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A Cretan couple witnesses the invasion
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Maker: Winters, Michael
A scared elderly Cretan couple stands in their home as the German paratroopers float to the earth. The civilians of Crete, along with the British and allied soldiers, were amazed by the sight of thous...ART92805
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An escape from Crete, with blankets for sails
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Maker: Winters, Michael
After the surrender, more than 600 soldiers were left behind on the island. Many of these men made their way back to Egypt in landing barges, fishing boats, or submarines. An Australian soldier who ...ART92802
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Blessing of the troops by the bishop of Xania [Hania]
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Maker: Winters, Michael
On arrival on Crete, one of the islands' Bishops offers a blessing to the troops as they arrive exhausted from mainland Greece.ART92796
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Conflict in the land of the Minotaur
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Crete was the home of the mythological Minotaur, a half man half beast. The Minotaur lived in a labyrinth and King Minos sacrificed men and women to the creature by locking them in the Labyrinth to w...ART92795
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Exhausted troops sail to Crete
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Exhausted troops sprawl across the deck of a ship which is carrying them to Crete where they will be engaged in yet more fighting.ART92799
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Freyberg addressing the troops amid the olives
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Maker: Winters, Michael
General Bernard Freyberg VC, a First World War hero, arrived on Crete with other soldiers from the New Zealand Division to command the British and Greek forces on the island. Freyberg was determined t...ART92797
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German paratroopers flight to Crete
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Within a plane flying over Crete German paratroopers sit and await their fate, around them swirls a dark spectre of death.ART92804
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Night march of the captured and a circle of the dead
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Maker: Winters, Michael
In this work Winters depicts events told to him by Captain William Travers of the 2/1st Battalion. Travers led his company over three campaigns. His relationship with his men and the respect he felt f...ART92807
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Night & retreating troops amid the rocks of the Imvros pass
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Imvros Pass was used by the Australian soldiers as an evacuation route during the retreat.ART92793
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Old Cretan woman in fear, her goat, the devil of old and Australian troops
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Towards midday on Friday 22 May 1941, Captain Ralph Honner led C Company, 2/11th Battalion, through vineyards which were littered with the corpses of German paratroopers, into the tiny village of Cesm...ART92806
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Paratrooper, caught amid the orange grove
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Maker: Winters, Michael
A German paratrooper hangs helplessly in a tree in an orange grove.ART92794
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The arrival in Crete
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Maker: Winters, Michael
The arrival in Crete, an Australian soldier reaches out to shake the hand of a Cretan man, while the women of Crete watch on. The extended arm of the Australian soldier symbolises the typical long an...ART92791
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The black-winged figure from the north in conflict with the antipodean
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Maker: Winters, Michael
A symbolic treatment of the battle, the dark sinister winged figure can be seen as a fallen angel in mortal combat with the Antipodean.ART92798
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The burial of a comrade, among the vines of Crete
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Australian soldiers make a hasty grave amid the vines of Crete. A rough cross and his helmet are the only evidence of his passing in a foreign land.ART92790
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The church of St George and a wounded Australian
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Maker: Winters, Michael
The church of St George was used by the German’s as a safe house and position from which to attack the Allied soldiers. On 27 May in an attempt to take the Church and therefore destroy a threatening ...ART92789
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The disembarkation of the troops
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Maker: Winters, Michael
A stream of troops disembark to face yet more conflict in the ancient land of Crete.ART92800
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The escape of an Australian soldier
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Private Stan Carroll, a soldier from Western Australia, found a 16-foot Greek fishing boat and decided to escape. He used a piece of driftwood as a mast, a fishing spear as a boom, and a piece of bamb...ART92808
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The offering of bread from a village to an Australian soldier
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Corporal Frank Atkins of 2/11th Battalion, had, like the other Australian soldiers, fought in North Africa and Greece and now found himself on Crete facing a new German offensive. As Atkins marched ...ART92803
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Two Australian troops at Hora Sfakia
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Maker: Winters, Michael
Hofa Sfakia, a small village situated on the bony south coast of Crete, was the point where allied ships evacuated what troops they could. The allied troops, tired, thirsty and threatened had to trud...ART92801
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Wounded, among the olives
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Maker: Winters, Michael
An Australian soldier lies bleeding to death among the olive trees in Crete.ART92792
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Wounded at the church, Imvros
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Maker: Winters, Michael
A church at Imvros was used by the Allied troops as a shelter in which to treat the wounded and the dying during the retreat.ART92788