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Action at Parit Sulong, January 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This work depicts the fighting at Parit Sulong by the men of the 2/15th Australian Field Regiment. A 25 pounder gun is in the lower right corner. This battle became the scene of a massacre at the hand...ART24477
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Anti-aircraft defence
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
A Bofors 40mm anti aircraft gun and a slit trench. Emplacements are sand - bagged for protection. In the foreground is an observer's position. The occupant left his steel helmet lying on the ground ou...ART30066
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Anti-aircraft defences, Marsa Matruh
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts unidentified Australian soldiers standing with a Bren gun mounted on a tripod for anti-aircraft defence in the Western Desert during the North African campaign. Hele was serving as a private i...ART22868
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Anti-aircraft gun and enemy bombers
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
An incident on the Beirut - Damour Road. Anti-aircraft gun in action against enemy planes. Allied naval vessels are in the distance. Banana, prickly pear and olive trees were the chief form of vegetat...ART30055
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Artillery Lieutenant (Lieutenant Graham)
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Graham, RAA, who served in Crete and Syria, where he was wounded.ART21490
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14 Australian Anti-aircraft Battery (Bombardier William Richards)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Bombardier William Charles Richards, NX146567, of the 14th Australian Anti-Aircraft Battery, carrying a 3.7 inch anti-aircraft shell. He is standing in front of an ammunition storage recess in a gun ...ART22724
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Battin' the breeze (Sergeant Frederick Nielsen (USAAF) and Private Sam Brook (Australian))
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy Cecil
Depicts Sergeant F. K. Nielsen, 9 Fighter Squadron USAAF on the left chatting with Private Sam Brook, returned for Middle East, Darwin. The objective of this drawing was to capture a typical American ...ART21346
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Bofors gun site
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Maker: Baird, John
Bombardier Les Barrett, Dave Ritchie, and Gunner Don 'Stork' Hill (l-r), RAA, are depicted standing near a Bofors anti-aircraft gunART27870
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Bombardier Les Barrett
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Maker: Baird, John
Portrait of Bombardier Leslie George 'Les' Barrett, NX132451, Royal Australian Artillery, depicted writing at his desk. Beside him on the bunk his rifle and kit are layed out ready for inspection.ART27879
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Bombardment of Damour
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Bombardment of Damour. Evacuees leaving Damour with their packs and donkeys. Transport has stopped. The town is being shelled by the Navy and allied artillery. Large fires were started. The impression...ART30074
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Camouflaged artillery
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a 25 pounder gun camouflaged outside of Damour, Syria (now in Lebanon). Produced during the Syrian campaign and painted in July 1941. The artist wrote of the work 'Camouflaged artillery - Un...ART30090
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Camouflaged Gun Positions, Middle Head, Sydney
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Richard Ashton, an artist with the Military History Section, painted a number of works related to Australia's defences during the Second World War. This work depicts anti aircraft guns in place at Mi...ART23665
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Coastal defence gun
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Artillerymen from the Australian Military Forces crew a 6 inch naval gun on the coast in Darwin. The gun is one that was manufactured before 1914 and is probably off one of the First World War ships, ...ART22186
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Colonel Hudson
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Portrait of VX117083 Colonel Jack Gerard Varley Hudson , Officer Commanding of Anti Aircraft Group, Port Moresby, New Guinea.ART23655
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Gunner Harold Hiatt
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait depicting Gunner Harold Oswald Hiatt, VX37290, Royal Australian Artillery, 9th Division, 2/4th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment.ART22103
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Gunner in tin hat and sheepskin coat
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Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of an unidentified gunner from the 2nd Australian Imperial Force during the North African campaign. Dargie noted, "Typical of the garb of the troops in the winter in Lebanon. He wears a Syr...ART22226
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Gunner Jackie Peacock
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts a portrait of Gunner Jackie Peacock, 14 Australian Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Australian Artillery. In the background is a headland, on the end of which is located the boom on a defence whar...ART22727
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Gunner Mick Sawyer
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of Gunner Mick Sawyer of the Royal Australian Artillery, Woorim Fortress and Coastal Defence Units, Bribie Island, Queensland.ART29933
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Gunner Taiswell
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Depicts an unfinished drawing of Gunner Taiswell, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), Darwin.ART25974
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6 inch gun, Middle Head, Sydney
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Royal Australian Artillery; breech block of 6 inch gun and sights, Middle Head GarrisonART23646
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Infecting mosquitoes with malaria (Gunner Gilbert Seaton)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Seated at the LHQ Medical Research Unit, Gunner Gilbert Rowland Seaton (WX22004), RAA, is a voluteer participant in the top secret studies that were aimed to further knowledge about the treatment and ...ART24269
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"Junior" Frawley and "Willo" Willis
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Maker: Baird, John
Double portrait of soldiers 'Junior' Frawley and 'Willo' Willis, Anti Aircraft, Royal Australian Artillery. Frawley is depicted wearing a modified 'giggle' suit without sleeves and with the trouser le...ART27878
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Lewis gun attached to 14 Australian Anti-aircraft Battery, Darwin (Gunner Tommy Hill and Gunner Neil Cook)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Anti-aircraft defences of the 14th Anti-Aircaft Battery, gunners Thomas Hill (left) and Neil Cook operating a Lewis machine gun in a sandbagged gun pit.ART22720
