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A battleship's propellors
Art
Maker: Ragless, Max
Looking under the hull of the British battleship HMS Duke of York, showing two of the four huge propellors. The battleship is in dry dock at Garden Island, undergoing a refit.ART23133
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Adams, Harold Victor (Warrant Officer, b.1917 - d.2010)
Private Record
Maker: Adams, Harold Victor Royal Australian Air Force
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 11061 Warrant Officer Harold Victor Adams, 43 Squadron, 112 Air-Sea Rescue Squadron, and 20 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Australia and N...PR05173
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A.I.F engineers road building
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
Engineers from the Australian Imperial Force are depicted as they build a road above Rouna, Port Moresby.ART29862
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Aliakmon River and escarpment
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
It was near this point, south-west of Servia, that the 19th Australian Infantry Brigade crossed the river over a hastily constructed and improvised bridge built by 2/1st Australian Field Company, Roya...ART23972
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A mosquito on the assembly line
Art
Maker: Ragless, Max
Men working on the engine of a Mosquito fighter aircraft at the works of the manufacturer, the DeHaviland Aircraft Company at Bankstown, Sydney.ART23123
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Australian landing point, Dutch Timor
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
The beach at Oesapa Besar, near Koepang, Dutch Timor, where troops of "Sparrow Force", landed. "Sparrow Force", which was the Australian component of the Dutch-Australian Force to occupy the Island of...ART26158
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Beaufort Railway Station, Hospital
Art
Maker: Flett, James
Centre of the celebrated Jeep Railway system where regular services operated to Papar and Weston. Jeeps were converted from rubber tyres to flanged wheels by the rushed labours of Australian Engineers...ART23357
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Blown bridge over Aliakmon River
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
The southern buttress of the bridge can be seen in the centre. All three spans of the bridge were dropped into the river when it was blown. The charges were laid by Lance Corporal J.R. Buckingham of 2...ART23971
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Bridge above Rouna Falls
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
A scene of bridge repairs by engineers over Rouna River, Port Moresby.ART29911
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Bridge Building Engineers
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
Road clearing and Bridge Building Engineers above Rouna Falls. Depicts two trucks in foreground and a figure of a man working on the Bridge in middle ground, with a hill to the left with two trucks in...ART28202
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Building Corvette, Mary River Maryborough
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
At one end of the town of Maryborough are the engineering works and shipbuilding yards of Walkers Limited, a very old Queensland firm building locomotives, sugar mill machinery, ships and every kind o...ART25567
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Changing evaporation coils, HMAS Westralia
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
Engineers and engine room staff changing evaporator coils for fresh water supply in No 5 Hold, HMAS" Westralia". These supply fresh water (rationed) for ship's company and troops, Bougainville.ART21140
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Checking up on an engine
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Showing a engineer working on one of the four Pratt and Whitney R 1830-65 engines of a Liberator which the previous night had bombed Radar installations on Great Cocoa Island from Digri, India.ART23154
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Clearing the junction of the Beirut-Aley, and Beirut-Damascus roads of snow under the direction of RE
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
An exceptional fall of snow throughout the Lebanon dislocated transport for several days. Here is seen locals under the direction of Australian Army Engineers, clearing the snow from the junction of t...ART26960
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Control platform of a frigate
Art
Maker: Adams, Dennis
An engineer watches the control platform in the engine room of a frigate. He wears a sleeveless shirt to keep cool in the hot closed space. The artist was fascinated by the different jobs and working ...ART23476
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Engineers repairing bridge, Wewak, N.G.
