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A cigarette for the wounded
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicting wounded men of the 57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion being given a smoke after they had been carried out of sight of the enemy and it was safe to light up. This was after they had been f...ART25031
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AIF walking wounded disembarking from Greece
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Wounded AIF soldiers disembarking from the ship at Alexandria after their return from Greece.ART21886
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Air sea rescue, 1943 (Flying Officer John Shelton, warrant officer Fred Ring, Flying Officer A Filear, Sergeant S.J. Bell, Lega and US Pilot Lieutenant George Wicks)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Bootless Bay; air-sea rescue, launch; 45 Operational Base Unit, Air-Sea Rescue Unit; l-r: Flying A J Filear, Commanding RAAF Flying Boat Base and Marine Section, Sergeant G J Bell, coxswain of crash b...ART22745
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Ambush
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch of two Australian soldiers who have just been wounded in an ambush. Dargie noted: "The enemy can set an ambush, too. Unfortunately, this is only discovered, as a rule, when someone walks into i...ART22092
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Ambush
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Maker: Dargie, William
The enemy can set up an ambush too. Unfortunately this is only discovered as a rule when someone walks into it. The enemy set a very strong defence and ambush position just beyond Daumonia. This ambus...ART22256
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At 2/3rd Australian Independent Company's Regimental Aid Post
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Hele shows the medical officer of the 2/3rd Australian Independent Company attending a wounded man in the Regimental Aid Post, Salamaua, New Guinea. A second man is assisting. The wounded man is lying...ART22545
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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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British products fight in Burma
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office Multi Machine Plates Ltd
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry of Supply. It depicts photographs of a variety of scenarios that took place during the general campaign to protect India from the Japanese advanc...ARTV06438
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Care is costly : buy and hold war bonds
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Maker: Treidler, Adolph U.S. Treasury Department [WASHINGTON : U.S. TREASURY, 1945 (WASHINGTON : U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE)
To fund the war effort the United States Treasury issued war bonds which the public could purchase. The money raised was used for soldiers uniforms, weapons and other supplies. The war bonds were simi...ARTV05716
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Careless Talk Got There First
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Maker: Stoops, Herbert Morton Office of War Information U.S. Government Printing Office
American Second World War poster depicting soldiers parachuting into an area. The soldier in the foreground is slumped over dead while other soldiers in the background continue to land. The text 'Care...ARTV02554
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Carrying a stretcher around a landslide
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Maker: Dargie, William
Carrying one of the casualties of the 57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion wounded in the ambush of 31st March, under great difficulties over the treacherous ground of a landslide, Finisterre Ranges,...ART22315
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Carrying stretcher case down a ravine
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Maker: Dargie, William
Pen and ink sketch of soldiers of the 57/60th Australian Infantry Battalion carrying a wounded soldier on a stretcher. Dargie noted: "After digging our way over the landslide mentioned in sketch 291 ...ART23184
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Carrying wounded into trucks
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers carrying the wounded onto trucks in North Africa.ART90274
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Casualty clearing station, Cape Moem, 1; verso: Casualty clearing station, Cape Moem, 2
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A depiction of a casualty clearing station at Cape Moem, New Guinea. Medical facilities were found in areas with troop concentrations. The larger the concentration, the larger the medical facility. Th...ART29983
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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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Dead Japanese on Kamiri airstrip, Noemfoor Island
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work depicts the corpses of two unidentified Japanese soldiers on Kamiri airstrip.ART22305
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Dear Daddy... don't get accidented
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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
casualty; cautionary poster produced for the Ministry of Labour and National Service and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, depicting a child's letter to her father, which includes a s...ARTV01712
