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VIB (Baden Patent water heater?) [Dossel, Germany]
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Depicts a single storey building in the Oflag VIB POW camp. Oflag VIB was a POW camp in Dossel, Germany, in use from 1940-45. Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) was a painter, printmaker and ceramicist. In la...ART96090
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Walking back to camp
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Maker: Brack, John
Several groups of soldiers walk along a road back to camp. In the group at the front there is a woman who wears a skirt, the rest are males wearing long pants and shirts. The figures have their hands...ART96394
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Waltzing Matilda
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Italian ambulance captured near Tobruk in the first Libyan campaign and now used by No.3 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. During the withdrawal it was driven by an Italian Prisoner-of-war who was...ART23529
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Warburg
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Depicts the interior of a room at the POW camp at Warburg in Germany. Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) was a painter, printmaker and ceramicist. In late 1936 he joined the RAAF and was seconded to the RAF f...ART96079
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Warburg VIB
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Depicts a ploughed field and a number of farm buildings. A man in the lower right corner walks across the field with a dog. Oflag VIB was a POW camp in Dossel (part of Warburg), Germany, in use from 1...ART96093
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War criminal boob, Emery Point
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Maker: Bush, Charles
A picture of the barb-wired compound in which Japanese war criminals awaiting trial for atrocities to Australian prisoners are housed. They were to be tried for war crimes committed on Timor.ART26356
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Warrant Officer 1 Arthur Purdon
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Depicts a portrait of Warrant Officer Class 1 Arthur Henry Mason Purdon DCM (NX67447), Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant, 2/30th Australian Infantry Battalion. Taken prisoner-of-war by the Japanese a...ART26445
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Watching the boxing contest
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
A scene on board SS Duntroon during the voyage to Singapore taking 2 Australian Prisoner-of-War Reception Group to repatraite liberated Australian prisoners-of-war. The liberated prisoners are seen at...ART24402
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Watch yere backs!!
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
A man's quiet reading time has been interrupted by a mate speeding along with a truck laden with sacks.ART90378.010
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Water carrier, Palembang
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Maker: Gunther, Pat
Depicts a women carrying a water bucket and a bunch of flowers, wearing shorts, shirt and a hat. These drawings were done while POW. The artist would sell her drawings in order to get money to buy foo...ART29428
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Water cart, Changi, May 1942
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
One of the water carts (a converted motor vehicle) used in Changi Prisoner of War Camp. They were filled with chlorinated water and had to be manhandled by the prisoners themselves. This was one of th...ART28535.003
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Wheat district
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
Pencil sketch of an Australian homestead. A stockman leans on a verandah post, a dog sitting at his heels. Meanwhile a horse is tethered to a nearby fence. In the background are gumtrees, hills and...ART90378.002
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[Women's camp at Loeboek, Linggau]
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Maker: Paula, Sister
This work was formerly titled [Hospital, women's camp]. It is a prisoner of war drawing by a captured Australian Nurse during WWII, who was kept at a Camp in Loeboek Linggau, Sumatra in Indonesia.ART28536.001
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Working men, Konyu River Camp
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Prisoners of war at Konyu River Camp, Burma-Thailand Railway. This sketch is one of several known reproductions. The original, which is much smaller, is in the possession of the artist and was publis...ART90853
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Working party returns to compound; [Isolation]
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Maker: Brack, John
Two sketches, the first a group of men walking along the road toward the camp with farm houses in the distance. The second sketch depicts a man seated in a dark cell with open walls with a guard stand...ART96399
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XVIB Looking South
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Maker: Grey-Smith, Guy Grey-Smith, Guy
Depicts an agricultural landscape with trees without leaves, possibly as seen from Oflag XVIB, the POW camp at Dossel in Germany. Guy Grey-Smith (1916-1981) was a painter, printmaker and ceramicist. I...ART96066
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Ye Burma
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
One of the dirty dilapidated huts as temporary accommodation for Australian and Allied prisoners of war, captured at Singapore, during their move from Tavoy to work in the Japanese railway project. Ap...ART28535.028
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Ye're see Les, its this way - I told my girl I'd be home even if I had to walk
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
One Australian soldier is pushing a wheel barrow, while the other sits in it, holding a suitcase and swag.ART90390
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You need to be tough in Changi
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Maker: Thompson, Bert
"Caricature of one of our surgeon[sic]. The patient has neuritic beri-beri and thus has no feeling of pain. The orderley[sic] has paralysis of the eyes due to diphtheria; he cannot open and cannot clo...ART32369
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You P.O.W's are lucky blighters going home
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Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
A former prisoner of war is at the docks heading towards a transport vessel, when he passes a recently arrived Australian soldier, who says to him "you POWS are lucky blighters going home". The forme...ART90389