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Abdul
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Maker: Colles, Ted
This work was used to illustrate a poem entitled 'Abdul' in the 'ANZAC Book'. The 'ANZAC Book' was published in 1916 from illustrations, poems, stories and other creative works from the soldiers on th...ART00046
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Able Seaman Richard Horne
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Maker: Wheeler, Charles
Depicts a uniformed portrait Able Seaman Richard Horne, was typical of the men of the Royal Australian Navy, who served in every ocean of the world during 1914-18. Horne participated in the operation...ART03559
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A digger
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Maker: Bell, George
Depicts a portrait of an Australian 'Digger', wearing a slouch hat , and is possibly a portrait of the soldier Private Stewart.ART03591
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A Digger [Portrait of Tom Herket]
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
Hilda Rix Nicholas returned to Australia in 1918 and took a studio in Mosman, Sydney in 1919. She made drawings of soldiers who had returned from the war and were yet to find employment. During this ...ART96812
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Admiral Sir George Patey
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
Admiral Sir George Edwin Patey, KCMG, KCVO, was the first Commander of Australian Fleet, from his arrival in 1913 until 1915. In his flagship, the battle-cruiser HMAS Australia, he was in charge of n...ART09097
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Air-Vice Marshal Adrian Cole
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Maker: Unknown
Depicts Air Vice Marshal Adrian Lindley Trevor Cole (1895-1966) CBE, DSO, MC, DFC. Air Vice Marshal Cole enlisted on 28 January 1916 and embarked from Melbourne aboard HMAT Orsova on 16 March 1916 as ...ART50241
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Air Vice-Marshal George Jones
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Air Vice Marshal (later Air Marshal Sir) George Jones, CBE, DFC, Chief of Air Staff Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).ART25968
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Air Vice Marshal Henry Neilson Wrigley
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Maker: Tribe, Barbara
Bronze bust of Air Vice Marshal Henry Neilson Wrigley. Cast in 1986 from plaster made in 1943. Air Vice Marshal Henry Neilson Wrigley CBE DFC AFC (Service no. 6) was born in Collingwood, Victoria on ...ART40971
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Albert Jacka
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers
Captain Albert Jacka, VC, MC and Bar, of 14 Battalion AIF, in mayoral robes and chain when Mayor of St Kilda.ART11798
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Alec Campbell
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Maker: Westwood, Bryan
Alec Campbell was only 16 when he enlisted in Launceston straight from school in June 1915. He arrived at Gallipoli in October 1915 with the 15th Battalion and was there through to the evacuation. Aft...ART90416
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Alf Garland
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Maker: Pugh, Clifton
Brigadier Alf Garland, National President RSL, member of 75th anniversary pilgrimage to Anzac Cove. Garland was born in 1932 and graduated from Duntroon in 1953 before going on to serve in Korea, Born...ART29506
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A man
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
'The First World War left indelible scars on Hilda Rix Nicholas's psyche and her painting 'A man' is imbued with that experience. Rix Nicholas chose a returned serviceman as the model for 'A man'. But...ART19613
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A mother of France
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
Hilda Rix Nicholas painted this old woman in Étaples, in the north of France during the First World War. The woman is depicted seated in her kitchen with her hands folded in her lap, a row of blue pla...ART03281
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A native belle
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of the head and shoulders of a Palestinian woman with curly dark hair wearing a dark close-fitting head-dress and an open-necked dress (turned towards the left of the image).ART02685
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Arab attendant, Magdhaba
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a full faced portrait of an Arab with a beard, moustache and dark curly hair, wearing a turban.ART02742
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Arthur Streeton
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Maker: Lambert, George
During the First World War Arthur Streeton joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and worked as an orderly at the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth. He was appointed an official war artist in May 1...ART19841
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[Artist's markings]; verso: [Egyptian figures in a boat and standing figures]
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Maker: Silas, Ellis
Artist's pencil markings; verso: Four separate sketches of Egyptian figures in various poses such as rowing and gesturing; and a pencil sketch of a head.ART90838.001
