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Aboard the "Alma Doepel"
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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
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Aitape
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
An encampment in Aitape, New Guinea, can be seen surrounded by palm trees with a view of the sea in the background.ART28200
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Astrolobe Bay
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Maker: Belcher, Douglas Leonard
An Australian soldier is depicted sitting down, with a cigarette in hand, overlooking a view of Astrolobe Bay with mountains in the background. A machine gun can be seen propped up on rocks beside him...ART28247
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At anchor off Wakde Island
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Ships at anchor off Wakde Island, New Guinea. A prolific painter and print maker, Kenneth Jack (b.1924) served with the RAAF as a survey and cartographic draughtsman in New Guinea, Borneo and Morotai...ART93623
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Blasting the Japs, Aitape, 6.45 am, Sunday 23rd April 1944
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
From a distance, a scene of Japanese troops on the shorline of Aitape, New Guinea, being attacked by allied aircraft and ships at 6.45 am, Sunday 23rd April 1944. A prolific painter and print maker, ...ART93516
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Boom across channel opening
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A view looking East showing boom across Channel opening. The 9th Division's return on "Queen Mary" with escorting destroyers and cruisers are depicted as they enter Sydney Harbour.ART29874
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Convoy, 1945
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Maker: Norton, Frank
The convoy vessel is featured in the foreground, there are sailors on board and a signal is being sent to eight other vessels in the distance. This is the convoy of merchantmen escorted by two Austral...ART22316
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Destroyers at sea, Bengal
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Maker: Norton, Frank
In the foreground seamen are working with the torpedo tubes of Q class destroyer HMAS Quiberon. HMAS Nizam and HMAS Napier are in the midground, exercising while screening HMAS Renown, HMAS Illustriou...ART23944
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Douglas transport in the sea at Red Beach
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Maker: Flett, James
Douglas transport plane in the sea at Red Beach, Morotai, 1945.ART26021
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Drawing for headpiece for 'The R.A.N. at Papua' in 'H.M.A.S. Mk. II' 1943
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
A naval battle scene, with a person manning an anti-aircraft gun in the foreground, and two ships, three planes and an explosion in the background.ARTI03564
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Finschhafen seascape
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a view of the landscape over Finschhafen, New Guinea.ART26116
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From Barum Valley, near Bogadjim
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Maker: Belcher, Douglas Leonard
A soldier wearing a slouch hat is depicted sitting to the left smoking a cigarette with his rifle beside him. He is overlooking the valleys from Ramu Valley, near Bogadjim at an area which the Japanes...ART28214
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From Nangipo
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Maker: Belcher, Douglas Leonard
A view looking towards the sea, with palm trees and vegetation seen in the left foregound. VX109068 Sergeant Belcher, Royal Australian Army Medical Corps attached to Royal Australian Engineers, was a...ART28242
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HMAS Australia at Bear Island
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A side on view of the Heavy Cruiser HMAS Australia in the midground, with an expanse of sea in the foreground. In the background, another ship, seagulls and Bear Island, between the north coast of Nor...ART27638
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HMAS Melbourne
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A side on view of HMAS Melbourne at sea and in action. Smoke billows out of the four stacks on the deck and the guns on deck are being fired.ART40894
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Infantry diggers resting at Wewak Beach; verso: [men in a row boat]
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A group of soldiers are depicted resting and relaxing nude on the beach at Wewak, with a truck visible to the right and Wewak Point in the background. verso: sketches of three nude men in a row boat ...ART29949
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It's on! L.S.T. Torpedoed
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Torpedoing of Landing Ship Tank, (L.S.T), in a surprise raid off Morobe, New Guinea.ART22146
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Japanese barge
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A Japanese barge is depicted; this one in particular was refloated by the Australian Imperial Force and used as a passenger vessel around the New Guinea area.ART29901
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Lighthouse at Cooktown
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
The lighthouse throws its beam over the Coral Sea and returns, after four years, to its peacetime coat of paint. From August 1945 in his capacity as official war artist Emerson Curtis undertook a thre...ART25623
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110,000 Miles - Wake of HMAS "Quiberon"
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Maker: Norton, Frank