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Doctors are Scarce
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Maker: Unknown Washington: Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information
American Second World War poster promoting civilian medical education for the treatment of minor injuries and illnesses. The poster highlights the need for this owing to the loss of one in three docto...ARTV02548
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Dressing arm wound
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Hele shows the figures of two soldiers. One is seen from behind, dressing the arm wound of the other soldier, who is facing the viewer but with head down looking at his arm.ART22542
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Field casualty
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a field casualty. Soldier laying on a stretcher while two men sit in the background.ART22900
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Hauling dead Japanese from foxholes
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts the 2/3 Australian Independent Company removing dead Japanese from Foxholes, Timbered Knoll, New Guinea.ART22558
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Help Red Cross to continue its work of mercy
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Maker: Northfield, James Australian Red Cross Society [S.L.] : AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY, [N.D.] (MELBOURNE : MORRIS & WALKER) Morris & Walker Pty Ltd
Poster depicting a mother, her small son and their belongings and two wounded soldiers bathing in the warm light of an angelic Red Cross nurse. The Red Cross Society's contribution to civil defence du...ARTV02576
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Help Red Cross to continue its work of mercy
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Maker: Northfield, James Australian Red Cross Society Morris & Walker Pty Ltd
Poster depicting a mother, her small son and their belongings and two wounded soldiers bathing in the warm light of an angelic Red Cross nurse. The Red Cross Society's contribution to civil defence du...ARTV02162
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He talked they died
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Maker: Games, Abram
British Second World War cautionary poster by Abram Games warns of the danger of careless talk. The poster depicts a man's head with mouth circled, soldiers lie dead below, a result of the man's carel...ARTV09904
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Hope for all mankind in war and peace
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Maker: Grieve, Edith Australian Red Cross Society Troedel & Cooper Pty. Ltd. [Melbourne]
Australian Red Cross Society Second World War poster designed by Edith Grieve illustrating the work of the Red Cross: support for servicemen, families, etc. Text and image are integrated. In the foreg...ARTV05045
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Hope for all mankind in war and peace
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Maker: Grieve, Edith Australian Red Cross Society Troedel & Cooper Pty. Ltd. [Melbourne]
Australian Red Cross Society Second World War poster designed by Edith Grieve illustrating the work of the Red Cross: support for servicemen, families, etc. Text and image are integrated. In the foreg...ARTV05046
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Hope for all mankind in war and peace
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Maker: Grieve, Edith Australian Red Cross Society
Australian Red Cross Society Second World War poster illustrating the work of the Red Cross: support for servicemen, families, etc, set against a large Red Cross emblem.ARTV00227
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Hope for all mankind in war and peace
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Maker: Grieve, Edith Australian Red Cross Society Troedel & Cooper Pty. Ltd. [Melbourne]
Australian Red Cross Society Second World War poster designed by Edith Grieve illustrating the work of the Red Cross: support for servicemen, families, etc. Tex and image are integrated. In the foregr...ARTV05008
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In war, Red Cross brings help and healing to the sick and wounded...
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Maker: Unknown Australian Red Cross Society Unknown
Australian Red Cross Second World War recruitment poster which details the activities of the Red Cross and the benefits provided by the society to attract new members. A large red cross , the symbol o...ARTV03831
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In war, Red Cross brings help and healing to the sick and wounded...
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Maker: Unknown Australian Red Cross Society Unknown
Australian Red Cross Second World War recruitment poster which details the activities of the Red Cross and the benefits provided by the society to attract new members. A large red cross , the symbol o...ARTV10088
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In war, Red Cross brings help and healing to the sick and wounded...
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Maker: Unknown Australian Red Cross Society Unknown
Australian Red Cross Second World War recruitment poster which details the activities of the Red Cross and the benefits provided by the society to attract new members and raise funds through the sale ...ARTV04134
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In war, Red Cross brings help and healing to the sick and wounded...
