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Australian POWs homeward bound on HMT Highland Brigade
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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...ART23386
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Australian P.O.W.s on the march through Germany
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Column of prisoners of war, escorted by armed guards, two mounted, marching through snow. At the right, men are pushing a laden hand cart.ART25519
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Australian Red Cross Society: Dedication to Service
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Maker: Buckmaster, Ernest [AUSTRALIA] : AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY, [N.D.]
Depicts a young woman in an orange cardigan sitting on a stool with a book on her lap, gazing into the distance. The text beneath the image, from a volume of poems by Henry Lawson, reads, 'While her ...ARTV05271
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Australian serviceman
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Maker: Ewers, Ray Battaglia & Co, Milan, Italy
This sculpture was initially commissioned for the Hall of Memory in 1954. Leslie Bowles died in 1954 and it was originally he who had designed the proposed statuary to be the feature in the Hall of Me...ART40995
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Australian servicewomen's memorial
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Maker: Ferguson, Anne
Whereas more conventional war memorials may incorporate a cenotaph or a representative figure, Anne Ferguson has created a bare platform of coloured stones, divided in two by a curved trench that rese...ART90968
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Australian soldier
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Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of an unidentified Australian soldier wearing a tin helmet, Buna, New Guinea, 1943.ART25025
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Australian soldier, Libya (Sergeant Frank Collins)
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of NX2630 Sergeant Frank Robert Collins, 6th Division 2nd Australian Imperial Force, in Tobruk. Like many of the official war artists, Hele painted portraits not only of high-ranking officers...ART28474
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Australian troops disembarking at Alexandria after the evacuation from Greece
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Study for the large painting Hele executed of this subject, depicting exhausted troops from the 6th Australian Division disembarking on the docks at Alexandria after the evacuation from Greece.ART23954
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Australian troops disembarking at Alexandria after the evacuation of Greece
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Exhausted Australian soldiers disembarking from trains at Alexandria after the evacuation of Greece. Hele was in Alexandria to observe the arrival of the battle-weary Australians. He made numerous stu...ART22230
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Australian troops embarking for the Atherton Tableland at Cairns railway station
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Australian troops embarking for the Atherton Tableland at Cairns railway station. During the war the Queensland Government Railway system transported armies and fighting material. Although this plac...ART25695
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Australian troops returning south rush the dining room, Rockhampton
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
During the war the Queensland Government Railway system transported armies and fighting material. The single track system extended from Brisbane in the south to the Atherton Tableland in the north. ...ART25562
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Australian troops swimming under Malanda Falls
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Before the war came to northern Australia, the people in Atherton Tableland lived somewhat remote lives. As the war progressed, the Tableland became the base camp for and northern training centre for...ART25636
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Australian wounded and Chinese bearers
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Depicts studies of Chinese stretcher bearers and wounded Australian soldiers Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Mrs Kate Hodgkinson in memory of Frank HodgkinsonART94185
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Avenge December 7
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Maker: Perlin, Bernard Division of Public Inquiries, Office of War Information US Government Printing Office
This Second World War American poster, which depicts a sailor with a clenched fist and warships among explosions, refers to the surpirse attack by Japanese aircraft on Pearl Harbour on the morning of ...ARTV00660
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Avenge Our Nurses
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Maker: Marcuse, Ernest Henry
Rough study for a poster design by E H Marcuse. Completed while Marcuse was attached to the Officer Cadet Training Unit, Woodside, SA. The subject relates to the sinking of the hospital ship the 'Cent...AWM2018.254.23
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A vital war job - join the Women's Land Army
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Maker: Unknown Women's Land Army H & G Pty Ltd
Second World War Women's Land Army recruitment poster. The poster depicts a smiling 'land girl' driving a red tractor. In the background is an idealised rural scene of a farmhouse and rolling hills. T...ARTV02581
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A vital war job - join the Women's Land Army
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Maker: Unknown Women's Land Army H & G Pty Ltd
Second World War Women's Land Army recruitment poster. The poster depicts a smiling 'land girl' driving a red tractor. In the background is an idealised rural scene of a farmhouse and rolling hills. T...ARTV01103
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AWAS cleaning truck
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts an unidentified AWAS leaning into the engine of a Ford utility truck, possibly a civilian vehicle impressed into military service, during the Second World War, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales.ART21566
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AWAS entering a light tank
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a member of the Australian Women's Army Service, 1 Australian Base Ordnance Depot, entering a light tank during the Second World War.ART21341
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AWAS on the way to report for duty at L.H.Q. Signals
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
George Browning was attached to the Military History Section during the Second World War. Initially, he was employed to contribute to the Army's Christmas book. Once this was completed, he was to be s...ART23622
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AWAS typist
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
A member of the Australian Women's Army Service who was the typist to the Commanding Officer of the Military Camp at Caulfield Racecourse, Melbourne.ART21544
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A.W.A.S wants 100's of Australia's keenest women urgently...
