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A F P Lukin
Art
Maker: Murch, Arthur
A F P Lukin, of Hyde Park, sitting on bed(?), smoking pipeART25976
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AIF Engineers making a road, Kokoda
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
Royal Australian Engineers; group of Engineers standing at side of road as convoy of Army trucks passesART23677
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A.M.F. [Australian Military Forces]
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
Composition of two soldiers from the Australian Military Forces wearing slouch hats, and holding rifles.ART28378.012
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AMF [Australian Military Forces]
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
A composition consisting of four helmeted soldiers in a jungle setting wearing tin helmets and carrying rifles.ART28378.018
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A. M. F. [Australian Military Forces]
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
A semi abstract composition of five soldiers wearing tin helmets.ART28378.020
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Arm injury - amputation
Art
Maker: Aubrey-Crowe, George
Australian Military Forces, Services Reconnaissance Department, Native Constabulary; R416 Warrant 1 Yauwiga (or Yauwika) DCM, M Special, AMF, with loyalty medal, left arm amputated below elbow, wearin...ART24397
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Australia at war (March of time Vol 7 No 8)
Film
Maker: March of Time
A March of Time newsreel giving an overview of Australia, its people, climate, economic resources, education, cities and political system. Australia's contribution to the European war and the prospect...F01452
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Australian Army Major
Art
Maker: Beck, Richard
A sketch of an unidentified Major, AMF, a telephone is placed in front of him.ART25961
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Australian Military Forces
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
A group of five soldiers from the Australian Military Forces are grouped closely together wearing helmets and tropical kits. This drawing has been completed in Hinder's cubist inspired style.ART28375.012
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Australian Military Forces
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
Shows a group of three native women and two children standing chatting as two new arrivals of the Australian Millitary Forces stand nearby.ART28375.014
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Australian Military Forces, Rabaul
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
Depicts three Australian Military Force personnel in jungle wearing tin helmets and carrying rifles.ART28376.006
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Australian soldier
Art
Maker: Watson, Douglas
Portrait depicting an unidentified Lieutenant Colonel, Lae, New Guinea.ART22688
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Australian soldier wearing a steel helmet
Art
Maker: Murch, Arthur
Portrait depicting unidentified soldier, wearing protective (tin) helmet, Darwin.ART25971
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Barber's shop in a forward area
Art
Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts an unidentified group of 'off duty' soldiers, one having his hair cut by another, one reading, other soldiers watching barber. This painting was reproduced as the cover of the 'Australian Woma...ART29337
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Battlefield, South Bougainville
Art
Maker: Herman, Sali
This picture shows what bombing and artillery fire made the jungle look like, yet our men were living in dug-outs covered with heavy timber and a few painted tent flaps. On the day the artist sketched...ART22842
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Blamey, Sir Thomas (Commander-in-Chief, AMF)
Private Record
Maker: Blamey, Thomas Albert
Letter from Thomas Blamey to Frank Forde, Minister for the Army, 1943. Relates to the disembarkation leave for returned prisoners of war and outlines issues of prisoners of war status and privileges.PR00019
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Blamey, Sir Thomas GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO (Field Marshal, b.1884 - d.1951)
Private Record
Maker: Blamey, Thomas Albert
Extensive collection of mainly official papers relating to Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey, focusing on his military career as commander of both the Middle East and South West Pacific Area, chiefly 19...3DRL/6643
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Blamey, Thomas (Field Marshal, Gbe, KCB, CMG, DSO)
Private Record
Maker: Hetherington, Jack Aikman (John) Various
MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL RELATING TO JOHN HETHERINGTON'S BIOGRAPHY, "BLAMEY : CONTROVERSIAL SOLDIER". NOTES, PAPERS AND PHOTOS3DRL/6224
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Bluey Burke
Art
Maker: Baird, John
Portrait of 'Bluey' Burke, Australian Military Forces, 15th Australian Water Transport Company, Small Craft, wearing a slouch hat. Burke was born in Alice Springs and had worked in the Northern Terri...ART27888
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Camp concert
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
Depicts a view of concert in a camp, audience sitting beneath a 'rain' tree, Townsville, Queensland.ART28373.002