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Lieutenant Colonel Cranston McEachern
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Cranston McEachern (QX6176), Commanding 2/24th Anti-Tank Regiment, RAA at Muar River. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore.ART26444
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Lieutenant Don Brown and Sergeant John Ash
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts Lieutenant D.N.B Brown and Sergeant J. Ash. Lieutenant D.N.B Brown, section commander of Anti-Aircraft, Light Machine Gun Section, 14th Australian Anti-Aircraft Battery who were defending the ...ART22722
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Lieutenant Harry Sherring
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of Lieutenant Harry Robert Sherring, NX33441, 2/14 Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, lying in a hospital bed at a casualty clearing station in Finschafen, New Guinea.ART22105
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Lieutenant Harry Sherring lying in a hospital bed
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of Lieutenant Harry Robert Sherring, Royal Australian Artillery, 2/14th Field Regiment, NX3341, lying in a hospital bed, hands resting on the sheets.ART22104
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Lieutenant Roden Cutler
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Maker: Hanke, Henry
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant A Roden Cutler, VC, 2/5th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. He was awarded the Victoria Cross during the campaign in Syria in 1941 for outstanding work in fi...ART22351
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"Mac" of Ack-Ack Hill, Port Moresby
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Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait sketch of an Australian soldier identified only as "Mac" from the 23 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery of the Royal Australian Artillery.ART21311
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Major General Cecil Callaghan
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Before the fall of Singapore, Brigadier Callaghan was in command of the Royal Australian Artillery of the 8th Division located in Malaya. His immediate superior was Lieutenant General Henry Gordon Ben...ART25078
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Middle Head garrison
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
An encampment for men of the Fortress and Coastal Defence Units. Tents and the site of 6 inch gun can be seen in the foreground, Middle Head Garrison is visible in the distance.ART23662
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25-pounder in action, Sollum
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicting a 25-pounder field gun in action near Sollum in the Western Desert, Egypt.ART26566
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25-pounder in action, Sollum
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Members of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force manning a 25 pounder gun in Sollum, Libya during the North African Campaign.ART28472
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2/3rd Australian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Sydney
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A gun crew of the 2/3rd Australian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun rushes to Action Stations on the sounding of an alarm at the Regiment's position, Sydney Harbour.ART23659
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Reading mail, Darwin
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Maker: Baird, John
Two soldiers are depicted in Darwin: Gunner Neil Oscar Maher (left), VX134882, Victoria, is sitting on a window sill with his leg in plaster, while Gunner Bert Clark (right), Royal Australian Artille...ART27875
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Samuel (Jack) Barton
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of NX30078 Sergeant Samuel John 'Jack' Barton, 2/15 Fd Regt; defence of Malaya and, Segamat, Muar River. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to co...ART28403.038
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Searchlight
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Searchlight - Final touches before evening manoeuvres. Time is about sunset'.ART30087
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Searchlight overhaul
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Search light overhaul - Late afternoon preparations for work at night. A felucca under sail is seen beyond an anti-aircraft gun in the distance'.ART30082
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Sergeant Efremof
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Maker: Baird, John
Portrait of Sergeant Efremof, Static Heavy Anti-Aircraft Batteries, Royal Australian Artillery, seated at a table writing by the light of a hurricane lamp in an underground plotting room, Darwin Showg...ART27883
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Sergeant Francis Ker
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a portrait of SX10535 Sergeant Francis George Innes Ker, 2/14 Australian Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, Alexishafen, New Guinea.ART22668
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Sergeant Langston
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Maker: Baird, John
Portrait of Sergeant Vivian Leslie Langston (NX106290), 19 Australian Anti-Aircraft Battery, (Ack, Ack), Royal Australian Artillery, seated on a stretcher.ART27882
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Sketch in Australian positions near village of Skamnos, Brallos Pass
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Maker: Dargie, William
Showing where 2/2nd Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery and 2/2nd Australian Infantry Battalion held positions during the rearguard action fought in Brallos Pass during the withdrawal from Gree...ART24012
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Soldier reading Euripides (Gunner G. Collins)
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Gunner G. Collins, Royal Australian Artillery, reading Euripides, a Sydney Universty undergraduate imbibing the classics at Leave and Transit Depot,Claremont, Western Australia.ART25345
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Soldier resting
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait depicting Sergeant Francis George Innes Ker, Royal Australian Artillery, 2/14th Australian Field Regiment.ART22116
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Spud barbers
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Maker: Baird, John
Two soldiers, Private Fullagar (left) and Gunner Smith (right), are depicted seated on boxes peeling potatoes, while Bluey Hall watches through a window in the background.ART27877
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The Major
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Portrait of Major Daniel James Toomey (N58725 ), 2/14th Field Regiment, 54th Artillery Battery, Royal Australian Artillery, at Base Hospital.ART29846
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Warrant Officer 2 William Dougall
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Royal Australian Artillery; VX101384 Warrant II William Reginald Dougall, RAAART25383