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Aaaaaaa-tention!
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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
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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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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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Badu Island Aeroplane dance headdress: American B-25 Mitchell bomber
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Maker: Williams, Dick
Unmounted wooden airplane styled to resemble a Mitchell bomber, painted green with faux Australian markings. This detailed aircraft replica is the contemporary feature of the ceremonial headdresses w...ART94620
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Badu Island Aeroplane dance headdress: American B-25 Mitchell bomber
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Maker: Williams, Dick
Unmounted wooden airplane styled to resemble a Mitchell bomber, painted green with faux American markings. This detailed aircraft replica is the contemporary feature of the ceremonial headdresses wor...ART94619
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Badu Island Aeroplane dance headdress stand: American B-25 Mitchell bomber
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Maker: Williams, Dick
Wooden stand to accompany Mitchell bomber headdress.ART94619.001
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Badu Island Aeroplane dance headdress stand: American B-25 Mitchell bomber
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Maker: Williams, Dick
Wooden stand to accompany Mitchell bomber headdress.ART94620.001
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Black soldier
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Maker: Murray, Lesley
'Black soldier' depicts Lesley Murray's grandfather. The portrait is based on a photograph taken during the Second World War and is a private work of commemoration. It is also intended to serve as a t...ART91484
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Captain Reg Saunders
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Maker: Thalben-Ball, Pamela
Reginald Walter Saunders was born in 1920, in Purnim, Victoria, near the Framlingham Aboriginal Reserve. He came from a long line of soldiers. Both his father and his uncle served in the First World W...ART28159
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Coloured Diggers
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Maker: Albert, Tony
This four panelled painting explores the social and political legacies of Indigenous military service during the Second World War, and specifically the lack of recognition felt by many following their...ART96531
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Coloured Diggers [panel 1]
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Maker: Albert, Tony
Panel one of 'Coloured Diggers' a four panelled painting exploring the social and political legacies of Indigenous military service during the Second World War, and specifically the lack of recognitio...ART96531.001
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Coloured Diggers [panel 2]
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Maker: Albert, Tony
Panel two of 'Coloured Diggers' a four panelled painting exploring the social and political legacies of Indigenous military service during the Second World War, and specifically the lack of recognitio...ART96531.002
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Face injury apparatus
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Maker: Aubrey-Crowe, George
Unidentified man with severe facial injuries, undergoing reconstruction of lower jaw and face, wearing plaster cap and external fixative apparatus (to hold bone fragments in place while they reunite, ...ART24398
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Fathers' Lament
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Maker: Clayton, Fay
Upper body portrait of a man in uniform surrounded by four text panels. Father's Lament is both a commemorative portrait of the Indigenous servicemen PR Cecil Robert Clayton and a lament about his po...ART94980
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Forgotten Heroes
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Maker: Albert, Tony
In May 2012 Tony Albert was commissioned as an official war artist and spent two weeks training with the North West Mobile Force (NORFORCE). As a result of his experiences in the Northern Territory Al...ART96354
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Joe Mye
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Burma Thailand Railway prisoner of war Joe Mye QX13541. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beg...ART28403.076
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Long winding trail
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Maker: Jose, Ellen
In keeping with Ellen Jose's tendency to combine exploration of the personal with wider external issues, 'Long winding trail' is both an intimate homage to her father and his soldier persona, and a re...ART29763
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Private, Gowrie House
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of an Australian infantry soldier, identified by the artist in her correspondence with the Australian War Memorial as 'Pte (Name lost) Gowrie House 11/6'. Despite being one of the Memorial's ...ART26277
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Private Samuel Fejo
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
D11 Gunner Samuel Fejo, CMF, Fixed Defences Citizen Military Forces, Darwin. Fejo was a gunner in the Fixed Defences Citizen Military Forces, Darwin, and an Aboriginal member of the Militia. While in ...ART29415
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Reach out and touch - distance and time
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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 ...ART90724