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Canadian Radar Detachment
Manuscript
Photocopied account titled `Canadians (radar) in the South Pacific', of Canadian Radar Detachment to Australia during 1944-1946, comprising of RCA, RCEME, and RCAPC personnel. Account compiled from of...MSS1589
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Chapel service at Toko
Art
Maker: Herman, Sali
Toko; 3rd Australian Division; service in improvised chapel in jungleART22852
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Cigarette and Trade Card Collection
Published Collection
Maker: Various
The cigarette and trade card collection consists of series of cards which were issued by cigarette companies, or other companies such as confectionery firms, cereal manufacturers and clothes companies...RC00682
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Conference at Morotai
Art
Maker: Jones, Vernon
2nd Australian Imperial Force, United States Army Air Force; included in work are: Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Morshead, Commanding 1 Australian Corps, Major General G F Wootten, General Commanding ...ART27563
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Corporal Lydan and Sergeant Urquhart
Art
Maker: Baird, John
A double portrait depicting Sergeant Urquhart (left) and Corporal Lydan (right), of the Australian Military Forces, 15th Australian Water Transport Company (Small Craft). Both men are divers, and the ...ART27887
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Darwin / Lecturing on camouflage
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
The upper image shows a small group of men seated around a truck and tents. The lower image shows a larger group of men, some seated, some standing, near a truck and tents. In both images the soldiers...ART28374.004
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Embarkation, U.S.S. Mexico
Art
Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts unidentified members of 6th Australian Division carrying a full tropical kit, including newly issued 'folding cots', boarding the troop ship U.S.S. Mexico at wharf. A portion of the superstruc...ART23928
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Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Formal portrait of General Sir Thomas Blamey, CB, CMG, DSO, Deputy Commander in Chief Middle East Forces and General Commanding AIF. Blamey was a former school teacher who turned to the Army and rose ...ART27646
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Fletcher, George William (Driver, b.1894 - d.1943)
Private Record
Maker: Fletcher, G W
Service and discharge certificates for 1350 Driver George William Fletcher who enlisted in the 7th Reinforcement, 13 Light Horse Regiment AIF in June 1915. Driver Fletcher later served as a signalman ...PR01483
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Gasmask practice
Art
Maker: Murch, Arthur
Depicts an unidentified soldier, seated, wearing gas mask and respirator and holding protective (tin) helmet, Darwin.ART25975
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General Thomas Blamey
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait sketch of General Sir Thomas Blamey, CB, CMG, DSO, Deputy Commander in Chief Middle East Forces and General Commanding AIF. Blamey was a former school teacher who turned to the Army and rose ...ART26661
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General Thomas Blamey
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait sketch of General Sir Thomas Blamey, CB, CMG, DSO, Deputy Commander in Chief Middle East Forces and General Commanding AIF. Blamey was a former school teacher who turned to the Army and rose ...ART26659
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Hand drilling, Wau-Bulldog Road
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian sappers from the Royal Australian Engineers, drilling rock by hand near Johnson's Camp during the making of the Wau-Bulldog Road, Wau, Salamaua, New Guinea.ART22546
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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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Home from the movies
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
Depicts a road with trucks carrying troops, men marching on both sides of the road, Townsville.ART28373.004
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0630 hours
Art
Maker: Herman, Sali
Depicts a dawn parade at Kapooka of unidentified soldiers.ART28456
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Instruction in mining
Art
Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
In the left foreground sappers are receiving instructions in preparing a "face" for explosion as in mining operations. In the mid right is a gum tree with a low lying branch that extends to the centre...ART23562
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Interview with John Slee and stills (When the war came to Australia)
Film
Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
At the outbreak of war, Mr Slee was an engineering student at Melbourne University. He left university, joined a Militia engineer unit and trained compulsory trainees. He discusses the policy of wirin...F04073
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Japanese Invasion Money British Oceania half shilling note: Private R L Roberts, 3 Battalion (The Werriwa Regiment), AMF
Technology
Maker: Japanese Government
Japanese Invasion Money half shilling note for use in British Oceania, series OC. The note has been circulated and has a central vertical fold mark. There is some brown staining at the top of the note...RELC02640
