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Admiral Tojo
Art
Maker: Hatori
Porcelain statue of Admiral Tojo which served as the 1941 Navy exam prize in Japan. Hideki Tojo (1884-1948) was the Japanese Prime Minister during the Second World War. He became Prime Minister in 194...ART40932
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AIF Malaya memorial
Art
Maker: Dowie, John Stuart Meridian Sculpture Founders
Statue in memory of the men and women of the AIF Malaya who held up the Japanese advance on Singapore 14 January - 15 Feburary 1942.ART41004
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Airman
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray Battaglia & Co, Milan, Italy
An airman from the Second World War wearing full flying kit, (flying suit and helmet) and carrying his parachute over his shoulder.ART40978
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Airman (pattern)
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray
Figure of an airman in uniform, carrying a parachute. This sculpture was created as a souvenir for sale through the Australian War Memorial. There is a large scale version of this sculpture in the N...ART90972
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Air Vice-Marshal F.H. McNamara
Art
Maker: Gilbert, Donald
Plaster bust of Air Vice-Marshal Francis 'Frank' Hubert McNamara, VC, CBE (4 April 1894-2 November 1961). McNamara flew in the First World War with the No. 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps (AFC) an...ART34904
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An Australian infantryman
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray Gregory, E J
A sculpture of an Australian infantryman, this is a replica of the sculpture commissioned in 1949 to be presented to the Greek nation. 'An Australian Serviceman in Greece' was presented to the Consul ...ART90979
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A Second World War sculpture created by Gladys Blaiberg. The female figure holds a signs which ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
A Second World War sculpture created by Gladys Blaiberg. The female figure holds a signs which reads Blackshirt Na Zi.P11295.012
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Australia House, London, on a Sunday morning
Art
Maker: Moore, Alan
A street scene outside Australia House in London on a dreary winter's morning. Rain is pelting down on the gray streets as people hurry along with heads bowed.ART25009
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Australian serviceman
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray Battaglia & Co, Milan, Italy
This sculpture was initially commissioned for the Hall of Memory in 1954. Leslie Bowles died in 1954 and it was originally he who had designed the proposed statuary to be the feature in the Hall of Me...ART40995
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Australian serviceman
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray Meridian Sculpture Founders
This statuette is the first in a series of a possible edition of 100, which were to be cast for sale through the Australian War Memorial shop. The maquette was originally made to assist in raising fun...ART90837
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Australian servicewomen's memorial
Art
Maker: Ferguson, Anne
Whereas more conventional war memorials may incorporate a cenotaph or a representative figure, Anne Ferguson has created a bare platform of coloured stones, divided in two by a curved trench that rese...ART90968
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BETHLEHEM, PALESTINE. 1941-12-25. PORTRAIT OF A BUST INSCRIBED "C. LOWTHER 1919, EGYPT".
Photograph
BETHLEHEM, PALESTINE. 1941-12-25. PORTRAIT OF A BUST INSCRIBED "C. LOWTHER 1919, EGYPT".022655
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Bust of Adolf Hitler : Antoon Van De Ven
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Small plaster bust of Adolf Hitler. Originally bronze washed and sitting on a wooden plinth, the bust was severely damaged by fire in 1944 and none of the outer coating or timber base remains. The pla...REL29477
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Captain Edward (Tip) Broughton
Art
Maker: Duldig, Karl
Bust of Captain Edward (Tip) Broughton, who was the commander of the 2nd A.I.F. 8th Employment Company. Set up to provide labour support to assist the war effort, the Employment Company consisted of m...ART90000
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Corporal Arnold Robinson
Art
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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Crouching
Art
Maker: Duldig, Karl
Bronze sculpture depicting a nude crouching female figure, as a smooth, flowing form. The work is part of a series of three sculptures, all of female figures, which Duldig originally carved in potato...AWM2016.94.1
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Design for the Four Freedoms
Art
Maker: Bowles, Leslie
Design for the Four Freedoms sculpture for the Hall of Memory. The sculpture was never completed.ART91934
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Face mask
Art
Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon
Face mask of Colonel J S Purdy, DSO, VD, CO Third Australian General Hospital, Abbeville, 1918.ART26409
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Fatigue
Art
Maker: Walker, Ralph
Walker's sensitivity to the long periods of boredom and fatigue that constituted much of his experience of service life is reflected in his sculpture. His figures capture essences: distilled experienc...ART26406
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Flight Lieutenant Allan Triggs
Art
Maker: Tribe, Barbara John Galizia and Sons
Lieutenant Allan William Russell Triggs, MBE, DFC of 172 Squadron RAAF. In August 1943 Lieutenant Triggs was engaged in night patrol duties over the Bay of Biscay when one engine of his Wellington fa...ART27651
