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Admiralty House, Tobruk
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Originally the Headquarters of the Italian Regia Marina, now British Naval Headquarters. Building was damaged by bombing, causing the collapse of the western wing. The red flag is a warning to town an...ART21741
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'After the war', Bougainville bomb scared ruins, Rabaul
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Situated near the site of the old town at Rabaul are the remains of Japanese installations. Japanese parties can be seen cleaning up the mess, New Britain.ART23724
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Australian Headquarters, Dili
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Ruins of the building which was occupied as Headquarters by the Australian component of the Dutch-Australian Force that occupied Portuguese Timor in 1942. It was later, during the Japanese occupation ...ART26346
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B.B.C.A.U. Officials looking over devasted Brunei
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Maker: Flett, James
Wing-Commander Kay and an English Major landed with 2/17th Australian Infantry Battalion at Brooketon Landing and marched with them to Brunei and looked over the town preparatory to setting up the Bri...ART23358
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Beach Road, Balikpapan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
The scene of desolation along the Beach Road, Balikpapan, after bombardment preceeding the landing by the 7th Australian Division.ART23267
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Bombed area, Yokohama
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Maker: Goodchild, John
This drawing shows the devastation caused by incendiaries in an Allied bombing raid in 1945. Concrete structures were the only buildings surviving after two hours intense bombing. After the surrender,...ART22803
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Bombed building in the Blitz
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Maker: Bayliss, Clifford
A building in London that was destroyed during the London Blitz is depicted. This was a common sight during the Second World War Blitz – a defining time for the English population, especially Londoner...ART93186
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Bombed house in Yerania village, Greece
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Maker: Dargie, William
Described in the Official War History as 'Yannina', and also known as Ioannina, the Greek town pictured here experienced the fortunes of war on several occasions during the 1939-45 conflicts. Captured...ART23978
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Bombed house near the air strip, Iraklion, Crete
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Maker: Dargie, William
The town Iraklion is described in the Official War History as Heraklion. Heraklion was one of the points where German air-borne troops were landed in the invasion of Crete. The 2/14th Australian Infan...ART24042
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Bombing wreckage, Koepang
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a scene of destruction of a building and a wrecked vehicles, Timor.ART26138
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Building a picture theatre
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Building a picture theatre amid the ruins of Alexishafen, New Guinea.ART22403
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Burnt out
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Showing burnt out residences near the British Embassy, Tokyo. The Embassy buildings are unscathed in the background.ART22808
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Camp of 2/14th Australian Field Regiment, Alexishafen
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Camp of 2/14th Australian Field Regiment, Alexishafen, New Guinea.ART22404
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"Chariots of the Sons of Heaven"
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Maker: Bush, Charles
A pile of discarded Japanese bicycles heaped in a room of the wrecked house of Portuguese General at Same in Portuguese Timor.ART26159
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Clock tower at Victoria Town, Labuan
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Drawing of the clock tower at Victoria Town, Labuan, which was one of the three surviving structures after the Japanese evacuated the town in 1945. Writing for the Australian Women's Weekly of his tra...ART29342
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Das ist das Heil, das sie bringen! (That is the salvation, that they bring)
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Maker: Heartfield, John Heartfield Archive and GDR Government
A skeleton hand with bomber planes issuing from its five fingers, raised imposingly over the destroyed city with bodies of dead children in the foreground. This work was horribly prophetic when first ...ARTV09077
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Debris, Balikpapan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Showing the results of bombardment and strafing of a town prior to the landing of 7th Australian Division.ART23243
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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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Destroyed Government Offices and Japanese A.A Defence - Madang
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Destroyed government offices and Japanese defences, Madang, New Guinea.ART22707
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Destroyed workshop, oil distilling area, Balikpapan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work depicts a workshop that has been destroyed by bombing in Balikpapan, Indonesia.ART22453
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Destruction's playthings
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a scene of destruction of a building and a wrecked vehicles, Timor.ART26137
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Devastation, Yokohama
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Showing the devastation in an area of Yokohama, near the centre of the city. Concrete buildings survived except for complete burning out of inflammable material in them. The Christian Church was thoug...ART22807
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Excavations below the Acropolis, Athens
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Maker: Dargie, William
Excavations below the Acropolis, Athens.ART24027
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First house bombed in Moresby
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
The first house to have been bombed in Port Moresby is depicted, with severe damage to the roof evident.ART29969
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German block houses
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Maker: Dargie, William
Drawing of guarding the road and railway line below positions held by "D" Company, 2/3rd Australian Infantry Battalion in 1941 near Tempe, Greece.ART23991
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Hiroshima
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Japanese are rummaging among wreckage following the bombing of Hiroshima. There is a twisted steel structure still standing, but the rest of the landscape has been flattened and is strewn with wrecka...ART26717
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Holland will rise again...