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A sketch made in France in 1916
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Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of a soldier, wearing a steel helmet. Will Dyson was the first Australian official war artist to visit the front during the First World War, travelling to France ...ART19770
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Athol Nicholas
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Maker: Nicholas, Hilda Rix
Athol Miller Nicholas (1897-1964) was the youngest of the four Nicholas brothers to serve. He enlisted at 18 and travelled to France as part of the 16th Reinforcements and was attached to the 22nd Bat...ART96810
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Australian Light Horseman
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a drawing of an unidentified Light Horseman seated, legs apart, left hand on left knee, right forearm resting on right knee. Wearing a slouch hat with emu plume, Australian Commonwealth forces...ART02795
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Australian official war artists 1916-1918
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Maker: Coates, George
Depicts many Australian official war artists who were attached to different divisions of the AIF during the First World War, in a group portrait. The painting was originally owned by Cyril Steele of M...ART15334
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B Company Cook (Private Louis Cohen)
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Maker: Williamson, Garnet Angus
Depicts a sketch of 2346 Private Louis Jacob 'Loo' Cohen, Cook, B Company 56th Battalion A.I.F.ART03572
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Beatty
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Maker: Chinner, John Henry
Portrait of the British Admiral David Beatty by South Australian caricaturist and cartoonist J.H Chinner. One of a commemorative set of seven handcoloured caricatures of First World War Military leade...ART96319
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Bedouin gun thief or runner, a very 'crook' character, Deiran
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a light horseman wearing a slouch hat and great coat holding a rifle with a bayonet and facing a captured Bedouin. The Bedouin is bearded and bare-footed, and wears a keffiyeh and brown and cr...ART02783
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Bespectacled gentleman
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of an unidentified civilian, wearing pince-nez, fly-away collar and necktie, waistcoat and jacket.ART11449
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Billy Hughes
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Maker: Frith, John
Terracotta caricature head of Australian Prime Minister, Rt. Hon William Morris Hughes (1862-1952) , known as 'Billy' Hughes. Hughes was Prime Minister from October 1915 until February 1923. He was a...ART40892
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Brigadier General A J Bessell-Browne
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Portrait sketch of Brigadier General Alfred Joseph Bessell-Browne, commanding officer of the 5th Division Australian Field Artillery, seated at a desk at the 5th Division AIF headquarters in St Gratie...ART02498
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Brigadier General Cecil Foott
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Maker: Coates, George
Depicts a portrait of Brigadier General Cecil Henry Foott, CB, CMG, Deputy Director General of Repatriation and Demobilisation AIF; Western Front. Cecil Henry Foott (1876-1942), regular army officer, ...ART03644
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Brigadier General Charles Brand
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Brigadier General Charles Henry Brand, CB, CMG, DSO, MID, extensive service with the Australians during the war in South Africa, 1899-1902. After the outbreak of war in 1914 he was appointed brigade m...ART03181
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Brigadier General Charles Cox
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Brigadier General Charles Frederick Cox, CB, CMG, DSO, MID, also previously in (Boer) War, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 6th Australian Light Horse Regiment, 1st Australian Light Horse ...ART02997
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Brigadier General Clement Smith
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter Quinn, James Peter
James Quinn, former official war artist, was commissioned to paint the portrait of Brigadier General Clement Leslie Smith VC MC. This continued on from a series of portraits in 1918 and 1919 that ackn...ART03353
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Brigadier General Edmund Drake-Brockman
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Maker: Bell, George
Depicts a portrait of Brigadier General Edmund Drake-Brockman (1884-1949) CMG, DSO, MID, Commanding 4th Brigade AIF. Drake-Brockman was born in Busselton, Western Australia, the son of a surveyor and...ART00096
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Brigadier-General Evan Wisdom
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Brigadier General Evan Alexander Wisdom, CB, CMG, DSO, MID (x5), 1st Australian Imperial Force, 5th Australian Infantry Brigade, 18th Battalion, 7th Brigade, 2nd Australian Division.ART02999
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Brigadier General Gordon Bennett
