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AIF Ex-POW
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
A portrait of an unidentified member of the AIF recently recovered from a German prisoner of war camp. Alan Moore was appointed an official war artist in November 1943 and his commission was to depict...ART25724
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A soldier and his doover (Private Charles Dury)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Portrait depicting Private Charles T Dury VX48227, driver to Brigadier Whitehead, Commanding Officer of the 26th Australian Infantry Brigade. Private Dury is standing in front of his 'doover', an imp...ART21721
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Australian infantryman (Staff Sergeant Ian Thomson)
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of Staff Sergeant Ian Thomson, shown in full uniform with day pack and bayonet in his left hand, Syria.ART22223
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Australian soldier
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of an unidentified Australian soldier wearing a tin helmet, Buna, New Guinea, 1943.ART25025
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Australian soldier, Libya (Sergeant Frank Collins)
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of NX2630 Sergeant Frank Robert Collins, 6th Division 2nd Australian Imperial Force, in Tobruk. Like many of the official war artists, Hele painted portraits not only of high-ranking officers...ART28474
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Bill 'Barlow' Williams
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Maker: Milgate, Eric Lovell
Portrait depicting NX45986 Sapper William Johnson 'Bill' Barlow Williams, a member of 2/3 Field Company 9th Division (formerly 6th Division). He was in POW camp in Grupignano, Italy, after capture ne...ART29257
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Boer War - Last war - this war (Sapper Harold Knudsen)
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
Sapper Harold Ferdinand Knudsen (NX11833) served with the 2/1st Australian Forestry Company in Scotland during the Second World War. Note Knudsen is wearing ribbon bar indicating his previous service ...ART26227
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Brigadier David Whitehead
Art
Maker: Rowed, Reg
2 Australian Imperial Force; NX376 Brigadier David Adie Whitehead, CBE, DSO and Bar, MC, MID (twice), Commanding 26 Bde; North AfricaART31775
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Brigadier Heathcote Hammer, Nunn's Post, Salamaua
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of Brigadier Heathcote Howard Hammer, DSO, VX24325, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, Commanding Officer 15th Brigade, Miteirya Ridge (El Alamein), Bobdubi Ridge, Wau, Salamaua, New Guinea.ART22539
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Brigadier William Windeyer
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Maker: Godson, John Barclay
Depicts a portrait of NX396 Brigadier William John Victor Windeyer, CBE, DSO and Bar, MID (x3), joined the AIF to command the 2/48th Battalion during its training and in the siege of Tobruk in 1941, w...ART31763
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Captain Albans
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of Captain Albans, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, 5th Camouflage Unit, AIFART29877
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Captain Arthur Hence
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of NX70153 Captain Arthur William Hence (later MBE), 2/18 Bn 2 AIF. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. B...ART28403.020
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Captain J A McNulty
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of Captain John Albert McNulty, DX1, 2nd Australian Imperial Force. In August 1945, McNulty was appointed the Quarter Master of No. 1 AIF Reception Camp U.K. Following the liberation of priso...ART26291
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Captain John Vernon
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Griffin has composed this portrait to tell the story of Captain John Murray Vernon (NX34879), MC, of the 2/18th Australian Infantry Battalion. He is posing in front of the Kranji river at the place wh...ART24496
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Captain L L Gilbert
Art
Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of Captain L L Gilbert, 2nd Australian Imperial Force.ART26294
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Captain Ray Griffin
Art
Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of NX34712 Captain Ray S Griffin, 2/18 Btn, prisoner of war (killed in air raid while prisoner), defence of and, 'A' Force Railway. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of t...ART28403.086
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Captain Reg Saunders
Art
Maker: Thalben-Ball, Pamela
Reginald Walter Saunders was born in 1920, in Purnim, Victoria, near the Framlingham Aboriginal Reserve. He came from a long line of soldiers. Both his father and his uncle served in the First World W...ART28159
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Captain Robert Black
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of QX36074 Captain Robert Black, Australian Army Medical Service, pathologist, 106 Casualty Clearing Station, 2 AIF. His head is turned to the right, and he holds a cigarette in his left han...ART22662
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Captain Sir James Bisset
Art
Maker: Allcot, John
Portrait of Captain Sir James Gordon Partridge Bisset, Kt, CBE, Commodore of Cunard White Star Company Ltd. He commanded SS Queen Mary from 1942, (during the war it was a troop ship carrying 2 Austral...ART27770
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Colonel Charles Anderson
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of NX12595 Lieutenant Colonel Charles Groves Wright Anderson, VC, MC, Commanding 2/19 Btn, 2AIF; defence of Malaya and, Muar River, 'A' Force Railway (also First World War in German East Afri...ART28403.087
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Colonel Thomas Hamilton
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of NX70505 Lieutenant Colonel Thomas, MB ChM, FRACS, FACS, Commanding 2/4 CCS; defence of Malaya and, 'A' Force Railway, (also First World War 30 Btn AIF). The artist, Jim Collins, was a memb...ART28403.085
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Company Quarter Master Sergeant Carl Short
Art
Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of Carl Short, Company Quarter Master Sergeant, WX271, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, 2/11 Australian Infantry Battalion.ART26284
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Corporal Arnold Robinson
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Maker: Dowie, John Stuart
Depicts Corporal Arnold Robinson. Robinson went to the Middle East in 1940. Plaster cast by Dowie in 1942. This bronze was cast in 1985.ART40968
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Corporal Edward Weller
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a portrait of VX64848 Corporal Edward Harding Weller. A portrait demonstration at Men's Recreation hut, Lae. Subject selected at random from the audience, New Guinea.ART23703
