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Aaaaaaa-tention!
Art
Maker: Jose, Ellen
In 1992 Ellen Jose (b.1951) held an exhibition in Melbourne titled "Black Diggers-Ghost Fighters" to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the beginning of the Kokoda campaign in New Guinea, as well as ...ART29762
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Able Seaman, Torpedoes
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Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of an unidentified Able Seaman from the Royal Australian Navy.ART23554
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Artillery surveyors
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Artillery surveyors at the beginning of the traverse. The computor (seated) with binoculars and bandolier takes down the readings as the instrument man gives them. This sketch is a reconstruction of a...ART26097
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A united 'fighting mad' Australia can never be enslaved
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Maker: Northfield, James Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation
A Second World War Australian poster depicting a European man pulling a rickshaw, in which a Japanese man is sitting, past the Flinders Street Railway Station in Melbourne. A Japanese flag flies abov...ARTV09053
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AWAS entering a light tank
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a member of the Australian Women's Army Service, 1 Australian Base Ordnance Depot, entering a light tank during the Second World War.ART21341
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Barbed wire entanglements
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Barbed wire entanglements along a beach in Melbourne. Edward Albert Douglas Watson born 1920, served as an official war artist in Australia, New Guinea and Borneo from 1943 to 1946. He became the youn...ART22195
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Cleaning No.2 gun, Middle Park, Melbourne
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Shows camouflaged entrances to guns 2 and 3. Melbourne's skyline as a background, with Government House and The Shrine of Remembrance predominating. Middle Park, unidentified soldier cleaning 3.7 inch...ART26082
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Coastal defence gun
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Artillerymen from the Australian Military Forces crew a 6 inch naval gun on the coast in Darwin. The gun is one that was manufactured before 1914 and is probably off one of the First World War ships, ...ART22186
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Cover design for 'Angry Penguins'
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
This drawing shows Tucker's concern about the licentious behaviour in the blacked-out streets of Melbourne in wartime. The drunken figure of a digger sprawls with the sole of his foot outwards, and hi...ART28283
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Exhibition of Japanese submarine, Melbourne
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Part of the captured Japanese midget submarines raid on Sydney Harbour and that was on public display at Alexandra Gardens, Melbourne, now on display at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra. The subm...ART25911
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Finis
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
1945-6; sketch for tailpiece of book, showing chained man bursting links of chain.ART28404.009
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Flight Lieutenant M Baker
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Flight Lieutenant M Baker (possibly 406127), wearing flying jacket, helmet and gogglesART28346
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Flight Lieutenant M Baker
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Portrait depicts Flight Lieutenant M Baker, RAAF, wearing flying helmet, goggles and jacket, aircraft in background.ART28348
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Garnishing colouration, the point machine
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Maker: Bush, Charles
The paint machine shown here was used for painting camouflage garnishing rolls any colour. The rolls were placed in a bath of paint behind the reels of rusty wire netting on the left, fed through a m...ART23624
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Gunner carrying drag rope
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Study for "gun maintenance". Picture of unidentified gunner with a drag rope over his shoulder.ART23245
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HMAS Australia at Dakar
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Dakar, French West Africa; HMAS Australia; HMAS Australia, seen from an unidentified British destroyer, in action against shore batteries at DakarART23583
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HMAS Manoora sinking merchant vessel Romolo
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Two days after Italy entered the war, Australia struck her first blow against the new enemy on the high seas. On that day the armed Merchant Cruiser HMAS "Manoora" intercepted the Italian merchant ves...ART22328
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Kario Sendanoz, Javanese seaman
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a portrait of Kario Sendanoz, Javanese seaman. In 1942, Donald Friend enlisting with the AIF, was posted as a gunner to the artillery unit near Albury. In 1945, Friend was selected for appoint...ART23209
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Lieutenant Alan Moore
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicting a portrait of Lieutenant Alan Moore, artist, Official War Art Scheme.ART22564
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Lieutenant-General the Honourable Sir Edmund Herring
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Depicting a portrait of Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Francis Herring, KBE, DSO, MC, ED, MA, DCL (Oxon), KC, General Commanding 1st Australian Corps. This portrait by Dargie won the 1945 Archibald Pr...ART22563
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Morning, 8 May 1945
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Depicts a newsboy selling morning papers on Prince's Bridge Railway Station corner. Papers announced Germany's surrender.ART26061
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Munition workers
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Male and female munition workers stepping forward together striving for agreed goals.ART40926
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Mural of Australian military aircraft, early 1939-1945 period
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Maker: Freedman, Harold
Mural of Australian military aircraft, early 1939-1945 period. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war artist attached to the RAAF Historical War Records...ART27777.002
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Mural of Australian military aircraft, late 1939-1945 period
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Maker: Freedman, Harold