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter
Official war artist James Quinn was instructed to paint the portrait of Brigadier General Henry Gordon Bennett, CB, CMG, DSO, who was mentioned in despatches eight times. A member of the Citizen Mili...ART03343
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Brigadier-General Granville Ryrie
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Maker: Lambert, George
A portrait of an officer Major-General, the Hon. Sir Granville de Laune Ryrie, CMG, CB, KCMG, VD. He served in South Africa, and in Gallipoli and Palestine and was Senior Officer in Charge of the AIF...ART02765
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Brigadier General Harold Elliott
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Portrait of Brigadier General Harold Edward 'Pompey' Elliott, CB, CMG, DSO, DCM, Commanding 15th Brigade (earlier also 7th Battalion and 1st Brigade), 1st Australian Imperial Force. Elliott was at the...ART03182
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Brigadier General Harold Grimwade
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Brigadier General Harold William Grimwade, CB, CMG, MID (x4), General Commanding Artillery Australian Corps; Western Front, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 4th Field Artillery Brigade, 3r...ART02992
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Brigadier General Henry MacLaurin
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Maker: Rodway, Florence
Colonel (posthumously Brigadier General) Henry Normand MacLaurin, formed and commanded the 1st Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Forces. On the afternoon of 27 April 1915, only two days after the ...ART03356
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Brigadier General Iven Giffard MacKay
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Brigadier General (later Major General Sir) Iven Giffard Mackay, CMG, DSO, MID (x4), Commanding, 1st Infantry Brigade, Western Front, (later North Africa) 1st Australian Imperial Force,...ART02990
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Brigadier-General James Heane
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter
Official war artist James Quinn was instructed to paint the portrait of Brigadier-General James Heane CB(M) CMG DSO as part of an ongoing series of portraits that acknowledged senior military leaders ...ART03345
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Brigadier General James Robertson
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Brigadier General James Campbell Robertson, CB, CMG, DSO, MID (x7), Commanding 6 Brigade AIF; Belgium, Western Front, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 9th Battalion, 12th Brigade.ART02991
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Brigadier General John Royston
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Maker: Taylor, Daphne
Depicts a portrait of Brigadier General John Robinson Royston, CGM, DSO, a South African who had served against the Zulus and in the South African War, where he was closely associated with Australian ...ART06359
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Brigadier-General Lachlan Wilson
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a portrait of an officer Brigadier-General Lachlan Chisholm Wilson, CMG, 1st Australian Imperial Force, 3rd Australian Light Horse Brigade, Australian Expeditionary Force; Commanding third Aus...ART02785
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Brigadier General Sydney Herring
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Maker: Bell, George
Depicts a portrait of Brigadier-General Sydney Charles Edgar Herring (1881-1951), DSO, Commanding 13th Brigade, in full uniform, wearing a cap. Herring was born in Granville, Sydney and after a privat...ART00098
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Brigadier General Sydney Herring
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Brigadier General Sydney Charles Edgar Herring CMG, DSO, VD, Commanding Officer of the 13th Infantry Brigade.ART02993
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Brigadier General Thomas Blamey
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Maker: Hall, Bernard
1st Australian Imperial Force, General Staff Australian Corps; Brigadier General (later Major General, then Field Marshal Sir) Thomas Albert Blamey, CB, CMG, DSO, BGGS Aust Corps, then Chief of Staff ...ART09830
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Brigadier General Thomas Dodds
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Maker: Quinn, James Peter
Official war artist James Quinn was instructed to paint the portrait of Brigadier General Thomas Henry Dodds CMG CVO DSO, as part of an ongoing series of portraits that acknowledged senior military le...ART03344
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Brigadier General Thomas Griffiths
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Maker: Coates, George
Depicts a portrait of Brigadier General Thomas Griffiths, CMG, DSO, a regular soldier and administrative specialist, Griffith was Secretary to the Australian Military Board at the outbreak of the war ...ART00197
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Brigadier-General Walter Coxen
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Maker: Longstaff, John
A portrait of Brigadier General Walter Adams Coxen, CB, CMG, DSO, MID (x4), General Commanding Royal Art. Aust. Corps; Western Front 1st Australian Imperial Force, Australian Siege Brigade, 1st Divisi...ART02989