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A native of Woolloomooloo
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Paper sculpture of a convalescing soldier, with crutches and a broken leg, seated on a park bench with an elderly English civilian dressed in top hat and tails, with his walking stick alongside him. T...ART40956
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Aussie and the 'tab'
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Paper sculpture of an Australian soldier with a young English woman walking together. To the side an English soldier sitting on a bench with an open book that reads 'A girl would leave an angel for an...ART40937
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Aussies on work of national importance
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Paper sculpture of a crowd of Australian soldiers playing two-up (a gambling game using two coins).ART40966
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Australia will be there
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
A cartoon-figure of an Australian soldier stands with left hand in his coat pocket, rifle slung over his right shoulder and a cigarette in his mouth. He stands on a tall pedestal with a wreath hanging...ART40960
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Barracks
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Paper sculpture of a group of Australian infantrymen in barracks engaged in various activities. Some soldiers are washing their clothes, others are playing a game of cards, some are reading the paper...ART40945
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Brothers in arms
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Paper sculpture depicting an Australian and a British (Scottish) soldier marching together. The Scottish soldier wears a kilt and is playing the bagpipes. The Australian soldier has a rifle over his s...ART40947
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Digger departs (Dinkum Aussie issue)
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Blaiberg depicts a soldier, his wife and their four small children walking up a makeshift gang plank onto an imaginary ship on which they are about to leave for Australia after he has been demobilised...ART40934
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Digger gets the 'time' of his life
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
A Digger stands swinging a fob watch in front of a German soldier. The German soldier stands cowering as though hypnotised, with his knees bent, mouth open and arms in the air. In the foreground are a...ART40955
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Digger scores
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Depicts a street scene with an Australian digger on the right, his arm in a sling, throwing quoits onto a board on the street in front of him. He is surrounded by people observing his play. There is a...ART40967
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Digger's salute
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
The artist captures the Australian soldier's characteristic irreverance for rank and authority in this paper statue of an Australian soldier and a British officer. Despite passing the officer, the sol...ART40954
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Digger thinks our climate a wash-out
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
An Australian soldier lounges in a chair and another sits on a stool waiting for the rain to clear outside. On the wall is a framed view of Sydney harbour and a wall calendar dated Friday 21 June. A r...ART40946
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'Digger' you tink you vas going to the dressing station
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
An Australian soldier leads a crying German prisoner of war over to a puddle of water. He seems about to push him in. Gladys Blaiberg didn't work at the Australian Forces canteen until 1917. While it...ART40957
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Dinkum diggers' doleful dials depict disgusted disappointment after walking 5 kilos
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
A group of five Australian soldiers have walked five kilometres in blizzard like conditions, only to arrive at their destination - a tavern - to be prohibited from finding respite there. The artist ma...ART40959
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Faithful to his post
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
A cartoon-figure of an Australian soldier in uniform leans against a pole with his right leg crossed over the left and a cigarette in his mouth. He is smiling and a colour patch is visible on his left...ART40958
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'Gladys' is these bairns mother
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Paper statue of the artist with miniature versions of the "Somme hero", the "Dinkum digger" and the "Flapper's idol", all characters from Blaiberg's various paper sculptures. The caption makes clever ...ART40938
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His English bride
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Miniature paper statue of Australian soldier with English bride.ART40963
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How it began
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Blaiberg depicts an Australian soldier dressed in hospital blues and an English woman seated at either end of a park bench. The woman has a dog on a leash and the man holds a walking stick.ART40941
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How it ended
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Blaiberg depicts the same figures from 'How it began' (ART40941) now getting married. The Australian soldier is dressed in his military uniform and the bride is wearing a white wedding dress, a veil a...ART40962
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In all his glory
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Two Australian soldiers, both wearing slouch hats, walk along the street. The shorter, foreground figure wears a white suit and uses crutches to walk, while the taller man is dressed in his hospital b...ART40950
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Just a 'plane' guy
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Paper sculpture of an Australian airman peeling potatoes. He is surrounded by five large sacks filled with potatoes and has a melancholy look on his face. Underneath are the words: "Just a 'plane' g...ART40936
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Old Bill
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Paper statue of an old Australian soldier. He carries a full kit including tin helmet, drink bottle, sleeping back and rifle. He has a scarf wrapped around his head and he smokes a pipe. Bruce Bairnsf...ART40940
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Shikker
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
A paper sculpture of two drunk Australian soldiers, one carrying an Australian flag. The title, 'Shikker', is Yiddish for drunk.ART40964
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Some fight...and some don't
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Depicts an Australian soldier wearing an armband for the Military Police and a slouch hat, leaning casually against a bomb damaged wall. Another Australian soldier approaches, wounded, dishevelled and...ART40939
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The better 'ole or over the top at Dartford midnight
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
A play on the trenches term 'over the top', this sculpture shows a group of Australian soldiers on leave in England struggling to climb over a high fence to access a better drinking "hole" that is app...ART40965
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The flapper's idol
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
A soldier standing smoking a cigarette. One hand is in his pocket and the other is held above his head holding a piece of paper. He is wearing a slouch hat with a feather in it. Gladys Blaiberg didn't...ART40952
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The last straw
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
An English farmer stands dressed in a white smock with a floppy hat on his head, holding a pipe in one hand and a walking stick behind his back with the other. An Australian digger has been caught on...ART40949
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The optimist
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
An Australian soldier confidently knocks on the door of the medical officer, optimistic about the prospects of the forthcoming appointment. The companion piece to this work, 'The Pessimist', shows th...ART40942
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The Pessimist
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
An Australian officer leans against the door of a medical officer, dejected and downcast about the results from his appointment.ART40943
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The Woodbine cannot grasp it but "Digger" can
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
This sculpture shows a group of three servicemen in uniform; one a British officer, nicknamed "Woodbine" because this is the tobacco he would have smoked, who is unable to comprehend the bond of frien...ART40948
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They put him on a monument
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Plaster sculpture of a monument to the Australian lighthorseman. An Australian, in full military uniform, rides a horse holding aloft a sword in his right hand. Below him is the inscription 'Like a kn...ART40961
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To the girls I've left behind
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
A drunk Australian soldier sits on a bench, proposing a toast. He holds a glass aloft in his right hand and next to him on the bench is a bottle of wine and a packet of cigarettes. Gladys Blaiberg di...ART40951
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When you're a long long way from home
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Paper sculpture of an Australian soldier sitting on a post, smoking a cigarette, his legs are crossed and he looks longingly into the distance. The post is inscribed 10,000 MILES. The soldier appears ...ART40953
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Where Aussie shines
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Maker: Blaiberg, Gladys
Depicts a paper sculpture of a caricature of an Australian digger wearing a blue hospital suit and a slouch hat, with cigarette in his mouth. A bottle of brasso sits on the ground while he scrubs the ...ART40935