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  1. A. A. and submarine lookout, Red Sea

    Art

    Maker: Dargie, William

    Ack Ack and submarine lookout, Red Sea. The sketch was completed during Dargie's voyage to Australia aboard the HMT "Felix Roussel". This was a Free French ship which, in company of the US ship "Holb...

    ART23898

  2. AA Gun Position and Barrage Balloon, Marble Arch, London

    Art

    Maker: Norton, Frank

    AA Gun Position and Barrage Balloon, Marble Arch, London. Presented under the tax incentives for the arts scheme 1999

    ART90983

  3. AAMWS on the [Vessel name censored]; verso: Bashing the spine

    Art

    Maker: Warren, Guy

    Two members of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service, and a soldier. Verso: two soldiers lie shirtless on board transport vessel, known as 'bashing the spine', one with his hat over his face.

    ART94334.021

  4. A and D tent in the scrub

    Art

    Maker: Abbott, Harold

    A sketch of an Admission and Discharge reception tent pitched in thick jungle scrub during exercises of 6th Australian Division Medical units.

    ART21284

  5. 'A and D' tent in the scrub

    Art

    Maker: Abbott, Harold

    An Admission and Discharge tent during an exercise of the 6th Australian Division in New Guinea. Here patients and casualties were interviewed, classified and relieved of their kits and rifles.They we...

    ART22320

  6. A.A.N.S embarking at Bombay

    Art

    Maker: Norton, Frank

    Leaving the troopship SS "Laconia" which had brought the Australian Army Nurses from Suez to Bombay, troops of the A.I.F and members of the Australian Army Nursing Service transferred to three smaller...

    ART21017

  7. Abandoned concrete observation post, Castle Hill

    Art

    Maker: Curtis, R Emerson

    Abandoned concrete observation post, Castle Hill, Townsville.

    ART25646

  8. Abandoned scout car, Manikin River, Timor

    Art

    Maker: Bush, Charles

    Depicting a scout car abandoned on the Manikin River; February 1942.

    ART26342

  9. A battleship's propellors

    Art

    Maker: Ragless, Max

    Looking under the hull of the British battleship HMS Duke of York, showing two of the four huge propellors. The battleship is in dry dock at Garden Island, undergoing a refit.

    ART23133

  10. Abaya

    Art

    Maker: Curtis, R Emerson

    Portrait of Abaya, from Daru, Western Papua with palm trees in background. Abaya worked for the Royal Papuan Constabulary. This portrait featured in R Curtis, 'Papuan Profiles: inside a Prison Yard', ...

    ART96168

  11. Abdoel, Javanese labourer

    Art

    Maker: Watson, Douglas

    Portrait of a Javanese labourer, who was brought from Java by the Japanese to work on the airfields at Noemfoor, Dutch New Guinea.

    ART21296

  12. Abdul again

    Art

    This is the original poster 'Abdul again', for an Australian show produced in 1942 at the non labour prisoner of war camp, Fort 15, Stalag 20A. Created with a strong graphic design, including decorat...

    ART29544

  13. A Beaufighter

    Art

    Maker: Ragless, Max

    A sketch of an aircraft as seen from the balcony, with men working on the outerwing of a Beaufighter

    ART25922

  14. A beaufighter assembly line

    Art

    Maker: Ragless, Max

    A line of beaufighter aircraft with fitters working busily on them. The undercarriages have been lowered and the machines stand at their full height.

    ART23145

  15. A bed patient reading

    Art

    Maker: Rafty, Tony

    Scene in 12 Camp Hospital, Showground, Sydney.

    ART25208

  16. A bit of home news

    Art

    Maker: Curtis, R Emerson

    Depicts soldier sitting on the deck of a small U.S. landing craft reading a paper. The landing craft is parked somewhere along the east New Guinea coast. One of 8 drawings from a folio entitled by the...

    ART28169.007

  17. A "Black cat" returning from night raid over New Guinea, dips low over hides' roof

    Art

    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

  18. Aboard HMAS Terkar, Port Keats

    Art

    Maker: Annand, Douglas

    Four men are depicted working aboard HMAS Terkar at Port Keats, North Queensland.

    ART92445

  19. Aboard the "Alma Doepel"

    Art

    Maker: Ashton, Richard

    Pictured is the AK-82 "Alma Doepel", one of the craft operated by the 1st Australian Water Transport Group in Sydney.

    ART23681

  20. A Boston crew, 22 Squadron, RAAF (Flight Sergeant Alexander Mackay, Sergeant Phoenix, Wing Commander Charles Learmonth)

    Art

    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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