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Anti aircraft all the way
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Maker: Gilman, Don Office of AC of S, G-2, 14th Antiaircraft Command 650th Engineering Battalion
A poster issued by the Assistant Chief of Staff of the 14th Anti aircraft Command. The poster depicts a broad arrow heading towards a Japanese flag, on the flag is a listing of a number of battles, ...ARTV00538
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Anti Aircraft bloke
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Maker: Baird, John
Portrait of an unidentified Anti Aircraft soldier, standing guard holding a rifle by his side with bayonet fixed. A water bottle hangs in a palm tree behind him.ART27876
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Anti-aircraft defence
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
A Bofors 40mm anti aircraft gun and a slit trench. Emplacements are sand - bagged for protection. In the foreground is an observer's position. The occupant left his steel helmet lying on the ground ou...ART30066
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Anti-aircraft defences, Marsa Matruh
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts unidentified Australian soldiers standing with a Bren gun mounted on a tripod for anti-aircraft defence in the Western Desert during the North African campaign. Hele was serving as a private i...ART22868
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Anti-aircraft gun and enemy bombers
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
An incident on the Beirut - Damour Road. Anti-aircraft gun in action against enemy planes. Allied naval vessels are in the distance. Banana, prickly pear and olive trees were the chief form of vegetat...ART30055
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Anti-aircraft guns-production line, Commonwealth Munitions, Vic
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a large hall with rows of large anti-aircraft guns, Commonwealth Munitions Factory, Victoria.ART28154
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Anti-mite precautions
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Troops applying the anti-mite fluid Di Butyl Thallali (DBT), an effective precaution against the bite of the mokka. Infected mokkas were the carriers of Scrub Typhus, a disease that caused many fatal ...ART21288
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Anti-submarine defences, Darwin
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
An unidentified crew on fo'csle of boom defence vessel looking towards the horns; second boom defence vessel in background. Anti-submarine boom across Harbour maintained and serviced by boom defence v...ART22740
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Anti tank gun behind F.W.D.
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Maker: Frawley, John
A four-wheel drive vehicle tows an anti-tank gun.ARTI01950
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Anti tank gun behind jeep
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Maker: Frawley, John
A rough sketch of a jeep towing an anti-tank gun.ARTI01946
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Anti tank gun mounted on portee!
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Maker: Frawley, John
An anti tank gun is mounted onto a portee, a truck carrying a gun on its bed. It is not affixed permanently to the vehicle so that it can be quickly unloaded, and can be fired from the truck.ARTI01953
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Anti-tank gun moved into position with jeep
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Maker: Frawley, John
A sketch of an anti-tank gun having been moved into position by a jeep. Two soldiers a featured near the gun and one by the jeep.ARTI02032
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Anti-tank gun practice
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Anti-tank gun practice with the 106 Australian Tank Attack Regiment using a QF 6 pounder Gun, Fischhafen, New Guinea. In a letter home to her parents dated 9 June 1945 Nora wrote 'I have been doing a ...ART22110
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Anti tank in action
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Maker: Frawley, John
A sketch of four soldiers from behind, operating an anti-tank gun in action.ARTI02031
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Anvil Chorus
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Maker: Aria, George Aubrey
A cartoon depicting the figure of the Russian dictator, Joseph Stalin, wearing an apron and carrying a scythe, using a hammer and anvil to form a Nazi symbol, the swastica. The cartoon comments on Rus...ART92383
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Any road in New Guinea
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts palm trees & vehicles on the road with a tent in the lower right.ART29201.006
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Anywhere along the coast road
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts two graves, which are designated by small white crosses in the shadow of three poplar trees. In the background lies a town which has a mosque. This is part of his Syrian series painted in 19...ART30058
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Anzac antics
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This is the original poster 'Anzac Antics' for an Australian show produced in 1942. Fort 15, Stalag 20A was a Non Labour (Nicht Arbeit) camp. As the artist later recalled, "Apart from the incessant ba...ART29545
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Anzac C Company
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Maker: Tipoti, Alick
