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Bacon Hill, New Britain
Art
Maker: Jones, Vernon Walker, Ralph
This diorama depicts the difficulties experienced by men of the 14th/32nd Australian Infantry Battalion in their attack on Bacon Hill (known to the Japanese as Mount Sugi) on 17 March 1945. Strongly h...ART41049
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Camp of Indian prisoners, Rabaul
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Maker: Herman, Sali
Depicts camp in jungle for Indian prisoners of Japanese. The Japanese put the camps mostly into gullies so they could watch them better from the top. The huts were put up in a circular disposition. Wh...ART22888
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Cherry blossoms
Art
Maker: Murayama, I
A river winding through a snow covered Japanese landscape, with several houses, pine trees and mountains. It was painted by Lieutenant Colonel Murayama, the Commanding Officer of surrendered Japanese ...ART91941
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Commandant's Quarters, Herbertshohe
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts a house at Herbertshoehe, New Britain, surrounded by jungle, which was used as headquarters by the Commandant of the garrison stationed there, the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary F...ART03617
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Flagstaff, Herbertshohe
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts the flagstaff at Herbertshohe in New Britain, where the German flag was pulled down and the British flag hoisted in September 1914. Charles Bryant (1883-1937) began art lessons at the age of 9...ART03622
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Japanese ack-ack guns ready for surrender, New Britain
Art
Maker: Herman, Sali
After the surrender the Japanese assembled arms and equipment to hand it over. Reviewing the area outside Rabaul the artist noticed the Ack-Ack guns covered with tarpaulines, looking like eagles in ro...ART22887
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Marching through Rabaul
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts members of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF) marching through Rabaul, New Guinea, from the wharf, past the Department of Trade and Customs Building. Charles Bry...ART03619
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Native head
Art
Maker: Walker, Ralph Meridian Sculpture Founders
Bronze casting of a native's head. The subject is a man from an area in New Britain where it was customary to bind the head of infants in order to create an elongated effect as they grew.ART92251
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Native head
Art
Maker: Walker, Ralph
Originally called 'Boy from Arawe'. The sculpture depicts the head of a member of the New Guinea Infantry Battalion, with the artist noting that he was from a district where the heads of children are ...ART26754
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Private Nishimura
Art
Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts head and chest portrait of Private Nishimura not wearing a shirt, seen with serious facial expression. Nishimura was a Japanese prisoner of war captured by the Australians on New Britain.ART26052
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Raluana Head
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts a panoramic view of the harbour with a stone pier and mountains from Raluana Point in New Guinea. The mountains in the background of the scene are, from left to right: North Daughter, Mother ...ART03614
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Sergeant Sato: Japanese prisoner
Art
Maker: Watson, Douglas
Portrait drawn in Kokakoc, New Guinea of Japanese Army Sergeant Sato, who was a Japanese prisoner of war captured in New Britain.ART21293
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Soldier resting
Art
Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait depicting Sergeant Francis George Innes Ker, Royal Australian Artillery, 2/14th Australian Field Regiment.ART22116
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Time marches on
Art
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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Toma
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts a view of part of Toma, with jungle and banana plants in the foreground and a homestead on the top of a hill in the background. The Governor and German administration moved here from 6 August...ART03631
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Waterfront at Rabaul
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
View of part of the waterfront at Rabaul showing the New Guinea Company's large store on the right, used as barracks by the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF).ART03634
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Waterfront Herbertshohe, where the troops landed from boats 11 September 1914
Art
Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts the waterfront at Herbertshohe, New Britain, with the beach, palm trees and a number of men spear fishing. Charles Bryant (1883-1937) began art lessons at the age of 9 and on leaving school wo...ART03623