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Maker: [S.L : S.N., N.D.]
Post-World War II poster picturing the the destruction of a Dutch city after a bombing with the message "Holland will rise again."ARTV05876
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Home sweet home
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Showing portion of the devastated area of Yokohama. Shacks have been erected from rubbish collected from bombed surroundings.ART22805
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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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Hotel Diane, Ekali
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Maker: Dargie, William
After the Allied evacuation of Greece, the Hotel Diane became German Headquarters. During the withdrawal by the Germans, the hotel and the surrounding area were thoroughly demolished by the enemy.ART23851
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Looking through the ruins of Borneo
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts a rough sketch of a row of buildings on blue lined note book paper which depict ruined buildings in Borneo towards the end of the Second World War. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as ...ART96602
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Main Street, Brunei
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts a view of Brunei, the remains of wrecked buildings caused by naval gunfire and aerial bombing in main shopping street of Brunei when Australian troops occupied the town. Douglas Watson joined...ART22994
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Morning attack by 2/16 Australian Infantry Battalion
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Maker: Dargie, William
On El Atique, near Damour, Syria.ART22347
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Morning attack by 2/16th Australian Infantry Battalion
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Maker: Dargie, William
On El Atique, near Damour, Syria.ART26630
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Native labourers beginning to move burnt-out wreckage in dock area
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Maker: Buckmaster, Ernest
Ernest Buckmaster was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne on July 3 1897. After being rejected for military service due to his physical frailty Buckmaster attended the National Gallery Art School from 1918-24...ART23376
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Portion of the devastation of the oil refineries, Balikpapan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
This artwork depicts the immense devastation caused to a section of the oil refineries in Balikpapan, Indonesia during the last stages of the Second World War.ART22452
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Preliminary study for attack of 2/16 Australian Infantry Battalion at Damour
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Maker: Dargie, William
Attack by 2/16th Australian Infantry Battalion on feature El-Atique, near Damour, Syria. This is a preparatory sketch for the final painting 'Morning attack by 2/16 Australian Infantry Battalion' [AR...ART22034
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Radio station, Dili
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Maker: Bush, Charles
This radio station was taken over by Australians when the Dutch-Australian Force landed at Dili in 1941. It was later wrecked by Allied aircraft during the Japanese occupation.ART26347
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Reconstruction, Yokohama
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Maker: Goodchild, John
View of Yokohama showing huts erected and being erected, by returning Japanese in a large burnt-out area. While hut dwellers develop kitchen gardens, thousands of Japanese wander with all their posses...ART22806
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Rethymnon
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Maker: Dargie, William
The town Rethymnon is referred to in the Official War History as Retimo. As seen from ruins of Church on Hill "C" above the village of Perivolia. Bitter fighting between the German and the 2/1st and 2...ART24055
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Ruined church near bridge at Tyrnavos
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Maker: Dargie, William
Top; Road and fields near Tirnavos. Bottom; Ruined church near bridge at Tirnavos. Tirnavos is about 25 miles south of Mount Olympus and the road through the village proved an important one for the wi...ART23829
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Ruins
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts some of the devastation wrought in Labuan during the Borneo campaign.ART22919
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Sabotage, Tavoy
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
Burnt and wrecked buildings in the business centre of the town. In many cases only the walls remained of the brick and concrete buildings when the Japanese Forces captured the town. It is thought the ...ART28535.013
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Security Guard tents near Roman ruins at R.E. Dump, Baalbek
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Maker: Dargie, William
Security guards tents near old roman columns, Baalbek, Syria.ART22017
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Shimoniseki
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Shimoniseki is the rail terminal in the south-west of Honshu Island and is close to Chafu where Headquarters 2 New Zealand Expeditionary Force, (NZEF), is established. The town is badly battered about...ART26366
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Smashed Native Huts & Ships, Tarakan
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Remains of part of a native village, smashed and deserted, built over the mud between nipa swamps and the north pier. The beached ships are either Borneo "kapals" or Chinese junks.ART25412
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Study for Wrecked oil tanks on Tank Knoll Tarakan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Sketch of an industrialised landscape with buildings in the background that have been destroyed as a result of war.ART29790
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The clock tower
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A sketch of the damaged caused by bombardment of Labuan, before the 24th Australian Infantry Battalion landed on 10 June 1945. The Clock Tower remains standing amongst the rubble, and Australian sold...ART23230
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The clock tower, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts the clock tower in Labuan, Borneo. Donald Friend was in Labuan, an archipelago off the coat of Borneo, in June 1945. Of the town of Labuan he wrote in his Diary on 10 June 1945; 'On the starbo...ART23248
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The dome of St Paul's Cathedral, with ruins of bombed buildings in the foreground.
