of H J 'Harry' Johnson, of Tweed Road, Bridgetown. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beginning o...ART28403.056