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Aizawa Torayoshi
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Portrait of Japanese prisoner of war, Aizawa Torayoshi, made after the Japanese surrender. The Japanese gradually emerged from different parts of the Bougainville jungle and surrendered to the Austral...ART94342
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And now!
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Maker: Uptton, Clive Ministry of Supply Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British poster number 167 poster depicting a British soldier advancing past the bodies of German soldiers towards Japanese soldiers, the horizon is obscured by a Japanese flag (under the 'Beat Hitler...ARTV00049
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A united 'fighting mad' Australia can never be enslaved
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Maker: Northfield, James Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation
A Second World War Australian poster depicting a European man pulling a rickshaw, in which a Japanese man is sitting, past the Flinders Street Railway Station in Melbourne. A Japanese flag flies abov...ARTV09053
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Battlefield burial of three NCOs
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
On the afternoon of 29 July 1943 three sections of Major George Warfe's 2/3rd Independent Company attacked Timbered Knoll, a Japanese position on the slopes of Bobdubi Ridge in New Guinea. That attack...ART22560
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Beaufort bomber aircraft over Rabaul, 1944
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Five Beaufort bomber aircraft fly high over Rabaul, dropping bombs over the ocean, landscape and vessels below. Japan, after occupying Rabaul, New Britain, in January 1942, they developed the town, h...ART27747
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Buildings in a landscape
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Maker: Ueki, Shizu
Nurse's quarters, with Japanese text noting 'the height of the verandah near the building is human height, and a person can stand under it'.ART91543
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Captain Nakata
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of a Japanese officer, Captain Nakata. His neck is bandaged as he had tried to commit suicide on a number of occasions. Douglas Watson (1920-1972) served as an o...ART22986
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Cherry blossoms
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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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Chinese [labourer] from Malaya
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Portrait of a Chinese-born labourer from Malaya. The subject has been pictured after his liberation from the Japanese who had pressed him, along with many of his compatriots, into labour gangs for shi...ART24415
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Chinese [labourer] from Malaya
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Portrait of a Chinese-born labourer from Malaya. The subject has been pictured after his liberation from the Japanese who had pressed him, along with many of his compatriots, into labour gangs for shi...ART24414
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Chinese [labourer] from Malaya
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Portrait of a Chinese-born Malay labourer. The subject was one of many natives from Malaya whom the Japanese forced into labour gangs for shipment to territories under Japanese occupation.ART24409
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Chinese [labourer] from Muar Malay
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Portrait of a Chinese-born Malay labourer from the Muar River area. The subject has been pictured after his liberation from the Japanese who had pressed him, along with many of his compatriots, into ...ART24412
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Chinese [labourer] from Muar Malay
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Portrait of a Chinese-born Malay labourer from the Muar River area. The subject has been pictured after his liberation from the Japanese who had pressed him, along with many of his compatriots, into ...ART24411
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Civilian hospital at Rabual
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Maker: Ueki, Shizu
The civilian hospital in Rabaul, surrounded by jungle.ART91538
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Coastal scene
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Maker: Ueki, Shizu
Depicts a view seen from the hospital bus along the New Guinea coast of the ocean and palm trees on the coast. Shizu Ueki was a Japanese nurse who worked as a civilian nurse with the 8th Naval Hospita...ART91553.004
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Counting confiscated yen - Repatriation Centre, Senzaki
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Money confiscated from Koreans is counted by Japanese officials - Koreans who try to get into Japan often have large amounts of yen and authorities are mystified as to how and where it is acquired.ART26737
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Dead Japanese, Old Vickers Position
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts an image of the body of a young, dead Japanese soldier. This is a study for 'Taking Old Vickers Position, Bobdubi Ridge, 28 July 1943'.ART22509
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Dinah - wrecked Japanese bomber
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a wrecked Japanese bomber on the air strip at Labuan, Borneo. In 1942, Donald Friend enlisting with the AIF, was posted as a gunner to the artillery unit near Albury. In 1945, Friend was sele...ART22177
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Dutch interior, Changi
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Soldiers from the Netherlands East Indies Army were captured by the Japanese on Java and later transferred to Singapore where they were imprisoned in Changi. Completed shortly after the liberation of ...ART23950
