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Hand made sugar spoon : Sergeant L Crump, 2/2 Lines of Communication Provost Company
Heraldry
Maker: Crump, Laurie
Sugar spoon made from aircraft aluminium and plastic toothbrush handle by Sergeant L Crump, AIF, while serving in New Guinea. The curved handle of the spoon has a decorative end in alternating bands o...REL30606.006
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Harry Johnson
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of H J 'Harry' Johnson, of Tweed Road, Bridgetown. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beginning o...ART28403.056
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Harry Pike and Ken Joseph
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
Portrait drawings of Harry Pike, Driver, Mid East AIF (left) and Ken Joseph, Militiaman, 5th Camouflage Unit (right) are depicted.ART29868
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Head of soldier - dyed for jungle camouflage
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of an Australian soldier with green face paint for camouflage and concealment in the jungles of New Guinea during the Second World War.ART29390
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Head study
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
Portrait depicting an unidentified serviceman, wearing slouch hat.ART26574
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Head study (Lyndon Dadswell)
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait depicting the official war artist Corporal Lyndon Dadswell 2 Australian Imperial Force, 7th Australian Division. Lyndon Dadswell, one of Australia's most accomplished sculptors, was the first...ART21899
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Head study of Sir John Lavarack (full face)
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of Lieutenant General Sir John Lavarack KBE, CB, CMG, DSO, Commanding 1st Australian Corps.ART22029
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Head study of soldier
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait depicting an unidentified soldier, with bare torso, wearing a protective (tin) helmet.ART22204
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Hele, Sir Ivor Henry Thomas KTCR CBE, (Major, b.1912 - d.1993)
Private Record
Maker: Hele, Ivor Henry Thomas
A collection consisting of the map used by the Official War Artist Ivor Hele whilst working in the Tobruk area, and citations for the appointment of Hele as an 'Ordinary Officer of the Civil Division ...PR00473
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Helping a wounded comrade
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Infantryman of the 9th Australian Infantry Division helping his comrade to the Regimental Aid Post. This is often a necessary occurrence when, owing to a temporary shortage of stretcher bearers, a wou...ART22765
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Hi boot it Spanner
Art
Maker: Wilesmith, Arthur Joseph
Page 12 of sketchbook relating to the service of Sgt Arthur Joseph Wilesmith (QX7653) 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion. Depiction of a humorous incident during a rugby game. The artist noted ' Lastly it woul...ART94536.012
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Honorable P.C. Spender back from fighting zone, splendid tribute to AIF. (Cinesound News No. 481)
Film
Interview with Mr Spender in which he praises the men of the AIF in the Middle East.F00512
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Hospital surroundings and burial party, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
Improvised trailer used as as a hearse, carrying a dead soldier swathed in the Union Jack flag. The burial cortege is passing a row of atap huts at the Changi prisoner of war camp.ART26480
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How proud they'll be to pass around your snaps, Join the A.I.F
Art
Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
One of a series of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment posters issued under the title "JOIN THE AIF". This poster is subtitled 'How proud they'll be to pass around yo...ARTV09583
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How proud they'll be to pass around your snaps, Join the A.I.F
Art
Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
One of a series of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment posters issued under the title "JOIN THE AIF". This poster is subtitled 'How proud they'll be to pass around yo...ARTV09587
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How proud they'll be to pass around your snaps, Join the A.I.F
Art
Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
One of a series of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment posters issued under the title "JOIN THE AIF". This poster is subtitled 'How proud they'll be to pass around yo...ARTV09588
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How proud they'll be to pass around your snaps, Join the A.I.F
Art
Maker: Unknown Commonwealth of Australia Unknown
One of a series of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment posters issued under the title "JOIN THE AIF". This poster is subtitled 'How proud they'll be to pass around yo...ARTV09542
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How proud they'll be to pass around your snaps, Join the A.I.F
Art
Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
One of a series of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment posters issued under the title "JOIN THE AIF". This poster is subtitled 'How proud they'll be to pass around yo...ARTV09543
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How proud they'll be to pass around your snaps, Join the A.I.F
Art
Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
One of a series of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment posters issued under the title "JOIN THE AIF". This poster is subtitled 'How proud they'll be to pass around yo...ARTV09544
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How she'll prize your letters from overseas
Art
Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
One of a series of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment posters issued under the title "JOIN THE AIF". This poster is subtitled 'How she'll prize your letters...' and ...ARTV04340
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In an Italian air-raid shelter, Libya
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts a group of men sitting inside an Italian air-raid shelter.ART21916
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In a section post, Tobruk
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts a group of soldiers in Section Post during air attack (blitz), North African.ART21883
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Incident on the road in Germany
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
Recovered Australian prisoners of war in (possibly) German staff car passing by a column of German soldiers. Two of the Australians are giving a mock Nazi salute. An AIF banner tied across back of veh...ART25518
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2/12 Infantry Battalion 18 Brigade AIF at Oro Bay
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Showing the 2/12 Australian Infantry Battalion setting out on a march to Cape Endaiadere in the Buna battle area. They arrived from Milne Bay by sea transport and marched 15 miles through swamp, river...ART21700
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Infantry in trucks moving up to Owers' Corner, on the Moresby-Kokoda track [Kokoda Trail]
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Moving up to Owers' Corner. Along the Port Moresby-Owers' Corner road. An outstanding feat of Allied engineers, the distance though not great in distance is formidable considering torrential downpours...ART21318
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Interior view of 100 - metre hut, Changi
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
This work depicts an interior view of a hut used for accommodation of Allied prisoners. In 1944 all the POWs, some 10,000 men, held at Selarang Barracks and surrounds had to move to Changi goal proper...ART26492
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Interview with Pat Heher (When the war came to Australia).
