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Duty Pilot
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The Duty Pilot's job was a responsible one at a station like Richmond where aircraft were constantly landing and taking off. The position from which he controlled the coming and going on the runways w...ART21485
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Early comers, Redlynch LTD cinema, Cairns
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Maker: Bush, Charles
An impression of the now permanently established cinema at Redlych Staging Camp. As the seating is on uneven ground some positions are better than others, so the enthusiastic early comers wait despite...ART26056
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Early morning breakfast for patrol at Suain plantation
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Members of a patrol from 2/10th Australian Cavalry Commando Squadron have an early meal before setting out on a fighting patrol, Suain, New Guinea.ART25743
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Education centre, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
In the early days of their internment and before they were required by the Japanese to work, the majority of the men of the 8th Division who had been captured at the fall of Singapore, passed many of ...ART26486
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Electric closing machine (Detonator Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Ten girls including an Army inspector. work in this bay, where 9000 detonators are handled in a single operation. Closing and Flattening Bay, Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART22580
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Electric rice grinder, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men from 8 Division Ammunition Sub-Park and left to right: Private W F Kelly, Private A J Cooper, Private L M Bover, Corporal J Warren. The inset figure is Private L J Slee who designed the grinder us...ART25089
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Embarkation at San Francisco
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Royal Australian Air Force trainees embark from San Francisco harbour on board transport ship for Australia on completion of their training in Canada under the Empire Air Training Scheme.ART22821
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Embarkation, U.S.S. Mexico
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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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End of trail, Buna
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Maker: Ewers, Ray Battaglia and Co Foundry
Two soldiers, one on the ground, one standing but taking webbing off, with items of equipment on ground around them. This work relates to the Kokoda track, and the Papuan campaign.ART26411
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Energy of war
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Maker: Francis, Ivor
'Energy of war' is an early example of the modernist involvement in South Australia, and an allegorical manifestation of the anti-war sentiment which was often expressed by artists during the Second W...ART28831
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Engineers bridge building
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Shows unidentified engineers lifting log into place for bridge building, Driniumor River, New Guinea.ART26764
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Engine room HMAS Nepal
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Drawing shows the complex nature of steam pipes, tubes, meters, ladders and controls in the engine room of a destroyer, HMAS "Nepal".ART21851
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Engine room, HMAS Wagga
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A study made in the engine room of HMAS Wagga, in Milne Bay. Australian corvettes have twin reciprocating engines which drive them at something about 14 knots. This shows the engineer officer at the f...ART21526
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Enrol now in the National Salvage Corps
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Maker: Unknown Commonwealth Salvage Commission Unknown
Broadcast (radio) microphone; National Salvage Corps; poster urging people to enrol in the National Salvage Corps, one of many groups engaged in waste reduction and management, salvaging useable items...ARTV02743
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Entraining at Calgary
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
General view of Canadian Pacific Rail depot showing Royal Australian Air Force personnel entraining for return to Australia on completion of their training at Canadian Air Schools under the Empire Air...ART22819
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Entrance to Fort Khiam
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts the entrance to Fort Khiam (or Al Khiam), previously part of Syria, is now within the borders of Lebanon. It has been the site of so many occupying armies from different nations that its name...ART30091
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Erecting mobile stage
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Maker: Bush, Charles
An impression of the building of 4 Australian Division Concert Party's stage. The framework of girders with their truck as a base, when completed is covered with a green canvas cover that, pegged out ...ART26067
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Erecting mobile stage
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Maker: Bush, Charles
An impression of the building of 4 Australian Division Concert Party's stage. The framework of girders with their truck as a base, when completed is covered with a green canvas cover that, pegged out ...ART26066
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Escape
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Drawing of man crouching near barbed wire entanglements. Waiting until the guard had passed on, an emaciated prisoner-of-war is ready to slip over, or under, a known spot in the wire entanglements.ART26464
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Evacuation of wounded from Rai Mean
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicting a scene of the evacuation of the wounded by Catalina from Rai Mean, Timor.ART26222
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Examining for malaria, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Australian Army Medical Corps, Roberts Hospital; specimen examined for malaria, Pathology LaboratoryART26484
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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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Ex-POWs being deloused by Tommies, Germany
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Personnel of the Australian Infantry Force who have recently been released from prisoner-of-war camps in Germany, are seen bathing and showering and being sprayed with disinfectant by British troops t...ART24380
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Ex-POWs embarking for UK from Celle, Germany
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Maker: Moore, Alan
AIF and British Army POWs arriving at Celle Aerodrome, Germany, for transport to England by Australians flying Douglas C-47 Dakota aircraft. A Douglas aircraft can been seen in background, while in t...ART25728
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Ex-POWs' first glimpse outside Germany for 5 years
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Depicts a group of unidentified British ex-prisoners-of-war as they glimpse of England for the first time in five years after being in prison camps in Germany. They are climbing out of a Douglas C-47 ...ART24378
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Ex-POWs leaving Eastbourne for return to Australia via Liverpool
