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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
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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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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!
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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
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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
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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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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