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Captain Sir James Bisset
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Maker: Allcot, John
Portrait of Captain Sir James Gordon Partridge Bisset, Kt, CBE, Commodore of Cunard White Star Company Ltd. He commanded SS Queen Mary from 1942, (during the war it was a troop ship carrying 2 Austral...ART27770
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Company Quarter Master Sergeant Carl Short
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Portrait of Carl Short, Company Quarter Master Sergeant, WX271, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, 2/11 Australian Infantry Battalion.ART26284
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Conference at Morotai
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Maker: Jones, Vernon
2nd Australian Imperial Force, United States Army Air Force; included in work are: Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Morshead, Commanding 1 Australian Corps, Major General G F Wootten, General Commanding ...ART27563
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Corporal Arnold Robinson
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Maker: Dowie, John Stuart
Depicts Corporal Arnold Robinson. Robinson went to the Middle East in 1940. Plaster cast by Dowie in 1942. This bronze was cast in 1985.ART40968
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Corporal Jim Watson
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Two portrait studies of Corporal Jim Watson are depicted; one profile and one three-quarter view. Corporal Watson was a driver for the Australian Imperial Force, attached to Correspondents, Middle Eas...ART29876
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Corporal Sammy Walsh
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of Corporal Sammy 'the wild Irishman' Walsh (NX52951) of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force.ART29879
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Deir Suneid Village, near Camp
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Army transport, on the wrong side of the road, has pulled up to give "Baksheesh". A typical native village, through which runs a military tarmac road, Palestine.ART30050
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Dick Ashton sketching Japanese Warrant Officer doing batman duties
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Maker: Thompson, Robert
Dick Ashton, most likely official war artist with the Army Military History Section, Julian Richard Ashton, sketches a Japanese prisoner of war undertaking batman duties.ART28711
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drawing for headpiece for "Ack-I-Foofs"
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Drawing by Herbert for the inaugural header for the 'ACK-I-FOOFS' page 5 in the 'A.I.F News'. Launched in July 1941 the page was to be a 'Diggers page' for the A.I.F. Readers were invited to send in '...ARTI03458
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[Escaping from explosion]
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Maker: Hall, Alan
Depicts several soldiers quickly escaping from a surprise explosion. The artist Alan Hall (1919-1979)enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1936 at the age of 17 years. During the Second Worl...ART93342
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Ex-POWs leaving Eastbourne for return to Australia via Liverpool
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Maker: Moore, Alan
AIF ex-prisoners of war boarding the train at Eastbourne, England, bound for Liverpool and Australia. Moore was an official war artist who served in New Guinea, the Middle East and Europe before retur...ART26068
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Flares over the docks, Tobruk
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Maker: Norton, Frank
The destroyers night visit over, men of Docks Operating Unit proceed to remove the precious supplies from the destroyer berths and quais to dumps outside the town. Time is important for in the light o...ART27549
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Flight Lieutenant John Hipwell
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A portrait of Flight Lieutenant John Buckland Hipwell from the Royal Australian Airforce radar unit in Gusap, Papua New Guinea.ART28167.003
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For you the war is over
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Pencil sketch created in Ekali, Greece depicting the capture of an Australian officer and one soldier by German troops at an Australian hospital camp in 1941. The men had stayed behind to look after t...ART94378
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Fred Anderson
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Maker: Milgate, Eric Lovell
Portrait depicting NX46224 Fred E Anderson, 2nd A.I.F, probably drawn while a prisoner of war.ART29251
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Greece [first version]
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon
Originally entitled 'Patrol', this is the first version of 'Greece' produced by Dadswell while in the Middle East. The sculpture shows three soldiers of the 16th Brigade of the 6th Division on a forc...ART26395
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Harry Pike and Ken Joseph
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Portrait drawings of Harry Pike, Driver, Mid East AIF (left) and Ken Joseph, Militiaman, 5th Camouflage Unit (right) are depicted.ART29868
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Head of soldier - dyed for jungle camouflage
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of an Australian soldier with green face paint for camouflage and concealment in the jungles of New Guinea during the Second World War.ART29390
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Head study
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Portrait depicting an unidentified serviceman, wearing slouch hat.ART26574
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Helping a wounded comrade
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Infantryman of the 9th Australian Infantry Division helping his comrade to the Regimental Aid Post. This is often a necessary occurrence when, owing to a temporary shortage of stretcher bearers, a wou...ART22765