Film
Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Pat Heher worked in Sydney at David Jones department store in the shoe section. The Ministry of Munitions took over the Market Street store, so the entire concern was crammed into the Elizabeth St...F04040
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In the Owen Stanley Jungle: two camouflaged soldiers about to go out on patrol
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
A double portrait of Private Claude Farrrell (standing) and Private Phillip Buckley. They look as though they are about to go on patrol in the jungle of the Owen Stanley Ranges in New Guinea. Dargie n...ART27560
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Into action
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Painting of three unidentified male Australian soldiers going into action in the Middle East. This work was reproduced in the frontispiece of the 1942 Australian War Memorial publication 'Soldiering ...ART22232
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Irvine-Brown, L (2nd AIF)
Private Record
Maker: Irvine-Brown, L
Letter written from Colombo describing the progress of the first convoy of the 2nd AIF. Writer is aboard the SS Mundra. Includes satirical comment on contemporary world politics, with particular refer...PR90/123
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Italian prisoners
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Showing some of the thousands of Italians who surrendered to the 6th Australian Division at Tobruk, on their way back to the Prisoner-of-War cage. Over 25,000 prisoners were taken on the first day and...ART23700
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Italian prisoners
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Italians; 6th Australian Division; n campaign, n campaignART22356
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Japanese guards buying vegetables, March 1945
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
This composition depicts the Japanese guards from the prisoner-of-war camps in Changi area purchasing the better class vegetables for themselves from Chinese stalls, Australians providing improvised t...ART25082
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Jeep train for Beaufort
Art
Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
On his last assignment as war correspondent Wep was sent to Borneo for two months. Here Jeeps were used in place of broken down steam engines to pull up to three cars. This sketch shows one with a gro...ART29344
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Join the AIF: Make dad proud to say.... "My boy.... in the East "
Art
Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
One of a series of Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment posters issued under the title "JOIN THE AIF". This poster subtitled ' Make dad proud to say..."My boy...in the ...ARTV04332
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Join the AIF now!: They'll be proud of you in this
Art
Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment poster. It features a black and white drawing of a soldier in full uniform with two admiring women, the older one holding his rifle...ARTV04334
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Join the AIF now!: They'll be proud of you in this
Art
Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces
Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment poster. It features a black and white drawing of a soldier in full uniform with two admiring women, the older one holding his rifle...ARTV02566
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Join the AIF Now! ..You love them, fight for them! [red Australian flag backdrop]
Art
Maker: Unknown Australian Imperial Force Unknown
Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment poster. The image of a woman holding her baby wrapped in a blanket in brown monotones against the colour backdrop of a red Australi...ARTV07232
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Join the AIF Now! ..You love them, fight for them! [red Australian flag backdrop]
Art
Maker: Unknown Australian Imperial Force Unknown
Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment poster. The image of a woman holding her baby wrapped in a blanket in brown monotones against the colour backdrop of a red Australi...ARTV00846
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Join the AIF Now! ..You love them, fight for them! [red Australian flag backdrop]
Art
Maker: Unknown Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Unknown
Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment poster. The image of a woman holding her baby wrapped in a blanket in brown monotones against the colour backdrop of a red Australi...ARTV09528
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Join the AIF Now! ..You love them, fight for them! [red Australian flag backdrop]
Art
Maker: Unknown Unknown
Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment poster. The image of a woman holding her baby wrapped in a blanket in brown monotones against the colour backdrop of a red Australi...ARTV07233
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Join the AIF: This is serious!
Art
Maker: Northfield, James Director General of Recruiting F W Niven Pty Ltd
Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment poster. Released in 1941 before Japan had entered the war, at a time when many Australians were reluctant to enlist to fight on the...ARTV06723
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Join the AIF: This is serious!
Art
Maker: Northfield, James Director- General of Recruiting F.W. Niven
Australian Commonwealth Military Forces Second World War recruitment poster. Released in 1941 before Japan had entered the war, at a time when many Australians were reluctant to enlist to fight on the...ARTV04319
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Jungle patrol: the New Guinea story of 8 Australian soldiers
Film
Maker: Carty, William Montague Trerise, John William Gurr, Tom Finch, Peter
Made in New Guinea, this film was shot mainly in forward battle areas, some of which were under fire. It was photographed by the Commonwealth Film Unit which flew with an Australian patrol into the Ra...F01310
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Jungle training 2
Art
Maker: Wilesmith, Arthur Joseph
Page 6 of sketchbook relating to the service of Sgt Arthur Joseph Wilesmith (QX7653) 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion. Humorous depiction of a jungle training exercise involving carrying a wounded soldier on...ART94536.006
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Jungle training river crossing
Art
Maker: Wilesmith, Arthur Joseph
Page 5 of sketchbook relating to the service of Sgt Arthur Joseph Wilesmith (QX7653) 2/2 Machine Gun Battalion.ART94536.005
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Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1973. A memorial erected in 1944 by the Japanese Army to commemorate the ...
Photograph
Maker: Scriven, C
Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1973. A memorial erected in 1944 by the Japanese Army to commemorate the thousands of allied prisoners-of-war (POWs) who died while working on the Thailand-Burma Railway. (Orig...P01859.008
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Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1973. Rows of graves in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, the burial place of ...
Photograph
Maker: Scriven, C
Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1973. Rows of graves in Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, the burial place of many Australian prisoners-of-war (POWs) and POWs of other nationalities who died while working on the Tha...P01859.007
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Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1973. The entrance to the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, the burial place of ...
Photograph
Maker: Scriven, C
Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1973. The entrance to the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, the burial place of many Australian prisoners-of-war (POWs) and POWs of other nationalities who died while working on the T...P01859.006