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Abandoned scout car, Manikin River, Timor
Art
Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicting a scout car abandoned on the Manikin River; February 1942.ART26342
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'A' Battery off to the war
Art
Maker: Allom, W J
Depicts the transport ship, the New South Artillery, 'A' Battery SS Warrigal steaming down the harbour on departure from Sydney for the Boer War. A number of small boats also farewell members of 'A' B...ART19830
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A billet, Bray-sur-Somme
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Maker: Lindsay, Daryl Ernest
Depicts a Billet with damage to the roof, two soldiers stand at the corner of the building with several soldiers in a tent beside the Billet.ART02980
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A Boston crew, 22 Squadron, RAAF (Flight Sergeant Alexander Mackay, Sergeant Phoenix, Wing Commander Charles Learmonth)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Flight Sergeant Alexander Mackay, Sergeant Phoenix (?), and the Commanding Charles Learmonth, 22 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force are seen walking to aircraft to take off from Ward's Drome to bomb...ART21711
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Abu Gosh
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Abu Gosh, A village beside the road, close to Jerusalem'. Principal leave centre for troops in Palestine.ART30084
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Action stations - flag deck, HMAS Shropshire
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Unidentified signalmen, wearing tin hats (protective helmets) and anti-flash hoods on Flag deck HMAS Shropshire, at routine action stations off the Admiralty Islands.ART22281
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A deserted oasis
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Maker: McBey, James
Depicts soldiers and camels from the Australian Camel Corps camped at an oasis that has been deserted by its original inhabitants. In the background are buildings that have fallen into disrepair. This...ART03036
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Admiralty House, Tobruk
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Originally the Headquarters of the Italian Regia Marina, now British Naval Headquarters. Building was damaged by bombing, causing the collapse of the western wing. The red flag is a warning to town an...ART21741
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A Driver
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
One of No.3 Squadron transport driver (unidentified) in cabin of truck. Internally many of the trucks still retained their buff-coloured camouflage from the Desert Campaign.ART23481
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After a blizzard, Saskatchewan
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Typical scene on a Canadian airfield the morning after a blizzard; the snow is liberally plastered on walls as well as on roofs and the clearing of the roadway makes a wall of snow which will stay unt...ART23088
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"After years in uniform, dear, aren't feminine clothes divine! "
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Maker: Woolcott, Alfred Richard
Depicts two women standing in front of a fire place , one wears a suit, with a tie, while the other wears a jumper and long trousers. This is the drawing for the cartoon that appreared in 'Salt' , vo...ARTI01326
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Again and again
Art
Maker: Tunks, Bruce
Depicts an impressionistic and evocative landscape over which the names of deceased soldiers are written, along with a geographical cross section of a landscape. The work makes reference to the shapin...ART90642
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A helping hand
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Maker: Barker, David Crothers The Kia Ora Cooee
Depicts a nurse giving a digger, a Lighthorseman in civil dress, a helping hand on crutches. This work was used as a illustration in the 'Kia-ora Coo-ee'. David Barker (1888-1946) was a painter, etch...ART94749
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AIF cemetery, Changi, early days
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Graves with wooden crosses in a jungle clearing, AIF cemetery, Changi, Singapore, in the early days. From a small space cut out of the jungle, the cemetery was gradually extended and laid out with gre...ART24494
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AIF cemetery, Changi: front entrance
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Griffin shows the entrance path to the AIF cemetery, with gardens and trees on either side. The AIF rising sun symbol strung on two poles at the path entrance.ART26477
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AIF cemetery, Changi: interior
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
In this cemetery are buried all the AIF prisoners-of-war of the Japanese who died in captivity in Changi Goal, Selerang. When this was drawn there was a great difference between the first start of the...ART26478
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A.I.F. coming aboard
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A unidentified soldier of the AIF loaded with with full kit embarking on a landing ship at Morotai to take part in landing operations on Labuan, North Borneo.ART23326
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AIF embarking at Stonewall Wharf, Sydney
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Maker: Norton, Frank
In April 1941 Norton recorded troops from 2 Australian Imperial Force disembarking from a train to board a ferry at Pyrmont in Sydney. The ferry would then take them out to a transport ship. Several...ART21100
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AIF Engineers making a road, Kokoda
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
Royal Australian Engineers; group of Engineers standing at side of road as convoy of Army trucks passesART23677
