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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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Anzac C Company
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Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.1
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Black soldier
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Maker: Murray, Lesley
'Black soldier' depicts Lesley Murray's grandfather. The portrait is based on a photograph taken during the Second World War and is a private work of commemoration. It is also intended to serve as a t...ART91484
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Captain Reg Saunders
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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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Coloured Diggers
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Maker: Albert, Tony
This four panelled painting explores the social and political legacies of Indigenous military service during the Second World War, and specifically the lack of recognition felt by many following their...ART96531
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Coloured Diggers [panel 1]
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Maker: Albert, Tony
Panel one of 'Coloured Diggers' a four panelled painting exploring the social and political legacies of Indigenous military service during the Second World War, and specifically the lack of recognitio...ART96531.001
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Coloured Diggers [panel 2]
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Maker: Albert, Tony
Panel two of 'Coloured Diggers' a four panelled painting exploring the social and political legacies of Indigenous military service during the Second World War, and specifically the lack of recognitio...ART96531.002
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Forgotten Heroes
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Maker: Albert, Tony
In May 2012 Tony Albert was commissioned as an official war artist and spent two weeks training with the North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). As a result of his experiences in the Northern Territory Al...ART96354
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Joe Mye
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Burma Thailand Railway prisoner of war Joe Mye QX13541. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beg...ART28403.076
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Long winding trail
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Maker: Jose, Ellen
In keeping with Ellen Jose's tendency to combine exploration of the personal with wider external issues, 'Long winding trail' is both an intimate homage to her father and his soldier persona, and a re...ART29763
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Private, Gowrie House
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of an Australian infantry soldier, identified by the artist in her correspondence with the Australian War Memorial as 'Pte (Name lost) Gowrie House 11/6'. Despite being one of the Memorial's ...ART26277
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Private Samuel Fejo
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
D11 Gunner Samuel Fejo, CMF, Fixed Defences Citizen Military Forces, Darwin. Fejo was a gunner in the Fixed Defences Citizen Military Forces, Darwin, and an Aboriginal member of the Militia. While in ...ART29415
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Reach out and touch - distance and time
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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 ...ART90724
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Sagim Beberbeber [Hardships]
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In 2018 the Australian War Memorial commissioned artist and Elder Kapua Gutchen Senior (Meriam Mir) of Erub Erwer Meta (Erub Arts) on Erub (Darnley Island) in the Zenadh Kes (Torres Strait). He was as...AWM2018.1117.1
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Time marches on
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Maker: Bancroft, Bronwyn
The painting is a mixed media portrait of the artist's father Owen Bancroft marching with his fellow servicemen in 1985. The work is both an intimate homage to family as well as a broader commentary o...ART94626
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Torres Strait Lightening Fighter
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Maker: Jose, Ellen
'Torres Strait Lightening Fighter' was conceived as a triptych in series by Ellen Jose titled 'Black Digger Ghost Fighter'. It is both a commemorative portrait of her father's Pte "Gorie" Jose's wart...ART96195
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Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion
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Maker: Ware, Rosie
Rosie Ware (born 1959) is a Torres Strait Islander (TSI) artist based on Waiben (Thursday) Island. An award winning textile artist she works primarily in lino-block, hand printed fabrics that combine ...ART96820
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Wait-a-while
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Maker: Jose, Ellen
'Wait-a-while' is a commemorative portrait tracing the wartime experience of Pte "Gorie" Phillipe Jose. It grapples with the psychological impact of war, and the lack of recognition received by Pte Jo...ART96179