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[Falcon and Toad]
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Maker: Hakuhou Unknown
'Falcon and Toad' is a rare and unusual image by a Japanese prisoner-of-war painted at the Hay internment camp in New South Wales. It depicts a bird, a falcon or an eagle, emerging from a dark cloud a...ART91793
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First 'Zero' Japanese fighter brought down on Australian mainland
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
The wreckage of an aircraft shot down over the mainland in Darwin on 19 February 1942. This aircraft is not actually a Zero as it is referred to by the artist but instead is a Aichi D3A carrier based...ART21687
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Harbour activity
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
After the allied capture of Lae in 1943, the port was established as a major staging point for operation in northern New Guinea and further afield. This watercolour, likely created at Voco Point depic...ART21230
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He's coming south
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Maker: Department of Information
Propaganda poster referring to the threat of Japanese invasion. A Japanese soldier is striding across the globe towards Australia with the Imperial Japanese flag behind him. He is armed with a submach...ARTV09225
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Honourable thanks absentee
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Maker: Unknown General Motors Holden SEF Silkscreen
Australian propaganda posters during the Second World War were used to instil anti-Japanese attitudes. Using racial stereotypes and derogatory humour the posters harboured fear and caution amongst Aus...ARTV00053
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Indie moet vrij!... [Indie must be free..]
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Maker: Keely, Patrick Cokayne Dutch Government James Haworth & Brother
This poster’s message translates to 'Indie must be free! Work and fight for it!' Designed by Pat Keely and published by the Dutch Government in exile in London. It was distributed in the liberated sou...ARTV10465
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Intelligence NCOs searching Japanese
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
This work is one of a series that depicts a patrol sequence for the 2/10 Australian Commando Squadron. The incident shown in this work is that of an Australian soldier searching the dead body of a Ja...ART26728
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Intelligence personnel searching Japanese dead
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Maker: Dargie, William
Two Australian intelligence personnel are pictured searching the decaying bodies of dead Japanese. Dargie noted, "The most gruesome task for Intelligence Personnel is the searching of dead bodies of ...ART23152
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Isamu Sato
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Portrait of Japanese soldier, Isamu Sato, made after the Japanese surrender. The Japanese gradually emerged from different parts of the Bougainville jungle and surrendered to the Australian forces. Th...ART94343
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Japanese airman
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Maker: Santa, Yasushi
A Japanese airman in flying uniform; timber control tower in background, Rabaul, New Guinea.ART92891
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Japanese pilot putting on flying suit
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Maker: Santa, Yasushi
A Japanese bomber pilot putting on his flying suit.ART92892
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Japanese POW, Bougainville
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Portrait of Japanese prisoner of war, made after the Japanese surrender. The Japanese gradually emerged from different parts of the Bougainville jungle and surrendered to the Australian forces. The we...ART94344
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Japanese prisoner, 106 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Finschhaffen, New Guinea
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Emaciated figure of a Japanese prisoner of war lying in a hospital bed in the 106 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Finschhafen, Huon Peninsula, New Guinea in June 1944..ART22108
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Japanese prisoner, Babiang
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of an unidentified Japanese prisoner in Babiang, New Guinea.ART25739
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Japanese prisoner, Dr Young
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
A portrait drawn in Kokakoc, New Guinea, of Dr Young who was a Japanese prisoner of war. He was captured on New Britain.ART21292
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Japanese prisoner of war resting
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Maker: Walker, Ralph Trafford Meridian Sculpture Founders
Sculpture of a Japanese prisoner of war at Rabaul from the Second World War. He is in a squatting position, wearing barely any clothes and his body is almost skeletal.ART90372
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Japanese wreckage, Penfoei airstrip, Timor
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Maker: Thake, Eric
Thake shows Japanese prisoners of war clearing up the wreckage of their own planes at the air strip in Penfoei, Timor. This work is typical of Eric Thake, whose paintings and drawings are finely craf...ART26972
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Jap internees harvesting pyrethrum
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Maker: Ragless, Max
Japanese civilian internees are harvesting the pyrethrum daisy grown at the No. 14 Prisoner of War and Internee Camp. From the blossoms is extracted pyrethin, the basic element in insecticides used by...ART23407
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"Listen, will you stop coasting on these flaming hills!"
