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Ambush at Nunamogue, Timor
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts the site of an ambush point from where "A"Platoon, 2/2nd Australian Independent Company, successfully ambushed a Japanese Force advancing on Ainaro, Portuguese Timor with Nunamogue is in the b...ART26652
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Bomber Pilot (Flying Officer Edward Harding)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Royal Australian Air Force, No 13 Reconnaisance Bomber Squadron; Flying E A Harding, Captain Pilot of Hudson bomber, RAAF; raids on, and shipping in nearby watersART21348
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Bulk fuel tanks, Tenau
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Bulk fuel tanks at the Japanese submarine base, Tenau, Timor, after bombing by allied aircraft prior to the Japanese surrender, October 1945.ART26317
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Captain Dunkley's hospital, Ainaro Timor
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Showing the building in which Captain C R Dunkley, Australian Army Medical Corps, the Medical Officer of 2/2nd Australian Independent Company, established a base for the treatment of sick personnel of...ART26329
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Detail of "Voyager" at Betano
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Maker: Bush, Charles
HMAS Voyager went aground on 25th September, 1942 when disembarking reinforcements at Betano for the Australian Commando in Timor. "Voyager was firmly embedded in the sand when hit by a bomb from Japa...ART26162
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Evacuation of wounded from Rai Mean
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicting a scene of the evacuation of the wounded by Catalina from Rai Mean, Timor.ART26222
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Flying Officer Richard Overhue
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Portrait depicting Flying Officer Richard F. Overhue, of the Royal Australian Air Force, relaxed, writing home in the Darwin bush outside his tent, with his feet propped on his improvised bathroom rig...ART21689
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Group of Timor Guerillas
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts several soldiers, recalling the Australian activities on the island of Timor during the Second World War. Japanese forces invaded both Dutch and Portuguese Timor in February 1942, where a smal...ART26363
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HMAS "Voyager" wrecked and burning at Betano Bay
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Maker: Bush, Charles
In February 1942 Japanese forces invaded Dutch and Portuguese Timor, overwhelming the defending forces except for the 2/2nd Australian Independent Company in Portuguese Timor which withdrew into the h...ART26358
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Hulk of "Voyager", Betano
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Maker: Bush, Charles
HMAS Voyager became grounded on a sandbank at Betano Bay when landing Australian commando troops on Timor in 1942. It became impossible to shift her, charges were exploded aboard and she was set on fi...ART26325
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Japanese awaiting medical inspection
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts several sketches of Japanese POWS awaiting medical inspection, Timor.ART26151
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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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Koepang Bay
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Maker: Thake, Eric
View of Koepang Bay from a Consolidated Catalina flying boat from Royal Australian Air Force, No 43 Squadron; on the day after Japanese in Timor had surrendered. Vessels conveying Australian occupati...ART26791
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Lieutenant Colonel William Leggatt
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel William Watt Leggatt (VX44907), MC, Commanding 2/40th Australian Infantry Battalion, 'Sparrow Force'. Taken prisoner by the Japanese.ART26435
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Pilot Officer Douglas McKenzie
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Portrait depicting Pilot Douglas McKenzie, RAAF, observer, gunner, bomb aimer and navigator, seated on a bed in the soldiers encampment Darwin, pulling on his boots.ART21690
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Remember East Timor; Hadomi Timor rebuild East Timor
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Maker: Abadee, Solomon Mackinolty, Chips Ritchie, Therese
'Hadomi East Timor; Rebuild East Timor!' expresses the artists concern that the people of East Timor regain full independence from Indonesia and improved civil conditions and called on Australians to ...ART91195
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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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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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Timorese with rooster
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Maker: Bush, Charles William
This drawing depicts a Timorese man holding a rooster. From 1943-1946 Charles Bush was appointed official war artist in New Guinea and Timor.ART94547