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2/3 A.A. Regt Searchlight Bty site
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Maker: Friend, Donald
anti-aircraft; 2/3rd Australian Anti-Aircraft Regiment; campaign; anti-aircraft searchlightART23260
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Abu Gosh
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Abu Gosh, A village beside the road, close to Jerusalem'. Principal leave centre for troops in Palestine.ART30084
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Acre - Australians passed this way!
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Acre - Australians Passed this Way. The bay and town of Acre through which Australian troops passed during their advance towards Beirut. It was in this ancient town that the Armistice Convention was a...ART30092
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Afdeeling Schilsters (The vegetable peelers)
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Maker: Van Grondelle, Connie
Many women are cutting and peeling vegetables at tables in a building at Camp Karees, Bandoeng. This is one of 28 drawings created by internees of Camp Karees and presented to Mrs Frederika Hessels Va...ART91966
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After the action
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Maker: Slawik, Bernard
Two views of the Lvov ghetto upper and centre. The lower drawing shows a group of people rounded up after an 'aktion'. The 'aktions' were organised SS raids on the ghettos where the Jews would be sear...ART90341
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AIF embarking at Stonewall Wharf, Sydney
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Maker: Norton, Frank
In April 1941 Norton recorded troops from 2 Australian Imperial Force disembarking from a train to board a ferry at Pyrmont in Sydney. The ferry would then take them out to a transport ship. Several...ART21100
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AIF seedling nursery, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Showing portion of the AIF nursery where seedlings were raised for planting in the unit gardens in the prisoner-of-war camp at Changi. Vegetables grown in these gardens were an essential addition to t...ART26509
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Albury Station, January 1943
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a large number of sailors, officers and soldiers on the Albury Railway station platform with their luggage and bags, during the Second World War. This railway station is the scene of great com...ART21560
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Army Camp, Caulfield
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Mainwaring is likely to have painted this scene when he was an Australian army artist on probation. An Army camp established at Caulfield Racecourse, grandstands and track in view. In the background...ART23397
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A trailer party passing through a Kampong
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men pushing trailer near a village well with Malay and Chinese children in the foregroundART25087
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Attestenvergadering (Meeting)
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Maker: Tierie, E
A man and several women are sitting and working at desks in an office environment at Camp Karees, Bandoeng. This is a 'meeting of doctors to give the sick and old extra rations. This lasted only a yea...ART91953
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Australian troops disembarking at Alexandria after the evacuation from Greece
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Study for the large painting Hele executed of this subject, depicting exhausted troops from the 6th Australian Division disembarking on the docks at Alexandria after the evacuation from Greece.ART23954
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AWAS on the way to report for duty at L.H.Q. Signals
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
George Browning was attached to the Military History Section during the Second World War. Initially, he was employed to contribute to the Army's Christmas book. Once this was completed, he was to be s...ART23622
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Baby-keuken (Baby kitchen)
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Maker: Unknown
Women working in the Baby Kitchen at Camp Karees, Bandoeng, 'where the milk and baby food was prepared'. Correspondence of Mrs Hanny Balt, November 2001. Mrs Hanny Balt, then Hanny Hessels, was an int...ART91952
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Back them up! Heavy Stirling bombers raid the Nazi Baltic part of Lübeck and leave the docks ablaze
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Maker: Nockolds, Roy Ministry of Information Fosh & Cross Ltd. H.M. Stationery Office
British poster depicting an air raid on the German port of Lübeck, showing fires and damage to the docks area and appealing to the public for support. The subtitle is 'Heavy Stirling bombers raid the ...ARTV02297
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Benghazi
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
The westernmost place of any size captured by the 6th Australian Division in it's advance through the Western Desert, and 360 miles from Australia's first battlefield of the campaign at Bardin.ART22202
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Berlin
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
Kaiser Wilhelm II Memorial Church, Kurfurstendamm, Berlin was damaged in air raids on the night of the 23rd November 1943. The church was in the neo-romanesque style and had been built under the Emper...ART25710
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Bombardment of Damour
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Bombardment of Damour. Evacuees leaving Damour with their packs and donkeys. Transport has stopped. The town is being shelled by the Navy and allied artillery. Large fires were started. The impression...ART30074
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Bomb Damage, Darwin
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts two unidentified Australian soldiers, one bending forward, the other smoking a cigarette, near a bomb crater and wrecked house in Darwin, Australia during the Second World War.ART28042
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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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Bomb damage to Darwin township, 19 February 1942
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts an image of the coast and city of Darwin and the bomb attacks as a result of Japanese attacks 19 February 1942.ART22736
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Bombed house in Elasson
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Maker: Dargie, William
This is a watercolour sketch of a bombed house in the Greek town of Elasson. Two men stand in the foreground of the image. Elasson was on the line of withdrawal of ANZAC Corps from Greece in 1941.ART23979
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Bonfire at King's Cross
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Fires were started in garbage tins in the King's Cross area in celebration of the German surrender news early in the morning of the 9th May 1945. On the verso is a rough, incomplete pen and ink sketc...ART23290
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Boom town, Dafoe
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Boom towns or shanty towns have made their appearance at most of the remote air stations in Canada. Enterprising farmers build and tent these little shacks to the families of Air Force personnel and t...ART23090
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'Bullring', Leave Transit Depot, Exhibition Park, Brisbane
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
Troops awaiting in bull ring at the leave and transit depot, Brisbane, for movement. In the lower right hand corner of the grand stand is Sergeant-Major who is in charge of the parade and is using a ...ART25148
