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Burial of the native child
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Maker: Dargie, William
Dargie noted, "One of the native men scrapes a shallow hole in the earth with a pointed stick. The police boy places the child in this and the earth is pushed back. The mother squats down beside it an...ART23818
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Burning petrol dump near 7 mile drome
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Maker: Dargie, William
Three Australian soldiers are pictured in the foreground with a burning petrol dump billowing black smoke near Jackson's Drome, Port Moresby, New Guinea.ART21312
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Calcutta leave
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Maker: Dargie, William
Two unidentified Australians from the RAAF turn to watch a Eurasian woman who has passed them in the street.ART22389
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Carrying a stretcher around a landslide
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Maker: Dargie, William
Carrying one of the casualties of the 57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion wounded in the ambush of 31st March, under great difficulties over the treacherous ground of a landslide, Finisterre Ranges,...ART22315
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Carrying a stretcher case over Mindjim River
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Maker: Dargie, William
Carrying a stretcher case over the Mindjim River, New Guinea.ART21334
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Carrying stretcher case down a ravine
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Maker: Dargie, William
Pen and ink sketch of soldiers of the 57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher. Dargie noted: "After digging our way over the landslide mentioned in sketch 291 ...ART23184
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[Carrying supplies]
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Maker: Dargie, William
Australian soldiers of the 57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion are shown carrying supplies to forward areas in the Finisterre Ranges in New Guinea. Normally New Guinean men assisted with this work b...ART25033
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Cartoon for Major Mollard's (2/24 Battalion) Story of Attack, Battle of El Alamein
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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 at Yaula
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch of a wounded unidentified male soldier laying in a stretcher.ART21335
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Chalk sketch of muleteer for above incident [ART22222]
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch of a muleteer under mortar fire at Damour, Syria. He is wearing a tin hat and carries a rifle slung over his shoulder. This sketch was intended as a preparatory study for a final painting of ...ART22030
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Checking up on the R.T. of a Kittyhawk Fighter, before take-off
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Maker: Dargie, William
A pilot standing on a wing of a Kittyhawk plane, looking into and checking the cockpit. Dargie noted, "The pilots' life may depend on his R.T. It must be perfect before he leaves the ground, and the ...ART23896
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Chess problem
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Maker: Dargie, William
Scene of four unidentified soldiers playing a game of chess on board an AIF transport vessel in the Indian Ocean, 1944.ART25045
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Church and village of Pigi
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Maker: Dargie, William
Pigi and the Wadi Pigi lay between the positions of the 2/1st and 2/11th Australian Infantry Battalions at the time the German paratroops made their first attack on Retimo airstrip (Crete) in 1945.ART91041
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Church on Hill 'C' above the village of Perivolia, Crete
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Maker: Dargie, William
The scene of heavy fighting between the German paratroops and 2/11th Australian Infantry Battalion supported by Greek troops during the invasion of Crete by the Axis forces in May 1941.ART24054
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Clay-pits near the air strip, Iraklion
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Maker: Dargie, William
The town of Iraklion is described in the Official War History as Heraklion. This was a site of heavy fighting against German paratroops in May 1941.ART24051
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Colour note for No. 518
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Maker: Dargie, William
Artist's notes for the picture "Roadside fountain". Depicting a fountain from a spring in the hillside near positions held by 2/2nd Australian Infantry Battalion south of Tempe, Greece in 1941.ART23990
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Colour note for painting of khania
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Maker: Dargie, William
Colour note for painting of khania, Crete.ART23868
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Colour note for painting of Rethymnon
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Maker: Dargie, William
Rethymnon is discribed in the Official History of the War as "Retimo". Considerable fighting took place in this area in 1941 in which Australians and New Zealand evacuated from Greece, took part. The ...ART23866
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Colour sketch of incident in battle for Damour
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Maker: Dargie, William
Confusion as a bomb is detonated on the path ahead and men are under fire at Damour, Syria.ART22222