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[Barge on beach]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts the open end of a barge on the beach, with a landscape in the background. On the verso is a pen and ink study of men seated on a beach. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a ...ART96647
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Beach doover, Suain Plantation
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian soldier in a beach doover at the Suain Plantation.ART26891
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Beached Jap invasion barges, Waga Waga, site of original Jap landing
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Maker: Dargie, William
Beached Japanese invasion barges at Waga Waga, Milne Bay. There are trees and a low mountain range in the background.ART21313
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Big fire on the beach, Seria
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Maker: Flett, James
Oil tanks on fire along beach, fired by the Japanese shortly after the Australian landing at Brooketon, North Borneo.ART26014
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Bridge on coastal road, Balikpapan to Samarinda
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Maker: Leviston, G W
A bridge on a coastal road from Balikpapan to Samarinda.ART29678
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British heavy tank knocked out on the beach a Perevolia
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Maker: Dargie, William
Sketch of a British tank abandoned on the beach, that had been knocked out during the German invasion of Crete in May 1941, near Retimo, Crete.ART24060
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Burning oil wells, Seria
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Maker: Flett, James
Looking south along the coast of the China Sea to Baram Cape. Showing line of wells along the beach, 38 in all, ablaze.ART25878
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Cape Puss rest camp, 2/8 Field Company
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Soldiers of the 2/8th Field Company are depicted relaxing on the beach at Wewak, New Guinea.ART29900
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Disembarkation, Balikpapan, 5 July 1945
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work depicts a landing craft tank (LCT), unloading a supply truck and a 3.7 inch heavy anti-aircraft gun. The truck appears to be carrying rolls of barbed wire and sand matting. There was only on...ART22443
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Dogamuir Bay
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
The 4th Australian Infantry Battalion landed on Dogamuir Bay to relieve the 35th Australian Infantry Battalion. Drawing shows movement of the troops from barge, also a Stinson Cub aircraft taking off ...ART25169
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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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[Figure studies- male nudes]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts a number of figure studies of nude soldiers at Mindil Beach, Darwin, during the Second World War. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, painter, cartoonist...ART96312
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From The Rouna Road From Moresby
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Looking towards the South coast from Rouna Road, from Port Moresby. View of fields and hills with sea in background, huts along the beach, line of trees in middle ground, road on hill to right.ART28197
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Hospital site, Labuan
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Maker: Newton, Max
This work depicts the site of a hospital that was located on the edge of high cliffs at Labuan. Max (Thomas Maxwell) Newton enlisted with the AIF. He was seconded to the RAAF War History Section as an...ART26806
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Houses and sea front at Navplion
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Maker: Dargie, William
Navplion was one of the evacuation beaches for the withdrawal of British forces from Greece in April 1941.ART24029
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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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Kirrawina, North
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Maker: Kingston, Hector
The artist used some of his supply of anti-malarial medication to execute this sketch of the coast of north Kiriwina Island.ART94215
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Kirrawina, South
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Maker: Kingston, Hector
The artist used some of his supply of anti-malarial medication to execute this collage of the coast of south Kiriwina Island.ART94214
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Kure J, S.L.F. [Special Landing Force]
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Maker: Dargie, William
View of the beach at Waga Waga Village, New Guinea, scene of an abortive landing by the Japanese. It was following this landing that the Japanese received their first decisive defeat on land, Milne Ba...ART23169
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Kwaipomata Point - Tiger Moth, repaired by 15 RSU taking off from the beach
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Maker: Dargie, William
An aircraft is taking off from the beach. Dargie noted, "After the plane had been repaired by 15 Repair and Salvage Unit, Royal Australian Air Force, the pilot got into the plane in a very bad temper,...ART22085
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Landing craft, Red Beach
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Maker: Flett, James
Depicts several landing craft in the evening at Red Beach, Morotai.ART26017
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Landing Japanese on Fauro Island
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Approximately 18,000 Japanese from the Buin area were transported over 60 kilometers by sea to the Fauro Group. Australian barges carred the main body and this picture shows the scene on one of the be...ART25245
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Looking from Kokakoc towards Scarlet Beach, Finschhafen
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
At Kokakoc the Japanese were well dug in and resisted solidly. In the distance is Scarlet Beach where the initial landing of the Finschhafen campaign took place, New Guinea.ART21034
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[Male figures at Mindil Beach, Darwin]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts male nude soldiers at Mindil Beach in Darwin during the Second World War. On the verso is a drawing of two figures. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, p...ART96313
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Medieval castle at Navplion
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Maker: Dargie, William
Described in the Official War History as Navplion, which was one of the evacuation beaches in the withdrawal of British forces from Greece in April 1941.ART24032
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Mica beach
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Maker: Baird, John
A group of male nudes are depicted bringing ashore mail and provisions at Mica Beach. As there were no women in the area, the men did not wear swim trunks.ART27948
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Mica Beach