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Maker: Moore, Alan
AIF ex-prisoners of war boarding the train at Eastbourne, England, bound for Liverpool and Australia. Moore was an official war artist who served in New Guinea, the Middle East and Europe before retur...ART26068
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Extending the tunnel at the working face, Stalag Luft III
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Maker: Comber, Albert
Two prisoners of war digging the escape tunnel from the Stalag Luft III (Stammlager Luftwasse III) German prisoner of war camp in Sagan (Sagan bei Breslau), Germany (now part of Poland). The artist an...ART34781.016
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Extraordinary incident
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts a Japanese Zero being shot down by an Australian Wirraway, Pilot Officer J. S. Archer of No. 4 Army Co-Operational Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. The Wirraway was on a reconnaissance f...ART22743
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Fabric workers
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Sketch depicting two unidentified women of the WAAAF Maintenance Section repairing a fabric cover of an Airspeed Oxford training aircraft fuselage and tail section.ART21827
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Factory impression from memory (Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
A depiction from the artist's memory of the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria during the Second World War. The workers are shown moving towards the factory, as smoke billows out o...ART22604
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Farmyard, Rivers
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
An Avro Anson aircraft taking off on a training flight over a farmyard with hay stacks in foreground. The training flight is part of the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS), Central Navigation School at...ART21980
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Felling rubber trees, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Members of the Forestry Unit felling rubber trees for firewood. This unit was one of the first established by the prisoners upon their captivity. Wood was a necessity for cooking their rations and to ...ART26465
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Field casualty
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a field casualty. Soldier laying on a stretcher while two men sit in the background.ART22900
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Fighter Bomber Pilot
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Flying Officer Neil (Dingle) Gordon McKernan, RAAF, was a pilot of No.3 Squadron. This portrait was painted whilst the squadron was at Vasto, Italy.ART23479
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Fighting on the edge of a jungle mangrove swamp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a group of unidentified soldiers fighting at edge of jungle and mangrove swamp in the defence of Malaya and Singapore.ART26528
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Finis
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
1945-6; sketch for tailpiece of book, showing chained man bursting links of chain.ART28404.009
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Firing a depth charge
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
A depth-charge crew of H.M.A.S Kapunda reloading a thrower after having fired one charge. Two of the crew are hoisting a depth-charge while a third hand steadies and guides the stalk into the thrower....ART22767
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First aid post, R.A.A.F. Camp, N.T.
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Maker: Wood, C Dudley
The image is of the No 26 Australian Aid Post. An ambulance is parked outside the camouflaged aid post. Men sit on a bench in conversation.ART29219
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First air-raid on Australia, 19 February 1942
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
This work was drawn from a small set of photographs taken by an able seaman on a corvette on the day that the Japanese first bombed Darwin. The SS Neptuna was bombed whilst berthed at the Darwin Jett...ART22831
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First Australian prisoners of war from Malaya arrive in Cairns by catalinas
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Large numbers of Australian prisoners of war are arriving at the wharf in Cairns and being greeted by Australian officers and soldiers in uniform. A genial major reassures a POW who has misplaced his ...ART25628
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First colours of fall
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
The first pale yellow of fall begin to tint the hills of Ontario. The Avro Ansons in the picture are from a nearby training unit of the Empire Air Training Scheme which has brought many Australians to...ART21978
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First convoy in the Indian Ocean
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Maker: Norton, Frank
HMAS Australia and HMAS Canberra (Flagship) parting company with the First Australian Convoy approximately 61/4 hours from Fremantle. Convoy consisted of 11 troopships carrying 6th Division of 2 Austr...ART27542
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First 'Zero' Japanese fighter brought down on Australian mainland
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
The wreckage of an aircraft shot down over the mainland in Darwin on 19 February 1942. This aircraft is not actually a Zero as it is referred to by the artist but instead is a Aichi D3A carrier based...ART21687
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Flak busters
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicting an attack on a German "M" class minesweeper off the south coast on Norway by Australian rocket projectile Beaufighters based in Norfolk, England. They co-operated on many shipping strikes wi...ART22194
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Flares over the docks, Tobruk
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Maker: Norton, Frank
The destroyers night visit over, men of Docks Operating Unit proceed to remove the precious supplies from the destroyer berths and quais to dumps outside the town. Time is important for in the light o...ART27549
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Flight Commander
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicting a portrait of Flight Lieutenant Neil John Funston, No. 3 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.ART24437
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Flight Commander (Squadron Leader Ted Eagleton)
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait of Squadron Leader William Edmund Eagleton, DFC and Bar, RAAF.ART22960
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Flight deck looking aft, HMS Striker
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts the flight deck of HMS Striker with twin Oerlikon guns, and Supermarine Seafire aircraft. Striker was one of several escort carriers (small aircraft carrier - up to 12 aircraft) attached to Br...ART21873
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Flight engineer
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Part of the interior of a Handley Page Halifax bomber, showing seated flight engineer in flying dress.ART25689
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Flight engineer in the cockpit of a Handley Page Halifax bomber
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Part of the interior of a Handley Page Halifax bomber, showing seated flight engineer in flying dress. Study for 'Flight engineer in the cockpit of a Handley Page Halifax bomber (ART25689).ART22982