In 2016, the Memorial appointed internationally renowned Badu Islander artist Alick Tipoti (b. 1974) as an Official War Artist to document the 51st Battalion in Far North Queensland and in August 2016...AWM2017.1430.1
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Anzac Day service on H.T. Felix Roussel, Mozambique Channel, 25.4.42
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Maker: Dargie, William
Rough sketch of Australians and New Zealanders aboard the transport vessel 'Felix Roussel attending an ANZAC Day service. Dargie noted, "Padre Perry opens the service. On the left can be seen an Aus...ART22060
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A Papuan work-boy from Amau
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of a young man from Amau in Central Papua New Guinea. In 1942, Curtis was appointed Officer in Charge of Camouflage in New Guinea. As well as recording the activities of the Australian and A...ART96167
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"A" party moves at dawn
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
In the distance, a Sunderland aircraft is preparing to land as air Force trucks are being loaded at an air base, possibly Plymouth, where Australian RAAF squadrons were based.ART26244
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Apparatus for final test for respirators (Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
At the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, which was the only factory in the Commonwealth where these masks were assembled and tested. The operation, which was hitherto performed at the Munitions Supply ...ART22600
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Apparatus for testing respirators (Cartridge Bundling Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a sketch of apparatus for testing respirators, government agencies, Commonwealth Expolsives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART22601
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Appearance of a long-nosed Blenheim
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Maker: Nash, Paul
Depicts a Second World War Blenhein airplane emerging from a cloud filled sky. Nash was appointed as a British official war artist in March 1940 by the War Artists' Advisory Committee, working for the...ART26679
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Approaching storm
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Maker: Aria, George Aubrey Aria, George Aubrey
A cartoon depicting Mussolini, Hitler and General Tojo walking with a sack full of loot, as an enormous army of tanks, planes and warehouses labelled 'allied production' approaches them from behind.ART92402
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Approaching storm, native huts, Bougainville
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Villagers gather in front of huts as a storm approaches from the mountain range in the background.ART94337
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Approach to Artillery Ridge
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
The approach to Artillery Ridge is one that gives defenders maxiumum assistance in the form of a narrow ridge and steep slopes with little cover. The approach was made under a mortar and artillery bar...ART22655
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Approach to Goodenough Island
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a view from on board a vessel towards Goodenough Island, New Guinea.ART90433
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A quarry 'faceman', Iron Monarch
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Maker: Ragless, Max
A 'faceman' using a pneumatic drill on a large boulder of iron ore, sent down from the quarry face by blasting. A charge is placed in the larger stones, breaking them down to a size which can be hand...ART23403
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A Queensland house goes for a ride
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
This house, which stood in the way of a newly planned airstrip, had to be hauled away to another site.ART25622
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Araki, Kaya, Minami, Koiso, Hata, Shimada
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Maker: Isaacman, Meyer
Six caricatures of top-ranking Japanese Second World War leaders all convicted for war crimes at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo. These caricatures appeared regularly in ...ART92180
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Arangverkoop van Emmerik (Charcoal rations van Emmerik)
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Maker: Arntzenius van Dye, L
Distribution of charcoal rations at Camp Karees, Bandoeng, Java. There are a number of figures of women and children moving about engaged in different activities. 'The lady in the white shirt & shorts...ART91959
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Area in which sketches were made
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Maker: Belcher, Douglas Leonard
A title page to VX109068 Sergeant Douglas Leonard Belcher's collection of sketches, depicting a map of the area the artist covered during his time serving with 1 New Guinea Infantry Battalion at Dumpu...ART28211
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Are My Civvies Ready?
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Maker: Uptton, Clive Ministry of Supply H.M. Stationery Office Multi Machine Plates Ltd
Following the cessation of hositilies, thousands of soldiers were to return home with the only clothes they owned being either at their familial home or military-issued clothing. As a result, there wa...ARTV03405
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Are you a fifth columnist? If you spread disease, you are!