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Flight Lieutenant Charles Leister
Art
Maker: Tribe, Barbara
Bronze bust of Flight Lieutenant Charles Leister (Service no. 420472). Leister was born at Bondi, NSW on 7 September 1909. He enrolled with the RAAF on 8 November 1941 training as a Navigator, befor...ART40972
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German soldier in crouching position with rifle
Art
Maker: Cousins, Marcel
Cousins' 'German soldier' series of sculptures comments on the cliched nature of images of war through the use of toy soldiers. He offers a critique of both past and present conflicts in which Austral...ART94981
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German soldier running in position with rifle
Art
Maker: Cousins, Marcel
Cousins' 'German soldier' series of sculptures comments on the cliched nature of images of war through the use of toy soldiers. He offers a critique of both past and present conflicts in which Austral...ART94982
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German soldier with a grenade
Art
Maker: Cousins, Marcel
Cousins' 'German soldier' series of sculptures comments on the cliched nature of images of war through the use of toy soldiers. He offers a critique of both past and present conflicts in which Austral...ART94983
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Greece
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray Meridian Sculpture Founders
Figure of a soldier fully equipped and wearing winter uniform, marching across Greece in winter.ART90936
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Greece
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray
Figure of soldier fully equipped and wearing winter uniform, marching across Greece in winter.ART26412
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Head study, dark brown
Art
Maker: Dowie, John Stuart
Portrait bust of unidentified male figure. This work appears to be a plaster study for the final portrait bust of Corporal Robinson.ART90020
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Japanese engineer
Art
Maker: Walker, Ralph
Bronze head of a Japanese Engineer Officer, POW, Rabaul.ART40922
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Japanese prisoner of war
Art
Maker: Wilkinson, Jeffery
Head of a Japanese prisoner of war at Finschhafen, New Guinea. The identity of the prisoner of war is unknown. Wilkinson later recalled that he created the sculpture while on leave, using clay he had ...ART30278
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Japanese prisoner of war
Art
Maker: Walker, Ralph
Depicts a head and shoulders profile portrait of a Japanese prisoner of war, wearing a cap. The drawing is a study for a sculpture.ART29159
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Jungle fighter
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray Gregory, E J
A bronze sculpture of a jungle fighter, this is a copy of the Drouin War Memorial, by Ray Ewers.ART26925
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Kneeling Figure
Art
Maker: Duldig, Karl
Bronze sculpture depicting a ¾ posed female figure, kneeling on one knee. The work is part of a series of three sculptures, all of female figures, which Duldig originally carved in potatoes while an...AWM2016.94.2
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Kokoda trail (pattern)
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray
Figure of a soldier in uniform, stepping up with left leg. This sculpture was created as a souvenir for sale through the Australian War Memorial. There is a large scale version of this sculpture on ...ART90971
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Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Bullwinkel AO MBE ARRC ED FNM FRCNA
Art
Maker: Robb, Charles Billmans Foundry
Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Bullwinkel AO MBE ARRC ED FNM FRCNA is the first sculpture to commemorate the service of an individual woman or nurse in the grounds of the Australian War Memorial. It was co...AWM2022.533.1
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Lieutenant R. W. Sanderson
Art
Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon
Portrait of Lieutenant Roger Sanderson from the 2/10 Australian Infantry Battalion. A bronze edition was cast in 1986.ART26408
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Lieutenant R. W. Sanderson
Art
Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Portrait of Lieutenant Roger Sanderson from the 2/10 Australian Infantry Battalion. This bronze edition was cast in 1986, taken from the plaster edition created c.1940.ART40986
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London, England. 1943-07-08. Australian sculptress Barbara Tribe, Sydney, NSW, at work in her ...
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London, England. 1943-07-08. Australian sculptress Barbara Tribe, Sydney, NSW, at work in her studio on a bust of 714 Squadron Leader Robert Henry Maxwell (Bobby) Gibbes DSO DFC and bar, of Manly, NSW...UK0242
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London, England. C. 1943-09. This bust of an Australian Air leader is included in the RAAF War ...
Photograph
London, England. C. 1943-09. This bust of an Australian Air leader is included in the RAAF War Collection in Britain. Shown: 413086 Sergeant L. S. Lowder of Punchbowl, NSW, in front of a bust of Air V...SUK11564
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Melbourne, Vic. 1945-09-24. A front right side view of a bronze statue entitled A RAN Signaller, ...
Photograph
Maker: Christian, N H
Melbourne, Vic. 1945-09-24. A front right side view of a bronze statue entitled A RAN Signaller, the work of sculptor Able Seaman A. F. J. Wilkinson, Naval History Section.100840
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Melbourne, Vic. 1945-09-24. A left side view of a bronze statue entitled A RAN Signaller, the ...
