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Air power is peace power
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Maker: Unknown Royal Australian Air Force Unknown
Advertising poster for Air Force Week issued by the Royal Australian Air Force. The poster features a de Havilland Vampire T.35 soaring into the sky against a sky blue background. The title is in the...ARTV09783
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Anzac soldier
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Maker: Artist unknown
Small chalkware sculpture of a soldier in Australian uniform created in Australia during the 1940s. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program in 2016AWM2016.214.1
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Arm injury - amputation
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Maker: Aubrey-Crowe, George
Australian Military Forces, Services Reconnaissance Department, Native Constabulary; R416 Warrant 1 Yauwiga (or Yauwika) DCM, M Special, AMF, with loyalty medal, left arm amputated below elbow, wearin...ART24397
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Back your future wth U.S. Savings Bonds
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Maker: Englert U.S. Treasury Department [WASHINGTON] : U.S. TREASURY, 1946 (WASHINGTON : U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE)
Second World War American propaganda poster promoting the U.S. Savings Bonds scheme. The image of a happy suburban family, with an arm in the foreground wearing an Uncle Sam styled sleeve. A U.S. flag...ARTV05717
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Bearded dragon
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Bearded Dragon and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Austr...AWM2016.60.10
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Brigadier Alexander Forbes
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Brigadier Alexander Moore Forbes, MVO, MC, was one of the first cadets at Duntroon Military College. He was the first Sergeant - Major and recipient of the first Sword of Honour. Served in the First W...ART24462
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Brigadier Murray Moten
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Brigadier Murray John Moten, CBE, DSO and Bar, was in command of a Citizen Military Force unit at the outbreak of war and was second to command the 2/27th Australian Infantry Battal...ART26668
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Bush turkey
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Bush Turkey and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australi...AWM2016.60.4
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Called up...
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Maker: Lindsay, Norman
This illustration by Norman Lindsay was published in the 'Bulletin' on Wednesday July 5th 1944. It was captioned ‘CALLED UP; Miss Liberty, you are in a non-essential occupation. You are directed to r...AWM2022.449.1
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Canberra Country
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Maker: Bone, Thomas Henry
Depicts a view from Russell Hill, covered in trees, showing the Australian War Memorial in the centre, with mountains in the background (possibly looking towards Black mountain). Thomas H. Bone was a ...ART93005
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Can you read?
Art
Maker: Commonwealth Office of Education SYDNEY : COMMONWEALTH OFFICE OF EDUCATION, [N.D.]
Second World War Unesco poster raising awareness about global education.ARTV01596
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Captain Henry Showers
Art
Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Royal Australian Navy; Commodore Henry Arthur Showers, CBE, RAN; member of Australian Victory Contingent, 1946ART26667
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Carpet snake
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Carpet Snake and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Austral...AWM2016.60.9
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Cassowary
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Cassowary and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia....AWM2016.60.22
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Cockatoo
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Cockatoo and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. ...AWM2016.60.7
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Colonel Frederick Wall
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts a portrait of Colonel Frederick L Wall, MC, Deputy Director Medical Services, Australian Army Medical Corps. Served in the First World War and awarded the Military Cross. Commanded 110 Austral...ART24451
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Counting confiscated yen - Repatriation Centre, Senzaki
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Money confiscated from Koreans is counted by Japanese officials - Koreans who try to get into Japan often have large amounts of yen and authorities are mystified as to how and where it is acquired.ART26737
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Cuscus
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Cuscus and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. Ea...AWM2016.60.19
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Death March
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Maker: O'Connor, Vic O'Connor, Vic
Death March provides overarching critical commentary on suffering and the loss of life caused by conflicts in the twentieth century. It is undated but believed to have been painted in the early 1970s,...AWM2016.615.1
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Design for Hall of Memory interior
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Horizontal treatment for dome mosaic, with North-West pendentive elevation and sculpture.ART90178