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Maker: Unknown
During the Second World War, much funding was invested in public health and safety campaigns. Upholding health and safety standards was equated with a sense of nationalism and patriotic duty. This is ...ARTV10120
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Are your guards all present and correct
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Maker: Giles, F Kenwood Ministry of Labour and National Service and Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Loxley Brothers Ltd
poster produced by the Ministry of Labour and National Service and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents to increase awareness of need for safety guards on machinery, depicts a guardsman m...ARTV01682
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"ARISE AMERICANS" Your Country and your Liberty are in grave Danger: Protect them now by joining the United States Navy or US Naval Reserve
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Maker: Barclay, McClelland [S.L. : S.N.], 1941
Second World War American poster featuring a sailor on board a ship and words warning that the country's liberty is in danger. McClelland Barclay (1891–1943) was an American painter of pin-up art. Bor...ARTV00755
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Arming a Spitfire
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A Spitfire at Laverton on the tarmac, being armed in preparation for a test flight and air to ground gunnery.ART22364
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Arm injury - amputation
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Maker: Aubrey-Crowe, George
Australian Military Forces, Services Reconnaissance Department, Native Constabulary; R416 Warrant 1 Yauwiga (or Yauwika) DCM, M Special, AMF, with loyalty medal, left arm amputated below elbow, wearin...ART24397
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Armistice Convention
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
The sketch depicts several groups of uniformed soldiers standing in the courtyard at Smith Barracks in Acre, Palestine (now 'Akko, Israel). Herbert was appointed official war artist in February 1941. ...ART30299
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Arm operation at advanced Markham dressing station
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts a scene in an Advanced Dressing Station of the Australian Army Medical Corps in the Markham area, New Guinea.ART22498
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Armoured cars of British Reconnaissance Regiment in Tempe, Greece
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Maker: Dargie, William
Tempe in 1941, was the scene of a very heavy attack by German armoured units against the rearguard of the British withdrawal from Greece. The 2/2nd Australian Infantry Battalion and New Zealand units ...ART23984
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2/6 Armoured Regiment Tanks in action at Cape Endaiadere
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Maker: Dargie, William
The tanks supported the 2/9th Australian Infantry Battalion and cleaned up Japanese resistance in this area, Cape Endaiadere, New Guinea.ART23158
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Armourers (Warrant Officer James McMillan and Corporal Wilcox)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Warrant James McMillan (front), Corporal Wilson (or Wilcox) (rear); Browning testiing and cleaning .50 calibre machine guns of aircraft.ART21713
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[Army boots]
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Maker: Robinson, David Keith
A detailed pen and ink study, a ‘still life’ of Robinson’s newly polished Army boots, on a table with the brush and tin of boot polish nearby, with his water bottle in the background, drawn at Bribie ...ART96773
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Army Camp
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
Depicts a scene of an army camp, with tents, washing on the line and palm trees, in the NT during the Second World War. Born Anthony Raftopoulos, Tony Rafty (1915-2015) was largely self-taught and joi...ART96871
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Army Camp, Caulfield
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Mainwaring is likely to have painted this scene when he was an Australian army artist on probation. An Army camp established at Caulfield Racecourse, grandstands and track in view. In the background...ART23397
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Army command boat in building
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Army command boat under construction at Halvorsen's Yard, River, Ryde. All the craft are of timber construction and range from Fairmile motor launches to fast supply boats and search and rescue launch...ART21361
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Army Days Approx. Early 40's
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Maker: Marcuse, Ernest Henry
A Vanbro exercise book, one of several in the collection, used as a skectchbook by Ernest Marcuse (V377746) while serving in the Australian Army during the Second World War. It contains 30 pencil sket...AWM2018.254.1
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Army Days Early 40's
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Maker: Marcuse, Ernest Henry
"Uneeda" brand sketchbook used by Ernest Marcuse (1900 – 1985) during his service in the Australian Army during the Second World War. It contains 32 unidentified studies and portraits in pencil of A...AWM2018.254.4
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Army Draughtsman (Signaller Geoff Anderson)
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
V210002 Signaller Geoff Anderson, draughtsman, n Line Of CommandART25307
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Army Exhibition at Cathays Park
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
During the Second World War the British Ministry of Information created exhibitions relating to different aspects of the war including information on the Allied and Commonwealth nations, branches of t...ARTV02277
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Army Exhibition on Oxford Street
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
During the Second World War the British Ministry of Information created exhibitions relating to different aspects of the war including information on the Allied and Commonwealth nations, branches of t...ARTV02278
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Army officer and haversack
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Maker: Baird, John
A portrait of an unidentified army officer, seated, with a haversack hanging on the wall beside him.ART27919
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Army sawyers and pioneers
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A sketch of Army sawyers and pioneers cutting timber to build a bridge in the jungle behind Port Moresby.ART29872
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Army supply boats on assembly line
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
The assembly line at Halvorsen's Yard, Ryde, Parramatta River, NSW, showing Australian and Norwegian shipwrights constructing high speed boats for the Australian and American armies. All the craft are...ART21359
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Army truck
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