Photograph
Maker: Christian, N H
Melbourne, Vic. 1945-09-24. A left side view of a bronze statue entitled A RAN Signaller, the work of sculptor Able Seaman A. F. J. Wilkinson, Naval History Section.100841
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Melbourne, Vic. 1945-10-22. Exterior of "Lillemar" 52 Queens Road, Headquarters of the Military ...
Photograph
Maker: Vider, Roy Alban
Melbourne, Vic. 1945-10-22. Exterior of "Lillemar" 52 Queens Road, Headquarters of the Military History Section, showing part of the sculptor's studio (extreme left), Colonel Treloar's office (left of...100899
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Melbourne, Vic. 1945-09-24. Head sculpted in bronze, of a Japanese prisoner of war, the work of ...
Photograph
Maker: Christian, N H
Melbourne, Vic. 1945-09-24. Head sculpted in bronze, of a Japanese prisoner of war, the work of sculptor Able Seaman A. F. J. Wilkinson, Naval History Section.100842
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Melbourne, Vic. 1944-04-28. Sculptor Tina Wentscher finishing off the Keith (Bluey) Truscott ...
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Maker: Herald Newspaper
Melbourne, Vic. 1944-04-28. Sculptor Tina Wentscher finishing off the Keith (Bluey) Truscott memorial plaque, before having it cast in bronze and placed in the Children's Hospital.141024
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Melbourne, Vic. 1945-09-24. The front and right side of a head sculpted in bronze, of Admiral Sir ...
Photograph
Maker: Christian, N H
Melbourne, Vic. 1945-09-24. The front and right side of a head sculpted in bronze, of Admiral Sir Guy Royle, the work of sculptor Able Seaman A. F. J. Wilkinson, Naval History Section.100845
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Melbourne, Vic. 1945-09-24. The left side of a head sculpted in bronze, of Admiral Sir Guy Royle, ...
Photograph
Maker: Christian, N H
Melbourne, Vic. 1945-09-24. The left side of a head sculpted in bronze, of Admiral Sir Guy Royle, the work of sculptor Able Seaman A. F. J. Wilkinson, Naval History Section.100844
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Melbourne, Vic. 1945-09-24. The right side of a head sculpted in bronze, of a Japanese prisoner ...
Photograph
Maker: Christian, N H
Melbourne, Vic. 1945-09-24. The right side of a head sculpted in bronze, of a Japanese prisoner of war, the work of sculptor Able Seaman A. F. J. Wilkinson, Naval History Section.100843
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Native girl
Art
Maker: Ewers, Raymond Boultwood Meridian Sculpture Founders
A head and shoulders portrait bust of a Papuan girl. This figure has also previously been referred to as "Diara".ART91652
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Native girl
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray
A head and shoulders portrait bust of a Papuan girl. This figure has also previously been referred to as "Diara".ART26418
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Native head
Art
Maker: Walker, Ralph
Originally called 'Boy from Arawe'. The sculpture depicts the head of a member of the New Guinea Infantry Battalion, with the artist noting that he was from a district where the heads of children are ...ART26754
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New York, USA. 1944. A large crowd gathers at the annual Anzac Garden Dedication Ceremony. An ...
Photograph
New York, USA. 1944. A large crowd gathers at the annual Anzac Garden Dedication Ceremony. An American hospitality centre for Australian and New Zealand forces was the Anzac Club. Founder and Presiden...106131
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Not titled [Display plinth for First prize entry in a competition for a design for an AWM outside Australia House]
Art
Maker: Paulin, George Henry
This is a wooden display plinth for the plaster maquette 'First prize entry in a competition for a design for an AWM outside Australia House'.ART90017.001
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[On leave]
Art
Maker: Hall, Alan
Sketch of a man in front of a sculpture whilst on leave. The artist Alan Hall (1919-1979) enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years. During the Second World War he se...ART93341
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Photographs: QX4928 Private Albert Edgar Farmer
Photograph
Images related to the service of QX4928 Private Albert Edward 'Joe' Farmer, 6th Division Australian Army Service Corps. Farmer, of Boondall, Qld, enlisted on 4 March 1940 and was discharged on 25 Augu...AWM2020.525.11
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Portrait of a soldier, Gunner J Wigley
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray
Plaster bust of an Australian soldier, Gunner J Wigley.ART26410
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Portrait of unnamed Polish soldier artisan who worked the national emblem in cement which was ...