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Design for Hall of Memory interior
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An early design for the stained glass windows in the Hall of Memory. The Hall of Memory was conceived in the years following the First World War to honour and remember those who have served and given ...ART90184
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Design for Hall of Memory, mosaic pendentive
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Maker: Beaumont, Walter Gilbert
Cartoon for Hall of Memory depicting a group of infantrymen.ART29398
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Design for Hall of Memory, mosaic pendentive
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Maker: Beaumont, Walter Gilbert
A design for the Hall of Memory mosaic. Beaumont has depicted a group of airmen, pilots, air and ground crew and the design has a strong vertical line. The pendentive figures of the mosaic commemorate...ART29397
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Design for Hall of Memory, mosaic pendentive
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Maker: Beaumont, Walter Gilbert
Design for Hall of Memory of infantryman with rifle standing before a blue background.ART29395
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Design section for Hall of Memory mosaic dome
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Mosaic design section for Hall of Memory dome.ART90180
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Digger on a camel
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Maker: Artist unknown
This sculpture offers historical insight on the life of Australian soldiers beyond the battlefield. Playfully seated on the camel smiling, the digger captures a moment of recreation for Australian sol...AWM2016.214.2
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Dingo
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Dingo and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. Eac...AWM2016.60.12
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Disc plan of silver and ceramic mosaic dome
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Early design for Hall of Memory mosaic dome. The colour scheme in this design was obviously revisited and altered dramatically to that which eventuated.ART90179
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Eagle
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of an Eagle and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. Ea...AWM2016.60.11
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Emu
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of an Emu and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. Each...AWM2016.60.15
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Face injury apparatus
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Maker: Aubrey-Crowe, George
Unidentified man with severe facial injuries, undergoing reconstruction of lower jaw and face, wearing plaster cap and external fixative apparatus (to hold bone fragments in place while they reunite, ...ART24398
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Field Hospital Officer Australian Red Cross Field Force (Superintendent Nancy Smethurst)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Field Hospital Officer, Superintendent Nancy V.Smethurst, Australian Red Cross Society Field Force in her uniform.ART26302
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Field Hospital Officer Australian Red Cross Society, Superintendent Lynne Davies
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a portrait of Superintendent Lynne Davies, Field Hospital, Australian Red Cross Society Field Force. The Red Cross Field Force were a relatively small group of young women, drawn from all the ...ART26301
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Flight Lieutenant William Newton
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Maker: Freedman, Harold
Portrait of Flight Lieutenant William Ellis Newton, VC, 22 Squadron RAAF. He was awarded the VC in 1943. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war artist att...ART26991
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Flying Officer Francis Jackson, bomb aimer
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of Flying Officer Francis Jackson DFC wears a C-type flying helmet and oxygen mask. The drawing is a study for the painting 'Bomber crew'. Born in Tamworth, New South Wales, Francis Gordon Ja...ART26256
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For friendly advice refer to your local repatriation committee
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Maker: Unknown
At the end of the First World War, there was tremendous difficulty faced by authorities in finding work for soldiers repatriated to Australia. When it came to the Second World War, there was greater o...ARTV02285
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Frilled lizard
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Frilled Lizard and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Austr...AWM2016.60.21
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Frog
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Frog and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. Each...AWM2016.60.5
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Frogmouth owl
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Frogmouth Owl and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Austra...AWM2016.60.18
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Gallipoli Mission [cover design]
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Maker: Beaumont, Walter Gilbert
Cover design for Bean's book 'Gallipoli Mission', which was not used. Three figures are grouped in the lower right; George Lambert (official war artist), Zeki Bey (Turkish officer), and Charles Bean (...ART19774
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Give to the 1946 Clothing Collection for U.N.R.R.A.
