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2/3 A.A. Regt Searchlight Bty site
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Maker: Friend, Donald
anti-aircraft; 2/3rd Australian Anti-Aircraft Regiment; campaign; anti-aircraft searchlightART23260
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A.I.F. coming aboard
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A unidentified soldier of the AIF loaded with with full kit embarking on a landing ship at Morotai to take part in landing operations on Labuan, North Borneo.ART23326
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A.I.F. coming aboard
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A unidentified soldier of the AIF loaded with with full kit embarking on a landing ship at Morotai to take part in landing operations on Labuan, North Borneo.ART23327
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Beer issue, 1st T.A.F
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A rough sketch showing personnel of No 1 Tactical Air Force Headquarters, Royal Australian Air Force, lining up for their issue of bottled beer from Australia. This event stood out even more prominen...ART23271
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Brown Beach landing, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicting troops disembarking from the landing ship into the surf. Sappers of the 2/7th Australian Field Company were in the first wave to clear the beach of mines. The assault battalions were the 2/4...ART23224
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Buoys on the beach
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Enormous buoys have washed up on a beach at Labuan. The buoys are almost twice the height of the soldier who walkd amongst them.ART23300
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Chinese Temple
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Chinese temple used as billets for Australian soldiers, 4th Australian Bulk Petrol Company, but shared by an aged Chinese priest called 'Wong', who vigorously repelled all attempts to move him to othe...ART23233
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Demolitions, Balikpapan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Personnel from an unidentified Engineers unit are demolishing unsafe structures resulting from a bombardment prior to the landing of Australian forces in Borneo during the Second World War.ART23347
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Desolate plantations, Balikpapan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Appointed an official war artist in 1945, Friend served in Labuan, Morotai and Balikpapan in Borneo between 23 May and 10 September. The work depicts a war-ravaged landscape at Balikpapan.ART22894
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Field casualty
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a field casualty. Soldier laying on a stretcher while two men sit in the background.ART22900
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Japanese corpses
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Maker: Friend, Donald
The bodies of two Japanese who were of a party who, after eluding capture for ten days after the landing on Labuan, formed up under a Japanese Colonel and made a desperate march into the town with the...ART23272
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Japanese dead, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Unidentified Japanese corpses, Borneo campaign.ART22914
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Japanese Prisoners
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts three unidentified Japanese prisoners. In 1942, Donald Friend enlisting with the AIF, was posted as a gunner to the artillery unit near Albury. In 1945, Friend was selected for appointment as ...ART23251
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Javanese [labourers] at work on the strip, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Javanese labourers working on airfield, supervised by unidentified Australians; campaignART23262
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Javanese slaves in the native compound, sick ward, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a group of unidentified Javanese labourers in the Native Compound Sick Ward, Labuan.ART22920
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LAC 'Curly' Bentley
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A seated portrait of Leading Aircraftsman 'Curly' Bentley of the Royal Australian Air Force, possibly from the No 62 Works Supply Unit.ART23303
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Major-General Wootten's quarters
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Maker: Friend, Donald
9th Australian Infantry Division; campaign; house used as headquarters by Major- General G F Wootton, CBE, DSO, General Commanding 9th Australian DivisionART23252
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Making camp, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a group of unidentified soldiers unloading trucks to establish camp.ART23226
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Making the Strip
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Unidentified personnel from the No 62 Works Supply Unit of the Royal Australian Air force are using earthmoving equipment, such as tractors, to build an airfield.ART23302
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Malay boy in the native compound
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a portrait of unidentified Malay refugee, used as slaves, Labuan, North Borneo.ART23307
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Malays in native compound
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Maker: Friend, Donald
These Malays were amongst those shipped to Borneo from Java by the Japanese as slaves. They were shown in a compound in which they were congregated after deliverance from the Japanese.ART23249
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Nature Morte
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Maker: Friend, Donald
This work depicts the remains of a party of Japanese who crossed in canoes from the mainland of Borneo to the island of Labuan and hid in the swamps of Garankak. After carrying on commando tactics for...ART22182
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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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Radar tower, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Royal Australian Air Force, No 4 Works Supply Wing; campaign; Radar towerART23255
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Ruins
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts some of the devastation wrought in Labuan during the Borneo campaign.ART22919
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Soldiers and natives with outrigger
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Labels: ' Soldiers and natives with outrigger 1945 by Donald Friend (22886) ' etched on label along bottom front of frame; ' AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL '; ' 11 JUNE 1948 ' stamped on back of frame; ' CAS...ART22886
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Soldiers with Samurai sword
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a group of unidentified soldiers outside a tent, one is holding a Japanese sword.ART22895
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Spitfire of the 'Grey Nurse' squadron, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Air crew of the No 457 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force at work on a Supermarine Spitfire VIII. Nicknamed the 'Grey Nurse' Squadron, the nose of this Spitfire has been painted as the face o...ART23346
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76 Squadron's Camp
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Maker: Friend, Donald
The camp of No.76 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Labuan.ART23253
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Tank Road, Balikpapan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
The artists has endeavoured to protray the destruction and desolation caused by the bombardment by our naval forces prior to the landing of troops, 7th Australian Division.ART23206
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Thanksgiving service for peace
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Royal Australian Air Force, No 1 Tactical Air Force Headquarters; campaign; Japanese tank trap along shore lineART23285
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Town, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts the town of Victoria on Labuan, Borneo, the day after the landing by troops of the 24th Australian Infantry Brigade were entrusted with the task of re-occupying the island as part of the Borne...ART22175
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Wrecked Japanese staff car, Balikpapan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Wrecked Japanese staff car, Borneo campaign.ART22853
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Yank engineers Bulk Store, 593rd Headquarters
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Maker: Friend, Donald
United States Army, 593 (Airborne) Engineers Regiment; campaign; buildings used for US Army bulk storeART23247