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Corona Four Typewriter : Captain M B Tindale, British Commonwealth Occupation Force
Heraldry
Maker: Smith-Corona Typewriters
Black non-folding, manual, portable, desktop typewriter complete with wooden and leatherette carry case. The aluminium and tin body is finished in black enamel paint. Forty two full size individual ke...REL38910
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Corporal Arnold Robinson
Art
Maker: Dowie, John Stuart
Depicts Corporal Arnold Robinson. Robinson went to the Middle East in 1940. Plaster cast by Dowie in 1942. This bronze was cast in 1985.ART40968
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Corporal Edward Weller
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a portrait of VX64848 Corporal Edward Harding Weller. A portrait demonstration at Men's Recreation hut, Lae. Subject selected at random from the audience, New Guinea.ART23703
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Corporal Jim Watson
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
Two portrait studies of Corporal Jim Watson are depicted; one profile and one three-quarter view. Corporal Watson was a driver for the Australian Imperial Force, attached to Correspondents, Middle Eas...ART29876
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Corporal John Edmondson
Art
Maker: Smith, Joshua
Portrait of NX15705 Corporal John H Edmondson, VC, 2/17 Battalion, AIF, was in a small group that attacked with the bayonet a party of Germans which had broken through a point of the Tobruk defences i...ART27532
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Corporal Sammy Walsh
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of Corporal Sammy 'the wild Irishman' Walsh (NX52951) of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force.ART29879
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1. Darwin diggers have definite opinion 2. On guard home guard. (Cinesound News No. 526)
Film
Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No 526. 1. (1 min 42 sec) AIF men back from Darwin have a few grouches to make about not being sent overseas 2. (1 min 55 sec) Home guard training with Molotov C...F00555
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Deir Suneid Village, near Camp
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Army transport, on the wrong side of the road, has pulled up to give "Baksheesh". A typical native village, through which runs a military tarmac road, Palestine.ART30050
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Dental centre, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
At the prisoner-of-war camp at Changi Goal. Dental treatment was affordable at the fall of Singapore and who took their equipment into captivity with them. The Centre is housed in a native-built attap...ART26467
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Dick Ashton sketching Japanese Warrant Officer doing batman duties
Art
Maker: Thompson, Robert
Dick Ashton, most likely official war artist with the Army Military History Section, Julian Richard Ashton, sketches a Japanese prisoner of war undertaking batman duties.ART28711
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Digger, Libya
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Like many of his fellow official war artists, Hele painted portraits not only of high-ranking officers but also of the 'ordinary' men in the field, for whom he felt a great sense of empathy. The name...ART22879
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Digger resting (Study for 'Australian troops disembarking at Alexandria'
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Recumbent figure of a 6th Australian Division soldier wearing only a pair of shorts.ART26565
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Diggers messages home
Film
Maker: Cinesound
War's spotlight on Palestine. Cheerful Aussies say "Hello homefolks". Commentary, Charles Lawrence, Cinesound Review. (See also F01079 for unedited Department of Inforamtion footage.)F00829
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Digger walking
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian infantrymnan walking in the Western Desert in North Africa.ART21896
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Digger with captured Breda gun
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts an unidentified soldier wearing battle dress, captured 6.5 millimetre model 30 Breda light machine gun, 2 Australian Imperial Force, Libyan campaign, Western Desert, North African Campaign.ART21912
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Disembarkation at Suez and Canal
Film
Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Australian and New Zealand soldiers, RAAF personnel and army nurses disembark from troopship at Suez and entrain.F01006
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drawing for headpiece for "Ack-I-Foofs"
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Drawing by Herbert for the inaugural header for the 'ACK-I-FOOFS' page 5 in the 'A.I.F News'. Launched in July 1941 the page was to be a 'Diggers page' for the A.I.F. Readers were invited to send in '...ARTI03458
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Duck yard, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
When the rice ration at Changi POW Camp was sufficient, a certain amount of swill enabled many men to keep poultry, (mostly ducks) and a motley assortment of pens sprang up everywhere, composed of wir...ART26508
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[Escaping from explosion]
Art
Maker: Hall, Alan
Depicts several soldiers quickly escaping from a surprise explosion. The artist Alan Hall (1919-1979)enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years. During the Second Worl...ART93342
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Everard Watt
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Captain Everard J I Watts (or Watt), of 11 Stewart Street. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the ...ART28403.017
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Ex-POWs leaving Eastbourne for return to Australia via Liverpool
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
AIF ex-prisoners of war boarding the train at Eastbourne, England, bound for Liverpool and Australia. Moore was an official war artist who served in New Guinea, the Middle East and Europe before retur...ART26068
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Ex-prisoner of war (Corporal Wickson)
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
Portrait depicting Corporal Wickson, recovered prisoner of war, 2 AIF.ART26296
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Field Dressing
Heraldry
Maker: Johnson & Johnson Pty Ltd, Sydney
Field dressing made from cotton material. on the front is printed 'JOHNSON & JOHNSON PTY LTD SYDNEY 1944'.REL39504
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Field hospital, Northern Australia
Art
Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
A vivid and impressionistic oil sketch bringing to life a field hospital in Northern Australia described as being 'fully under canvas and capable of being moved at a moment's notice'. Several orderlie...ART94591
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First Australian prisoners of war from Malaya arrive in Cairns by catalinas
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Large numbers of Australian prisoners of war are arriving at the wharf in Cairns and being greeted by Australian officers and soldiers in uniform. A genial major reassures a POW who has misplaced his ...ART25628
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Flares over the docks, Tobruk
Art
Maker: Norton, Frank
The destroyers night visit over, men of Docks Operating Unit proceed to remove the precious supplies from the destroyer berths and quais to dumps outside the town. Time is important for in the light o...ART27549
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Flight Lieutenant John Hipwell
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A portrait of Flight Lieutenant John Buckland Hipwell from the Royal Australian Airforce radar unit in Gusap, Papua New Guinea.ART28167.003
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"Flying start campaign"
Published Collection
Black and white recruitment leaflet for March 1940. "Flying start campaign. Last call for a fighting finish. March 1940. Keep your eye on Easter. It's now or never if you want to be a prize winner."RC00280
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Fools talk...Men drown!