Art
Maker: Rowed, Reg Rowed, Reginald
Australian Army Engineers repairing a bridge at Wewak, New Guinea, about a mile from Cape Worn on the road to Wewak Point. A wrecked Japanese truck can be seen in the stream below the road.ART23726
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Engine room - HMS "Chitral"
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
On the control platform between the main engines an engineer is writing up the log of his watch before handing over to his relief. In peacetime this ship, a former PO lines, had two funnels, the secon...ART21067
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Field Engineers
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
A scene showing the 1st Field Engineers building a road over a hill near Bootless Inlet, Port Moresby.ART29853
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Fitting the Mustang engine cowl
Art
Maker: Ragless, Max
Engineers are fitting the top cowl over the Rolls Royce 'Merlin' engine on the Mustang aircraft.ART23105
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Forward engine room
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
Looking across the forward engine room HMAS "Sydney". The Officer of the Watch - an Engineer Lieutenant, is studying a battery of gauges. In the centre are port turbines, beyond them the gear box and ...ART30034
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Gillies, Alexander Glendale (Engineer, b.1918 - d.2003)
Private Record
Maker: Gillies, Alexander Glendale Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of Engineer Alexander Glendale Gillies, Australian Merchant Navy, Australia, Somalia, at sea and India, 1940-1941. Wallet 1 of 1 – Contains two fol...AWM2022.76.1
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Housewife : Private K S Allen, 9th Field Ambulance, AIF, and Private G S Allen, Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Standard khaki cotton housewife of First World War issue, featuring three large internal pockets. A long white cotton tape tie has been sewn to the closing flap and may be a replacement. The interior ...REL33428
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Howard Springs, weir site
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Maker: Dowman, G S
Tractor, operated by Australian sapper hauling mud in a carryall. A number of these machines were used to scoop soil from the weir site depositing it along a semi circular track.ART25273
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Informal portrait of Merchant Navy Engineer Leslie Jones with his wife Georgine during a period ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Informal portrait of Merchant Navy Engineer Leslie Jones with his wife Georgine during a period of shore leave in 1940. On February 19 1942 Jones was Second Engineer aboard the 2/1st Australian Hosp...P09959.002
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Invasion barges at launching bay, Boggy Creek, Brisbane
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
The development of these all-welded steel landing barges was the work of the Ford Motor Company in Brisbane in conjunction with naval and military engineers. The first barge to be built measured only ...ART25585
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Japanese engineer
Art
Maker: Walker, Ralph
Bronze head of a Japanese Engineer Officer, POW, Rabaul.ART40922
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Japanese Head
Art
Maker: Walker, Ralph
Plaster model for 'Japanese Head'. Head of a Japanese Engineer Officer, POW, Rabaul. The bust stands on a wooden oval base.ART26755
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Japanese mines dug from Brooketon - Brunei road
Art
Maker: Flett, James
Three land mines just excavated from the roadway may be seen to the right of the picture. Troops of the 20th Australian Infantry Brigade are moving along the road, preceded by engineers with mine-dete...ART26038
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Kumusi River, 1942
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Wire rope bridge built by Australian engineers on the Kumusi River, New Guinea.ART28564
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McCabe, Bernard Henry (Private, b.1903 - d.1950)
Private Record
Maker: McCabe, Bernard Henry
Collection relating to the Second World War service of WX7858 Private Bernard Henry McCabe, 2/6 Field Company, Second Australian Imperial Force, Malaya and Singapore, 1942-1944. Wallet 1 of 1 – Consi...PR04276
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Men of service [railway engineer]
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Maker: Freedman, Harold F W Niven Pty Ltd
One of a series of eight posters by Harold Freedman commissioned by the Victorian Railways soon after the Second World War. Issued to highlight the contribution of its staff, who kept the railway oper...ARTV10238
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Model makers
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Interior of a camouflage workroom situated on the upper floor of Melbourne Museum, which in peace time was used by the taxidermists. Originally started by the Department of Interior, Home Security, wa...ART23690
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Outfitting vessels at Tulloch's
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Two ships are tied together at the outfitting berth and the work proceeds on the 'internals', superstructure and the engine room. Engineer workers, electricians, plumbers, joiners, crane drivers, pain...ART21368
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Portrait of QX1787 Private (Pte) Kenneth Wyman Rees, 2/9th Battalion, of Hurlstone Park, NSW. A ...