Photograph
Maker: Fisher, Thomas
Portrait of unnamed Polish soldier artisan who worked the national emblem in cement which was placed outside Headquarters, Polish Brigade, Tobruk.020949
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RAAF Fighter Pilot
Art
Maker: Mellon, Eleanor
Sculpture of unidentified pilot from the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). This bust was brought to Australia by Miss Gretchen Green OBE, an American recreation worker who, during the Second World W...ART28125
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Rabaul and Montevideo Maru memorial
Art
Maker: Parrett, James Daniel
Memorial sculpture made to commemorate Australian civilians and servicemen who were killed in the defence of Rabaul and later in the sinking of the Montevideo Maru during the Second World War. The sea...ART94537
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Robert Menzies
Art
Maker: Frith, John by the artist at the Bulletin foundry
Caricature head of Robert Menzies.ART40888
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San Michele, Italy. 1943. The building showing statues and busts where Dr Axel Munthe wrote his ...
Photograph
Maker: Le Guay, Laurence Craddock
San Michele, Italy. 1943. The building showing statues and busts where Dr Axel Munthe wrote his world famous book of that title.MEA0904
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Sculpted head of Josef Stalin : Chief Petty Officer J D K Radley, HMAS Adelaide
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Carved charicature head of Josef Stalin made from clinker produced as a by-product of coal burning in the ship's boilers of the light cruiser HMAS Adelaide. The head has been painted after carving an...REL/18531
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Second World War sculptures created by Gladys Blaiberg, a number of them feature ?Adolf Hitler. ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Second World War sculptures created by Gladys Blaiberg, a number of them feature ?Adolf Hitler. The titles include "We Three and Me - My Echo My Shadow" and "Shirker", featuring an Australian soldier....P11295.018
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Second World War sculptures created by Gladys Blaiberg, a number of them feature ?Adolf Hitler ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Second World War sculptures created by Gladys Blaiberg, a number of them feature ?Adolf Hitler including one sculpture titled "Splitz-Krieg".P11295.017
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Second World War sculptures created by Gladys Blaiberg. These feature Adolf Hitler and are titled ...
Photograph
Maker: Fox's Studios
Second World War sculptures created by Gladys Blaiberg. These feature Adolf Hitler and are titled "Chamber of horrors" series "Mind My Mike" "Germany Calling" "Germany Squalling" and "Germany Falling"...P11295.019
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Sentinel
Art
Maker: West, Vicki
'The "Sentinel" pays homage to past ancestors who fought to protect Lutruwita (Tasmania) and the present-day cultural warriors who continue to fight to protect our home' Vicki West, 2016 West's armou...AWM2016.542.1
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Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop
Art
Maker: Corlett, Peter Meridian Sculpture Founders
This sculpture of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop (1907-1993) commemorates all Australian doctors and other medical staff who served Australian prisoners of war in the Asia Pacific region between 1939-1945....ART90407
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Squatting Prisoner of War
Photograph
Maker: Dupain, Max
Ralph Traffod Walker's sculpture "Squatting Prisoner of War", 1947-1948, plaster, bronze patina. The image depicts a sculpture of a Japanese prisoner of war at Rabaul from the Second World War. His sp...P10594.001
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Sydney, NSW. 1942-09-07. An unfinished sculpture by Lieutenant L. R. Dadsell, an Australian ...
Photograph
Sydney, NSW. 1942-09-07. An unfinished sculpture by Lieutenant L. R. Dadsell, an Australian official war artist.026578
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Sydney, NSW. 1942-09-07. An unfinished sculpture titled A Soldier in Summer Dress. The sculptor ...
Photograph
Sydney, NSW. 1942-09-07. An unfinished sculpture titled A Soldier in Summer Dress. The sculptor was Lieutenant L. R. Dadsell, an Australian official war artist.026577
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Sydney, NSW. 1942-09-07. An unfinished sculpture titled A Soldier in Summer Dress. The sculptor ...
Photograph
Sydney, NSW. 1942-09-07. An unfinished sculpture titled A Soldier in Summer Dress. The sculptor was Lieutenant L. R. Dadsell, an Australian official war artist.026576
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Sydney, NSW. 1942-09-07. An unfinished sculpture titled A Soldier in Summer Dress. The sculptor ...
Photograph
Sydney, NSW. 1942-09-07. An unfinished sculpture titled A Soldier in Summer Dress. The sculptor was Lieutenant L. R. Dadsell, an Australian official war artist.026575
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The National Emblem of Poland worked in cement by a Polish soldier in Tobruk. He is seen ...
Photograph
Maker: Fisher, Thomas
The National Emblem of Poland worked in cement by a Polish soldier in Tobruk. He is seen brushing sand from the finished work.020948
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Wooden carving showing map of Malaya and an Australian Soldier : Brigadier F Gallaghan, 2/30 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Small carving in the form of a miniature memorial, displaying a freestanding map of Malaya beside an aerial bomb with a helmeted Australian soldier crawling up an incline in front. This is carved from...RELAWM32455
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Yes Sir
Art
Maker: Hirschfeld-Mack, Ludwig
This work was carved whilst the Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack was an internee in Australia. Born in Germany in 1893, after the First World War the artist studied at the progressive art and design school, the...ART28158