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Maker: McCowan, Ian Unknown LHQ Lithographic Coy, Australian Survey Corps
Australian Women's Army Service Second World War Anti-Aircraft Defence recruitment poster featuring a photograph of an AWAS woman (Doris Shilcock) in uniform, including hard hat, holding binoculars a...ARTV00335
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A wireless era, eh!!!
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Maker: Yonna, Lamberto
An internee in an Australian camp smokes a pipe and leans against a wooden post whilst glaring at a uniformed guard, from whom he is separated by barbed wire.ART27787
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AWL: Gaps in the ranks your pals and unit suffer!
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Maker: HQ Vic L of C Area LHQ Cartographic Coy, Australian Survey Corps
Australian Second World War poster depicting the letters "A"; "W"; and "L" [Absent Without Leave] replacing soldiers in a formed rank. The poster aims to discourage soldiers from being absent from the...ARTV02501
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Baby-keuken (Baby kitchen)
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Maker: Unknown
Women working in the Baby Kitchen at Camp Karees, Bandoeng, 'where the milk and baby food was prepared'. Correspondence of Mrs Hanny Balt, November 2001. Mrs Hanny Balt, then Hanny Hessels, was an int...ART91952
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Back from Thailand
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Figure studies of recently returned men from the Burma-Thailand railway, with emaciated limbs and bodies, showing their physical condition. Griffin documents the tropical skin diseases that ravaged ma...ART25103
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Back home
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Maker: Herman, Sali
A returning soldier and a woman embracing at the docks in Sydney as others leave the area to catch waiting buses. On the left a wounded serviceman sits while on the right, part of a troopship can be s...ART22893
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Back of a truck, moving up
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts several troops lying in the back of a truck in Libya.ART21890
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Back the attack buy 4th liberty bonds
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Maker: Artist unknown
Utilising striking typography, this poster aims to encourage the public to purchase Liberty Bonds. This very simple design is highly effective and could have been utilised on a large scale to promote ...ARTV10384
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Back the attack! Invest in the 4th liberty loan
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Maker: Artist unknown
The sale of war bonds was a significant aspect of the Australian home front during the Second World War. Administered by the Commonwealth War Loan Office, the war loans scheme encouraged Australians t...ARTV10381
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Back them up!
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office
This 1942 British Second World War poster was created by His Majesty's Stationary Office on behalf of the Ministry of Information. This poster depicts a convoy of British Crusader tanks speeding throu...ARTV02212
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Back them up!
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Maker: Wootton, Frank H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
This 1942 British Second World War poster was created by His Majesty's Stationary Office on behalf of the Ministry of Information with artwork by Frank Wootton. The poster depicts a flight of Supermar...ARTV02211
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Back them up!
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Maker: Cuneo, Terence Tenison H.M. Stationery Office British Colour Printing
British Second World War propaganda poster part of a campaign issued by the Ministry of Information early in the war to boost morale and strengthen public support for the war effort. The MOI commissio...ARTV02210
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Back them up! A British cruiser ramming an Italian submarine in the Mediterranean
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Maker: Stone, Marcus H.M. Stationary Office
This 1942 British Second World War poster was created by His Majesty's Stationary Office on behalf of the Ministry of Information and features artwork by Marus (Marc) Stone. The poster depicts a Briti...ARTV02206
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Back them up!: A raid by "Hudsons" of the Coastal Command on German shipping at Aalesund, Norway, in which eleven ships were hit
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Maker: Turner, Charles Edward H.M. Stationery Office Chromoworks Ltd
British poster depicting a raid by Hudsons of the Coastal Command on German shipping at Aalesund, Norway, in which eleven ships were hit. A Lockheed Hudson aircraft dominates the upper picture plane;...ARTV03909
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Back Them up - Buy War Savings Certificates
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Maker: Lorimer, Vernon
This poster relates to the war savings programs that were established by the Commonwealth Government to support war expenditure. The text "BACK THEM UP-buy WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES" is spread across t...ARTV09322
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Back them up!: "Ducks" amphibious fighting vehicles used for the first time in the Mediterranean landings
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Thomas Forman & Sons Ltd
This 1942 British Second World War poster was created by His Majesty's Stationary Office on behalf of the Ministry of Information and features artwork by Captain Charles E Turner RA. The poster depict...ARTV02207
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Back them up!: Heavy bombers of the R.A.F. often fly a total distance of 1,200 miles and over 15,000 ft. mountains in the Alps, to bomb the industrial towns of North Italy
