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  1. Aaaaaaa-tention!

    Art

    Maker: Jose, Ellen

    In 1992 Ellen Jose (b.1951) held an exhibition in Melbourne titled "Black Diggers-Ghost Fighters" to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the beginning of the Kokoda campaign in New Guinea, as well as ...

    ART29762

  2. A. A. and submarine lookout, Red Sea

    Art

    Maker: Dargie, William

    Ack Ack and submarine lookout, Red Sea. The sketch was completed during Dargie's voyage to Australia aboard the HMT "Felix Roussel". This was a Free French ship which, in company of the US ship "Holb...

    ART23898

  3. A.A. artillery in the field. Variant title: Anti-aircraft artillery in the field.

    Digitised Collection

    Maker: Royal Australian Air Force

    SM 59000, A.C.D. 166

    AWM2023.9.57

  4. Aachen, Germany. C. 1944-04. The main railway station and railyards at Aachen on 1944-04-05 after ...

    Photograph

    Aachen, Germany. C. 1944-04. The main railway station and railyards at Aachen on 1944-04-05 after the attacks of RAF Bomber Command between 1943-07 and 1944-04.

    SUK13191

  5. Aachen, Germany. C. 1944-04. The Post Office, telephone exchange and commercial buildings at ...

    Photograph

    Aachen, Germany. C. 1944-04. The Post Office, telephone exchange and commercial buildings at Aachen in 1944-04-05 after the attacks of RAF Bomber Command between 1943-07 and 1944-04.

    SUK13192

  6. Aachen, Germany. C. 1944-04. The Town Hall and public administrative buildings in Aachen on ...

    Photograph

    Aachen, Germany. C. 1944-04. The Town Hall and public administrative buildings in Aachen on 1944-04-05 following the attacks of RAF Bomber Command between 1943-07 and 1944-04.

    SUK13193

  7. Aachen, Germany. C. 1944-04. This reconnaissance photograph of Aachen, taken five months before ...

    Photograph

    Aachen, Germany. C. 1944-04. This reconnaissance photograph of Aachen, taken five months before the great assault on the city from the ground, shows vividly the damage caused by the attacks of RAF Bom...

    SUK13190

  8. Aachen, Germany. 1943-07-14. The central area of the town, with the West Goods Depot top left ...

    Photograph

    Aachen, Germany. 1943-07-14. The central area of the town, with the West Goods Depot top left photographed by RAF reconnaissance after a bomber raid. Very many fires are still burning among a concentr...

    SUK11058

  9. AA Gun Position and Barrage Balloon, Marble Arch, London

    Art

    Maker: Norton, Frank

    AA Gun Position and Barrage Balloon, Marble Arch, London. Presented under the tax incentives for the arts scheme 1999

    ART90983

  10. AA (Happy) Hawkins

    Art

    Maker: Collins, James

    Portrait of A A 'Happy' Hawkins, of 'Falor', Yarran Road, Oatley, New South. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. B...

    ART28403.039

  11. Aalesund, Norway. 1945-03-17. A very large force of RAF Coastal Command Mosquito aircraft ...

    Photograph

    Aalesund, Norway. 1945-03-17. A very large force of RAF Coastal Command Mosquito aircraft attacked enemy shipping in the harbour. The aircraft left five out of six vessels on fire or smoking. A heavil...

    SUK13984

  12. (a) Alimentary Group

    Digitised Collection

    RCDIG1070336

  13. A.A. lookout, Red Sea [Donald Hambleton-Johnson and Reginald Ward]

    Art

    Maker: Dargie, William

    Depicts Reginald Ward DX621 (N76513) standing, Donald Hambleton Johnson QX18024 2/25th Battalion, 2 A.I.F, part of superstructure of ships during the voyage to Australia of H.M.T "Felix Roussel" a fr...

    ART22053

  14. AAMWS on the [Vessel name censored]; verso: Bashing the spine

    Art

    Maker: Warren, Guy

    Two members of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service, and a soldier. Verso: two soldiers lie shirtless on board transport vessel, known as 'bashing the spine', one with his hat over his face.

    ART94334.021

  15. AAMWS (Private Gwynneth Patterson)

    Art

    Maker: Heysen, Nora

    Portrait of NFX173196 Private Gwynneth Patterson, Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS), 2nd Australian Blood and Serum Preparations Unit.

    ART22822

  16. A and D tent in the scrub

    Art

    Maker: Abbott, Harold

    A sketch of an Admission and Discharge reception tent pitched in thick jungle scrub during exercises of 6th Australian Division Medical units.

    ART21284

  17. 'A and D' tent in the scrub

    Art

    Maker: Abbott, Harold

    An Admission and Discharge tent during an exercise of the 6th Australian Division in New Guinea. Here patients and casualties were interviewed, classified and relieved of their kits and rifles.They we...

    ART22320

  18. A. ANDERSON. (NEGATIVE BY CRANSTONE).

    Photograph

    Maker: Cranstone, Edward Lefevre (Ted)

    A. ANDERSON. (NEGATIVE BY CRANSTONE).

    003016

  19. AANS arrive Labuan

    Film

    Maker: McInnes, Hugh

    Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) Sisters of the 2/1st Casualty Clearing Station (CCS) arrived at Labuan from Morotai in a Douglas C-47 of No. 34 Sqn RAAF. They were met at the airstrip by the AD...

    F01695

  20. A.A.N.S embarking at Bombay

    Art

    Maker: Norton, Frank

    Leaving the troopship SS "Laconia" which had brought the Australian Army Nurses from Suez to Bombay, troops of the A.I.F and members of the Australian Army Nursing Service transferred to three smaller...

    ART21017

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