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Japanese Invasion Money British Oceania 1 pound note: Private R L Roberts, 3 Battalion, AMF
Technology
Maker: Japanese Government
Japanese Invasion Money 1 pound note for use in British Oceania, series OC. The note has been circulated and shows signs of general use wear. It has a central vertical fold mark.RELC02756
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Japanese Invasion Money British Oceania 10 shillings note: Private R L Roberts, 3 Battalion (The Werriwa Regiment), AMF
Technology
Maker: Japanese Government
Japanese Invasion Money British Oceania 10 shillings note, series OA. The note has been circulated and shows signs of general use wear. It has a central vertical fold mark.RELC02755
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Japanese 50 sen note: Private R L Roberts, 3 Battalion, AMF
Technology
Maker: Japanese Government
Japanese 50 sen note, serial no. 1405, issued in 1938. The has been circulated and shows signs of heavy use wear, and there is a dark brown stain in the centre of the note on both sides. It has a cent...RELC02757
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Japanese 10 yen note: Private R L Roberts, 3 Battalion, AMF
Technology
Maker: Japanese Government
Japanese 10 yen note, serial nos. (793) and 822004, issued in 1930. The note has been circulated and has had extensive use. There are tears and sections missing along all edges of the note.RELC02759
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Japanese 5 yen note: Private R L Roberts, 3 Battalion, AMF
Technology
Maker: Japanese Government
Japanese 5 yen note, serial nos. (193) and 822004, issued in 1930. The note has been circulated and has had extensive use. There are tears and sections missing along all edges of the note.RELC02758
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Jungle fighter
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray Gregory, E J
A bronze sculpture of a jungle fighter, this is a copy of the Drouin War Memorial, by Ray Ewers.ART26925
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Keating, Gavin (Lieutenant b: 1973)
Manuscript
Maker: Keating, Gavin
Collection relating to the Second World War service of Lieutenant General Stanley George Stavige, II Corps (formerly 17 Brigade and 3 Division), 1939-1945. Wallet 1 of 1 – Wallet contains Lieutenant ...MSS1604
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Kitchen picquet
Art
Maker: Friend, Donald
The artist had six weeks to pass in Melbourne after his initial kitting out, and a further month in Sydney before his departure for New Guinea. He used his time to complete a number of drawings and pa...ART23213
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Kokoda trail (pattern)
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray
Figure of a soldier in uniform, stepping up with left leg. This sculpture was created as a souvenir for sale through the Australian War Memorial. There is a large scale version of this sculpture on ...ART90971
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Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Honner
Art
Maker: Murch, Arthur
Portrait depicting WX15 Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Honner, DSO, MC, Commanding 39 Battalion when battalion was fighting on the Kokoda Track 2 Australian Imperial Force, 2/11th Australian Infantry Battal...ART31769
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Lieutenant D.M. Thomas
Art
Maker: Baird, John
A portrait of Lieutenant D.M. Thomas, of the Australian Military Force, standing up leaning against a wall. There is also a head study portrait of Lt Thomas on the right.ART27958
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Lieutenant Donald Friend
Art
Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Donald Friend, official war artist, seated and writing up his diary, during the Second World War.ART93863
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Lieutenant General Henry Douglas Wynter
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Lieutenant General Henry Douglas Wynter, CB, CMG, DSO, Lt General in Charge Administration, AMFART23696
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Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Herring
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Francis Herring, KBE, DSO, KCMG, KBE, DSO, MC, ED; North Africa; Lieutenant Governor of, Chairman of Board of Trustees.ART27528
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LMG [Light Machine Gun] post, AMF [Australian Military Force] post
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
A rough sketch of four soldiers in shorts sandbagging a Light Machine Gun implacement.ART28378.016
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Major General Charles Lloyd
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Major General Charles Edward Maurice Lloyd, CBE, Adjutant General, Land Headquarters AMFART23697
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Major General Roy King
Art
Maker: Koyoshi, K
Head and shoulders portrait of Major General Roy King, CBE, DSO, MID, who was the commanding officer of 2/5 Battalion, 6 Division, 17 Brigade, A.I.F and served in the Western Desert and North Africa c...ART28109
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MiIitia
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
Four soldiers of the Australian Military Forces are standing in a group.ART28375.010
