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A "Black cat" returning from night raid over New Guinea, dips low over hides' roof
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Hide's hotel, well known to northern tourists before the war, was the first living quarters in Cairns for pilots and officers of the Royal Australian Air Force Catalina Squadron operating from Trinity...ART25626
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A Mariner of the air-sea rescue flight at anchor, Trinity Inlet, Cairns
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
A Martin Mariner patrol-bomber flying boat of the Royal Australian Air Force riding at anchor at the flying boat base, Cairns.ART25632
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Australian troops embarking for the Atherton Tableland at Cairns railway station
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Australian troops embarking for the Atherton Tableland at Cairns railway station. During the war the Queensland Government Railway system transported armies and fighting material. Although this plac...ART25695
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B25, Cairns
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Maker: Annand, Douglas
A North American B25 Mitchell bomber aircraft being attended to by workers while on the tarmac in Cairns.ART92437
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Black cats taking off from Trinity Inlet
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Showing Catalina flying boats of the Royal Australian Air Force taking off on a night bombing raid over New Guinea. From August 1945 in his capacity as official war artist Emerson Curtis undertook a t...ART25634
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Brigadier Neil Hamilton Fairley
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait depicting Brigadier Neil Fairley, CBE, FRS, MD, DSc (Melb), FRCP (Lond), FRACP, DTM&H, Director of Medicine Land Headquarters South West Pacific Area, Chairman Combined Advisory Committee to ...ART24271
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Cairns
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Depicts a coastal scene with buildings and boats in the middle foreground and hills in the background.ART29928
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Cairns, coastal defences, Bofors, submarine boom cats coming in to land
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Four figures of soldiers on the beach in Cairns, aircraft flying overhead. In the foreground is one of the Bofors guns that forms part of the Cairns defence. Also shown, crossing the mud flats left by...ART23751
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Cairns Railway Station
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts from a high vantage point a view of Cairns Railway Station, 1944.ART25849
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Cairns staging camp
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A view of a staging camp in Cairns, which was used for many of the Australian Army Military personnel on their way to New Guinea during Second World WarART29967
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Caricature around the bar
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Officers if the 11th Air-Sea Rescue Flight, Royal Australian Air Force, Cairns.ART25667
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Commander James Morrow
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait of James Cairns Morrow, DSO, DSC, Commander of HMAS Shropshire, Royal Australian Navy.ART25504
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Corporal Arthur Batchelor
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait depicting Corporal Arthur Ronald Batchelor, SX21563, of the 4 Australian Remount Squadron, a voluteer patient at Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit for malaria research.ART24273
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Corporal Joan Whipp
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Standing portrait of Women's Australian Auxiliary Airforce Cook Corporal Joan Beatrice Whipp, with arms folded. Whipp was a cook at 25 Operational Base Unit, Cairns, Queensland, July 1945.ART24272
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Cypher officer (section officer Jean Ewing)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a portrait of an unidenfied Cypher Officer, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force serving at Group 824, Royal Australian Air Force,Cairns, Queensland.ART24303
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Cypher officer (section officer Jean Ewing)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a portrait of Cypher Officer Jean Ewing, WAAAF, 25 Operational Base Unit, Cairns.ART24290
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Despatch rider (leading aircraftsman George Mayo)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depticts a portrait of leading aircraftsman, 439815 L.A.C. George Robert Mayo RAAF group 824, Cairns wearing gloves, hat and goggles on his forehead and holding a piece of paper.ART24367
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Draughtsman (Corporal Henry Fitzherbert)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait depicting Corporal Henry Patrick Fitzherbert, VX18230, patient at the Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit, wearing hospital gown. Over 200 service men volunteered as patients at the LHQ M...ART24275
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Early comers, Redlynch LTD cinema, Cairns
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Maker: Bush, Charles
An impression of the now permanently established cinema at Redlych Staging Camp. As the seating is on uneven ground some positions are better than others, so the enthusiastic early comers wait despite...ART26056
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Embarkation of 7th Australian Division troops
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Showing troops of this Division embarking onto an L.S.T (Landing ship, tank) for Morotai and thence to Balikpapan for the amphibious landing, 'OBOE TWO'. Smith Creek, Cairns, Queensland.ART22411