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Ack Ack Battery in action
Art
Maker: Watson, Douglas
This painting depicts two groups of soldiers from an artillery battery operating two guns at night.ART22433
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[Activities of the 16 Battalion AIF New Britain]
Film
[Activities of the 16 Battalion AIF New Britain]F04772
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AIF in action in Malaya
Film
Contains scenes from official Department of Information film F01171. Commentary, Charles Lawrence Cinesound Review. Singapore, bomb damage, fire fighting, bren gun carrier, Indian troops in trucks, 25...F00831
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Allied Intelligence Photographs of Captured Japanese Artillery
Photograph
Allied Intelligence Photographs of Captured Japanese Artillery 1. Captured Japanese 75 mm Type 88 Mobile Anti-aircraft Gun somewhere in Australia, date and place unknown. Rear stamping says: Produce...AWM2021.352.1
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America goes to war in the Pacific (Crusade in the Pacific part 4)
Film
Maker: March of Time Television
A United States television documentary using historic combat and newsreel footage. Covers the Japanese conquests in the Malaya, Hong Kong and the Netherland East Indies in early 1942. Shows Japanese f...F04958
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8am P Day Tarakan
Art
Maker: Lindsay, Peter H
As part of Operation Oboe One, the first stage of the Borneo campaign, the landing at Tarakan occurred 1 May 1945 'P Day' by 9 Australian Division's 26 Brigade and 2/7 Field Regiment. The landing was ...AWM2022.223.1
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Anderson, Bob
Private Record
Maker: Anderson, Bob
Collection relating to the Second World War service of Bob Anderson (exact identity unknown). Wallet 1 of 1 contains a poem titled 'M Battery Goes into Action'. It reflects on Anderson's early days i...PR01874
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Anti-aircraft gun and enemy bombers
Art
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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Anti tank gun behind jeep
Art
Maker: Frawley, John
A rough sketch of a jeep towing an anti-tank gun.ARTI01946
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Approach to Artillery Ridge
Art
Maker: Abbott, Harold
The approach to Artillery Ridge is one that gives defenders maxiumum assistance in the form of a narrow ridge and steep slopes with little cover. The approach was made under a mortar and artillery bar...ART22655
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Army Exhibition at Cathays Park
Art
Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
During the Second World War the British Ministry of Information created exhibitions relating to different aspects of the war including information on the Allied and Commonwealth nations, branches of t...ARTV02277
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Army Exhibition on Oxford Street
Art
Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
During the Second World War the British Ministry of Information created exhibitions relating to different aspects of the war including information on the Allied and Commonwealth nations, branches of t...ARTV02278
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Artillery exercises
Film
Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Palestine, c 1940. Australian artillery men dig pits for field guns, locate and fire guns. The guns are then secured to limbers and towed back to camp.F01024
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Artillery in the desert
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers and artillery in the desert in the Middle East.ART26902
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Artillery in the desert
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers and artillery in the desert in the Middle East.ART26899
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Artillery moving up in the desert
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers with artillery moving up in the desert in the Middle East.ART26903
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Australian landing point, Dutch Timor
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
The beach at Oesapa Besar, near Koepang, Dutch Timor, where troops of "Sparrow Force", landed. "Sparrow Force", which was the Australian component of the Dutch-Australian Force to occupy the Island of...ART26158
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AUSTRALIAN TROOPS AT DARWIN. MAN ONE OF THE GUNS OF THE COASTAL DEFENCE.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
AUSTRALIAN TROOPS AT DARWIN. MAN ONE OF THE GUNS OF THE COASTAL DEFENCE.012039/11
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Back the Boys with War Savings: Save at Least a Bob in the Pound Every Pay Day [Artillery]
Art
Maker: National Savings Committee H.M. Stationery Office Howitt, John Newton
British Second World War poster promoting savings. During the Second World War, frugality was encouraged to reserve funds for essential war related goods.ARTV01501
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Back the Boys with War Savings: Save at Least a Bob in the Pound Every Pay Day [Artillery]
Art
Maker: LONDON : NATIONAL SAVINGS COMMITTEE, 1944 National Savings Committee H.M. Stationery Office J. Howitt & Son Ltd.