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Alterations to bridge, HMAT Duntroon
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Workmen putting a concrete protection around the bridge and officers' quarters. First a framework was built, into which was fitted concrete slabs, leaving narrow slits around the wheelhouse, Durban, S...ART21065
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Ambush in a donga
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Maker: J S
This drawing depicts a scene in South Africa probably at Northern Cape between 1899 and 1902. Unidentified soldiers are visible ambushing and attacking a camp situated in a donga or dry river bed. T...ART19534
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A mechanical press
Art
Maker: Ragless, Max
This depicts one of many large presses used to produce aircraft parts at Richards Industries, Ltd, Adelaide during the Second World War.ART23119
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Anti-aircraft defence
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
A Bofors 40mm anti aircraft gun and a slit trench. Emplacements are sand - bagged for protection. In the foreground is an observer's position. The occupant left his steel helmet lying on the ground ou...ART30066
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ANZAC alphabet EF
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Maker: Henderson, James Webster Scott
Drawings of ANZAC alphabets E F. The caption underneath reads: 'E is for eye-wash, a wonderful lotion, employed by the man who is keen on promotion; F is the fool who got caught in the trap, by pullin...ART00024
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Apparatus for testing respirators (Cartridge Bundling Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
Art
Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a sketch of apparatus for testing respirators, government agencies, Commonwealth Expolsives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART22601
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A raid on enemy machine gun positions
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Maker: Hornby, Lester G.
Depicts a small group of soldiers crawling through barbed wire and over crops in a field in Marne, France, during the First World War. Inscribed on a piece of paper for merely attached to the drawing ...ART50026
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Are your guards all present and correct
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Maker: Giles, F Kenwood Ministry of Labour and National Service and Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Loxley Brothers Ltd
poster produced by the Ministry of Labour and National Service and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents to increase awareness of need for safety guards on machinery, depicts a guardsman m...ARTV01682
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Armierungssoldat - Sapper
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Maker: Heckel, Erich Paul Cassirer, Berlin
Depicts a head and shoulder portrait of a German soldier. Another soldier views the scene from behind. The print was published by Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 1920. The work's black and white contrasts and ...ART19837
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Armourers (Warrant Officer James McMillan and Corporal Wilcox)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Warrant James McMillan (front), Corporal Wilson (or Wilcox) (rear); Browning testiing and cleaning .50 calibre machine guns of aircraft.ART21713
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A shadow across Hitler's path
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Maker: General Motors Holden
This Australian Second World War poster was produced by General Motors Holden (GMH) in 1941, and was likely produced for use in one of their factories. The poster is aimed at factory workers, attempti...ARTV02146
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Assembling a 3.7 anti-aircraft gun, Maribyrnong, Victoria
Art
Maker: Hanke, Henry
A heavy 3.7 inch heavy anti-aircraft gun in the course of construction, Ordnance Workshop, Maribrynong. Melbourne.ART23436
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Assembling gas masks (Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a sketch of unidentified women assembling gas masks and respirators, Government agencies, Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART22598
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Assembly shops, Beaufort Division, Dept. of Aircraft production, Fisherman's Bend, Vic Victoria
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Maker: Hanke, Henry
Looking down on the Assembly shop, Beaufort Division's Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, Fisherman's Bend, Victoria.ART26088
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A study for the trial of General Tojo
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
General Tojo became Prime Minister of Japan during the Second World War. As the most powerful leader in the government during this time, he approved the attack on Pearl Harbour and pushed the Japanes...ART91988
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A study for the trial of General Tojo
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
General Tojo became Prime Minister of Japan during the Second World War. As the most powerful leader in the government during this time, he approved the attack on Pearl Harbour and pushed the Japanes...ART91976
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A study for the trial of General Tojo
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
General Tojo became Prime Minister of Japan during the Second World War. As the most powerful leader in the government during this time, he approved the attack on Pearl Harbour and pushed the Japanes...ART91995
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Aubigny
Art
Near Aubigny; an improvised plank bridge over a river, with three trucks parked near the Aubigny end.ART03371
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Australian Artillery going into action at Harbonnieres
Art
