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Selarang
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Selarang Barracks of the Changi camp compound. The AIF were quartered in this area for majority of their time in captivity. The building in the foreground of this work housed the 8th Division Signals.ART26469
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Selarang buildings
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Occupied by NCO prisoners-of-war captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore. The buildings were previously part of Selarang Barracks occupied by the British troops garrisoning Singapore. The ar...ART26473
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Senussi and wrecked Ju 87 Stuka
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Maker: Dargie, William
A Senussi man with a donkey stands looking at a crashed German Junkers Ju 87 Stuka. The code 'T6' visible on the rear fuselage of the wrecked Stuka is a specific Luftwaffe unit code, for Sturzkampfge...ART23893
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She talked... this happened
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Maker: Unknown Ministry of Home Security Fosh & Cross Ltd.
During the Second World War, a fear of information falling into the wrong hands was felt by the warring countries. To remind the civilians and military personnel to keep all information from being ove...ARTV01097
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Shipyards at Kure
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
View of the shipyards at Kure. On his arrival, Tucker spent some days making drawings of the devastated cities and landscapes including the dockyards at Kure.ART91453
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Showers in a ruin
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Maker: Friend, Donald
In 1942 Donald Friend enlisting with the AIF, was posted as a gunner to the artillery unit near Albury. In 1945, he was selected for appointment as official war artist. He travelled to Morotai, Labuan...ART22907
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Souvenir hunters in the ruined mosque, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts unidentified soldiers collecting souvenirs in a destroyed mosque in Labuan, Borneo during the Second World War.ART22176
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St George in the East, Stepney
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Maker: Meeson, Dora
This 18th century Anglican Church was hit by a bomb during the Second World War Blitz on London's docklands in May 1941. Meeson's watercolour illustrates how the apse remained intact, as did much of t...ART26907
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St. Paul's Cathedral, London, after the surrounding building has been flattened by enemy bombing
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Maker: Meeson, Dora
This scene depicts the aftermath of bombing in London during the Blitz of 1941. St Paul's Cathedral stands erect and resilient in the background, but the foreground is a mess of rubble and destructio...ART26916
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[Study for Burning oil wells at Seria II]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts the landscape and billowing smoke of burning oil wells at Seria (now in Brunei), during the Second World War. William Edwin Pidgeon ('WEP') (1909-1981) was a painter, cartoonist, illustrator a...ART95025
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[Study for Burning oil wells at Seria III]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Scene depicting landscape filled with fire and smoke from the burning oil wells, with artist's notes 'jet cream', 'blue' and 'fume ledges' in pencil on the work. This is one of a number of studies of ...ART96247
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Study for Destroyed shopfronts, Victoria, Labuan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts a destroyed buildling with large doric columns that is still standing with a clock tower in the background. There are handwritten artist's notes regarding what colours to use in the final work...ART29801
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Study for Destroyed shopfronts, Victoria, Labuan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts a section of Victoria town destroyed by war, with large doric columns still standing in the foreground.ART29800
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study for Main street, Brunei
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Sketch of a town street that has been destroyed by bombing. Only a few doorways are left standing along the depicted street.ART29803
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Study for Wrecked oil tanks on Tank Knoll Tarakan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Sketch of an industrialised landscape with buildings in the background that have been destroyed as a result of war.ART29790
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Sydney - Bartolomeo Colleoni action, 19 July 1940
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Maker: Norton, Frank
This large painting commemorates Sydney's place as one of Australia's most famous warships and its role in Australia's major naval success of the Second World War. In July 1940 a 90 minute battle bet...ART28486
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Tank Road, Balikpapan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
The artists has endeavoured to protray the destruction and desolation caused by the bombardment by our naval forces prior to the landing of troops, 7th Australian Division.ART23206
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Tank Road, Balikpapan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Twisted and burned oil reservoirs, whose metal had been warped into fantastic shapes and burned to strange colours by the heat, Balikpapan.ART22917
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The beach-head, Lae
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
The "Tong Sung" in centre middle distance. Sunken Japanese ship in right distance. Pile driver on left for building wharves. In the right foreground a bombed Japanese Propellor Torpedo (PT) Boat, Lae,...ART22324
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The bombing of the Macdhui
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Japanese bombs are shown exploding around the Burns Philp liner MV Macdhui in the first bombing attack on the vessel at Port Moresby. On the 17th of June, 1942 the Japanese launched this first air rai...ART23685