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Maker: Unknown Australian Red Cross Society Unknown
Australian Red Cross Second World War recruitment poster which details the activities of the Red Cross and the benefits provided by the society to attract new members. A large red cross , the symbol o...ARTV01058
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Join your local branch
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Maker: Unknown Australian Red Cross Society
The Australian Red Cross was established in 1923 and is guided by the Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It is a secular, neutral, impartial and independe...ARTV02170
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Join your local branch
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Maker: Unknown Australian Red Cross Society
Australian Red Cross Second World War poster. Depicts a Red Cross nurse appealing to the viewer to become a member of the Red Cross. Surrounding the central figure are scenes depicting some of the war...ARTV00790
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"Menu-card: Head Cook MARS, Hygiene Will Help"
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Maker: Marcuse, Ernest Henry
Second World War Australian poster depicting the god Mars with a cooking pot of blood and bones, holding a menu of wars and lives lost by wounds and sickness in various campaigns during the 19th and 2...AWM2018.254.19
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not titled [soldiers in hospital beds for illustration for "Around camp"]
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Maker: Gardener, Arthur
Two soldiers are pictured sleeping in hospital beds. In the distance a third soldier is sitting up in bed and a group of three people can be seen conversing near him. This drawing was done or inclusio...ARTI04612
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Papuans setting down stretcher case in Regimental Aid Post, Missim Trail
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Hele shows Papuans setting down a wounded soldier on a stretcher ready to receive first aid treatment in the Regimental Aid Post of a forward unit on the Missim trail, Salamaua, New Guinea.ART22519
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Raid on Carrier Hill (by a company of the 2/48th Battalion), 22 April 1941
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
A retrospective representation of the raid on Carrier Hill during the North Africa campaign of the Second World War. Carrier Hill was a small feature about a thousand metres outside the Australian per...ART27551
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Safety first keeps him on the job
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Maker: Price, H Federal Security Agency, US Public Health Service US Government Printing Office
This poster was issued by the US Public Health Service depicts a worker with an injured thumb on his way to the First Aid room. Keeping soldiers healthy was a priority during the war.ARTV05723
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Sick and wounded being landed at Morobe from the front lines near Salamaua
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts sick and wounded Australian soldiers landed at Morobe from the front lines near Salamaua in New Guinea during the Second World War.ART21344
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Somebody blabbed
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Maker: Dorne, Albert Graphics Division, Office of Facts and Figures WASHINGTON : GRAPHICS DIVISION, OFFICE OF FACTS AND FIGURES, 1942 (WASHINGTON : GOVERNMENT PRINTING
Poster produced in the United States by the Graphics Division, Office of Facts and Figures, depicting a sailor's hat floating in the sea, his hand reaching out as he drowns.ARTV05565
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Stretcher Bearers
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon
Plaster statue of a soldier lying on a stretcher with two stretcher bearers tending him.ART26393
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Stretcher bearers, Libya
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers carrying wounded soldiers on stretchers in Libya.ART26995
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Stretchers bearers in the desert
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldiers carrying a wounded man on a stretcher in the desert in Libya.ART21895
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Study for Casualty
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Depicts four small sketches of a figure's face, a figure climbing and walking. It was produced as part of Browning's study for the series 'Casualty'.ART92317
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study for 'Stretcher case awaiting bearers, Old Vickers Position'
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Soldiers seated near a wounded man lying on an improvised stretcher. The wounded man is NX49750 Private A B Gwynn, 2/3 Independent Company. Artist's notes contain a description of the incident - the r...ART29331
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Study of wounded soldier
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Maker: Dargie, William
Study of a wounded soldier. He is falling forward and has dropped his rifle. This is a preparatory sketch for the final painting 'Morning attack by 2/16 Australian Infantry Battalion' [ART22347].ART22035
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2/9th AGH, 17 Mile, Moresby area
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Maker: Dargie, William
Situated 17 miles from Port Moresby, all casualties from the forward areas passed through this hospital for treatment or evacuation to Australia, 2/9th Australian General Hospital. The artist conside...ART23614
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"These ACF hussifs are a godsend"
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Maker: Unknown Australian Comforts Fund
Depicts three soldiers sitting outside of a tent that has been erected in muddy terrain. The boots of the soldiers are caked in mud. One of the soldiers appears to be repairing some bandaging around...ARTV05270
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The Work We're Doing Now Will Help to Mass Produce Penicillin Urgently Needed to Heal Our Wounded
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Maker: Unknown Ministry of Supply H.M. Stationery Office Multi Machine Plates Ltd
Following his discovery of the antibiotic powers of penicillin in 1928, in 1945 Sir Alexander Fleming shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry with two other chemists for the perfection of its production....ARTV03392