A notebook sketch of a truck pulled up at the back door of the canteen hut, Balcombe, Victoria.ART25354
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Army type
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Maker: Beck, Richard
A sketch of an unidentified soldier in Bougainville. The seated man is wearing shorts and a singlet top.ART25957
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Army Workshop
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
An electrical and mechanical workshop of 12 Australian Army Troops Company. The central figure is QX41927 Sapper Edward "Shorty" Kellow, shown welding, assisting him is Q153295 Sapper Roy Edward Emery...ART22210
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Arnold Ainsworth
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Arnold M Ainsworth, of 'Longcrags', 106 Tozer Street, West Kamsey (Kempsey?). The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thaila...ART28403.030
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Arpad Maleter
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Maker: Binder, Tibor
Depicts portrait of Hungarian soldier, Arpad Maleter, sitting, side profile smoking a pipe, arms crossed, in Gross-Born Army Barracks, Germany. Tibor Binder served in the Hungarian Army Artillery, was...ART27827
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Arrival of Gloucesters in Royal Aircraft, Canberra
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester, when Governor-General of Australia made constant flights from State to State during the war period, invariably accompanied by H.R.H the Duchess of Gloucester. Their retu...ART25591
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Arrival of the Duke of Gloucester (Mr Ross Wood (Fox Movietone Cameraman) and Petty Officer Alex Stewart)
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
Arrival of the Duke of Gloucester. HRH The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester approaching Man O' War Steps, Sydney Harbour, in the Admiral's Barge. A British cruiser lies in the roadstead surrounded by al...ART25198
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Art & handicrafts exhibition and composition...
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Maker: Ansell
Brightly coloured poster in watercolour and gouache promoting an 'Art and Handicraft exhibition & competition' held in July 1943. The image takes up the whole with the title integrated as a notice pin...ART94123
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Arthur Benton
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Maker: Garvey, Joe
Garvey's cartoon portrait of Arthur Benton, from a series of thirty-six pencil drawings made in Syria, Palestine and Lebanon in 1942 of members of 15 Platoon 'C' Company, 2/32 Battalion, Lebanon 1942....ART91850
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Arthur Fitzgerald Janes
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Maker: Frawley, John
A portrait of Lieutenant General Arthur Fitzgerald Janes. Janes enlisted as a medical officer with the 2/15th Field Ambulance in 1939 and was well liked and respected by the men he served with. He w...ART92252
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Artificial leg bamboo pylon
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Maker: Meninsky, Philip
An artificial leg made from bamboo from Chungkai, Thailand in a hospital within a prisoner of war camp working to build the Burma- Thailand Railway.ART90864
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Artificial limb construction, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Showing some of the limbs manufactured a the AIF POW Convalescent Depot. Series of drawings showing construction of artificial leg, including knee and ankle joints, 'Limb Factory', under supervision o...ART26502
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Artificial Limb Factory, Changi
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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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Artillery Hill, Bougainville
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Maker: Walker, Ralph
This diorama depicts Artillery Hill, a high feature obstructing the Australian advance towards Pearl Ridge, and an important objective in the Bougainville campaign, which was stormed by 'C' ompany, 9t...ART41047
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Artillery in the desert
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers and artillery in the desert in the Middle East.ART26902
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Artillery in the desert
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers and artillery in the desert in the Middle East.ART26899
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Artillery Lieutenant (Lieutenant Graham)
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Graham, RAA, who served in Crete and Syria, where he was wounded.ART21490
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Artillery moving up in the desert
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers with artillery moving up in the desert in the Middle East.ART26903
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Artillery surveyors
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Artillery surveyors at the beginning of the traverse. The computor (seated) with binoculars and bandolier takes down the readings as the instrument man gives them. This sketch is a reconstruction of a...ART26097
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[Artists' notes]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Heysen has included a list of subjects for the subjects of her paintings. Contains a faint sketch of a flower lower right and coloured pastel along lower edge.ART29200.016
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Artist's sketchbook No. 4
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Artist's sketchbook of ships in port in Fremantle. Norton made these sketches while stationed at Naval Staff Office, HMAS Leeuwin, Fremantle, July-Nov, 1943. Born in New Zealand in 1916, Frank Norton ...ART28830
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Artist's sketchbook of drawings of HMAS Nepal, portraits and scenes onshore
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Maker: Coburn, John
Bound sketchbook of 14 pages containing 11 drawings including title page and two loose sheets, five blank pages, and two fascimiles of cartoons on paper. The sketchbook was produced at the time of Joh...ART93105
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[Artist's sketchbook of portraits]
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Maker: Milgate, Eric Lovell
A sketchbook by Australian serviceman Eric Milgate, from his time in a Prisoner of War camp in Grupignano, Italy. It includes 22 leaves and 21 pages of drawings, with one blank page. Three pages have ...ART29255
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A Sagan Goon Box South Side [Germany]
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy
Depicts a Goon Box at a POW camp in Germany, backing onto a forest of trees. Goon Boxes were sentry boxes on stilts, stationed at regular intervals around POW camps in Germany during the Second World ...ART96062
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Ascending the Pimple
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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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As dangerous as an enemy bomber - mosquitoes carrying dengue fever...