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Maker: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Australian poster, likely published near the end of the Second World War or immediately after. The poster calls for the donation of clothing to the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administrat...ARTV01595
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Goanna
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Goana and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. Eac...AWM2016.60.26
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[Greeting card ] (recto); [Greeting card] (verso)
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Maker: Russell, Elsa
Three unidentified WAAAFs admiring an elegant civilian hat, with Christmas and New Year greetings on the card.ART29014
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Gurnet
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Gurnet and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. Ea...AWM2016.60.13
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"Hey, Blue, hand me the 303" drawing for illustration for 'As You Were' 1949
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
A humorous drawing of two Australian soldiers that are fishing from a small wooden boat. One soldier asks the other to pass him a rifle that is resting in the boat- his intent is to shoot the fish tha...ARTI00397
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Hiroshima
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Depicts a child standing amongst a burnt and scarred landscape. A blackened tree is outlined by the grey cloudy sky and stacked crates stand alongside a charred home to the right of the composition. T...ART29483
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Hiroshima, Japan
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Temporary housing made out of scrap material in Hiroshima, Japan.ART91452
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Hiroshima snow
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
A view of the bombed ruins of the city of Hiroshima during snow storm. Pictured in the foreground is a stone lantern, rubble, and some tree branches. On the other side of a body of water is the bomb ...ART26713
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His Majesty King George VI
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Maker: Goduto, Alfredo
His Majesty King George VI, wearing uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, Garter ribbon and Star and other Orders and awards, holding tricorne hat in right hand, with Union Jack and Australian flags hangin...ART28179
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Hungarian soldier, nicknamed 'Bumba la Negra'
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Maker: Binder, Tibor
Depicts a portrait of Hungarian gypsy soldier, nicknamed 'Bumba', in prisoner of war camp, Mailly-le-Camp, France.ART27838
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Indigenous female head boss
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This architectural ‘boss’ or carved stone figure depicts the face of an Aboriginal woman. Along with its male counterpart, it is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial....AWM2016.60.1
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Indigenous male head boss
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This architectural ‘boss’ or carved stone figure depicts the face of an Aboriginal man. Along with its female counterpart, it is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial....AWM2016.60.14
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Inokuma Genichiro
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
While travelling in Japan in February to April 1947, Tucker met a number of Japanese artists including Genichiro Inokuma, a former Japanese war artist.ART91448
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In the street, Osaka
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
In 1947 Tucker travelled through New Guinea, Philippines, Okinawa and Japan with American, Harry Roskolenko. Here Tucker depicts a street scene while he was in Osaka.ART91451
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Jobs for your choosing
Art
Maker: Unknown Commonwealth Employment Service Unknown
Commonwealth Employment Service Aid Re-establishment poster advertising types of job opportunities for ex-service personnel. The majority of the poster is text. Centre left is a graphic of four servic...ARTV02284
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Join the navy for a grand career
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Maker: Unknown Royal Australian Navy John Sands Pty Ltd
Australian recruiting poster depicting the smiling crew of H.M.A.S. 'Australia'.ARTV00210
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Kangaroo
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Kangaroo and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. ...AWM2016.60.2
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Koala
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Koala and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. Eac...AWM2016.60.16
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Kookaburra
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Kookaburra and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia...AWM2016.60.24
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Kure, Japan
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Wreckage in the Kure shipyards, Japan. On his visit to Japan in 1947, Albert Tucker documented in a series of works on paper, the result of Allied bombing raids.ART28471
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Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Heafey
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Michael Heafey, District Finance Officer, South Australia.ART24463
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Lieutenant Commander Richard Peek
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Lieutenant Commander Richard Innes Peek, OBE, DSC, Royal Australian Navy (RAN) member of Australian Victory Contingent, 1946. Richard Innes Peek (1914-2010) joined the Royal Austra...ART26670
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Major General George Vasey
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Maker: Bale, A M E
Portrait, painted posthumously, of VX9 Major General George Alan Vasey, CB, CBE, DSO and Bar, General Commanding the 6th Division AIF. A Duntroon graduate, Vasey served in the First World War with art...ART26932
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Major General Kenneth Eather
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
A portrait of Major General Kenneth Eather of the 2/1st Australian Infantry Battalion, 25th Australian Brigade, 11th Australian Division. Major General Kenneth William 'Phar Lap' Eather, CB, CBE, DSO...ART26669
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Major Peter Head
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts a portrait of Major Peter Charles Aislabie Head, MC, Deputy Assistant Adjutant, General in Line of Command Area.ART24450
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Major William Morris
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts a portrait of SX27204 Major William Rosslyn Charles Morris, Deputy Assistant Director Medical Services Line of Command Area Australian Army Medical Service.ART24452
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Matron Margaret Lang
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Maker: Freedman, Harold
Margaret Irene Lang first served in Solonika with the Australian Army Nursing Service in the First World War. During the Second World War, she was Matron-in-Chief of the Royal Australian Air Force Nur...ART27682
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Mopoke
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Mopoke and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. Ea...AWM2016.60.8
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Mountain devil