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Corporal Jim Watson
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Two portrait studies of Corporal Jim Watson are depicted; one profile and one three-quarter view. Corporal Watson was a driver for the Australian Imperial Force, attached to Correspondents, Middle Eas...ART29876
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Corporal John Edmondson
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Maker: Smith, Joshua
Portrait of NX15705 Corporal John H Edmondson, VC, 2/17 Battalion, AIF, was in a small group that attacked with the bayonet a party of Germans which had broken through a point of the Tobruk defences i...ART27532
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Corporal Sammy Walsh
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of Corporal Sammy 'the wild Irishman' Walsh (NX52951) of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force.ART29879
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Dick Ashton sketching Japanese Warrant Officer doing batman duties
Art
Maker: Thompson, Robert
Dick Ashton, most likely official war artist with the Army Military History Section, Julian Richard Ashton, sketches a Japanese prisoner of war undertaking batman duties.ART28711
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Digger, Libya
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Like many of his fellow official war artists, Hele painted portraits not only of high-ranking officers but also of the 'ordinary' men in the field, for whom he felt a great sense of empathy. The name...ART22879
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Digger walking
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian infantrymnan walking in the Western Desert in North Africa.ART21896
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Digger with captured Breda gun
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts an unidentified soldier wearing battle dress, captured 6.5 millimetre model 30 Breda light machine gun, 2 Australian Imperial Force, Libyan campaign, Western Desert, North African Campaign.ART21912
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Everard Watt
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Captain Everard J I Watts (or Watt), of 11 Stewart Street. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the ...ART28403.017
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Ex-prisoner of war (Corporal Wickson)
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
Portrait depicting Corporal Wickson, recovered prisoner of war, 2 AIF.ART26296
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Flight Lieutenant John Hipwell
Art
Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A portrait of Flight Lieutenant John Buckland Hipwell from the Royal Australian Airforce radar unit in Gusap, Papua New Guinea.ART28167.003
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Fred Anderson
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Maker: Milgate, Eric Lovell
Portrait depicting NX46224 Fred E Anderson, 2nd A.I.F, probably drawn while a prisoner of war.ART29251
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General Sir Thomas Blamey
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of General Sir Thomas Blamey, CB, CMG, DSO, Deputy Commander in Chief Middle East Forces and General Commanding AIF seated and wearing field battle-coat. Blamey was a former school teacher wh...ART28252
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Generals MacArthur and Allen at Owers' Corner
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Depicts General Douglas MacArthur, the Commander of the South West Pacific Area during the Second World War with NX2 Major General A S Allen, DSO, Commanding the 7th Division. In the background is the...ART27780
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G I R Watson
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of Gavin I R Watson, of Maxgate, Pennant Hills Road, Carlingford, New South. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand R...ART28403.021
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Gunner in tin hat and sheepskin coat
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Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of an unidentified gunner from the 2nd Australian Imperial Force during the North African campaign. Dargie noted, "Typical of the garb of the troops in the winter in Lebanon. He wears a Syr...ART22226
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Harry Johnson
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Maker: Collins, James
Portrait of H J 'Harry' Johnson, of Tweed Road, Bridgetown. The artist, Jim Collins, was a member of A Force, one of the work parties forced to construct the Burma-Thailand Railway. By the beginning o...ART28403.056
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Harry Pike and Ken Joseph
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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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Head of soldier - dyed for jungle camouflage
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of an Australian soldier with green face paint for camouflage and concealment in the jungles of New Guinea during the Second World War.ART29390
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Head study
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
Portrait depicting an unidentified serviceman, wearing slouch hat.ART26574
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Head study (Lyndon Dadswell)
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait depicting the official war artist Corporal Lyndon Dadswell 2 Australian Imperial Force, 7th Australian Division. Lyndon Dadswell, one of Australia's most accomplished sculptors, was the first...ART21899
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Head study of Sir John Lavarack (full face)
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Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of Lieutenant General Sir John Lavarack KBE, CB, CMG, DSO, Commanding 1st Australian Corps.ART22029
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Head study of soldier
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait depicting an unidentified soldier, with bare torso, wearing a protective (tin) helmet.ART22204
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In the Owen Stanley Jungle: two camouflaged soldiers about to go out on patrol
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Maker: Dargie, William
A double portrait of Private Claude Farrrell (standing) and Private Phillip Buckley. They look as though they are about to go on patrol in the jungle of the Owen Stanley Ranges in New Guinea. Dargie n...ART27560
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Kelliher, V.C. (Private Richard Kelliher)
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Depicting QX20656 Private Richard Kelliher, VC, throwing grenades in the action that gained him the Victoria Cross at Nadzab, New Guinea. A sketch for a painting drawn from an account by Captain Whita...ART26002
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1914-40, Libya (Private Lance Rosser)
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of SX7048 Private Lancelot Frederick Rosser 'Pop', 6th Australian Division, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, North African campaign. When the artist was instructed by Blamey to select someone ...ART22881