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Air Marshal Sir Frederick Scherger
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Air Marshal Sir Frederick Rudolph William Scherger, KBE, CB, DSO, AFC, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).ART27540
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Beaufort Navigator (of No.100 Squadron, RAAF)
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
This is a portrait of a pilot who was an expert in navigating using the Beaufort aircraft. Seven hundred of these aircraft were produced for the Royal Australian Air Force in the Second World War. The...ART21647
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Bin Baker, Sailor
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of Bin Baker, a sailor who was on 'M.V Gorgon' when it was bombed at Milne Bay by Japanese aircraft, New Guinea.ART21182
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Brigadier David Whitehead
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting NX376 Brigadier David Adie Whitehead, DSO and Bar, MC, MID, Commanding 26th Australian Brigade, 2/2 Australian Machine Gun Battalion, 2/32nd Australian Infantry Battalion., Tarakan.ART27548
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Brigadier Murray Moten
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Brigadier Murray John Moten, CBE, DSO and Bar, was in command of a Citizen Military Force unit at the outbreak of war and was second to command the 2/27th Australian Infantry Battal...ART26668
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Bruce "Slugger" L'Estrange
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Bruce Maitland "Slugger" L'Estrange, NX171438 (N3842), MM, 2/6th Australian Cavalry Commando Regiment, 2/7 Australian Independent Company, engaged in patrol operations in the Aitape...ART24392
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Burial service, Aitape, New Guinea
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a scene of unidentified men gathered around grave site, other graves in area, possibly Padre Ronald Arthur Terrence O'Brien, Chaplain Fourth Class, 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Mili...ART22150
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Captain Alan West
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of VX21239 Captain Allan West, Area Commandant and Rocky Creek; 2/3 Australian Machine Gun Battalion, seen here at the 2/2nd Australian General Hospital undergoing treatment for mal...ART23368
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Captain Eric Carter
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of NX12286 Captain Eric Joseph Bryce Carter, Camp Commandant, 6th Australian Division, Wondecla, Queensland.ART21259
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Captain Henry Nicholls
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Captain Henry William Nicholls MC (NX15737) 'Z' Special Unit (formerly of 1st Australian Parachute Battalion and 2/1st Australian Pioneer Battalion). Served in Benghazi and Tobruk, ...ART24249
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Captain Luke
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait of Captain M Luke, Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), served with the A.I.F throughout the Middle East and with the 104 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Aitape, New Guinea.ART21642
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Cavalry Commando with Owen Gun (Bruce "Slugger" L'Estrange)
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Bruce Maitland "Slugger" L'Estrange (NX171438) MM, 2/6th Australian Cavalry Commando Regiment, sitting holding an Owen gun. The 2/6th commandoes were engaged in patrol operations in...ART24381
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Cavalry Lieutenant (Edmund Stewart)
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Lieutenant Edmund William Stewart, Royal Australian Engineers, 1 Australian Water Transport Company.ART22142
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Female impersonator (Private Victor Fox)
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
NX36410 Private Victor A Fox, 2/10 Cavalry Commando Squadron, female impersonator (Arab dancer), Middle East, 6th Australian Division concert party, Aitape, New Guinea.ART24388
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Infantryman, 2/8th Australian Infantry Battalion
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting an unidentified infantryman of the 2/8th Australian Infantry Battalion, 6th Australian Division, 'ready for action', wearing American style gaiters, with two grenades on his belt, a...ART21662
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Japanese prisoner awaiting interrogation
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting an unidentified Japanese prisoner of war awaiting interrogation at Luain, New Guinea.ART21666
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Jim Fitzpatrick, war correspondent
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait of Jim Fitzpatrick, war correspondent, 6th Division, Aitape, New Guinea.ART21679
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Jungle fighter
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts an unidentified soldier of the 2/11th Australian Infantry Battalion, Matapan, New Guinea.ART21643
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Kitchen boy (Lemek)
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of Lemec a 16 year old kitchen boy to 1st Australian Water Transport Group (Small Craft), Kwiara, New Guinea.ART21196
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Lance Corporal Frederick Paulson
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
WX1209 Lance Corporal Frederick Lawrence Paulson, after serving unscathed for two years in Egypt, Palestine and Syria with 2/2 Australian Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers, finds himself well ...ART21616
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Lance Corporal Jack Gavrili
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of NX268357 Lance Corporal Jack Gavrili, cook, 1st Australian Water Transport Group (small craft), Royal Australian Engineers, Kwiara, New Guinea.ART21204
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Lance Corporal William Forster
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of VX5038 Lance Corporal William A Forster, navigator, 1st Australian Water Transport Group (small craft), Middle East, 2/6th Australian Infantry Battalion. He took part in the Bu...ART21199
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Landing barge, troops and stores
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
The drawing depicts Australian troops landing at Papua New Guinea in 1942/3. In the foreground, Australian soldiers in uniform mill around barrels of supplies, while further back more Australian soldi...ART21216
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Leaning soldier with owen gun
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
2/8th Australian Infantry Battalion, 6th Australian Division; unidentified soldier, 2/8 Btn; campaign; Owen gun, extra ammunition packs around waistART21670
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Lieutenant Arthur Holden
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Lieutenant Arthur Holhen, 2/3rd Australian Infantry Battalion, 6th Australian Division, New Guinea.ART21665
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Lieutenant Brian Lloyd
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of NX95945 Lieutenant Brian George Longfield Lloyd, Allied Translator and Interpreter Section (ATIS), attached to 6th Australian Division Aitape, New Guinea.ART21677
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Lieutenant Brian Moloney
