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Airman (design for Hall of Memory mosaic pendentive)
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Airman of RAAF, design used on pendentive in Hall of Memory, Australian War Memorial, Canberra.ART29387
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Assembling rockets
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
As an official war artist in Korea, Ivor Hele documented the activities of No. 77 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), based at Kimpo. This drawing shows RAAF ground crew doing the hot and phy...ART40350
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Battalion regimental aid post
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
An unusual converted jeep/ambulance stretcher carrier near dugouts at 1 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment's aid post, Commonwealth Division, Jamestown Line area, Korea.ART40364
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Briefing room
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian pilots from 77 Squadron RAAF, Kimpo, Korea, being briefed before a sortie.ART40320
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Bringing pickets up the ridge
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian infantrymen from 3 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, Commonwealth Division in Korea, distributing pickets in a jeep and a trailer. The pickets were for shoring up fences and barbed wire ...ART40392
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Centurion tank
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
In his capacity as Official War Artist in Korea, Ivor Hele was 'requested to paint the men and machines of 77 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force in Kimpo. This work shows Australian soldiers stripp...ART40305
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Cleaning the guns on a jet aircraft
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian ground staff cleaning the 20 mm. Hispano cannons of a Gloster Meteor jet fighter of 77 Squadron RAAF, Kimpo, Korea.ART40361
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Command post, Hill 210
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
The command post for 1 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, at Hill 210, Jamestown Line area, Korea.ART40378
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Command post, top of Hill 355, Kowang San, Korea
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Command post of the Commonwealth Division, Hill 355, Kowang San, Jamestown Line Area, Korea. Hill 355 was known as 'Little Gibraltar' to the Australians.ART40386
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CO's caravan truck
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Hassett's caravan truck parked within two large trees. Hassett commanded the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, which was part of the Commonwealth D...ART40387
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Crap game in Air Crew Club
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
A group of Australian aircraft pilots from 77 Squadron RAAF playing a Crap game at the games table in the Air Crew Club, Kimpo, Korea.ART40357
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Digging and wiring
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Ivor Hele made hundreds of sketches while observing the activities of the 3RAR. As he had done in the Second World War, Hele shared the front line with the troops, and often experienced the same const...ART40369
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Digging crawl trenches on the Lozenge
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
A mass of bodies from 3 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, stripped to the waist digging crawl trenches with pickaxes on the Lozenge, Korea.ART40302
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Digging in
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers from 3 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment digging trenches on the Jamestown Line, Korea.ART40401
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Digging party going up ridge
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Digging party of Australian soldiers climbing a ridge, carrying picks and shovels, Jamestown Line Area, Korea.ART40403
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Don't go to sleep. A truce is not a peace
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Maker: Unknown United States Army United States Army
A cautionary US Army poster from the Korean War warning troops to keep alert despite a truce being declared on 27 July 1953. A soldier sleeps on a stick of dynamite labelled "TRUCE", his rifle on the ...ARTV08071
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Don't let down good soldiering...
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Maker: Unknown US Army US Army
A cautionary US Army poster from the Korean War advising troops to maintain their soldiering standards following the signing of the armistice on 27 July 1953. The silhouette of a soldier standing with...ARTV08072
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Dug-out, Hill 210
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
A 'hoochy' or dugout used for living quarters for members of 1 Battalion at Hill 210, Korea.ART40388
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Eating in the trenches, Hill 210
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Possibly American soldiers eating in the trenches, Jamestown Line Area, Korea.ART40375
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Going for swim at end of day's digging
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian infantrymen from 3 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, going for a swim at the end of the day's digging, Jamestown Line Area, Korea.ART40382
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Going on leave, British air head, Seoul
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian infantrymen with kitbags waiting to go on leave. The "air head" refers to the British Commonwealth air base at Seoul, from which an aerial shuttle service transported troops and supplies be...ART40372
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Going on leave inside a ferry travelling from Iwakuni to Kure 20 May 1952
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian infantrymen resting in the interior of a Japanese ferry travelling between Iwakuni and Kure on 20 May 1952.ART40311
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Hill 317
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Hill 317 and adjoining country, site of battles between 3 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment and Chinese forces, known as Operation Commando. Hill 317 was a strongly defended Chinese position that wa...ART40314
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HMAS 'Murchison' bombarding enemy positions on the Han River Estuary, Korea 1951
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Maker: McFadyen, Ken
Royal Australian Navy HMAS 'Murchison' shelling North Korean positions on the Han River Estuary, near the mouth of the Yesong River, Korea,1951.ART40820
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HMAS Sydney in Korean waters, 1951-52
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Maker: Honisett, Ray
The HMAS Sydney in Korean waters launching Hawker Sea Fury fighters. The HMAS Sydney is flanked on either sides by her destroyer escorts HMAS Tobruk, and HMCS Sioux. A rescue helicopter is hovering a...ART28077
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Inside of dug-out, Hill 210
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian infantryman from 28 Brigade, 1 Battalion, 1st Commonwealth Division, without shirt and wearing a beanie, sitting in a dugout at Hill 210, Jamestown Line, Korea, during the 'static war' per...ART40306
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Join the navy, army, air force
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Maker: Unknown Australian Defence Force Unknown
A recruitment poster showing a sailor, soldier and airman marching together. Only the top half of their bodies are shown and each man looks over his right shoulder. The words 'Look to the services f...ARTV04223
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Kapyong landscape
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Landscape at Kapyong Valley in Korea during the Battle of Kapyong, 23-25 April 1951.ART40313