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Mountain Devil and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Austr...AWM2016.60.23
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Mrs Doreen Gutierrez, Red Cross Aid
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a portrait of Red Cross Aid, Mrs J. Gutierrez from the Brighton Branch of the Red Cross Society in Victoria. Red Cross Aids assisted with Convalescent Hospital work, Immunisation work at Healt...ART26300
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On the beach at Okinawa
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
This study is of a US army protective (tin) helmet, glove and 30 calibre machine gun link belt discarded on the beach at Okinawa.ART91449
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Opossum
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of an Opossum and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. ...AWM2016.60.25
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Osaka
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
This drawing of the devastation in Osaka was made on Albert Tucker's three month visit to Japan in 1947.ART91450
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Platypus
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Maker: Traditional Restoration Company Bowles, Leslie
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Platypus and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. ...AWM2016.60.17
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Repatriation centre, Senzaki, a very disappointed Korean
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Koreans are only allowed to retain 1000 yen before being sent back to their homeland. This one has just been relieved of a large sum and is a little upset. A New Zealand soldier gently pushes him on h...ART26738
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Repatriation centre, Senzaki - Innoculating a child
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
A Korean child is passing through the medical line-up prior to being returned to Korea. The child is just starting to cry after having five injections in quick succession. The Repatriation Centre at S...ART26732
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Serve Australia: Join the RAAF
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Maker: Unknown RAAF Unknown
Royal Australian Air Force Second World War recruitment poster. It features a graphic depiction of a de Havilland Vampire T.35. in a pale blue sky with white clouds. The title text and message is prin...ARTV04249
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Serve Australia: Join the RAAF
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Maker: Unknown RAAF Unknown
Royal Australian Air Force Second World War recruitment poster. It features a graphic depiction of a de Havilland Vampire T.35. in a pale blue sky with white clouds. The title text and message is prin...ARTV04313
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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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Sister Cherry Wilson
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Sister Cherry Wilson (born 6 June 1910, Geelong, Victoria), Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service (RANNS) member of Australian Victory Contingent, 1946. She enlisted 1 Oct 1942, an...ART26671
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Skin graft stomach to wrist
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Maker: Aubrey-Crowe, George
Private Kenneth John Turich QX20059, 2/26th Battalion, 8th Division, shown here with a shoulder injury in the process of being repaired, a pedicle graft from abdominal wall to forearm, at a later stag...ART24396
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Swan
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Swan and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. Each...AWM2016.60.20
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Tasmanian devil
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Tasmanian Devil and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Aust...AWM2016.60.6
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The Fall
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Maker: Tiatia, Angela
'The Fall' provides a contemporary illustration and insight into Singapore's and Australia's shared wartime experience during the Second World War and its complex legacies for both nations. It was dev...AWM2018.207.1
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The Soudan
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicting Lord Worseley, Commander-in-Chief, bidding farewell to the Australian Infantry at Souakim. Painted from a sketch by Mr. Walter Paget, Special Artist for the Illustrated London News and publi...ART25050
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This is the story that shocked America
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Maker: Unknown
The text on this poster was taken from the August 1949 issue of the American Reader's Digest, however was printed by the Australia Road Safety Council. The poster discusses the importance of safe driv...ARTV02387
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Tokyo
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Depicts people walking along a Tokyo street with a tree and business signs along the left side of the street and a mountain in the distance. Tucker travelled to Japan between February and April 1947 w...ART91454
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Too late then. Train Now!
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Maker: Jardine, Walter Lacy
Recruitment poster for the Citizen Military Forces issued after the Second World War. Designed by Walter Jardine one of Australia's most renowned poster artists of the period the gruesome image is of ...ARTV10236
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Towards one world : Unesco
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Maker: Commonwealth Office of Education
Second World War Unesco poster depicting nations of the world collaged together around an orb, with the flag, "UNESCO", waving in front.ARTV01513
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Unesco at Work
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Maker: Commonwealth Office of Education
Second World War Unesco poster highlighting the achievements of Unesco in Australia and Asia. The image is of two earth globes, one with Australia at the forefront, and one with the atlantic sea.ARTV01512
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Victory contingent marching through Melbourne
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Australia sent a contingent of 250 officers, men and women of the three services to participate in the Victory Parade in London, 8 June 1946. This painting depicts the Army detachment of the Australia...ART24379
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Victory March, London, 10 June 1946
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Depicts a victory march, Royal Family; on dais l-r: Dowager Queen Mary, unidentified, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth (Queen consort), Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret, unidentified, tri-service C...ART26665
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War Memorial, Canberra
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts the exterior of the Australian War Memorial, viewed from the front steps, with a number of people entering the Memorial. Robert Emerson Curtis (1899 - 1996) was born in Croydon, England and h...ART29723
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Wombat
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Maker: Bowles, Leslie Traditional Restoration Company
This gargoyle depicts the face of a Wombat and is situated in the Commemorative Courtyard of the Australian War Memorial. It is one of 24 gargoyles that depict animals that are native to Australia. Ea...AWM2016.60.3