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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
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Portrait of a sailor reclining. Donald Friend enlisting with the AIF, was posted as a gunner to the artillery unit near Albury. In 1945, Friend was selected for appointment as official war artist. He ...ART23212
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Bonfire at King's Cross
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Fires were started in garbage tins in the King's Cross area in celebration of the German surrender news early in the morning of the 9th May 1945. On the verso is a rough, incomplete pen and ink sketc...ART23290
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Brown Beach landing, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicting troops disembarking from the landing ship into the surf. Sappers of the 2/7th Australian Field Company were in the first wave to clear the beach of mines. The assault battalions were the 2/4...ART23224
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Captured Japanese H.Q. Don Company, Labuan
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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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Card game on an L.S.T. 936
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Troops en route to a beach landing in a Landing Ship Tank (LST), relax at a game of cards.ART23223
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Crowds dancing, Kings Cross, Sydney
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Maker: Friend, Donald
This is a highly personal response to the celebrations that Donald Friend witnessed in Kings Cross, Sydney, after the announcement on 8 May of Germany's unconditional surrender at the end of the Secon...ART23203
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Desolate plantations, Balikpapan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Appointed an official war artist in 1945, Friend served in Labuan, Morotai and Balikpapan in Borneo between 23 May and 10 September. The work depicts a war-ravaged landscape at Balikpapan.ART22894
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Dinah - wrecked Japanese bomber
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a wrecked Japanese bomber on the air strip at Labuan, Borneo. In 1942, Donald Friend enlisting with the AIF, was posted as a gunner to the artillery unit near Albury. In 1945, Friend was sele...ART22177
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Japanese dead from suicide raid
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Donald Friend accompanied the Australian forces which landed on the island of Labuan, off the coast of Borneo, in June 1945. The first drawings Friend produced on Labuan depicted the devastated lands...ART22857
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Japanese prisoners, Balikpapan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts two Japanese prisoners sitting on the floor inside the fences of a Prisoner of war camp at Balikpapan.ART22908
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Javanese slaves in native compound sick ward
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts the emaciated natives of Java, shipped by the Japanese from that island during their occupation of Java, to Borneo. They were a tragic and pitiful spectacle when the Australian troops landed a...ART23229
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Map reading at night
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a group of men, reading a map at night. Towards the end of the Second World War there was pressure to commission a greater variety of artists for the official war art scheme. Friend was recomm...ART23913
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Nature Morte
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Sketch of unidentified Japanese killed by AIF patrol during the Second World War. This is a preparatory sketch for the final painting, 'Japanese dead from suicide raid, Labuan' [ART22857].ART22183
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Officers celebrating peace
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Seven officers are shown celebrating peace in the No 1 Tactical Air Force Headquarters, Balikpapan, Borneo. The participants are left to right: Wing Commander K Ranger, Flight Lieutenant L A Booth, Fl...ART23274
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Peace in our time
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A statue of Peace with a dove in her right hand presides over a scene of disorder with scenes of armed robbery, people quarelling, drinking and generally lawless behaviour. A newly returned serviceman...ART23348
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Prisoner of war
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Australian prisoner of war liberated from Japanese custody in Balikpapan, Borneo, August 1945. Friend shows the deteriorating physical condition of the men held prisoners of the Japanese after such a ...ART23320
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Rescued prisoners of war, Balikpapan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
This work depicts Australians liberated from Japanese custody in Balikpapan, Borneo. Friend shows the deteriorating physical condition of the men held prisoners of the Japanese after such a long perio...ART22910
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Return to unit
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Troops by their thousands passed through Albury. The change of railway gauges at the border meant changing trains, and the long Albury platform became familiar territory to troops who frequently had t...ART23059
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Showers in a ruin
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Maker: Friend, Donald
In 1942 Donald Friend enlisting with the AIF, was posted as a gunner to the artillery unit near Albury. In 1945, he was selected for appointment as official war artist. He travelled to Morotai, Labuan...ART22907
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Soldier resting
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a portrait of an unidentified soldier resting.ART22899
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'Soldiers' (Negroes and Women)
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Maker: Friend, Donald
In 1942, Donald Friend enlisting with the AIF, was posted as a gunner to the artillery unit near Albury. In 1945, Friend was selected for appointment as official war artist. He travelled to Morotai, L...ART92619
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Souvenir hunters in the ruined mosque, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts unidentified soldiers collecting souvenirs in a destroyed mosque in Labuan, Borneo during the Second World War.ART22176
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Spitfire of the 'Grey Nurse' squadron, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Air crew of the No 457 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force at work on a Supermarine Spitfire VIII. Nicknamed the 'Grey Nurse' Squadron, the nose of this Spitfire has been painted as the face o...ART23346
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The jeep ferry
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A group of unidentified Australian soldiers, most wearing only slouch hats, transporting a Jeep across a river using an improvised raft.ART23207
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The street, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A street scene in Labuan during the Borneo campaign. A lone soldier stands in the street, with more figures and an army vehicle in the background. The sky is an ominous, dark shade.ART22855
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Town, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts the town of Victoria on Labuan, Borneo, the day after the landing by troops of the 24th Australian Infantry Brigade were entrusted with the task of re-occupying the island as part of the Borne...ART22175
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Troop train
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts exhausted Australian soldiers asleep in the carriage of a railway train at Albury, New South Wales during the Second World War. In 1942, Donald Friend enlisting with the AIF, was posted as a g...ART23216
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War memorial in a country town
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A war memorial in the centre of town features a soldier on a plinth, gallantly striding out. People stand around the memorial, some in uniform, while others look out from the balconies of nearby build...ART28129
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Young and Jackson's corner
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Donald Friend enlisted in June 1942. He served as gunner, in a labour battalion and briefly in army intelligence. In March 1945 he was appointed an Official War Artist between 23.5.45 and 10.9.45 and ...ART23202