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Leaving the Lozenge Feature
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian infantrymen of 3 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, Commonwealth Division, leaving a place known as 'The Lozenge feature', Jamestown Line area, Korea. They are carrying picks and shovels....ART40389
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Lifting coils of barbed wire
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Two Australian infantrymen lifting coils of barbed wire on or off a truck at the Jamestown Line Area, Korea. One of them is wearing an American 'pile' cap; these were preferred because of their warmth...ART40379
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Loading rockets, 77 Squadron, Kimpo, Korea
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Two Australian ground crew loading rockets onto a Meteor jet on a runway in Korea. The work is a study for the painting, 'Adjusting rockets on jets, 77 Squadron, Kimpo, Korea'. The 77 Squadron was for...ART40352
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Medical air evacuation
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian airmen assisting in a medical air evacuation. The wounded are being carried on stretchers from an amubulance vehicle to a waiting aircraft to be flown from Kimpo to Japan for treatment at ...ART40301
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Mural of Australian military aircraft, Korea-Vietnam period
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Maker: Freedman, Harold
Mural of Australian military aircraft, Korea-Vietnam period. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war artist attached to the RAAF Historical War Records S...ART27777.004
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Paengyong Do, sail junk loading winter supplies
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Civilians from the Paengyong Do region, Korea wade into the shallow water as they load a sailing junk with winter supplies.ART40044
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Pilots getting up at 3.00 am
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
The naked figures of two Australian pilots from 77 Squadron RAAF, Kimpo, Korea, about to go on a sortie, rising to dress at 3.00 am.ART40323
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Playing draughts waiting for flight
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
A group of Australian pilots from 77 Squadron RAAF playing draughts while waiting for a flight at Kimpo air base in Korea.ART40321
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RAAF's first operation over North Korea, 2 July 1950
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Maker: Taylor, Robert
Six RAAF North American P51D Mustang fighter aircraft escorting nine USAF Boeing B29 Superfortress bombers on raid over North Korea. No enemy aircraft were sighted. Medium anti-aircraft fire forming a...ART28996
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88 radio set
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of a platoon signaller, with '88' radio set, wearing headphones and microphone (set carried in two pouches on chest), during the Korean War. The 88 radio was vital for maintaining communicati...ART40381
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Return from flight, locker room
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian men from the air crew of 77 Squadron RAAF in Kimpo, Korea, in their locker room after returning from a flight. Many of the men are writing at desks, possibly planning further aerial operat...ART40360
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Return of the Meteor jets, Kimpo, Korea
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
In the capacity of official war artist in Korea, Ivor Hele was 'requested to paint the men and machines of 77 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force at Kimpo. These are Meteor jets of 77 Squadron after ...ART40304
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Sailor, (design for Hall of Memory mosaic pendentive)
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seaman of RAN, design used on pendentives in Hall of MemoryART29385
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Soldier (design for Hall of Memory mosaic pendentive)
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Depict infantryman of 2 AIF, design used on pendentive in Hall of Memory, Australian War Memorial, Canberra. The for this image was Cliff Reynolds, a seaman. Cliff Reynolds was assistant to Paul Monfo...ART29384
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Study for: At the top, Hill 210
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Unidentified soldiers of 1st Battalion resting on top of Hill 210, which was part of the Jamestown Line, with their loads around them. Depicted in a period of static war.ART90319
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[study for Centurion tank]
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
A study for a Centurion tank; possibly Royal Armoured Corps, British Commonwealth Forces. It was probably drawn in the artist's studio as a preparatory sketch for the main painting 'Centurion tank' (A...ART90305
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Study for 'Centurion tank'
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
An armoured vehicle, a Centurion tank, possibly of the Royal Armoured Corps, British Commonwealth Forces, travelling over a war damaged landscape in the Jamestown Line Area, Korea. Australian soldiers...ART40408
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[Study for: Coming up Hill 210]
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Group of men from the 1st Battalion carrying heavy loads up Hill 210 as part of the Jamestown Line, in a period of static war.ART90318
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Study for HMAS 'Murchison' bombarding enemy positions on the River Han, Korea 1951
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Maker: McFadyen, Ken
RAN frigate HMAS 'Murchison' shelling North Korean positions on the Han Estuary, near the mouth of the Yesong River.ART40821
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Sunday Divisions, HMAS Commonwealth
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Maker: Norton, Frank
This scene is one of 3 watercolours painted by official war artist Frank Norton of HMAS Commonwealth Naval base in Kure Japan in 952. The artist noted in a letter to the Director of the Memorial 'Asho...ART40017
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Swimming in the Imjin River
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
A group of Australian soldiers swimming naked in the Imjin River, Jamestown Line Area, Korea, following a long day patrolling. The Imjin River is a major river, running through the Commonwealth sector...ART40374
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The road to Seoul
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
South Korean refugees moving along the Main Road to Seoul, carrying their belongings on their heads or on the traditional Korean A-frame: a load-carrying device used by the local Koreans.ART40393
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The services offer you...
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Maker: Unknown Australian Government Unknown
Recruiting poster issued by the Department of Defence showing a sailor, a soldier and an airman marching together. The words 'the services offer you travel, comradeship, proud careers' surround the f...ARTV08599
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Today's finest investment... 15th Security Loan
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Maker: Unknown Department of Treasury Unknown
View of an Australian city skyline from a river or harbour. The words 'Today's finest investment..15th Security Loan' appears in the sky.ARTV04369
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Wiring
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers of the 3rd Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, Commonwealth Division, laying out barbed wire for defences, minefields and entrenchments on the Jamestown Line, Korea.ART40362
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Wiring slope
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Much of the Korean War was fought in trenches along static defensive lines. Here Australian soldiers from 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, lay out barbed wire defences along the Jamestown Lin...ART40380