Photograph
Maker: Unkles, John Unknown
Portrait of QX1787 Private (Pte) Kenneth Wyman Rees, 2/9th Battalion, of Hurlstone Park, NSW. A refrigeration engineer prior to the war, he enlisted on 12 June 1940. While participating in the defence...P07685.001
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Portrait of Robert Lawrence who served as 5044 Private Robert Lawrence (also spelt Laurence) ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Portrait of Robert Lawrence who served as 5044 Private Robert Lawrence (also spelt Laurence) during the First World War. He was born in London, England on 14 December 1901 but emigrated to Australia s...P05573.001
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Potter, Oswald Spencer
Private Record
Maker: Potter, Oswald Spencer Various
Collection relating to the civilian work of Oswald Spencer Potter during the Second World War in Sydney. Lecture notes, pamphlets, plans, reports and letters concerning the design of civilian air raid...PR00063
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Private Bernard Guggemos (US Airborne Engineers Aviation Battalion)
Art
Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait sketch of ASN36416051 Private Bernard Guggemos, United States Army, 875 Airborne Engineers Aviation Battalion, Aitape, New Guinea.ART21638
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recto: Major Nevill verso: In the church of Nasing Alatu
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
recto: A print of a pencil portrait of Major Nevill an engineer with the US 6th Army in Finschhaffen, New Guinea. Verso: Drawing of two carved Papua New Guinean wooden totem poles in a church in Nasin...ART28167.009
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Road building above Rouna Falls
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Personnel from 2/6 Field Engineers are shown building a road above Rouna Falls. These falls were well known to Australian soldiers in 1942 making their way from Port Moresby up to the Sogeri Plateau a...ART29906
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Rouna Road at the 'hairpins'
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
A view of Rouna Road on a steep hill shown with trucks driving along it and engineers of 2/7 Field Coy Australian Australian Imperial Force widening and repairing it. This road led to the Kokoda Track...ART28203
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Sapper building water towers
Art
Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Sappers building water tower. Tower of tubular scaffolding at a training camp on the banks of the Murray River, New South Wales.ART26123
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S Bend-Sogeri Valley Rd
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Engineers working to enlarge the curve of this stiff bend of the Sogari Valley road, New Guinea.ART22269
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Splitting timber for the Corduroy Track - Australian Engineers working on Moresby-Kokoda supply line
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Australian soldiers are splitting timber for the corduroy track. Dargie noted, "Some of the swampy and steep parts of this trail would have been impassable for large bodies of troops and supplies with...ART22084
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Starboard 6" gun - HMS "Chitral"
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
From the fo'castle looking aft across the well deck. The crew of one of the ship's 6-inch guns are closed up at actions stations (exercise). The square bridge is typical of this class of former P&O li...ART21155
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Studio portrait of WX11141 Major (Maj) John Godsell Foreman MC, 2/13 Field Company, Royal ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Studio portrait of WX11141 Major (Maj) John Godsell Foreman MC, 2/13 Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers (RAE). A native of Kalgoorlie, WA, Maj Foreman enlisted on 28 July 1941. In 1943 Maj Fore...P07820.001
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Study
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
A study depicting a portrait of an unidentified Australian soldier.ART26886
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Study for 'Engineers bridge building'
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian engineers building a bridge over Driniumor River in New Guinea. This drawing is a study for the work titled 'Engineers bridge building'.ART90291
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Tents and buildings of the Signals Training Depot at the Tamworth Showgrounds. The tents in the ...
Photograph
Maker: Humphery, Robert Claude Vivian
Tents and buildings of the Signals Training Depot at the Tamworth Showgrounds. The tents in the distance are part of the Engineers' Training Depot, who shared the showground. The building on the right...P02835.016
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The first Mustang
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Maker: Ragless, Max
The first machine of this type, the Mustang, produced by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation at Fishermans Bend, Victoria. The aircraft is nearing completion and is the centre of attraction. Fitte...ART23103
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top image: Church between Thermopylae and Lamia-Brallos Pass road, Greece; bottom image: Indian engineers repairing bridge at the foot of Brallos Pass
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
top image: Pencil sketch of a church and some trees. In this area the 6th Australian Division fought rearguard against invading German forces and delaying action during the British forces withdrawal ...ART24004
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upper left image; Three Japs in trench; upper right image: Engineers and log; lower image: Troops waiting and marching on barges
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Three sketches featuring images from New Guinea during the Second World War. The upper left image is of three Japanese soldiers in a trench. The upper right image is of Australian engineers carrying...ART90294
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Wallet 1 of 1 - Letters from Harold Stephen White to his sister Freda White and other material, 1914-1941
Digitised Collection
Maker: White, Harold Stephen
Collection relating to the First World War and Second World War service of NX476 (144) Major Harold Stephen White, 1 Pioneer Battalion and 2/1 Pioneer Battalion, France, Belgium, India, 1914-1941. W...AWM2021.7.152
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White, Harold Stephen (Major, b.1891 - d.1941)
Private Record
Maker: White, Harold Stephen
Collection relating to the First World War and Second World War service of NX476 (144) Major Harold Stephen White, 1 Pioneer Battalion and 2/1 Pioneer Battalion, France, Belgium, India, 1914-1941. W...PR03495
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Whittaker's bridge
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Dargie noted of this drawing: "Timber and piles having been procured from the sawmill, construction of the bridge was begun in 1944. On that day Corporal Whittaker, plant operator, began sounding the ...ART23498