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Militia
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
Two soldiers from the Australian Military Forces stand talking.ART28375.011
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Model of 8th Division Memorial at Bathurst, NSW
Art
Maker: Flak, John H E
This sculpture is a model of the 8th Division Memorial at Bathurst in New South Wales which commemorates the AIF Malaya and the 8th Australian Division. It consists of a granite base and 'blade' risin...ART32871
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More palette-able
Art
Maker: Gurney, Alex
Two panels from a cartoon strip, commenting on war artists at work on paintings during action. Gurney produced the comic strip 'Bluey and Curley' initially for the magazine, 'Picture News' in 1940. It...ART30148
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Mr John Fitzgerald
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Mr John Thomas Fitzgerald, MBE, AFIA, FIPA, Chief Finance Officer, Australian Military Forces, (previously Lieutenant Colonel in Pay Corps)ART23698
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2nd Division Signals Australian Military Forces
Film
Maker: Middleton, James Thomas
Inter-titles. Reel 1. 1. 2nd Division Signal Competition Team 1934 weekend bivouac at Heathcote. 2. Smalls Arms School Randwick. 3. Winning Team AWA (Amalgamated Wireless Australasia) Cup. Reel 2 1. ...F11511
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New Guinea art show (News from home No. 53)
Film
An art show of pictures painted by Australian and United States troops in New Guinea broke attendance records. The show was sponsored by the United States Red Cross and was attended by over 30,000 civ...F00747
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Not titled (group of five soldiers)
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
Five men of the Australian Military Forces stand in a group holding rifles.ART28375.013
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Observation Post, Darwin
Art
Maker: Murch, Arthur
Depicts two unidentified men standing at the entrance of defence observation post or pill box, camouflage netting and triangle for alarm signal post, Darwin.ART28400
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Observation Post interior
Art
Maker: Murch, Arthur
Depicts unidentified group inside observation post looking through window slits and using telescope, 9 Battery Observation Post, Darwin.ART26996
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Officer's batman
Art
Maker: Beck, Richard
A sketch of an unidentified soldier, officer's batman (profile view) sitting on a box.ART25962
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Officer's batman
Art
Maker: Beck, Richard
A sketch of an unidentified soldier, officer's batman (front view) sitting ona box.ART25963
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Old and Bold (Private James Burke and Private Arthur Goodall
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Shows WX4401 Private James Patrick Burke, (left), VX28963 Private Arthur Ernest Goodall, both 26 Brigade Australian Military Force. Private Burke's legs are bandaged because of infected mite bites, ne...ART22757
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Patrol resting
Art
Maker: Cook, James
Cook travelled to New Guinea in 1944; his observations there are the source for this painting. The resting patrol blends into the surrounding vegetation and appears at ease in the jungle. The painting...ART30667
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Peter Connolly
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
Portrait of Peter Connoly, 39th Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Military Forces.ART23656
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Quarters camp, Rabaul
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
View from inside quarters, looking out, gas mask and respirator hanging on wall to the right of picture.ART28376.005
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RAP bloke
Art
Maker: Friend, Donald
Depict a portrait of an unidentified soldier, Australian Military Forces, Regimental Aid Post.ART22858
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Rogers, Leonard Bert (Lieutenant, b.1916)
Private Record
Maker: Rogers, Leonard Bert
File of material relating to Lieutenant Leonard Bert Rogers work as an Army Intelligence Officer at the Tatura Prisoner of War and Internment Camps and with the Commonwealth Department of Immigration ...PR00700
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Sergeant Kelly
Art
Maker: Baird, John
Portrait of Sergeant Kelly alongside two unidentified personnel sitting on the gunwale of a small sailing vessel with their equipment around them and an island visible in the background. All three men...ART27885
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Sergeant Major John Eric Coles
Art
Maker: Baird, John
Portrait of Major John Eric Coles (VX102262), Australian Military Forces, 15th Australian Water Transport Company, Small Craft, standing with a Vickers machine gun which has been unofficially modified...ART27884
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Sergeant Reginald Rattey
Art
Maker: Godson, John Barclay
A portrait of Sergeant Reginald Roy Rattey VC, NX102964, A Company, 25 Battalion Australian Military Force. Corporal Rattey was an exceptional rather than a typical member of the 25th Battalion. Serge...ART27534