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Maker: McLaren, Gus
Cartoon published in the Services Annual 'As you were', Australian War Memorial, 1949, p. 181. Depicts a rickshaw careening through a village, with an Australian soldier on the back looking like he's ...ARTI00417.001
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"Listen, will you stop coasting on these flaming hills!" [colour overlay]
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Maker: McLaren, Gus
Work on blue vellum representing area for colour overlay of ARTI00417.002 "Listen, will you stop coasting on these flaming hills!"ARTI00417.002
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Little Javanese boy (Soetrisno)
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Taken from Java by the Japanese during their occupation of the Island for work elsewhere and recovered by the Australians when they occupied Tarakan.ART25447
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Little Javanese Girl (Soepinah)
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Depicts a portrait of Soepinah, a Javanese girl taken from Java by the Japanese to Tarakan. Sketched in Kampong Satoe (Compound One) at Tarakan.ART25446
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Memories
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Maker: Williams, Bernadine
This work records the experiences of a former civilian Prisoner of War. Bernadine Williams (nee Schwartz) was one of thousands of Dutch civilians placed in internment camps following the Japanese inva...ART93098
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Me no savvy this fellow war!
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Maker: Yonna, Lamberto
A cartoon depiction of two Japanese Prisoners of War in bed. The man to the right is reclining and fanning himself while the man to the left sits on his bed, dissatisfied with his situation.ART27792
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Mimura Yasuo
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Portrait of Japanese prisoner of war made after the Japanese surrender; Mimura Yasuo was from Tottori-ken of the Chugoku region on Honshu island. The Japanese gradually emerged from different parts of...ART94345
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Mimura Yasuo
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Full figure portrait of Japanese sergeant major, Mimura Yasuo, aged 28; from Tottori-ken of the Chugoku region on Honshu island. After the Japanese surrender, Japanese soldiers gradually emerged from ...ART94346
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Nature Morte
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Sketch of unidentified Japanese killed by AIF patrol during the Second World War. This is a preparatory sketch for the final painting, 'Japanese dead from suicide raid, Labuan' [ART22857].ART22183
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Nurse's quarters and trees
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Maker: Ueki, Shizu
Nurse's quarters at Rabaul, New Guinea. The view of the quarters also includes Japanese text describing elements of the drawing such as 'watertank', 'bougainvillea' and 'our quarters'.ART91542
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Patrol sequence: Japanese sighted
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
One of a series of paintings depicting a patrol of the 2/10 Australian Commando Squadron in the Suain Plantation area, New Guinea. It shows the use of hand movements for giving orders and of figures c...ART26725
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Police guarding broken shop windows, VP Day
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Maker: Bush, Charles
On the receipt of Japanese peace news, a certain amount of boisterousness was displayed, but comparatively little damage was done. An exception is seen in the picture where police guard broken windows...ART25810
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POW asleep, Ofuna
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts a Japanese POW asleep on the floor on a thin mattress, his body covered in a blanket and his head resting on a traditional hard pillow. When catalogued in 1945, this work was accompanied by th...ART22802
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Prisoner of war
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Australian prisoner of war liberated from Japanese custody in Balikpapan, Borneo, August 1945. Friend shows the deteriorating physical condition of the men held prisoners of the Japanese after such a ...ART23320
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Put the squeeze on the Japanese
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Maker: Unknown General Motors Holden
Depicts an image of a caricatured and exaggerated Japanese man being squeezed between sections of machinery in an industrial press. This is one of a number of anti-Japanese posters produced in Austral...ARTV00050
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Repatriation centre, Senzaki - Innoculating a child
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
A Korean child is passing through the medical line-up prior to being returned to Korea. The child is just starting to cry after having five injections in quick succession. The Repatriation Centre at S...ART26732
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Rescued prisoners of war, Balikpapan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
This work depicts Australians liberated from Japanese custody in Balikpapan, Borneo. Friend shows the deteriorating physical condition of the men held prisoners of the Japanese after such a long perio...ART22910
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Ringed with menace!
