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Action at Te Ranga
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Maker: Atcherley, Henry Mount Langton
British troops attacking a Maori position at Te Ranga near Gate Pah, with Mount Edgcumbe on the horizon behind at left. Two 12-pound Armstrong guns are firing at the Maori position, and more troops, h...ART19817
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Airstrip Dunkerque
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Depicts the temporary airstrip on the beach at Dunkerque containing a fence and barbed wire which stretches out along the beach Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by...ART94189
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Ammunition dump, Glisy
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts an ammunition dump at Glisy screened by camouflage netting, a warning sign post, stacks of shells for 18-pounder guns, a separate stack for fuze caps, some shells in steel ammunition boxes and...ART03486
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Battle of Fromelles
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Maker: Wheeler, Charles
Depicts a panoramic view of the Sugarloaf Salient area at Fromelles, with men of 5th Division AIF crossing No Man's Land towards the German trenches. Shell bursts and explosions can be seen above the...ART07981
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Big gun emplacement, Fort of Chanak
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Maker: Lambert, George
This work was painted during George Lambert's visit to Gallipoli in 1919 with the Australian Historical Mission. They spent a week at Chanak (7-14 Feb), a small town on the Asiatic side of the Dardane...ART02835
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Block House, Elandsfontein
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Maker: Cobb, Victor
An octagonal blockhouse at Elandsfontein, the key to the Transvaal railway network, the Pretoria railway was cut in preperation for the advance of troops to Johannesburg.ART50213
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Breaking the Hindenburg Line
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Maker: Longstaff, Will
The Battle of the Hindenburg Line which began September 18, 1918, was a key turning point in the Hundred Days Offensive that eventually led to the end of World War 1. British forces spearheaded the at...ART03023
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Bridge into Peronne
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts the ruins of the bridge into Peronne blown up by retreating Germans. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century....ART12628
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Brigade headquarters
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a bunker with a roof of sheets of corrugated iron weighed down with sandbags, sand bag walls, a sentry on duty, chimney pipes above the roof, which was used as the headquarters of an unidentif...ART03532
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Bringing pickets up the ridge
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian infantrymen from 3 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, Commonwealth Division in Korea, distributing pickets in a jeep and a trailer. The pickets were for shoring up fences and barbed wire ...ART40392
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Bunker entrance
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Maker: Chapman, Evelyn
Entrance to a bunker on the Somme in France, the red colour suggesting vegetation re-growth. In 1918, only a few weeks after the end of the First World War, Chapman travelled to the battlefields of Fr...ART19590
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Bunker, Quang Tri Province, Vietnam
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Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Sandbagged bunker, probably at the command base in a compound used by the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), who were advisors to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. The compound was imme...ART40531
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Bunker, Quang Tri Province, Vietnam
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Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
An Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV) bunker in a Quang Tri Province compound used by Advisors to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. It was immediately south of the de-militarized zone, h...ART40526
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50 calibre machine guns inside bunker, Quang Tri Province, Vietnam
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Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Sandbagged machine-gun bunkers with 50 calibre machine guns around the perimeter of the Australian Army Training Team (AATTV)'s compound south of the de-militarized zone.ART40530
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Camouflaged Gun Positions, Middle Head, Sydney
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Richard Ashton, an artist with the Military History Section, painted a number of works related to Australia's defences during the Second World War. This work depicts anti aircraft guns in place at Mi...ART23665
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Castle of Europe Dardanelles
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Maker: Young, Marianne
A sketch of an ancient castle fortress on the foreshore at the Dardanelles. It is possibly the Castle of Europe, one of the two castles that guarded the entrance to the Dardanelles. This drawing is on...ART14023.006
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Charge of the 2nd Infantry Brigade at Krithia
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Maker: Wheeler, Charles
Late in the afternoon of 8 May 1915, at half an hours notice, the Australian and New Zealand troops received orders to attack the village of Krithia to the south of the Anzac area. Moving across a tho...ART09558
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Cleaning No.2 gun, Middle Park, Melbourne
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Shows camouflaged entrances to guns 2 and 3. Melbourne's skyline as a background, with Government House and The Shrine of Remembrance predominating. Middle Park, unidentified soldier cleaning 3.7 inch...ART26082
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Coastal defence gun
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Artillerymen from the Australian Military Forces crew a 6 inch naval gun on the coast in Darwin. The gun is one that was manufactured before 1914 and is probably off one of the First World War ships, ...ART22186
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Command post, Hill 210
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
The command post for 1 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, at Hill 210, Jamestown Line area, Korea.ART40378
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Command post, top of Hill 355, Kowang San, Korea
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Command post of the Commonwealth Division, Hill 355, Kowang San, Jamestown Line Area, Korea. Hill 355 was known as 'Little Gibraltar' to the Australians.ART40386
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Craterland
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts a wounded man on a stretcher being carried by four German prisoners of war while under armed escort of an Australian soldier. They are walking along a duckboard track past shell holes filled w...ART02925
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Defence works at the Heads
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Maker: George Rossi Ashton David Syme & Co. Illustrated Australian News
This wood engraving was published in The Illustrated Australian News, 13 May 1885 and shows colonial defence works being built at Queenscliff, Victoria. The vignettes illustrate the defences at the He...ART19852
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Deserted trenches, Darwin
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Maker: Wood, C Dudley Wood, C Dudley