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting WX4210 Lieutenant Brian William Moloney, MM, at the time that the portrait was painted Lieutenant Moloney was attached to Headquarters, 6th "Australian Division instructing troops i...ART25125
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Lieutenant Colonel George Warfe
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting VX186 Lieutenant Colonel George Radford Warfe, DSO, MC, served with the 2/6th Australian Infantry Battalion in Libya and Greece in 1941 and in 1942 became commander of the 2/3rd Ind...ART27517
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Lieutenant Colonel Hector Binks
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Lieutenant Colonel Hector McLean Binks, Commanding Officer of the 2/11th Australian Infantry Battalion during the Matapau campaign, New Guinea.ART21658
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Lieutenant Geoffrey Lording
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Lieutenant Geoffrey Harcourt Lording, Royal Australian Navy Volunteer Reserve, Madang.ART24244
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Lieutenant George Stanley
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Lieutenant George Arthur Vickers Stanley, DSC, Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RANVR), 6th Australian Division, Tadji, New Guinea.ART24248
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Lieutenant Ian Hutchison
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of VX13966 Lieutenant Ian McLeod Hutchison, Commanding Military History Sub-Section, attached Headquarters, 1 Australian Corps Atherton, Queensland.ART21248
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Lieutenant Robert Buchanan
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Lieutenant Robert John Buchanan, photographer of Military Histroy Section, Aitape, New Guinea.ART24387
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Lieutenant Ross Ewart
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting SX23938 Lieutenant Ross L Ewart , 2/8th Australian Infantry Battalion, Suain, New Guinea.ART21654
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Major General Kenneth Eather
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
A portrait of Major General Kenneth Eather of the 2/1st Australian Infantry Battalion, 25th Australian Brigade, 11th Australian Division. Major General Kenneth William 'Phar Lap' Eather, CB, CBE, DSO...ART26669
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Masta Bilong Kanaka (Warrant Officer 2 E C Shields)
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of NGX188 Warrant II E C Shields, of the Australian New Guinea Administration Unit (ANGAU). When the Japanese retreated from villages in the Salmaua area and ransacked the native ga...ART21194
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Mess Stewarad
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting an unidentified Mess Steward, at B Mess, Headquarters 6thAustralian Division, aitape, New Guinea.ART21681
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Natives carrying wounded soldier
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depictd a group of unidentified natives carrying wounded soldier on improvised stretcher through jungle, Aitape, New Guinea.ART26133
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Padre Ronald O'Brien
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts Padre Ronald Arthur Terrence O'Brien, Chaplain Fourth Class, Church of England, 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion, 6th Australian Division, wearing cassock, surplice and scarf; cross marking grave in ...ART21669
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Papuan boy with flower
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of an unidentified native man with hibiscus flower in his hair, New Guinea.ART23924
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Patrol searching dead Japanese in kunai grass
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a group of unidentified soldiers, 2/11th Australian Infantry Battalion, gathered around dead Japanese soldier; Matapau, New Guinea.ART26677
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Pay Corporal
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting an unidentified soldier, Pay Corporal, of the 2/8th Australian Infantry Battalion, Aitape, New Guinea.ART21680
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Pilot Officer Leonard Marquis
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Pilot Leonard Stanley Marquis, Royal Australian Air Force, Allied Translator and Interpreter Service, to Brigadier J.R Stevenson's party for the acceptance of the surrender of the ...ART24242
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Private William Haydon
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Private William Haydon VX24982 , Regimental Police, 2/8th Australian Infantry Battalion, Suain, New Guinea.ART21656
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RAP Orderly
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait sketch depicting an unidentified RAP orderly, bandaging another soldiers hand at the Regimental Aid Post, Suian, New Guinea.ART21668
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Sergeant William Chester Povey
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of SX5421 Sergeant William Chester Povey of Australian Army Pay Corps, attached to 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion, served in Syrian campaign, original member of 2/3 rd Australian Infantr...ART21655
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Spruso
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting a soldier identified only as 'Spruso' of the 2/3rd Australian Infantry Battalion, 6th Australian Division (previous drawing of same subject ART21671 [313] gives unit as 2/3 Machine ...ART21671
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Spruso
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of a soldier identified only as 'Spruso', 2/3 Australian Machine Gun Battalion, Suian, New Guinea.ART21667
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Standing soldier with owen gun
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting an unidentified soldier, with Owen gun of the 2/6th Australian Infantry Battalion.ART21672
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The cook
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting an unidentified cook, Headquarters 6th Australian Division, Aitape, New Guinea.ART24384
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Warant Officer 2 Douglas (Jock) Taylor
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting VX5449 Warrant Class 2 Douglas R 'Jock' Taylor, DCM, original member of 2/7th Infantry Battalion, served with the unit through its campaigns in Libya, Greece and Crete. In the fierc...ART27529
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Wing of a Transport
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
This oil painting depicts the wing of an airborne plane extending from the lower right corner to the centre of the composition. Beyond are two flying planes and clouds with a birds eye view of hills, ...ART23923
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Wounded native carrier (Kanjingai)
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of Kanjingai, a native carrier for Australian New Guinea Administration Unit (ANGAU), was with a patrol of Commandos when he was wounded in an encounter with the Japanese in a villa...ART21614
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Yahida, Japanese prisoner of war
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of Yahida a Japanese prisoner of war who could understand English and make himself understood. His name appears in Japanese character's and in English, as written by himself in the ...ART21627