Mural of Australian militery aircraft, late 1939-1945 period. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war artist attached to the RAAF Historical War Records ...ART27777.003
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Not titled [two prisoners working in a garden]
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A black and white sketch of two emaciated POWs working in a garden, drawn after the artist was repatriated to Australia after being incarcerated in Changi POW camp for three and a half years. This i...ART28404.001
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Not titled [Two prisoners working in garden (frontispiece for proposed 8th Division book)]
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Colour sketch of two Australian prisoners of war toiling in a garden. Originally designed to be the frontispiece for a proposed book about the 8th Division AIF's experiences in Malaya, it was drawn af...ART28404.002
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Occupation of Tank Knoll, Tarakan
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
The first troops on the summit are shown here. They are members of 2/23rd Australian Infantry Battalion who occupied the hill after landing at Green Beach, Tarakan, Borneo, 1945.ART26032
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POW (bookjacket for proposed 8th Division book)
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
A colour drawing featuring the letters "P.O.W." entangled in barbed wire against a striped background reminiscent of prisoner's costumes. This work was originally intended to be the book jacket forART28404.003
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Refugees in Melbourne
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Maker: Bergner, Yosl Bergner, Yosl
Two male refugees wearing heavy coats and hats, one carrying a satchel, standing in a Melbourne street, a row of shabby two-storied buildings on the left.ART29579
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Section of dining room, RSL Melbourne
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
Lodgings and meals are provided for personnel on leave at this hostel, conducted by the Returned Soldiers, Sailors and Airman Imperial League of Australia, St. Kilda Road, Melbourne. Depicts a section...ART25126
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Section of "Dugout" canteen for servicemen
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
Facing the dance hall of this Canteen for Servicemen. It is one of the largest Servicemens' meal spots in Australia. Situated in Swanston Street, Melbourne.ART25127
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Sergeant Weston (and) Lieutenant Barbara Manning
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A stylised double portrait depicts Sergeant Weston and Lieutenant Barbara Manning, Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) in uniform.ART28347
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'Spirit of protest'
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
The spirit of the Protest was humorously nicknamed after the Spirit of Progress. This train picks up troops and stores at Larrimah railhead for transport to Darwin. The men sleep and eat en route in c...ART22718
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Stonnington Red Cross Convalescent Home
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
From the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 until 1953 Stonnington house and grounds were used by the Australian Red Cross Society as a convalescent hospital. Patients sunning themselves in the ...ART23518
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Telegraphists and teleprinters, LHQ Signals, Melbourne
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Land Head Quarters Signals 'Grosvenor'. In the foreground a telegraphist takes a message and behind him AWAS operate teleprinters and one an oscillator. The signal master keeps his eye on the work in ...ART23434
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The dug-out
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Maker: Bush, Charles William
The Allied Services Canteen known as 'The Dug-Out' was located on Flinders Lane in Melbourne. As can be observed in the painting, Service personnel took advantage of the venue both as an informal pla...ART23689
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The jeep ferry
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A group of unidentified Australian soldiers, most wearing only slouch hats, transporting a Jeep across a river using an improvised raft.ART23207
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The Vegetable Garden
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
From the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 until 1953 Stonnington house and grounds were used by the Australian Red Cross Society as a convalescent hospital. Depicts the vegetable garden at Sto...ART22334
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Upper deck, HMAS Australia
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Looking for'ard on the upper deck of HMAS "Australia". To combat the fire menace all paintwork is being reduced. Ratings are seen chipping the base of the crane. Dark grey green is American Task Force...ART21021
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VE Day service at the Shrine
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
V-E Day Service at the Shrine of Remembrance. View of the Shrine Service from a perch looking along St Kilda Road. Representatives of various religious denominations and the Service were on the dias. ...ART24073
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Victory contingent marching through Melbourne
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Australia sent a contingent of 250 officers, men and women of the three services to participate in the Victory Parade in London, 8 June 1946. This painting depicts the Army detachment of the Australia...ART24379
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Voluntary workers, Australian Comforts Fund, Melbourne
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a painting of two women volunteers of the Australian Comfort Fund, l-r Mrs Oxley, Mrs Desbrowe Annear, in the clothing and textiles industry.ART22590
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Voluntary workers (Australian Comforts Fund, Melbourne)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a sketch of unidentified women, volunteers of the Australian Comfort Fund, sewing clothes.ART28106
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Voluntary Workers (Australian Comforts Fund, Melbourne)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Sketches of Mrs Desbrowe Annear and Mrs Oxley were made at the quarters of the Australian Canteen Fund, Melbourne. Since the outbreak of the war they have been making shirts and pyjamas and were two o...ART22566
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War Correspondent
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a portrait of Melbourne Pratt, War Correspondent Sydney Morning Herald, typing a despatch to his paper one evening at the Public Relations cottage at Port Moresby.ART21503
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Women working in a clothing factory, Melbourne
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Women at work along a work bench in a clothing factory.ART28105