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Maker: Northfield, James Beaufort Division of the Department of Aircraft Production
A poster produced for the Beaufort Division of the Department of Aircraft Production during the Second World War. The poster depicts a map of Australia ringed by threatening Japanese ships and aircra...ARTV09061
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Road to Hatu Lia and Atsabe
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Maker: Bush, Charles
The Portuguese 'Posto" at Bobonaro showing the road to Hatu Lia and Atsaba. This 'Posto' figured considerably in the operations of 2/2nd Australian Independent Company in their guerilla operations aga...ART26161
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Sergeant Sato: Japanese prisoner
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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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Story without words
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Maker: Yonna, Lamberto
A Japanese Prisoner of War holds a fellow inmate precariously above him, so that he can see in the mirror to shave.ART27794
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Strong bow, drawing for cartoon in 'The Daily Telegraph'
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Maker: Mahony, Will
Depicts a Japanese soldier aiming a bow and arrow at Darwin. The bow is labelled 'the northern island manace'. It makes reference to the possibility of an invasion of Australia after the wave of Japan...ART90964
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Surrender
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Maker: Herman, Sali
Sali Herman witnessed the surrender of General Imamura Hitoshi, commander of the Japanese Eight Army, at Rabaul, New Guinea, and later painted the scene. Despite his compassion for the defeated Japane...ART22892
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Surrender ceremony, Bougainville, 8 September 1945
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts the Surrender ceremony at Bougainville (Torokina) in 1945. Lieutenant General Kanda, commander of the XVIII Japanese Army (seated left) surrenders to General Savige, GOC II Australian Corps at...ART26675
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Taking Old Vickers Position, Bobdubi Ridge, 28 July 1943
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts members of the 58/59 Australian Infantry Battalion taking an old Vickers position at Bobdubi Ridge, Wau Salamaua, New Guinea, on 28 July 1943.ART27543
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Tamil from Trichinopoly, Madras
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Portrait of a Tamil man from Trichinopoly, India. The Tamil people are an ancient civilisation, originating from the Indian subcontinent. Tamil communities are spread out all across the world, includi...ART24413
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Tamil from Trichinopoly, Madras
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Portrait of a Tamil boy from Trichinopoly, India. The Tamil people are an ancient civilisation, originating from the Indian subcontinent. Tamil communities are spread out all across the world, includi...ART24410
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Tamil [labourer] from Malaya
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Portrait of a Tamil labourer from Malaya. The Tamil people are an ancient civilisation, originating from the Indian subcontinent. Tamil communities are spread out in countries all across the world, in...ART24408
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The ambush at the bridge over the Gemencheh River, beyond Gemas, 14th January 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
An ambush at the bridge over the Gemencheh River, beyond Gemas, in Malaya on 14 January 1942. In this ambush, which lasted 36 hours, over 1000 Japanese were killed and less than 50 Australians were k...ART24500
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The dangerous brute!
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Maker: Yonna, Lamberto
A cartoon showing a doctor and an Australian soldier both gesturing towards and apparently threatened by the arrival of a distinctly feeble and elderly Japanese Prisoner of War.ART27793
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Unloading Aircraft (HMS Ocean)
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Maker: Norton, Frank
In this painting by official war artist Frank Norton of HMAS Commonwealth Naval base 'Damaged aircraft are being transferred from HMS Ocean to a lighter before being towed by No.1 tug to RAAF workshop...ART40004
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Volcanic island in the middle of Rabaul Bay
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Maker: Ueki, Shizu
Depicts a volcanic island in Rabaul Bay. Shizu Ueki was a Japanese nurse who worked as a civilian nurse with the 8th Naval Hospital in Rabaul, New Guinea from 1942-43. She presented a photo album cont...ART91553.005
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World War II Australia-Japan
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Maker: Gende, Simon
Simon Gende is a contemporary artist from Papua New Guinea (PNG) whose practice focuses on international events and the social and political issues that frame them. This is a commemorative painting o...ART93025