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Sick and wounded being landed at Morobe from the front lines near Salamaua
Art
Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts sick and wounded Australian soldiers landed at Morobe from the front lines near Salamaua in New Guinea during the Second World War.ART21344
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Soldier in a digger hat (Private Ian Hanna)
Art
Maker: Craig, Sybil
Portrait of Private Ian Hanna with red and yellow star badges (one of hat, 2 on collars;) plus white [box with slash through it;] red on shoulder. Outline of figure with pastel on head and collar and ...ART28164
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Soldier in dugout
Art
Maker: Herman, Sali
Australian soldier in improvised shelter or dugout. 'I made the sketch while living there at Battalion Headquarters (15 Australian Infantry Battalion, 29 Brigade). The small space, covered with some h...ART22841
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Soldier in tin hat
Art
Maker: Murch, Arthur
Portrait depicting an unidentified soldier wearing protective helmet (tin hat), Darwin.ART26191
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study for 'Stretcher case awaiting bearers, Old Vickers Position'
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Soldiers seated near a wounded man lying on an improvised stretcher. The wounded man is NX49750 Private A B Gwynn, 2/3 Independent Company. Artist's notes contain a description of the incident - the r...ART29331
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Temperature 104 degrees
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Shows a group of unidentified Australian soldiers, some engaged in a scuffle, others watching, in an outdoor canteen. This canteen was built under the shade of trees known as "Burke and Wills".ART22714
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The bandstand, Artie Shaw in Townsville
Art
Maker: Atkinson, Yvonne
Civilians and servicemen gathered around the bandstand in a park listening to Artie Shaw's jazz band in Townsville, Queensland.ART28518
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The men's cookhouse, Caulfield, Victoria
Art
Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a number of unidentified men and women sitting on park seats or standing under trees near the men's cookhousein Caulfield, Victoria, during the Second World War.ART23618
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Thumbing a lift, Port Moresby
Art
Maker: Browning, George Julian
Soldiers hitch hiking at night in the Port Moresby area - probably to an open air picture show at one of the surrounding camp areas. The experience of thumbing a ride is probably common to every soldi...ART23639
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Townsville range
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
Depicts a group of men with rifles, sitting on ground, at the Townsville rifle range, Queensland.ART28373.001
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Two Bob
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
Two Australian Military Force personnel stand with two Papuans, one sitting and one standing. The Australians appear to be negotiating over a model boat.ART28375.018
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Two fresh graves, South Bougainville
Art
Maker: Herman, Sali
These are the graves of V121019 Private Eric Charles Young, AMF, and NX179388 Private Henry Charles Hanratty, AIF, both killed in action and buried on Bougainville Island, New Guinea. The artist sta...ART22851
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Walking wounded
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray Gregory, E J
Bronze head of a wounded soldier. The soldier has a patch over his left eye and wears a slouch hat. This piece was cast in bronze in 1959 from a plaster bust made by the artist in 1945.ART26417
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Webb, Ronald Stanley (Captain, b.1919 - d.2011)
Private Record
Maker: Webb, Ronald Stanley
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX117021 (N39299) Captain Ronald Stanley Webb, Headquarters, II Australian Corps, Bougainville, c. August - September 1945. Oversized Wallet 1 o...PR00732
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Will the batmen have batmen, Alice Springs
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts two unidentified men sitting on the ground, one washing articles of clothing in a bowl. Hodgkinson's title references a semi-humorous take on the term batman, a British military officer's orde...ART21707
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With the AIF in Malaya
Art
Maker: White, W S
The AIF in Malaya depicts colour patches of the Australian Commonwealth Military Forces in Malaya around a map. A 'rising sun' badge at the top is flanked by a small image of the Sydney Harbour Bridge...ART32375
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Wrapping the dead in army blankets
Art
Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
The scene is of a group of Australian soldiers carrying their dead in blue army blankets and stretchers on board the deck of a torpedoed Landing Ship, Tank at Morobe, Papua New Guinea. One of the ship...ART22306
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YMCA Darwin
Art
Maker: Baird, John
Gunner Alan Leslie Walker (NX67342), Cryptographer William Stuart Thomson (26388), Able seaman Cyril Samuel Healey (PA/V84), Driver E. Pratt and Signaller Neville Hugh Marshall (S6356) are depicted st...ART27880