British Second World War poster promoting personal savings. During the Second World War great emphasis was placed upon saving money. By being frugal with money, it meant that less money was being spen...ARTV03416
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Back them up!
Art
Maker: Cuneo, Terence Tenison H.M. Stationery Office Unknown
British Second World War propaganda poster part of a series of similar posters with the same title. This poster depicts 5 British Soldiers manning a coastal artillery post looking out to sea. Another ...ARTV06896
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Back them up!
Art
Maker: Cuneo, Terence Tenison H.M. Stationery Office British Colour Printing
British Second World War propaganda poster part of a series of similar posters with the same title. This poster depicts 5 British Soldiers manning a coastal artillery post looking out to sea. Another ...ARTV03861
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Back them up!: British guns blast a way through Axis defences in North Africa
Art
Maker: Nunney, Alfred John H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British Second World War poster depicts British soldiers blasting a way through Axis defences in North Africa with Infantry anti-tank guns. The poster refers to vital home front support for British fo...ARTV02306
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Back them up!: British guns blast a way through Axis defences in North Africa
Art
Maker: Nunney, Alfred John H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British Second World War poster depicts British soldiers blasting a way through Axis defences in North Africa with infantry anti-tank guns. The poster refers to vital home front support for British fo...ARTV02296
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Baggott, Leo (Sergeant, b.1901 - d.1993)
Private Record
Maker: Baggott, Leo Various
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX59998 Sergeant Leo Baggott, 9 Division Australian Army Supply Column and Australian Army Pay Corps, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia...PR06364
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11 Battery 2/3 Australian Tank Attack Regiment
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Crew from right section, "K" Troops, 11 Battery, 2/3 Australian Tank Attack Regiment, moving their 6-pounder gun into position at Arndt Point for beach defence task. They are framed by rocks on the le...ART26130
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Beware...It may be a flak trap
Art
Maker: Unknown [S.L. : AIR FORCE, N.D.]
Australian propaganda posters during the Second World War were used to instil anti-Japanese attitudes. Using racial stereotypes and derogatory humour the posters harboured fear and caution amongst Aus...ARTV03291
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Bofors Mk 7 Naval Anti Aircraft Gun : HMAS Sydney (III)
Technology
Bofors, forty millimetre anti aircraft gun on a Mk 7 Naval mount. This two man mount is made largely from aluminium alloy for lightness and it has been painted in overall light sea grey. An electric m...REL/00324
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Bombing operations and anti aircraft gun battery [Extracts from Japanese newsreels]
Film
1. Japanese Navy Air Force (JNAF) airfield with parked 'Betty' bombers. The bombers take off in the dark waved on by the ground crew. 2. Item on the acitivities of a Japanese anti aircraft unit equi...F06938
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Bren gun carrier
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
A Bren gun carrier in North Africa during the Second World War.ART90271
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1. Brisbane, country champions on parade 2. German rocket guns. (News From Home. No. 104)
Film
1. (1 min 28 sec) Brisbane entertains troops with a small agricultural show including a cattle parade, sheepdog trials and wood chop event 2. (52 sec) Captured German film showing rocket artillery in ...F00784
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Camouflaged anti tank gun
Art
Maker: Watson, Douglas
Sketched landscape depicting a camouflaged anti tank gun in the foreground. The anti tank gun has been covered with a large sheet for camouflage.ART29839
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Camouflaged artillery
Art
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 I]
Art
Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts a field gun under camouflage in a landscpe during the Second World War. William Edwin Pidgeon ('WEP') (1909-1981) was a painter, cartoonist, illustrator and newspaper critic. In 1926 as a 16 y...ART95030
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[Camouflaged Gun II]
Art
Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts a field gun under camouflage in a landscpe with a number of Australian servicemen loading and preparing the gun, during the Second World War. William Edwin Pidgeon ('WEP') (1909-1981) was a pa...ART95031
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Camp life at Palestine
Film
Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Palestine, general shots of troops in camp and on route march, camp area February 1940. Identified personnel are 2165414 (NX160) Major Hector McDonald Finnie AAMC, with portable dentist chair and dril...F01007
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Cassidy, William Michael (Private, b.1914)
Private Record
Maker: Cassidy, William Michael
Collection relating to the Second World War service of Q212999 Private William Michael Cassidy, 13 Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps Queensland, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, c 1942 - c...PR04415
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5 cm Pak 38 Anti Tank Gun
Technology
German Anti-tank gun. The gun has a barrel of monobloc construction with a double baffle muzzle brake. The barrel is a twenty groove, right hand twist type. The breech is of the horizontal sliding blo...RELAWM36890
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3.7 cm PAK 36 Armour Piercing Projectile, Sectioned
Technology
A 37 mm calibre (2 pound weight) armour piercing projectile that has a 120 degree lengthwise section removed to show internal construction. The pointed steel projectile is 102 mm long and has a copper...REL22872
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2.8 cm sPzB le Fl 41 Anti tank Gun
Technology
Antitank gun featuring the Gerlich tapered bore barrel. The barrel is of monobloc construction with interrupted flanges at the breech end to receive the breech ring which is locked in position by a s...RELAWM36883
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Coley, Frederick Charles Theodor (Private, b.1913 - d.2003)
Private Record
Maker: Coley, Frederick Charles Theodor Lawler, Graham
Collection relating to the Second World War service of SX798 Private Frederick Charles Theodor Coley, 2/10 Australian Infantry Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, United Kingdom, M...PR04604
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Connell, John Fletcher (Major, b.1913 - d.1989)
Private Record
Maker: Connell, John Fletcher
Collection relating to the Second World War service of VX13901 John Fletcher Connell, Australian Army Medical Corps, Second Australian Imperial Force, New Guinea, 1942. Wallet 1 of 1 – Consists of fi...AWM2018.209.2
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Cooper, James Duncan (Able Seaman, b.1907 - d.1978)
Private Record
Maker: Cooper, James Duncan
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 18905 Able Seaman James Duncan Cooper, HMAS Perth, Australia and at sea, 1940-1941. Wallet 1 of 1 - Contains a bound black and white photocopied...3DRL/6478
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Damaged Japanese 4" gun above Manggar
Art
Maker: Leviston, G W
A damaged Japanese 4" gun above Manggar in Indonesia.ART29682
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DARWIN, NT. 1942-11-12. A GUN CREW OF 14TH AUSTRALIAN HEAVY ANTI-AIRCRAFT BATTERY LOADING, READY ...
Photograph
DARWIN, NT. 1942-11-12. A GUN CREW OF 14TH AUSTRALIAN HEAVY ANTI-AIRCRAFT BATTERY LOADING, READY FOR FIRING. SERGEANT J.MC. AGNEW IS ON THE EXTREME RIGHT, AND ON HIS RIGHT IS GUNNER R.C. BARTUSH. THE ...027793
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Don't Leave Spoil for the Enemy
Art
Maker: Unknown Camouflage Research Section, Department of Home Security Johnston, Leslie Ferdinand (L F), Commonwealth Government Printer
Poster encouraging soldiers to be discrete when digging holes, so that they do not alert the enemy to their presence. This cartoon is designed to humourously convey messages about safety. Depicts a y...ARTV03268
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Drawing for endpiece for Life in the "OCTU"
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
The central figure in this work is the upper portion of an officer in dress uniform. The crests on his peak cap and lapels appear to be Australian and he is wearing two rank pins on each epaulette. Be...ARTI00782
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drawing for endpiece for With hills like home
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Three soldiers are working at a 2 lb. quadruple pom-pom anti-aircraft gun. One of the men is using the sighting apparatus, and the other two are operating the gun. Behind them is a pylon topped by rad...ARTI00794
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[Eastern Front, Monte Cassino and Luftwaffe night raids on London, 1944] (Die Deutsche Wochenshau) = (The German newsreel)
Film
Maker: Die Deutsche Wochenschau
German newsreel circa early 1944. Items covered: 1. Winter on the Eastern front, Stug III Assault gun, Panzer Grenadiers, PzKpfW VI Tiger tanks, Soviet POWs, land mine clearance, knocked out Soviet T-...F01995
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Eine Batterie geht in stellung F215 = Positioning a battery F215
Film
Maker: Universum Film AG
A German army training film produced by Universum Film AG (UFA). Shows a German horse drawn artillery battery in action on an exercise. Procedures in setting up the 10.5cm leFH 18 field guns, observat...F06924