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Maker: NSW Department of Public Health
A wartime example of Australian public health information as propaganda. Issued by the NSW Department of Health, it compares the threat of mosquitoes carrying disease to that of an enemy bomber. An in...ARTV10453
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A sentimental song
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Maker: Dargie, William
One soldier is playing a guitar, while three others sit around him singing along. This is as sketch of members of the 2/10th Australian Infantry Battalion after a long climb up the mountains to Casey...ART21328
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A sentimental song
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch showing a group of members of 2/10th Australian Infantry Battalion enjoying a singsong accompanied by a ukulele.ART23182
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A Serviceman's wife
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Maker: Jones H.M. Stationery Office
This British Second World War poster was issued by the Minsitry of Pensions to promote two extra allowance entitlements for pregnant wives of servicemen. The poster refers expectant mothers to two dif...ARTV02256
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A shadow across Hitler's path
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Maker: General Motors Holden
This Australian Second World War poster was produced by General Motors Holden (GMH) in 1941, and was likely produced for use in one of their factories. The poster is aimed at factory workers, attempti...ARTV02146
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A ship is built
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Maker: Norton, Frank
An impression of an early stage in the building of a 10,000 ton Liberty vessel - at Williamstown Dock. Workmen are hammering and revetting on the top of the double bottoms. In the mid-ship section, th...ART21156
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Asisi
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Maker: Nicholls, John
A view of two huts shrouded by palm trees in Asisi, New Guinea. This work was drawn by soldier artist Lieutenant John Nicholls, NX160003, 2nd Australian Jungle Trunk-Line Maintenance Section, during h...ART93243
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A six ton drop hammer
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Maker: Ragless, Max
A worker operates a heavy hammer, as used by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation.ART23106
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Ask Here for Details of Classes and Lectures on Domestic Front Subjects
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Maker: Ministry of Information
Little is known about this Second World War proclamation-style poster. The poster was likely published by the British Ministry of Information as part of their ongoing program to train the people of Br...ARTV05345
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Ask Here for Details of Classes and Lectures on Domestic Front Subjects
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Maker: Unknown [S.L. : S.N.], 1943
Little is known about this Second World War proclamation-style poster. The poster was likely published by the British Ministry of Information as part of their ongoing program to train the people of Br...ARTV03267
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Asking for trouble
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Maker: Eckersley, Thomas Loxley Brothers Ltd
This British Second World War poster was designed by Thomas Eckersley OBE for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. The psoter depicts a person's foot just above the broken wrung of an ol...ARTV02246
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Asleep
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Maker: Frawley, John
A serviceman is asleep on the floor with a patched blanket pulled up over himself, his boots neatly place by his feet and his rifle against the wall behind his head.ARTI01948
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As off to work we go
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Maker: Kingsley, A
POW cartoon of men going off to work. The name G.F.Hamilton which can be seen on the back of the cart is the name of the man who donated the work.ART28359
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A soldier and his doover (Private Charles Dury)
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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 soldier fixing his bayonet
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Maker: Dargie, William
An Australian soldier stands, wearing a tin helmet and is fixing his bayonet to his rifle.ART22008
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A soldier looking up
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Maker: Dargie, William
Drawing of an unidentified soldier looking up to the sky. He is shirtless and wears shorts and a tin helmet.ART22011
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A soldier on leave; verso: Unemployed marches
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Maker: Counihan, Noel
Depicts a returned soldier with his family. He holds a baby in his arms and is accompanied by another child and his wife. There are buildings in the background. Verso: a three-quarter portrait of a ma...ART93998