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Airman
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Maker: Ewers, Ray Battaglia & Co, Milan, Italy
An airman from the Second World War wearing full flying kit, (flying suit and helmet) and carrying his parachute over his shoulder.ART40978
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An Australian infantryman
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Maker: Ewers, Ray Gregory, E J
A sculpture of an Australian infantryman, this is a replica of the sculpture commissioned in 1949 to be presented to the Greek nation. 'An Australian Serviceman in Greece' was presented to the Consul ...ART90979
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Australian serviceman
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Maker: Ewers, Ray Battaglia & Co, Milan, Italy
This sculpture was initially commissioned for the Hall of Memory in 1954. Leslie Bowles died in 1954 and it was originally he who had designed the proposed statuary to be the feature in the Hall of Me...ART40995
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Native stretcher bearers
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Maker: Ewers, Ray F J & I Lemon, Frankston, Victoria
Six Papuans manipulating an improvised stretcher, with a serviceman patient on it, over rough ground during the Papuan and New Guinea campaigns.ART27569
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Naval firefighters
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Maker: Ewers, Ray Gregory, E J
The Flinders Naval Depot staged a mock oil fire to facilitate the artist's accurate rendering of the subject. The artist recalls that they "[lit] a lot of oil and then put it out. It was very kind of ...ART26664
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Nursing sister
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Maker: Ewers, Ray F J Lemon, Frankston, Victoria
A nursing sister crouched at the head of a soldier laid out on a stretcher, with her hands on the man's head. Commissioned some time after the war, this work was a belated recognition of the important...ART27562
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Sailor
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Maker: Ewers, Ray Battaglia & Co, Milan, Italy
A sailor from the First World War in unifrom about to blow his Bosun's pipe (or whistle). A Bosun's Mate Blue Rig Class II uniform consists of serge bell bottom trousers with seven horizontal creases,...ART40977
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Tarakan, Borneo
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Maker: Ewers, Ray Jones, Vernon
This diorama depicts the landing at Tarakan, a small island off the east coast of Borneo, which was undertaken by the 26th Brigade Group, a component of the 9th Australian Division, on 1 May 1945. Th...ART41048
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Tobruk
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Maker: Ewers, Ray
The most bombed town in North Africa during the Second world war, Tobruk ranks with Gallipoli as one of the outstanding names in the annals of Australian military history, for the AIF played the great...ART41035
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Vickers gunner
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Maker: Ewers, Ray Gregory, E J
New Guinea during the Borneo campaigns, a soldier leans back in the Kuni grass to hide from Japanese snipers. His gaunt body pulls back to engage the gun, drawing on all his physical strength. Origina...ART26416