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Battlefield burial of three NCOs
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
On the afternoon of 29 July 1943 three sections of Major George Warfe's 2/3rd Independent Company attacked Timbered Knoll, a Japanese position on the slopes of Bobdubi Ridge in New Guinea. That attack...ART22560
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Boxing day
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Maker: Aria, George Aubrey Aria, George Aubrey
A cartoon depicting Churchill and Roosevelt putting a lid on a coffin marked 'Axis'.ART92369
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Burial of an airman killed in action
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Padre Flight Lieutenant Campbell Begbie of 22 Squadron RAAF, conducts the funeral of Sergeant Arthur Taylor, also of 22 Squadron, who was killed in action on 24 May 1943. The pall bearers and mourner...ART21708
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Burial of a soldier
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Maker: Herman, Sali
A group of Australian soldiers burying a dead comrade in a jungle clearing in New Guinea.ART22891
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Burial of Corporal Hooks, Corporal Buckingham and Sergeant 'Bonny' Muir, Timbered Knoll
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Soldiers from 2/3 Australian Independent Company burying Corporal Hooks, Corporal Buckingham and VX57539 Lance Sergeant A S 'Bonny' Muir, all from 2/3 Independent Company.ART22515
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Burial of the native child
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Maker: Dargie, William
Dargie noted, "One of the native men scrapes a shallow hole in the earth with a pointed stick. The police boy places the child in this and the earth is pushed back. The mother squats down beside it an...ART23818
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Burial service, Aitape, New Guinea
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a scene of unidentified men gathered around grave site, other graves in area, possibly Padre Ronald Arthur Terrence O'Brien, Chaplain Fourth Class, 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Mili...ART22150
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[Cemetery]
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Maker: Banks, Gillian
Koo-wee-rup; woman digging grave in makeshift cemetery while others carry coffin for burial. This work illustrates the fact that the women POWs often had to bury their own dead.ART28536.004
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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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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