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Buoys on the beach
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Enormous buoys have washed up on a beach at Labuan. The buoys are almost twice the height of the soldier who walkd amongst them.ART23300
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Buoys, Victoria Town, Labuan
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Depicts a pile of mooring buoys resting on the edge of a lake, beside an old building in Labuan, Borneo during the Second World War.ART93836
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Camouflaged truck
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a camouflaged truck at Richon-le Zion Palestine (now in Israel). The artist wrote that the truck was depicted "in a setting of date palms - proving the effectiveness of Army camouflage". Ris...ART30042
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Camp area designed as homestead for camouflage purposes
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Maker: Ragless, Max
A camp in an unknown location designed to resemble a homestead and outbuildings for camouflage purposes. This is one of six drawings purchased from the artist in 1944 prior to his appointment as an o...ART30199
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Captured Japanese H.Q. Don Company, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
This local house was previously used as Japanese commander's headquarters, but had since been claimed for use by the Australians.ART23246
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Car park, Main Street, Atherton
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
View from a verandah of a Barrett's Railway Hotel on the main street of Atherton. The street is lined with military vehicles, the post office on the right is surrounded by anti-blast barricades and t...ART23872
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Central Square, Tobruk
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Buildings in the main square in Tobruk soon after Allied troops had taken the town; on the left is a church. The colours are the dry reds of the desert sand.ART22865
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Changi gaol
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Interior of Changi gaol. In 1944 all the POWs, some 10,000 men, held at Selarang Barracks and surrounds had to move to Changi goal proper, which was designed to accommodate 600 men. 5,000 men were eve...ART25090
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Changi gaol and camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Some of the accommodation provided for officers taken prisoners-of-war at the fall of Singapore. The centre row is the old warders' quarters; the row near the gaol wall and the row nearest artist are ...ART26463
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Changi gaol from the 100 metre huts
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicted is a prisoner hanging out washing with the concrete structure of Changi gaol in the background. Griffin captured the scene in October 1944. In 1944 all the POWs, some 10,000 men, held at Ser...ART25067
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Chinese Temple
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Chinese temple used as billets for Australian soldiers, 4th Australian Bulk Petrol Company, but shared by an aged Chinese priest called 'Wong', who vigorously repelled all attempts to move him to othe...ART23233
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Church on Hill 'C' above the village of Perivolia, Crete
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Maker: Dargie, William
The scene of heavy fighting between the German paratroops and 2/11th Australian Infantry Battalion supported by Greek troops during the invasion of Crete by the Axis forces in May 1941.ART24054
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Clearing the junction of the Beirut-Aley, and Beirut-Damascus roads of snow under the direction of RE
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Maker: Dargie, William
An exceptional fall of snow throughout the Lebanon dislocated transport for several days. Here is seen locals under the direction of Australian Army Engineers, clearing the snow from the junction of t...ART26960
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Conduit Street
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Maker: Meeson, Dora
Depicts a number of wrecked buildings in Conduit Street in London after an air raid during the Second World War. Despite being recommended by Arthur Streeton as an official war artist for the First Wo...ART26913
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Corner of Bond and Bruton Streets
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Maker: Meeson, Dora
View of wrecked buildings on the corner of Bond and Bruton Streets in the West End after an air raid. Despite being recommended by Arthur Streeton as an official war artist for the First World War, Me...ART26910
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Damascus
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts Sultan Selim Mosque in Damascus, probably after the Battle of Damascus. This was the final conflict in the Syria-Lebanon campaign, in which Allied forces took the city from the Vichy french o...ART30297
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Das ist das Heil, das sie bringen! (That is the salvation, that they bring)
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Maker: Heartfield, John Heartfield Archive and GDR Government
A skeleton hand with bomber planes issuing from its five fingers, raised imposingly over the destroyed city with bodies of dead children in the foreground. This work was horribly prophetic when first ...ARTV09077
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Deir Suneid Village, near Camp
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Army transport, on the wrong side of the road, has pulled up to give "Baksheesh". A typical native village, through which runs a military tarmac road, Palestine.ART30050
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De onvermoeide (The tireless)
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Maker: Van Grondelle, Connie
Two women are working in the kitchen at Camp Karees, one of them is weighing fruit. 'Possibly a drawing of Miss Serlec, a woman in her seventies who was a tireless worker.' Correspondence of Mrs Hanny...ART91964
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Despairing head
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Albert Tucker was drafted on 14 April 1942 and sent to Wangaratta training camp, where he worked sketching medical diagrams. He was subsequently attached to the Medical Corps for whom he produced draw...ART29482
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Dock under construction
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Maker: McClintock, Herbert
A scene from above of a graving dock under construction. McClintock's focus on the immensity of these structures is demonstrative of the scale of the project being undertaken.ART30268.011
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drawing for tailpiece for To one at home
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
A woman in a dress and high heeled shoes is held by a man in a civilian suit. The scene appears windy as her long hair is swept to the side. they are on a hill over looking an industrial city with hig...ARTI00792
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Druce's Store, Baker St
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Maker: Meeson, Dora
A lone man walks past a row of damaged and destroyed buildings in Baker Street, London, following an air raid. Note the milk bottle on the doorstep at centre and the airship in the sky. Despite being ...ART26909
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Elasson
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Maker: Dargie, William
This sketch shows two men walking along a path on the side of a hill, overlooking the Greek town of Elasson from the north during a storm. Elasson was on the line of withdrawal of the ANZAC Corps, whi...ART23977