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A cigarette for the wounded
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Soldiers of the 57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion stand around a man laying on a stretcher. One is lighthing him a cigarette. Dargie noted, "Around the Spur, and out of sight of the enemy, it is...ART25030
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Advanced dressing station near Tengah, February 1942
Art
Maker: Griffin, Murray
This advanced dressing station provided care to the Australian 8th Division forces during the Battle for Singapore. The hospital was located near the large airfield at Tengah in western Singapore.ART24478
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Africa Star : Private G E Chard, 2/15 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Africa Star. Impressed reverse with recipient's details.REL35307.002
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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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Ambulances lined up on the Alexandria wharf are ready to receive wounded troops evacuated from ...
Photograph
Maker: Halmarick, Colin Thomas
Ambulances lined up on the Alexandria wharf are ready to receive wounded troops evacuated from Tobruk by naval units.020463
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Ambush
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch of two Australian soldiers who have just been wounded in an ambush. Dargie noted: "The enemy can set an ambush, too. Unfortunately, this is only discovered, as a rule, when someone walks into i...ART22092
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At 2/3rd Australian Independent Company's Regimental Aid Post
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Hele shows the medical officer of the 2/3rd Australian Independent Company attending a wounded man in the Regimental Aid Post, Salamaua, New Guinea. A second man is assisting. The wounded man is lying...ART22545
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Australian and Bechuanaland soldiers in ward of 2/3 CCS
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Australian and Bechuanaland soldiers in Infectious Diseases ward, 2/3rd Casualty Clearing Station, Beirut, Syria.ART22025
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Australian wounded and Chinese bearers
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Depicts studies of Chinese stretcher bearers and wounded Australian soldiers Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Mrs Kate Hodgkinson in memory of Frank HodgkinsonART94185
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Australia Service Medal : Private G E Chard, 2/15 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Australia Service Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL35307.005
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British War Medal 1939-45 : Private G E Chard, 2/15 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
British War Medal 1939-45. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL35307.004
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Captain Robert Fleming
Art
Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait of VX52857 Captain Robert Sandford Fleming, 2/7 Commando Squadron. When the Japanese attacked the defence position near Tong, occupied by the 2/7 Cavalry Commando Squadron, Captain Fleming of...ART25118
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Captured wounded Japanese
Art
Maker: Flett, James
Captured wounded Japanese soldier. On the jetty of the Residency , BruneiART25481
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Carrying a stretcher case over Mindjim River
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Carrying a stretcher case over the Mindjim River, New Guinea.ART21334
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Cartoon for Major Mollard's (2/24 Battalion) Story of Attack, Battle of El Alamein
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Several soldiers lay wounded in the foreground, while in the background a line of armed Australian soldiers advances forward. This is a sketch for the story, as told by Major K. F. Hollard, DSO, of ...ART26203
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Casualty
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
This work shows three unidentified soldiers, two assisting a third who has been wounded. This work was reproduced in the Australian War Memorial publication 'Khaki and Green' in 1943 with the title '...ART25494
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Casualty at Yaula
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch of a wounded unidentified male soldier laying in a stretcher.ART21335
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Cell block key, Changi Prison: Sergeant Frederick George Butt, 2/30 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Chubb, London
Large, chrome-plated steel warded key, impressed 'A' on one side of the oval bow, and 'CHUBB LONDON' on the other. Attached to a large (78mm diameter) circular split-ring holder.REL46985
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Commemoration: Papua New Guinea
Art
Maker: Unknown Department of Veteran's Affairs
A poster produced by 'Australia Remembers 1945-1995' to commemorate Australia's involvement in the Papua New Guinea campaign during the Second World War. The main photograph is an iconic image of Serg...ARTV09173