View of a ship at sea from above. The canvas is intersected with two rope ladders and a mast and stack to the left of the composition. In the distance the wake of the boat shows that the boat is trave...ART23946
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Moresby Township
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
View from a hill depicting Moresby township with the harbour and a ship at the pier seen in the background.ART28195
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Notes on convoys marshalling at Morton Bay
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Several sketches depicting convoys marshalling in Moreton Bay, Queensland.ART29892
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Not titled [two men in a traditional sailing canoe]
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Maker: Fort, Sidney James
Ttwo men in a traditional sailing canoe, each seated at either end of the canoe. Often unable to get access to art materials, Fort used the aircraft linen from abandoned aircrafts as the canvas for t...ART94461
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Panoramic note of 9th Division entering Port Jackson
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A sketch of Port Jackson showing three vessels in the harbour: RMS Queen Mary in the foregroud, Aquatinia in the middle, and Isle de France in the background.ART29914
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Petrol truck on Moresby Road
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A petrol truck is shown ploughing dust on Moresby Road. Three Australian soldiers are hitch-hiking on the back of the truck, sitting on petrol drums.ART28024
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Port Moresby
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
A wiew of the bay, sea and hills at Kanedabu, Port MoresbyART28375.001
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R.A.N. Slipway and Wharf
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Maker: Norton, Frank
This paintings depicts a Royal Australian Navy slipway and wharf.ART22283
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recto: Gymnastics ; verso: [Seascape]
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Maker: Coward, Max
recto: Depicts naval recruits doing exercises, with the sea and a ship's mast in the background. verso: Depicts a view of the sea and the foreshore.ART28324
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Sergeant Kelly
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Maker: Baird, John
Portrait of Sergeant Kelly alongside two unidentified personnel sitting on the gunwale of a small sailing vessel with their equipment around them and an island visible in the background. All three men...ART27885
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Sunderland attacking U-Boat
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
This painting from the air shows a Sunderland flying boat up close, attacking a distant U-boat below on the sea.ART27640
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Sunset, Labuan
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Maker: Koehne, Kurt Casper Irwin
Depicts a local Malaysian person standing on a traditional water raft with the sun setting in the distance.ART96208
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The invasion of Aitape
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
A scene of allied troops and their landing craft arriving on the shoreline of Aitape, New Guinea. A prolific painter and print maker, Kenneth Jack (b.1924) served with the RAAF as a survey and cartog...ART93517
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Thursday Island from troopship SS "Manoora"
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
The view of Thursday Island from the troopship SS "Manoora"; the township can be seen beyond the jetty with mountains in the background.ART29905
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To Konedobu
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
A landscape of the bay and the surrounding ranges, Port Moresby, New Guinea.ART28375.005
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Township of Moresby looking southwest
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A view of the township of Moresby, looking Southwest. A hill with huts at the base of it are in the foreground, and the sea with a ship to the left can be seen in the background.ART28198
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Townsville from the sea and Cape Pallerenda
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Depicts two panoramic watercolours, the upper one is an image of the coastline, sea and town of Townsville observed from a ship while the lower one is of Cape Pallerenda, northern Queensland, observed...ART93451
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Tropical storm
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Depicts a tropical storm over Seadler Harbour, three ships at centre to centre right and another in the foreground. The two heavy cruisers HMAS Shropshire and HMAS Australia are shown at anchor. Two s...ART23796
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View from the range behind Wewak
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A view from the ranges behind Wewak is depicted, where Japanese positions surrendered to Australians on Victory in Europe Day, 8 June 1945.ART28192
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Washing Day
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Maker: Thompson, Robert McKay
Depicts a sun-drenched coastal scene with a seated soldier, surrounded by tents and the day's washing hanging up around a camp in New Guinea during the Second World War. West Australian painter, carto...ART96052
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Wewak Point
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
View of tents by the sea, forest area and hills in the background.ART28207