Maker: Power, H Septimus
Depicts a team of horses with the Australian 1st Division Artillery pulling 18 pounder guns up a hill on a road near Harbonnieres on the Western Front and soldiers on horseback riding into action. Po...ART03336
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Australian commandos attacking Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour, September 1943
Art
Maker: Adams, Dennis
Dennis Adams was commissioned to depict Operation Jaywick, a bold raid by members of Special Operations Australia from Z Special Unit. Fifteen men under the command of a British officer, Major Ivan L...ART27649
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Australian Military Forces, Rabaul
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
Depicts three Australian Military Force personnel in jungle wearing tin helmets and carrying rifles.ART28376.006
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Australian POWs embarking for home on the Largs Bay at Singapore docks
Art
Maker: Buckmaster, Ernest
Ernest Buckmaster was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne on July 3 1897. After being rejected for military service due to his physical frailty Buckmaster attended the National Gallery Art School from 1918-24...ART23374
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Australian soldier of the Vietnam War
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray F J Lemon, Frankston, Victoria
An unidentified Australian soldier carrying a Colt M16 A1 rifle (erroneously called 'Armalite').ART27580
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Australian soldiers searching East Timorese, INTERFET compound, Dili
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Maker: Amor, Rick
Australian soldiers searching East Timorese in the International Force (INTERFET) compound, Dili, East Timor.ART91077
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Avro Anson on coastal patrol, NSW
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Maker: Norton, Frank
This sketch was drawn whilst Frank Norton was flying on a sea patrol in an Avro Anson with 73 Squadron, RAAF. The squadron were protecting a convoy that were on anti-submarine duties. Seated at the ...ART21081
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A Winter's Day
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
No. 450 Squadron (unidentified), pilots' mess in EPIP (European Privates' n Pattern) tent. Into one side of this the pilots had built a chimney from bricks. Firewood or coke was almost unobtainable bu...ART26115
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Ball game practice at night at Morotai
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a group of unidentified soldiers playing basketball at night, Morotai.ART23222
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Balloon view of the 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth
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Maker: Fullwood, A Henry
Depicts a view of the 3rd General Hospital at Wandsworth, South-West London, from a balloon. The hospital is a large permanent building, surrounded by temporary pavilion wards laid out in Nightingale ...ART19782
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Battalion intelligence officers searching Japanese dead
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian intelligence officers searching the bodies of dead Japanese soldiers, Wau, Salamaua, New Guinea.ART22514
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Battle equipment, Derna
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of an Australian soldier standing with rifle, head slightly lowered.ART22875
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Battlefield, South Bougainville
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Maker: Herman, Sali
This picture shows what bombing and artillery fire made the jungle look like, yet our men were living in dug-outs covered with heavy timber and a few painted tent flaps. On the day the artist sketched...ART22842
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Battleship screen, HMAS Napier
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Australian destroyers H.M.A.S 'Napier', 'Nizam' and 'Vendetta', with British destroyer and battleship, at sea off Alexandria. Having steamed line ahead down the 'Swept Channel', the destroyers are now...ART21002
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Beach at Morotai
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a group of unidentified Australian soldiers on beach using a civilian canoe, Halmacheras Islands, Netherlands, East Indies. In 1942, Donald Friend enlisting with the AIF, was posted as a gunne...ART23221
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Beaufighter pilot
Art
Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicting a pilot wearing 'Mae West' inflatable life jacket, holding flying helmet.ART23472
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Beaufort Navigator (of No.100 Squadron, RAAF)
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
This is a portrait of a pilot who was an expert in navigating using the Beaufort aircraft. Seven hundred of these aircraft were produced for the Royal Australian Air Force in the Second World War. The...ART21647
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Beer issue, 1st T.A.F
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A rough sketch showing personnel of No 1 Tactical Air Force Headquarters, Royal Australian Air Force, lining up for their issue of bottled beer from Australia. This event stood out even more prominen...ART23271
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'B' gun, HMAS Arunta
Art
Maker: Adams, Dennis
On board the deck of the HMAS Arunta, we see a view of a man standing beside a gun mounted in the 'B' position. The gun's machinery is shown in detail. Tribal class destroyer's built during the Second...ART25679
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Block House, Elandsfontein
Art
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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Blue Bonnets over the border, Palestine
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Maker: McBey, James
