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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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Anti-aircraft gun and enemy bombers
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
An incident on the Beirut - Damour Road. Anti-aircraft gun in action against enemy planes. Allied naval vessels are in the distance. Banana, prickly pear and olive trees were the chief form of vegetat...ART30055
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Bofors gun site
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Maker: Baird, John
Bombardier Les Barrett, Dave Ritchie, and Gunner Don 'Stork' Hill (l-r), RAA, are depicted standing near a Bofors anti-aircraft gunART27870
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Bombardier Les Barrett
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Maker: Baird, John
Portrait of Bombardier Leslie George 'Les' Barrett, NX132451, Royal Australian Artillery, depicted writing at his desk. Beside him on the bunk his rifle and kit are layed out ready for inspection.ART27879
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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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Colonel Hudson
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Portrait of VX117083 Colonel Jack Gerard Varley Hudson , Officer Commanding of Anti Aircraft Group, Port Moresby, New Guinea.ART23655
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Gunner Jackie Peacock
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts a portrait of Gunner Jackie Peacock, 14 Australian Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Australian Artillery. In the background is a headland, on the end of which is located the boom on a defence whar...ART22727
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Gunner Mick Sawyer
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of Gunner Mick Sawyer of the Royal Australian Artillery, Woorim Fortress and Coastal Defence Units, Bribie Island, Queensland.ART29933
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Gunner Taiswell
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Depicts an unfinished drawing of Gunner Taiswell, Royal Australian Artillery (RAA), Darwin.ART25974
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"Junior" Frawley and "Willo" Willis
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Maker: Baird, John
Double portrait of soldiers 'Junior' Frawley and 'Willo' Willis, Anti Aircraft, Royal Australian Artillery. Frawley is depicted wearing a modified 'giggle' suit without sleeves and with the trouser le...ART27878
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Lewis gun attached to 14 Australian Anti-aircraft Battery, Darwin (Gunner Tommy Hill and Gunner Neil Cook)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Anti-aircraft defences of the 14th Anti-Aircaft Battery, gunners Thomas Hill (left) and Neil Cook operating a Lewis machine gun in a sandbagged gun pit.ART22720
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Lieutenant Colonel Cranston McEachern
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Lieutenant Colonel Cranston McEachern (QX6176), Commanding 2/24th Anti-Tank Regiment, RAA at Muar River. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore.ART26444
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Lieutenant Don Brown and Sergeant John Ash
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts Lieutenant D.N.B Brown and Sergeant J. Ash. Lieutenant D.N.B Brown, section commander of Anti-Aircraft, Light Machine Gun Section, 14th Australian Anti-Aircraft Battery who were defending the ...ART22722
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25-pounder in action, Sollum
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicting a 25-pounder field gun in action near Sollum in the Western Desert, Egypt.ART26566
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2/3rd Australian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Sydney
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A gun crew of the 2/3rd Australian Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun rushes to Action Stations on the sounding of an alarm at the Regiment's position, Sydney Harbour.ART23659
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Reading mail, Darwin
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Maker: Baird, John
Two soldiers are depicted in Darwin: Gunner Neil Oscar Maher (left), VX134882, Victoria, is sitting on a window sill with his leg in plaster, while Gunner Bert Clark (right), Royal Australian Artille...ART27875
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Searchlight
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Searchlight - Final touches before evening manoeuvres. Time is about sunset'.ART30087
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Sergeant Efremof
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Maker: Baird, John
Portrait of Sergeant Efremof, Static Heavy Anti-Aircraft Batteries, Royal Australian Artillery, seated at a table writing by the light of a hurricane lamp in an underground plotting room, Darwin Showg...ART27883
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Sergeant Francis Ker
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a portrait of SX10535 Sergeant Francis George Innes Ker, 2/14 Australian Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, Alexishafen, New Guinea.ART22668