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Chalk sketch of muleteer for above incident [ART22222]
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch of a muleteer under mortar fire at Damour, Syria. He is wearing a tin hat and carries a rifle slung over his shoulder. This sketch was intended as a preparatory study for a final painting of ...ART22030
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Chess problem
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Maker: Dargie, William
Scene of four unidentified soldiers playing a game of chess on board an AIF transport vessel in the Indian Ocean, 1944.ART25045
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Cinema LTD, Redlynch
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Sketch of soldiers at Redlynch, North Queensland as they sit, or stand waiting for a film to commence showing. This is a preparatory study for the painting 'Early comers, Redlynch LTD cinema, Cairns'....ART26588
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Clay-pits near the air strip, Iraklion
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Maker: Dargie, William
The town of Iraklion is described in the Official War History as Heraklion. This was a site of heavy fighting against German paratroops in May 1941.ART24051
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Colour note for No. 518
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Maker: Dargie, William
Artist's notes for the picture "Roadside fountain". Depicting a fountain from a spring in the hillside near positions held by 2/2nd Australian Infantry Battalion south of Tempe, Greece in 1941.ART23990
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Convalescence
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Maker: Dargie, William
A wounded soldiers sits in a chair in the sunlight on the roof of 2/3rd Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Beirut, Syria.ART22023
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Convoy, Battle for Crete
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The artist recalled of this sketch, "During the battle for Crete the Germans filled their empty junkers with Allied casualties, flew them back to landing strips in Greece and bought them by road trans...ART29574
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Corporal Reid
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Piva; No 5 Mobile Works (later Airfield Construction) Squadron; Corporal Reid, Fitter 2E, No 5 Sqdn RAAFART25248
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Damaged Zero Belly tanks captured at Waga Waga
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Maker: Dargie, William
The Japanese were so confident of capturing Milne Bay that they landed from the sea large numbers of these belly tanks for use on planes as soon as they were required.ART23491
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Demolitions, Piraeus, Greece
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Maker: Dargie, William
Piraeus, the seaport for the city of Athens, was the port of disembarkation for troops of the 6th Australian Division when entering Greece in April 1941. The damage shown here was caused to German ins...ART24023
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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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Digger's N.G
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Maker: Pratt, Douglas
Pencil studies of soldiers, or as the artist refers to them 'Diggers'. In the sketch at the top four Australian soldiers are standing casually, while three other sketches show a soldier handling a lo...ART28065
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Digging out tank bogged in 500lb bomb crater
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Maker: Dargie, William
This work of digging out the bogged tank was done under fire near Cape Endaiadere. The enemy attempted to interfere with mortar fire, but somehow could not get in range.ART25023
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Domokos
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Maker: Dargie, William
From this point where the main road crosses the summit of Domokos Pass. Units of the 6th Australian Division travelled on this road during the withdrawal to take up defensive positions in Brallos Pass...ART23996
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Egyptian labourers unloading Christmas parcels for the A.I.F
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Maker: Dargie, William
Three Egyptian workers are shown collecting bags full of Christmas parcels for distribution to Australian soldiers in Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt. Dargie noted, "An efficient organisation distributed these p...ART22007
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Embarkation figure
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Maker: Allen, George Meridian Sculpture Founders
An exhausted Australian soldier, wearing a slouch hat and carrying a rifle slung over one shoulder and a pack on the other, walks up a formed track.ART26389
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Escarpment and fields by the road at Kalabaka
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Maker: Dargie, William
It was in this area that the 17th Australian Infantry Brigade, with attached artillery and tank units and known as "Savige Force", commanded by Brigadier S.G. Savige, DSO, MC, ED, took up defensive po...ART23994
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First Japanese envoys for surrender negotiations arrive at Balikpapan
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Japanese envoys Captain Tsujihashi, Lieutenant Commander Tsuneyo Nanda, Lieutenant Yoshifumi Kubota, all naval officers, and interpreters Nagashima and Ohdone with attendants bearing a basket of banan...ART25905
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Greece
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Maker: Ewers, Ray Meridian Sculpture Founders
Figure of a soldier fully equipped and wearing winter uniform, marching across Greece in winter.ART90936
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Greek Caicque on the beach at Kalamata
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Maker: Dargie, William
From this beach 9,000 troops of the 6th Australian Division were embarked on British destroyers during the nights of 26-27th and 28-29th April 1941, in the withdrawal of British forces from Greece.ART24034