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Air Vice-Marshal F.H. McNamara
Art
Maker: Gilbert, Donald
Plaster bust of Air Vice-Marshal Francis 'Frank' Hubert McNamara, VC, CBE (4 April 1894-2 November 1961). McNamara flew in the First World War with the No. 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps (AFC) an...ART34904
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Anzac Jack
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Maker: Latona, Peter Latona, Peter
Bronze bust of a man idenitified as 'Anzac Jack'. The sculpture is comprised of bronze strips that have been adhered to form the face. Anzac Jack wears a shirt and tie and the bust is fixed to a squa...ART90259
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Anzac title page
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Naked Gallipoli soldier without head or arms and with a wooden leg. ANZAC painted across the centre of the image. Nolan stated that the stump leg and missing limbs derives from an antique statue which...ART91203
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Anzac 'walking wounded'
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Wounded Gallipoli soldier on crutches, the figure reminiscent of ancient Greek statues such as Kouros, the sculptures that were young nude Greek youths. The statues embodied the idea of youth and the ...ART91224
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Australian soldier
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Maker: Anderson, Wallace Meridian Sculpture Founders
Depicts a bronze bust of a typical Australian soldier. This bronze edition was cast in 1994 from the original plaster cast from 1926.ART90166
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Bringing up the guns
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Maker: Butler-George, May
This is the original plaster cast of one of four bronze bas-relief panels commissioned from Butler-George for the base of the pedestal of the Second Division AIF Memorial at Mont St Quentin, France i...ART90084
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Brothers in arms
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Paper sculpture depicting an Australian and a British (Scottish) soldier marching together. The Scottish soldier wears a kilt and is playing the bagpipes. The Australian soldier has a rifle over his s...ART40947
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Bust of digger with hat
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Maker: Anderson, Wallace
Unidentified soldier, open necked shirt and slouch hat with brim let down.ART09632
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Defence of Anzac
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Maker: Anderson, Wallace Gregory, E J
Two soldiers wearing 'Anzac uniform' - hats, shorts made from cut down trousers, boots and socks, one with bare torso and one with improvised short sleeved shirt, one carrying rifle and bandolier arou...ART13664
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Die drei starken [The three strong ones]
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Maker: Unterholzer, Josef E
This sculpture consists of the figures of an old woman with a rosary, a young mother with a baby in her arms and in between them, an Austrian soldier who is protecting them all. The sculpture suggests...ART92944
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Digger's boot
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Maker: Unknown
Chalk carving of a digger's boot. Details of the boot are carved into the surface, including tread, eyelets and stitching. The piece was made by a Turkish prisoner of war who presented it to General...ART16815
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"Drake", Plymouth
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Maker: Bolton, Frederick Charles
A rough sketch of the statue of Sir Francis Drake situated in the Plymouth Hoe. Frederick enlisted 5 January 1918 in Sydney, New South Wales. He was posted to the Field companies Engineers, 1st Draf...ART90377.022
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Elevation sketch for Simpson and his donkey
Art
Maker: Dabro, Ante
Elevation sketch for Simpson and his donkey, Australian War Memorial, Canberra.ART29062
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Field Marshal Birdwood
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Maker: Tribe, Barbara
Bronze bust of Field Marshal Lord William Birdwood.ART27652
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[Gallipoli landscape with recumbent Greek figure]
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Maker: Nolan, Sidney
Gallipoli landscape with recumbent Greek figure on a piece of Greek architecture over blue sea with cliffs in background. Nolan is here overtly playing off the themes of the Trojan War and the Anzac s...ART91226
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General Sir John Monash Commemorative Sculpture
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Maker: Holland-Batt, Sarah Robb, Charles Billmans Foundry
‘This work—a collaboration between a sculptor and poet—combines the language of figurative statuary with text drawn from General Sir John Monash’s writings to honour one of Australia’s greatest milita...AWM2018.419.1
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'Gladys' is these bairns mother
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Paper statue of the artist with miniature versions of the "Somme hero", the "Dinkum digger" and the "Flapper's idol", all characters from Blaiberg's various paper sculptures. The caption makes clever ...ART40938
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His English bride
Art
Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Miniature paper statue of Australian soldier with English bride.ART40963
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Infantry
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Maker: Hoff, Rayner
Study for part of the interior frieze of the Anzac Memorial Building, Hyde Park, Sydney. Three uniformed figures representing Artillery, Infantry and Light horse in the foreground; naked marching men ...ART50288
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Location sketch for Simpson and his donkey
Art
Maker: Dabro, Ante
Location sketch for Simpson and his donkey, Australian War Memorial, Canberra.ART29061
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Louis McCubbin
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie Perrin Sculpture Foundry Pty Ltd
This bronze cast of the head of Louis McCubbin was cast from an original plaster by William Leslie Bowles. In 1924, the two artists worked together with Wallace Anderson, and Charles Webb Gilbert on t...ART94001
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Maquette for Geelong Grammar School war memorial
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Maker: Lambert, George
This is a small modeling clay study (maquette) for the final large scale bronze for the Geelong Grammar School war memorial. The work was commissioned by the Old Geelong Grammarians Association to co...ART40999
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Maquette for 'The Anzacs' [Desert Mounted Corps Memorial]