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Maker: Baird, John
Sketches showing the anti aircraft defences and searchlights at Mica Beach, Darwin.ART27920
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Mindil Beach, Darwin
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts a male nude figure relaxing on beach in Darwin during the Second World War. On the verso is a watercolour pianting of a landscape with trees. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' ...ART96315
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Morotai
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Maker: Waite, Allan George
Scene across the shoreline of Morotai, showing the aftermatch of battle, including a jetty, shattered trees and destroyed, or abandoned aircraft floating in the ocean. This image was painted in the 1...ART94070
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No. 5 Barge Point, Empress Augusta Bay
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
This drawing gives an idea of the scene beside the bay in the Jaba River area, where barge points, with their characteristic signs, are suitably placed. These markers were very useful, for natural lan...ART21457
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Not titled [beach landscape with deadwood and barrel]
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Maker: Fort, Sidney James
Beach landscape of with deadwood and barrell in the foreground and trees in water behind. The dreamlike qaulity and accentuation of the obscure shapes in this painting show strong surrealist influen...ART94450
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Not titled [hut in the jungle]
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Maker: Koehne, Kurt Casper Irwin
Depicts a traditional Malaysian hut on stilts in the Labuan jungle.ART96209
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Not titled [Malaya]
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Three Australians under palm trees with sentry in background, Malaya.ART30102
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Not titled [night landscape with search lights]
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Maker: Fort, Sidney James
Nightscape of coastline with search lights in the background. Often unable to get access to art materials, Fort used the aircraft linen from abandoned aircrafts as the canvas for this painting. Sidne...ART94454
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Not titled [soldiers on beach]
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Maker: Thompson, Robert
Soldiers dressed in their army shorts are sitting on a beach.ART28705
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Not titled [three palms]
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Maker: Fort, Sidney James
Depicts three palms leaning together on the beach. In the background is a small village house on a mound of sand and the sea. Sidney Fort served in the Australian Army during the Second World War. T...ART94442
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Not titled [view of ocean from shoreline]
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Maker: Greig, Allister
A scene from the shore of an unidentifiable beach looking out to the ocean. There are tall palm trees and in the distance some low lying mountains. Allister Greig was a South Australian-born commerci...ART93926
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[Nude male figures, Mindil Beach, Darwin]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts a number of nude soldier studies at Mindil Beach in Darwin during the Second World War. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, painter, cartoonist and illus...ART96309
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RAAF ground troops landing at Noemfoor Island
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Maker: Jones, Vernon
RAAF ground troops landing at Noemfoor Island.ART27567
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RAAF Pilots Headquarters
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
The Royal Australian Airforce (RAAF) Pilots Headquarters on the beach at Wewak, New Guinea. A parachute has been used to create an awning under which a personnel member stands nude enjoying a drink; t...ART29910
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recto top image: Not titled [tank and aircraft]; recto bottom image: Not titled [beach scene]; verso top image: Not titled [homestead]; verso bottom image: Not titled [incomplete portrait sketches]
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
recto top image: tank featuring a kind of 'nose art', which is a drawing of an angel holding a Devil's pitchfork with the words 'Hell's Angel' on either side of her. Overhead flies an aircraft. rect...ART90378.009
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[Relaxing on the beach]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts male figures relaxing on the beach. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, painter, cartoonist and illustrator. During the Second World War many of his illu...ART96314
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Sea-front at Kalamata
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Maker: Dargie, William
Kalamata was one of the evacuation beaches at the withdrawal of British Forces from Greece in April 1941. On the night of April 26-27th nearly 9,000 troops, including the 16th and 17th Australian Infa...ART24036
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Sea front at Navplion
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Maker: Dargie, William
Showing the medieval castle. This was one of the evacuation beaches for the withdrawal of British forces from Greece in April 1941.ART24031
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[Seated male nude figures, Mindil Beach, Darwin]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts a number of nude male soldiers on Mindil Beach, Darwin, during the Second World War. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, painter, cartoonist and illustra...ART96311
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[Seated male nude figures, Mindil Beach, Darwin]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts studies of seated nude soldiers on Mindil Beach in Darwin during the Second World War. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, painter, cartoonist and illust...ART96310
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Shades of Matruh and Cleopatra's bath 1941
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
These images describe the different standards of behaviour for soldiers between being at home and being away. The scenes are all located at or near the beach; with the first in the upper left corner s...ARTI00296
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Signallers' tent on the shore of the China Sea
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Maker: Flett, James
Night view of remote tent under the casuarinas that fringe the Borneo coast; drawn from a window of Fred Krone's 2/17th Australian Infantry Battalion YMCA house in the glow of the oil fires at Seria, ...ART25880
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[Sunset]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
A bushy foreground borders the distant sea and the dark heavy clouds suspended in the sky. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Peter and Elizabeth Pidgeon in memor...ART96328
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The beach at Brandi
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Maker: Thompson, Robert
Nude male swimmers taking a dip at Brandi Beach, New Guinea.ART28704