Depicts a column of 52nd Division troops marching into Palestine with a military band playing bagpipes and drums at the foot of the Herodian colum. The band are most probably playing the march, 'Blue...ART50006
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Bluey, Flight Mechanic (Sergeant John Le Cornu)
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait of Sergeant John Le Cornu, Flight Mechanic for 466 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force.ART23465
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Blut fur Eisen [Blood for iron]
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Maker: Heartfield, John Heartfield Archive and GDR Government
The poster depicts a crate of Nazi troops being loaded aboard a ship. Nearby is railroad freight car being loaded with iron ore from Morocco. The crate is addressed to General Franco who was one of th...ARTV09076
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Boat deck, HMAS Diamantina
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Showing the boat deck and bridge of HMAS Diamantina. The surrender of the Japanese forces in Nauru Island and Ocean Island was signed on her decks.ART24241
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Boiler cleaner, HMAS Cairns, Bombay
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Maker: Norton, Frank
HMAS "Cairns" alongside the dockyard wall of Royal Indian Dockland, Bombay. Secured to "Cairns" are HMS "Tulip" (English corvette) and HMIS "Madras" (Australian-built corvette of Indian Navy). Left fo...ART21274
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Bombarded landscape, Tarakan
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Sketch for painting showing troops ascending Tank knoll among broken tanks. A torn and twisted oil tank forms a frame through which the artist looks.ART25440
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Bombardment, Balikpapan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts the bombardment of beaches immediately prior to landing at Balikpapan. Douglas Watson joined the AIF in 1943 and was an official war artist for Australia, serving in Australia, New Guinea and ...ART22992
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Bombed cathedral ruins
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Interior of ruined church, roof missing, piles of rubble on floor, (possibly interior of Abbey).ART19762
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Bombed house in Yerania village, Greece
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Maker: Dargie, William
Described in the Official War History as 'Yannina', and also known as Ioannina, the Greek town pictured here experienced the fortunes of war on several occasions during the 1939-45 conflicts. Captured...ART23978
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Bombed house near the air strip, Iraklion, Crete
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Maker: Dargie, William
The town Iraklion is described in the Official War History as Heraklion. Heraklion was one of the points where German air-borne troops were landed in the invasion of Crete. The 2/14th Australian Infan...ART24042
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Bombed oil tanks
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Maker: Friend, Donald
The effects of bombardment prior to the landing of the 7th Australian Division in Balikpapan, Borneo, 1945.ART22909
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Bomber Crash, Rabaul
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
This is a semi-abstract composition combining exterior and interior views of a crashed aircraft in flames. This is a representation of a crash of a Lockheed Hudson on take-off for aerial reconnaissanc...ART28377.001
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Bomber Crash, Rabaul
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
This is a representation of crash of a Lockheed Hudson on take-off for aerial reconnaissance.ART28377.002
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Bombing up, RAAF Base, Darwin
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Maker: Amor, Rick
The hands of two Australian soldiers shown preparing bombs in Darwin prior to the Peacekeeping Force moving to East Timor in 1999.ART91085
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Boomerang fighter
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Maker: Hanke, Henry
A Boomerang fighter aircraft standing in front of a hangar, Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, Fisherman's Bend, Melbourne.ART22126
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Boom, racer and troop horse
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts a bay horse "Boom", Australian Light Horse unit facing right, his tail slightly raised and wearing a headstall.ART02805
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Boom town, Dafoe
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Boom towns or shanty towns have made their appearance at most of the remote air stations in Canada. Enterprising farmers build and tent these little shacks to the families of Air Force personnel and t...ART23090
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Boston pilots back from Salamaua (Flight Officer John McMaster, Flight Lieutenant Robert Wines and Flight Lieutenant Henry Craig)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
This picture tells its own story, showing four pilots of the Royal Australian Air Force just back from a strike over Salamaua and directly after the interrogation. Included in the picture are:- Flying...ART22742
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Bow river, Banff
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Royal Australian Air Force trainees in Canada under the Empire Air Training Scheme on leave at Banff, going canoeing on the Bow River. Portion of the Canadian Rockies can be seen in the background. Ra...ART21958
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Breakwater, Port Said
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Maker: Lambert, George