Art
Maker: Unknown
A careless talk poster produced by 1 Australian Mobile Lithographic Section A Survey Company during the Second World War. It features a depiction of soldiers being rescued after their ship has been t...ARTV10231
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Football match at Palestine
Film
Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Beirut, Lebanon 28 May 1940. Australian Army Rugby Football Team plays against a Free French team.F01027
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For you the war is over
Art
Pencil sketch created in Ekali, Greece depicting the capture of an Australian officer and one soldier by German troops at an Australian hospital camp in 1941. The men had stayed behind to look after t...ART94378
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Fred Anderson
Art
Maker: Milgate, Eric Lovell
Portrait depicting NX46224 Fred E Anderson, 2nd A.I.F, probably drawn while a prisoner of war.ART29251
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Garden area inside Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men working at firewood stacks, making compost and tending gardens within the Changi camp. This works portrays the organised system the prisoners had established for the smooth running of the camp. Th...ART25053
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Garrison cinema, Qastina
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
The camp is Qastina, but the cinema building is identical with those provided for the entertainment of troops at all camps in the area. The theatre was a much-favoured spot, two shows nightly being pr...ART30062
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Gaza Ridge Camp
Art
Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts an encampment at Gaza Ridge, with the town of Deir Suneid in the distance. The artist writes 'Part of Gaza Ridge camp (Kilo 89) - new trenches on the site of old Turkish earthworks.' This wa...ART30076
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General Blamey [appoinment as commander of the 2nd AIF]
Film
Maker: Movietone News
General Sir Thomas Blamey speech on appointment as the commander of the 2nd AIF.F01914
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General Sir Thomas Blamey
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of General Sir Thomas Blamey, CB, CMG, DSO, Deputy Commander in Chief Middle East Forces and General Commanding AIF seated and wearing field battle-coat. Blamey was a former school teacher wh...ART28252
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Generals MacArthur and Allen at Owers' Corner
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
Depicts General Douglas MacArthur, the Commander of the South West Pacific Area during the Second World War with NX2 Major General A S Allen, DSO, Commanding the 7th Division. In the background is the...ART27780
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G I R Watson
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Gavin I R Watson, of Maxgate, Pennant Hills Road, Carlingford, New South. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand R...ART28403.021
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Goal cell, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Living accommodation in Changi gaol. In the middle of 1944 all the POWs, some 10,000 men, held at Selarang Barracks and surrounds had to move to Changi goal proper, which was designed to accommodate 6...ART25092
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Greece [first version]
Art
Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon
Originally entitled 'Patrol', this is the first version of 'Greece' produced by Dadswell while in the Middle East. The sculpture shows three soldiers of the 16th Brigade of the 6th Division on a forc...ART26395
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Group of soldiers, sailors and airmen
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
A frieze-like group of nine sailors, soldiers and airmen wearing assorted uniforms. Hele was serving as a private in the AIF, when in January 1941 he was commissioned in the field by General Blamey an...ART28483
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Gunner in tin hat and sheepskin coat
Art
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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Halt for midday rice
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Five prisoners of the log loading party sitting in the shade for their midday ration of rice.ART25093
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Hand made butter knife : Sergeant L Crump, 2/2 Lines of Communication Provost Company
Heraldry
Maker: Crump, Laurie
Butter knife made from aircraft aluminium and plastic toothbrush handle by Sergeant L Crump, AIF, while serving in New Guinea. The handle of the knife has a decorative end in alternating bands of blue...REL30606.005
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Hand made cake fork : Sergeant L Crump, 2/2 Lines of Communication Provost Company
Heraldry
Maker: Crump, Laurie
Cake fork made from aircraft aluminium and plastic toothbrush handle by Sergeant L Crump, AIF, while serving in New Guinea. The handle of the fork has a decorative end in alternating bands of blue, re...REL30606.003
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Hand made honey spoon : Sergeant L Crump, 2/2 Lines of Communication Provost Company
Heraldry
Maker: Crump, Laurie
Honey spoon made from aircraft aluminium and plastic toothbrush handle by Sergeant L Crump, AIF, while serving in New Guinea. The spoon has a heart-shaped bowl, and the handle has a decorative end in ...REL30606.007
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Hand made letter opener in shape of a dagger : Sergeant L Crump, 2/2 Lines of Communication Provost Company
Heraldry
Maker: Crump, Laurie
Letter opener in shape of a dagger made from aircraft aluminium and plastic toothbrush handle by Sergeant L Crump, AIF, while serving in New Guinea. The handle of the opener is made of bands of clear ...REL30606.001
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Hand made letter opener in the shape of a scimitar : Sergeant L Crump, 2/2 Lines of Communication Provost Company
Heraldry
Maker: Crump, Laurie
Letter opener in the shape of a scimitar made from aircraft aluminium and plastic toothbrush handle by Sergeant L Crump, AIF, while serving in New Guinea. The handle of the sword has a decorative end ...REL30606.004
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Hand made mustard spoon : Sergeant L Crump, 2/2 Lines of Communication Provost Company
Heraldry
Maker: Crump, Laurie
Mustard spoon made from aircraft aluminium and plastic toothbrush handle by Sergeant L Crump, AIF, while serving in New Guinea. The spoon's handle has a circular decorative tip made of three bands of ...REL30606.002