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Maker: Price, E Jessop
The dome of St Paul's Cathedral, London in the middle distance, with ruins of bombed buildings in the foreground. During the Second World War substantial sums of money were collected at Barker College...ART28054
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The house of the Port Director
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Maker: Bush, Charles
The ensign flies over the Headquarters of the Port Director at Koepang. In the foreground are two dragons of the ruined Chinese Temple. The dragons were ingeniously fashioned out of pieces of smashed ...ART26333
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The proud city: A new view of St Paul's Cathedral from Bread street
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport The Baynard Press
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889 - 1969). One in a series of six called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling ...ARTV09771
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The proud city: A new view of St Paul's Cathedral from Bread street
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport The Baynard Press
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889 - 1969). One in a series of six called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling ...ARTV05151
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The proud city: A new view of St Paul's Cathedral from Bread street
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport The Baynard Press
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889 - 1969). One in a series of six called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling ...ARTV05024
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The proud city: A new view of St Paul's Cathedral from Bread Street
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport The Baynard Press
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889 - 1969). One in a series of six called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling ...ARTV05031
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The proud city: A new view of The Tower of London across Water Lane
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport The Baynard Press
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889 - 1969). One in a series called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling public....ARTV05150
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The proud city: A new view of The Tower of London across Water lane
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport The Baynard Press
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889-1969). One in a series called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling public. T...ARTV05027
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The proud city: A new view of The Tower of London across Water lane
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest The Baynard Press London Transport
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889 - 1969). One in a series called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling public....ARTV05020
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The proud city: Chelsea Power House from Meek Street
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport Johnson Riddle & Co
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889 - 1969). One in a series called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling public....ARTV05025
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The proud city: Chelsea Power House from Meek street
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport Johnson Riddle & Co
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889 - 1969). One in a series called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling public....ARTV05194
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The proud city: Chelsea Power House from Meek street
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport Johnson Riddle & Co
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889 - 1969). One in a series called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling public....ARTV05193
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The proud city: St Thomas's Hospital and the Houses of Parliament
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport The Baynard Press
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889 - 1969). One in a series called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling public....ARTV05175
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The proud city: St Thomas's Hospital and the Houses of Parliament
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport The Baynard Press
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889 - 1969). One in a series called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling public....ARTV05022
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The proud city: St Thomas's Hospital and the Houses of Parliament
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport The Baynard Press
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889 - 1969). One in a series called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling public....ARTV05028
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The proud city: The noble fabric of the church of St Clement Danes
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport The Baynard Press
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889 - 1969). One in a series called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling public....ARTV05198
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The proud city: The noble fabric of the church of St Clement Danes
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport The Baynard Press
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889 - 1969). One in a series called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling public....ARTV05021
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The proud city: The noble fabric of the church of St Clement Danes
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport The Baynard Press
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889-1969). One in a series called 'The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling public. Th...ARTV05029
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The proud city: The Temple Church and Library after bombardment
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport The Baynard Press
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889 - 1969). One in a series of six called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling ...ARTV05195
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The proud city: The Temple Church and library after bombardment
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport Johnson Riddle & Co
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889 - 1969). One in a series of six called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling ...ARTV05023
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The proud city: The Temple Church and Library after bombardment
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Maker: Spradbery, Walter Ernest London Transport Johnson Riddle & Co
British Second World War poster by Walter E Spradbery DCM (1889 - 1969). One in a series of six called ' The Proud City' commissioned by London Transport in 1944 to boost the morale of the travelling ...ARTV05030
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The town after the bombardment
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Portion of Labuan after the bombardment preceeding the landing on Labuan.ART23295
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Tokyo canal
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
A view across a Tokyo canal. This area once contained many modern buildings, but these were severely damaged or reduced to rubble.ART26384
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Victoria Town
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Maker: Newton, Max
A street is depicted in Victoria Town, Labuan after bombardment. A building, damaged from the air raids, can be seen on the left with a large portion blown off from the blasts. Max (Thomas Maxwell) Ne...ART93364
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Wreckage
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Smashed girders once formed part of the hangers on this Italian built drome. Framed by the wreckage is the broken skeleton of a British Gladiator left during the withdrawal from Libya earlier in the y...ART21009
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Wrecked building, Tarakan
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Maker: Freedman, Harold
Wrecked building at Tarakan , Borneo. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war artist attached to the RAAF Historical War Records Section and he worked here...ART26982
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Wrecked radio station, Dili
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Maker: Bush, Charles
This radio station was taken by Australians when the Dutch-Australian Force landed at Dili in 1941. It was later wrecked by Allied aircraft during the Japanese occupation.ART26345