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Maker: Gilbert, Charles Web Gregory, E J
Light Horseman mounted on rearing horse, while NZ Mounted Rifleman is dismounting as his horse scrambles to its feet, created to commemorate the Australians and New Zealanders of the Desert Mounted Co...ART12593.001
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Memoir
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Maker: Macnamara, Shirley
Inspired by the commemorative events held to mark the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign, "Memoir" commemorates the service of Indigenous soldiers who fought overseas and were never recognise...ART96854
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Menin Gate lions
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Maker: Dubois
The Menin Gate Lions are one of the most well-known objects in the Memorial’s collection, flanking the main building’s entrance through which all visitors pass. They represent the ongoing friendship b...ART12510
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mould for Bullecourt Digger
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Maker: Corlett, Peter
In August 1992 the Office of the Australian War graves commissioned Melbourne artist Peter Corlett to create a sculpture to commemorate the 10,000 Australians who were killed or wounded in the two bat...ART93141
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not titled [clay figure from 'Coming World Remember Me' installation]
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Maker: Vanmechelen, Koen
This clay figure is one of 600,000 from participatory installation 'Coming World Remember Me'. "CWRM [Coming World Remember Me] wants to give a voice to all those who were silenced on the battlegrou...AWM2022.216.1
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Not titled [portrait bust of a woman, Hagar]
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Maker: Unknown
Marble bust of a woman (Hagar) purportedly taken from a tomb in the ruins of the Palace of Zenobia, in Palmyra (then known in Arabic as Tadmur) in central Syria. Archaeologists have discovered no trac...ART00484
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not titled [sketch of a statue on a plinth]
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Maker: Bolton, Frederick Charles
Sketch of a figurative statue on a plinth. Frederick enlisted 5 January 1918 in Sydney, New South Wales. He was posted to the Field companies Engineers, 1st Draft Reinforcements, as a surveyor and dra...ART90377.017
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Old Bill
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Paper statue of an old Australian soldier. He carries a full kit including tin helmet, drink bottle, sleeping back and rifle. He has a scarf wrapped around his head and he smokes a pipe. Bruce Bairnsf...ART40940
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Overall design for 'The Anzacs' [Desert Mounted Corps Memorial]
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Maker: Gilbert, Charles Web
In 1923, Charles Web Gilbert, with architects Stephenson & Meldrum, were awarded first prize for their winning design for the 'Monument to the soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Forces who lai...ART12593
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Part of the reins from the statue on the breakwater at Port Said
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Maker: Gilbert, Charles Web
This is a small bronze fragment from the reins of the Desert Mounted Corps memorial. Designed by Charles Web Gilbert, it was worked on briefly by Paul Montford, before being completed by Sir Bertram ...ART90021
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Patriotism
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Maker: Montford, Paul Meridian Sculpture Founders
Paul Montford arrived in Australia from England in 1923 with a strong reputation as a sculptor. He had trained at the Royal Academy School as a scholarship holder, won numerous sculpture prizes, exhi...ART41009
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Patriotism
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Maker: Montford, Paul
The maquette for 'Patriotism' a granite buttress group of the Shrine of Remembrance. The maquette has a detachable statuette.ART41008
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recto: [Exhibition flyer]; verso: [Ammunition dump and encampments]
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
A sketch for an exhibition flyer of works by Arthur Streeton to be exhibited in 1925. The image is of bust sculpture of a woman with winged wreath. The verso is the left side of a sketch of an ammunit...ART93175.011
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Saint Cecilia
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Maker: Unknown
Head of Saint Cecilia, the Patront Saint of Music. The work was taken from the ruins of Amiens Cathedral. It was found by Captain James Florance and carried by him throughout 1914. The surface of t...ART19703
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Study for 'Sacrifice'
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Maker: Hoff, Rayner
Head study for 'Sacrifice'; a preliminary work for the central figure inside the Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park South, Sydney, the principal NSW State war memorial. Hoff's sculpture is the main focus of th...ART92622
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The call to duty: join the Army: for home and country
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Maker: after Edoardo Cammilli American Lithographic Company
First World War recruitment poster issued by the Recruiting Committee of the Mayor of New York's Committee on National Defence. It features a depiction of a bugler based on a sculpture by Italian arti...ARTV06147
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The Work of Charles Bean 2
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Maker: Bailey, Jane Estelle
Bronze sculpture of Charles Bean’s Corona typewriter and open Gallipoli journal in oversized scale. Artist Jane Bailey states that, ‘The sculpture recreates a moment when Charles Bean might have paus...AWM2019.183.1
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They put him on a monument
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Plaster sculpture of a monument to the Australian lighthorseman. An Australian, in full military uniform, rides a horse holding aloft a sword in his right hand. Below him is the inscription 'Like a kn...ART40961
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Untitled (figure from Rabaul)
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Maker: Unknown
Tribal carving of figure with painted surface. The figure holds above above its head and has a snake wrapped arounds its body. It has two red seeds for eyes, a torso painted yellow and shoulders col...ART09334
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When you're a long long way from home
Art
Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Paper sculpture of an Australian soldier sitting on a post, smoking a cigarette, his legs are crossed and he looks longingly into the distance. The post is inscribed 10,000 MILES. The soldier appears ...ART40953