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Convoy, Battle for Crete
Art
The artist recalled of this sketch, "During the battle for Crete the Germans filled their empty junkers with Allied casualties, flew them back to landing strips in Greece and bought them by road trans...ART29574
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Cutler, Arthur Roden (Lieutenant, b.1916 - d.2002)
Private Record
Maker: Cutler, Arthur Roden
Collection relating to the Second World War service of Lieutenant Arthur Roden Cutler VC, 2/5 Field Regiment, Lebanon, Palestine, 1941. Wallet 1 of 1 - Collection consists of two letters related to C...AWM2019.283.1
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Dandridge, George (Private, b.1857 - d.1904) and Dandridge, Ernest George (Leading Seaman, b.1890 - d.1976)
Private Record
Maker: Royal Navy United Kingdom Government Various
Collection relating to the British Army and Second Afghan War service of 791 Private George Dandridge, East Yorkshire Regiment, 1875-1887, and of the First World War and Second World War service of hi...PR04536
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Defence Medal : Private G E Chard, 2/15 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Defence Medal. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.REL35307.003
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Evacuating the wounded - Ramu Valley, New Guinea
Art
Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts wounded men being evacuated from Ramu Valley in New Guinea on trucks during the Second World War. In a letter home to his wife, Jess, in 1944, Pidgeon wrote about the Ramu Valley; 'The most be...ART95022
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Evacuation of wounded from Rai Mean
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicting a scene of the evacuation of the wounded by Catalina from Rai Mean, Timor.ART26222
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Eye case of 2/3 CCS
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
A soldier has a patch over his left eye, and is recuperating at the 2/3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Beirut, Syria.ART22026
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Female Relatives Badge : Mrs Agatha Kermode
Heraldry
Maker: G & E Rodd
Female Relative badge. Circular badge with a wreath surmounted by a King's Crown. Inside is a map of Australian surrounded by another wreath and the words 'TO THE WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA'. A bar with two s...AWM2018.590.1
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Flying Sisters' Quarters No.2 M.A. E.T.U, Morotai
Art
Maker: Heysen, Nora
The Sisters' Quarters of No. 2 Royal Australian Air Force Medical Air Evacuation Transport Unit, Morotai.ART24295
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German Army Officers cap badge taken from a injured female Chinese soldier : Private D H Wilson, 2 Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Cast aluminium German army officer's cap badge with Swastika and eagle; missing two of the three attachment pins to the reverse.REL31332
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German 1939 Black Wound Badge
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
1939 Black Wound Badge. Oval shaped pressed blackened steel. Obverse: A German steel helmet with a swastika on the left side, over crossed swords within a laurel wreath tied at the base with a bow. Re...RELAWM30361
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German 1939 Silver Wound Badge
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
1939 Silver Wound Badge. Oval shaped silver plated alloy. Obverse: A German steel helmet, with a swastika on the left side, over crossed swords within a laurel wreath tied at the base with a bow. Reve...RELAWM30362
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851598 Gnr. Hill, E.J. - skin graft foot
Art
Maker: Chalker, Jack
Two feet, one before and the other after a skin graft. Jack Chalker was serving in the Royal Artillery when he was captured at the fall of Singapore. In October 1942 he was in a party sent to Thaila...ART90899
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Group portrait of Australian hospital patient 'George' flanked by two Italian men, including Romeo Gallo, in Udine, Italy
Photograph
Maker: Quinto Chiaro Fotografo
Group portrait of an Australian serviceman, 'George', and two young Italian men, taken in a hospital where George was a patient. He is wearing pyjamas and his head appears to be bandaged or in a cap; ...P12694.001
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Group portrait of nurses and patients in a recovery ward in an Northampton war hospital. 252A ...
Photograph
Maker: Fegan, James W (Jack)
Group portrait of nurses and patients in a recovery ward in an Northampton war hospital. 252A Private (Pte) Frederick John Ashton, 31st Battalion, is seated on the far left with a bandaged hand. Follo...P09441.002
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Group portrait, probably of the 1st Reinforcements, 14th Light Horse prior to embarkation. ...
Photograph
Maker: Fegan, James W (Jack)
Group portrait, probably of the 1st Reinforcements, 14th Light Horse prior to embarkation. Identified is 252 Private (Pte) Frederick John Ashton, standing third from the right.P09441.003
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H2498 Able Seaman Donald George Betts, HMAS Australia, being carried from an American merchant ...