Depicts figures standing on a breakwater at Port Said which juts out from the shore into the sea, at the entrance to the Suez Canal, statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps on end of breakwater. Boats are besi...ART02827
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Bridge works, HMAS Shropshire
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Maker: Norton, Frank
View from starboard chains of Bridge superstructure of this cruiser. Dusk stand to, Admiralty IslandsART24186
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Bridging the Driniumor River, Aitape
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Bridging the Driniumor River, Aitape.ART25750
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25 Brigade advancing along Kokoda Trail near Templeton's Crossing
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Advancing along Kokoda Trail near Templeton's Crossing. Painted from data gathered from eye-witnesses and notes made of the country at the locality whilst passing through. Unidentified members of the2...ART23615
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Building Wooden ships, Fremantle, Western Australia
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Two wooden vessels under construction at Fremantle. These vessels are 300 ton cargo ships and are due to be launched. Built of jarrah, they are the first vessels of this type to be constructed at Frem...ART21087
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Buoys on the beach
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Enormous buoys have washed up on a beach at Labuan. The buoys are almost twice the height of the soldier who walkd amongst them.ART23300
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Buoys, Victoria Town, Labuan
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Depicts a pile of mooring buoys resting on the edge of a lake, beside an old building in Labuan, Borneo during the Second World War.ART93836
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Burnt out Japanese aircraft on Kamiri airstrip, Noemfoor Island
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts the remains of a wrecked and burnt Japanese aircraft on the Kamiri airstip on Noemfoor Island during the Second World War.ART23731
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Cambrai
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Maker: Brangwyn, Frank
Depicts soldiers standing before burning buildings in the city of Cambrai. This work by Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) is one of a series of 6 lithographs showing sites where Canadian soldiers had fought,...ART19834
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Camouflaged artillery
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a 25 pounder gun camouflaged outside of Damour, Syria (now in Lebanon). Produced during the Syrian campaign and painted in July 1941. The artist wrote of the work 'Camouflaged artillery - Un...ART30090
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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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Camouflaged truck
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a camouflaged truck at Richon-le Zion Palestine (now in Israel). The artist wrote that the truck was depicted "in a setting of date palms - proving the effectiveness of Army camouflage". Ris...ART30042
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Camouflage RAAF Defence Unit, Darwin
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
A group of men from the Camouflage Defence Unit sit outside tents.ART28374.001
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Camp area designed as homestead for camouflage purposes
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Maker: Ragless, Max
A camp in an unknown location designed to resemble a homestead and outbuildings for camouflage purposes. This is one of six drawings purchased from the artist in 1944 prior to his appointment as an o...ART30199
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Camp concert
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
Depicts a view of concert in a camp, audience sitting beneath a 'rain' tree, Townsville, Queensland.ART28373.002
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Camp gate, LHQ Signals, Albert Park
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
The gloom of English trees, silhoettes, the centry and those around the M.T. park. The CO's car is drawn up on the left. On the right is the canteen staffed by an AWAS, who was friendly with a sergean...ART23435
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Camp laundry
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
This drawing was made at the R.A.A.F. Pool situated in a Government Experimental Mango Plantation about 5 miles out of Townsville. It was a place of very dense vegetation, plagued by flying foxes and ...ART28365
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Camp Panorama
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Qastina encampment and water tower. The town was in what is now the Gaza Strip - it was totally destroyed, (in what conflict is not clear) and no longer exists. The artist writes, 'An extensive view o...ART30071
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Canadians entering Cambrai
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Maker: Brangwyn, Frank
Depicts Canadian soldiers advancing through the ruins of buildings in the city of Cambrai. This work by Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956) is one of a series of 6 lithographs showing sites where Canadian sold...ART19833
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Canal, Helwan
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a group of Egyptians carrying water away from a freshwater canal in Helwan, which is near Cairo. Other groups are working in the fields. In the distance are hot baking chalk-white hills. Th...ART30045
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[Cargo for Blighty]
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Maker: Leist, Fred
Depicts nurses at work aboard a hospital barge on a canal. The barges were manned by British Army Medical Corps orderlies and Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service nurses (QAIMNS, QAs). ...ART02919