The trench has a dark, shaded entrance which is supported by pilasters of piled stones. It is accessed by a broken ladder, which descends from high ground of red dirt. The trench is located amongst s...ART29212
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Digging and wiring
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Ivor Hele made hundreds of sketches while observing the activities of the 3RAR. As he had done in the Second World War, Hele shared the front line with the troops, and often experienced the same const...ART40369
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Digging crawl trenches on the Lozenge
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
A mass of bodies from 3 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment, stripped to the waist digging crawl trenches with pickaxes on the Lozenge, Korea.ART40302
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[Digging in]
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Unidentified men digging trenches along the Jamestown line during a period of static war Korea.ART90963
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Digging in
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers from 3 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment digging trenches on the Jamestown Line, Korea.ART40401
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Digging party going up ridge
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Digging party of Australian soldiers climbing a ridge, carrying picks and shovels, Jamestown Line Area, Korea.ART40403
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Enemy machine-gun position
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Depicts the German machine gun position after its capture by the 1st Brigade AIF near Templeux-le-Guerard. Two German machine gunners lie dead near a damaged and dismantled Maxim machine gun with sled...ART03379
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Entrance to citadel, Peronne
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Maker: Streeton, Arthur
Depicts a view of the damaged entrance to the Citadel at Peronne, with an Albion truck parked at the entrance. Arthur Streeton is best known as one of the painters of the Heidelberg School in Melbour...ART03516
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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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Essenholen bei Pilkem [Ration carriers near Pilkem]
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Maker: Dix, Otto Nierendorf, Karl Felsing, Otto
This image is plate 43 from the portfolio of 50 etchings comprising the series 'Der Krieg (The War)', published by Karl Nierendorf, Berlin and printed by Otto Felsing. This scene is near Pilkem Ridge ...ART50286
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Fortification at Swan Island
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Maker: Unknown The Illustrated Australian News
This wood engraving shows nine small images of the various views of the fortification at Swan Island. It is accompanied by an explanatory key: 1. View of Swan Island Battery from the sea. 2. Emplaceme...ART19870
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Fortifications, South Head
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Maker: after Julian Rossi Ashton Picturesque Atlas Publishing Co
One of two drawings by Julian Ashton commissioned for 'the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia' (Volume II, p71) to illustrate the fortifications at South Head and the 25-ton gun at Middle Head, Sydney, ...ART94388
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Fort Khiam Syria 1941
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
This sketch comes from a series completed by VX18229, Sergeant Francis George (Frank) Hodgkinson, 7th Australian Division, completed during his time in Syria and modern-day Lebanon as part of Operatio...AWM2019.803.1
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Fort XV Thorn [Torun, Poland]
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Depicts a fence with open gates behind which is an entry to FORT XV Torun, Poland. Camp Stalag XXA was a series of POW camps in forts in Thorn (now Torun) in Poland during the Second World War. At its...ART96063
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General view of Peronne from old German position left side
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A diptych view of the trenched landscape of Peronne, France, from an old German position. Buildings are visible in the distance.ART03409
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German machine-gun outpost near Proyart
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Depicts a German machine gun post near Proyart, after its capture. There are camp remnants scattered around, helmets, rifles, satchels. In the distance are bombardments with smoke rising and explosion...ART03380
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German observation post, Messines
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts a damaged German observation post in a war damaged landscape at Messines in Belgium during the First World War. Charles Bryant (1883-1937) had some early art lessons before beginning his care...ART00184
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German observation post, Mont St Quentin
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Maker: Power, H Septimus
This German observation post, made of concrete with slit opening, was on Mont St Quentin. Mont St Quentin stood out in the surrounding country, making it a perfect observation point and a vital strate...ART03646
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German pillbox
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Duck boards curve across the landscape from left to right of the composition which features a German pillbox on the Somme at the Western Front.ART03418
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Gibralter (A German strong post at Pozieres)
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Depicts a war grave and ruins of a German strong point known as ''Gibralter", finally taken by Australians on the Western Front in 1918. Dyson was on the Pozieres battlefields in April 1917 and August...ART02306
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Gibralter, Pozieres
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts a wrecked building,smashed trees, a war grave and a battlefield on the horizon near Pozieres, France. 'Gibralter' was a German observation post, originally of reinforced concrete, on the outsk...ART02881
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"Gibralter", strong point, Pozieres
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Maker: Bryant, Charles
Depicts a war-damaged landscape , with the remains of a building and smashed trees at Pozieres, France, during the First World War. Charles Bryant (1883-1937) was a painter who studied in London in 19...ART00187
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Going up Hill 210
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Group of Australian soldiers climbing Hill 210 in Korea.ART40405
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Gun positions of 2/6 Australian Field Regiment
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Maker: Dargie, William
Gun position of 2/6th Australian Field Regiment. Robinson's Hill with Kila Kila Drome in the distance. These guns were placed so as to command one of the approaches by sea to Port Moresby fortress, Ne...ART23906
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HMAS 'Murchison' bombarding enemy positions on the Han River Estuary, Korea 1951
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Maker: McFadyen, Ken
Royal Australian Navy HMAS 'Murchison' shelling North Korean positions on the Han River Estuary, near the mouth of the Yesong River, Korea,1951.ART40820
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6 inch gun, Middle Head, Sydney
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Royal Australian Artillery; breech block of 6 inch gun and sights, Middle Head GarrisonART23646
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Inside Fort Khiam
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a scene in Khiam, Syria, of a large gun and a building behind it. It is a very rough sketch, with the finer work concentrating on the gun. It is probably an old Krupp gun that was produced d...ART30056