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A cigarette for the wounded
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicting wounded men of the 57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion being given a smoke after they had been carried out of sight of the enemy and it was safe to light up. This was after they had been f...ART25031
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Action at Parit Sulong, January 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This work depicts the fighting at Parit Sulong by the men of the 2/15th Australian Field Regiment. A 25 pounder gun is in the lower right corner. This battle became the scene of a massacre at the hand...ART24477
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AIF walking wounded disembarking from Greece
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Wounded AIF soldiers disembarking from the ship at Alexandria after their return from Greece.ART21886
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Air sea rescue, 1943 (Flying Officer John Shelton, warrant officer Fred Ring, Flying Officer A Filear, Sergeant S.J. Bell, Lega and US Pilot Lieutenant George Wicks)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Bootless Bay; air-sea rescue, launch; 45 Operational Base Unit, Air-Sea Rescue Unit; l-r: Flying A J Filear, Commanding RAAF Flying Boat Base and Marine Section, Sergeant G J Bell, coxswain of crash b...ART22745
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Ambulance plane carrying battle casualties from Morotai to Townsville
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Ambulance plane carrying casualties from Morotai to Townsville. The plane is from No.2 Medical Air Evacuation Transport Unit, Royal Australian Air Force and a Flying Sister of the Royal Australian Air...ART24375
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Ambush
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch of two Australian soldiers who have just been wounded in an ambush. Dargie noted: "The enemy can set an ambush, too. Unfortunately, this is only discovered, as a rule, when someone walks into i...ART22092
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Ambush
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Maker: Dargie, William
The enemy can set up an ambush too. Unfortunately this is only discovered as a rule when someone walks into it. The enemy set a very strong defence and ambush position just beyond Daumonia. This ambus...ART22256
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At 2/3rd Australian Independent Company's Regimental Aid Post
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Hele shows the medical officer of the 2/3rd Australian Independent Company attending a wounded man in the Regimental Aid Post, Salamaua, New Guinea. A second man is assisting. The wounded man is lying...ART22545
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Australian action at Buna
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
This painting shows an attack by troops of the 18th Australian Infantry Brigade, supported by General Stuart tanks of the 2/6th Australian Armoured Regiment during the struggle for Buna. The combined ...ART27547
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Bardia (action leading to the fall of Post 11)
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
VX3511 Sergeant H B S 'Jo' Gullett, VX3495 V N Maloney, VX3497 Private H F Brockley, QX3118 Private F C Damm, all of 2/6th Btn 2 AIF, unidentified Australian and Italian soldiers. The first major camp...ART27576
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Battalion intelligence officers searching Japanese dead
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian intelligence officers searching the bodies of dead Japanese soldiers, Wau, Salamaua, New Guinea.ART22514
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Battle casualties, Malaya
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Convalescent Depot for rehabilitation of men (all amputees) playing deck golf. It was located in part of barracks formerly occupied by Gordon Highlanders. The workshop run by the prisoners were able t...ART25088
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Battlefield 1942
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Tucker served in the army for several months, and his many images from this period are quite bleak. This work depicts a man, his body distorted and grotesque, lying beneath a military tank. The sun se...ART94636
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Blind man in Belsen
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Figure of a blind man, with head bandaged, walking through the Belsen concentration camp in Germany after liberation.ART27620
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Bomb damage, 19 February 1942
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
The wreckage of the Post Office and Post Master's house in Darwin. The damage was caused through bombing by the Japanese on 19 February 1942. The postmaster and his daughter along with other post of...ART22723
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British products fight in Burma
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office Multi Machine Plates Ltd
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry of Supply. It depicts photographs of a variety of scenarios that took place during the general campaign to protect India from the Japanese advanc...ARTV06438
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Burial of an airman killed in action
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Padre Flight Lieutenant Campbell Begbie of 22 Squadron RAAF, conducts the funeral of Sergeant Arthur Taylor, also of 22 Squadron, who was killed in action on 24 May 1943. The pall bearers and mourner...ART21708
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Cadaver
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Male corpse in the Heidelberg Military Hospital. Albert Tucker was drafted on 14 April 1942 and sent to Wangaratta training camp, where he worked sketching medical diagrams. He was subsequently attach...ART29696
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Care is costly : buy and hold war bonds
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Maker: Treidler, Adolph U.S. Treasury Department [WASHINGTON : U.S. TREASURY, 1945 (WASHINGTON : U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE)
To fund the war effort the United States Treasury issued war bonds which the public could purchase. The money raised was used for soldiers uniforms, weapons and other supplies. The war bonds were simi...ARTV05716
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Careless Talk Got There First
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Maker: Stoops, Herbert Morton Office of War Information U.S. Government Printing Office
American Second World War poster depicting soldiers parachuting into an area. The soldier in the foreground is slumped over dead while other soldiers in the background continue to land. The text 'Care...ARTV02554