Photograph
H2498 Able Seaman Donald George Betts, HMAS Australia, being carried from an American merchant ship berthed at No 5 Wharf, Circular Quay, Sydney.082909
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Hard labour, Kriegsgefangenenlazarette
Art
Of this drawing, the artist later recalled "The prisoner of war hospital at Kokkinia had been an old orphanage and the 'operating theatre' was adapted from rooms on the first floor. The constant task ...ART29575
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Help the Red Cross to help him
Art
Maker: Grieve, Edith Australian Red Cross Society Unknown
Australian Red Cross Second World War recruitment poster, appealing to the viewer to join the society. In the lower half the poster depicts a Red Cross nurse tending to an injured soldier. Behind the ...ARTV05053
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Help the Red Cross to help him
Art
Maker: Grieve, Edith Australian Red Cross Society Unknown
Australian Red Cross Second World War recruitment poster, appealing to the viewer to join the society. In the lower half the poster depicts a Red Cross nurse tending to an injured soldier. Behind the ...ARTV05092
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Help the Red Cross to help him
Art
Maker: Grieve, Edith Australian Red Cross Society Unknown
Australian Red Cross Second World War recruitment poster, appealing to the viewer to join the society. In the lower half the poster depicts a Red Cross nurse tending to an injured soldier. Behind the ...ARTV01087
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Help the Red Cross to help him
Art
Maker: Grieve, Edith Australian Red Cross Society Unknown
Australian Red Cross Second World War recruitment poster, appealing to the viewer to join the society. In the lower half the poster depicts a Red Cross nurse tending to an injured soldier. Behind the ...ARTV01169
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Help the Red Cross to help him
Art
Maker: Grieve, Edith Australian Red Cross Society Unknown
Australian Red Cross Second World War recruitment poster, appealing to the viewer to join the society. In the lower half the poster depicts a Red Cross nurse tending to an injured soldier. Behind the ...ARTV01273
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Hit in head
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
A soldier lying injured on the ground clutching his head while another soldier looks on.ART21910
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HQ, 2/9th Australian Infantry Battalion
Art
Maker: Rafty, Tony
Headquarter 2/9th Australian Infantry Battalion at McCullogh's Post at the foot of Shaggy Ridge. "A", "D" and "C" Companies were on top. "A" Company attacked along the top of ridge and a few days late...ART25178
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Hudsons over Oro Bay
Art
Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicting an incident which happened whilst the artist was sitting on the beach at Oro Bay. Two Hudson's of the Royal Australian Air Force had taken off from Dobodura, with wounded and sick for genera...ART21695
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Interrogation of prisoner
Art
Maker: Flett, James
A wounded Japanese being questioned by an official interpreter after a meal of army biscuits and herrings in sauce in the grounds of the British Resident's house now occupied as Headquarters, 20th Aus...ART25876
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LAE, NEW GUINEA. 1945-06-09. PRIVATE F. MCLENNAN, 24 INFANTRY BATTALION, A PATIENT AT 2/7 GENERAL ...
Photograph
LAE, NEW GUINEA. 1945-06-09. PRIVATE F. MCLENNAN, 24 INFANTRY BATTALION, A PATIENT AT 2/7 GENERAL HOSPITAL. SHOT BY A JAPANESE SNIPER WHEN HIS PATROL WAS AMBUSHED, HE WAS LEFT FOR DEAD IN THE JUNGLE. ...092804
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Lapel badge: King's Badge, British - Boy First Class W J Irwin, Royal Navy
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Round silver lapel badge with the Royal cypher (GvR) and crown in the centre bordered by the words 'FOR LOYAL SERVICE'. A lapel fitting is soldered to the reverse. Contained within its original issue ...REL35083
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Leather storage pouch for Verners Pattern VIII Prismatic Compass : C Degnan, Durham Light Infantry
Technology
Maker: S. Mordan & Co Wolfsky & Co
Leather storage pouch for Verner's Pattern No VIII prismatic compass with circular brass body marked with degrees on exterior side, with hinged glassed lid, prism viewer, momentary bearing lock pin-bu...REL42299.002
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Leigh-Cooper, John Edwin Wilson (Warrant Officer 1; b.1904)
Private Record
Maker: Unknown
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX19558 Warrant Officer 1 John Edwin Wilson Leigh-Cooper, 2/15 Australian Infantry Battalion, AIF. Collection consists of an original 'Wounded Ma...PR82/062