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office Thomas Forman & Sons Ltd
British Second World War poster referring to the vital nature of home front support for British forces overseas. The image fills the top two thirds of the poster with the title underneath. The image...ARTV03902
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Back them up! Heavy Stirling bombers raid the Nazi Baltic part of Lübeck and leave the docks ablaze
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Maker: Nockolds, Roy Ministry of Information Fosh & Cross Ltd. H.M. Stationery Office
British poster depicting an air raid on the German port of Lübeck, showing fires and damage to the docks area and appealing to the public for support. The subtitle is 'Heavy Stirling bombers raid the ...ARTV02297
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Back them up!: In the Mediterranean British submarines have caused great havoc to Axis shipping
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Maker: Rumbold, Gilbert H.M. Stationery Office Chromoworks Ltd
This 1942 British Second World War poster was created by His Majesty's Stationary Office on behalf of the Ministry of Information and features artwork by Gilbert Rumbold. The poster depicts a submarin...ARTV02208
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Back them up!: R.A.F. day raiders over Berlin's official quarter
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Maker: Fosh & Cross Ltd. Jobson, Patrick A H.M. Stationery Office
RAF day raiders over Berlin's official quarters. Several RAF de Havilland Mosquito aircraft are seen flying over Berlin.ARTV03911
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Back them up!: The bombing in daylight of the power station at Knapsack, Germany, by the Royal Air Force
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Maker: Gardner, James H.M. Stationery Office Chromoworks Ltd
British poster depicting the bombing in daylight of the power station at Knapsack, Germany, by the Royal Air Force. A RAF twin-engined Bristol Blenheim is seen leaving the scene.ARTV03906
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Back them up!: The Mediterranean Invasion. British troops, tanks and guns pouring ashore from landing craft
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office Thomas Forman & Sons Ltd
This 1942 British Second World War poster was created by His Majesty's Stationary Office on behalf of the Ministry of Information. The poster depicts Allied soldiers, tanks, amphibious landing craft, ...ARTV02209
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Back them up!: The R.A.F.'s intensive bombing of Germany's war industries continues
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Maker: Nockolds, Roy H.M. Stationery Office Chromoworks Ltd
British poster depicting the RAF'S intensive bombing of Germany's industries. The subtitle is 'The RAF's intensive bombing of Germany's war industries continues'. Two Lancaster bombers are seen flying...ARTV03910
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Back them up!: The R.A.F.'s intensive bombing of Germany's war industries continues
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Maker: Nockolds, Roy
British poster depicting the RAF'S intensive bombing of Germany's industries. The subtitle is 'The RAF's intensive bombing of Germany's war industries continues'. Two Avro Lancaster bombers are seen f...ARTV02303
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Back up your cobbers!
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Maker: Simmins, Claude Butler Department of the Army Unknown
Recruiting poster showing a soldier from the 2/9th Australian Infantry Battalion, about to board a troop ship with his full kit. Other soldiers can be seen ascending the gangway. The 2/9th was the fir...ARTV04316
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[Back view of soldier]
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Maker: Macfarlane, Gordon Henry
The back view of a camp inmate of Oflag 7B. The camp was located in Bavaria in southern Germany, just north of Munich and south of Nuremberg. Inmates were made up of officers from the Allied nations a...ART93154
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[Back view of two soldiers]
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Maker: Macfarlane, Gordon Henry
Two inmates from the POW camp Oflag 7B. They appear to be watching an activity not depicted. Life in the camps could be monotonous so inmates attempted to relieve boredom through a variety of activiti...ART93157
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Bacon Hill, New Britain
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Maker: Jones, Vernon Walker, Ralph
This diorama depicts the difficulties experienced by men of the 14th/32nd Australian Infantry Battalion in their attack on Bacon Hill (known to the Japanese as Mount Sugi) on 17 March 1945. Strongly h...ART41049
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Baker, HMAS "Shropshire"
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts an unidentified baker removing bread from oven on board the HMAS Shropshire.ART25675
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Balikpapan
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Three studies of Australian soldiers carrying their kits including rifles and shovels. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Mrs Kate Hodgkinson in memory of Frank H...ART94183
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Balikpapan
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Seven men carrying heavily loaded sacks on their shoulders. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Mrs Kate Hodgkinson in memory of Frank HodgkinsonART94182
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Ballet of wind and rain
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
'Ballet of wind and rain' was painted in Holland late in the Second World War, in February 1945, when Colahan travelled into recently liberated regions of war-torn Europe. In this painting the artist ...ART25701
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Baltimore crew talking after raid
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Depicts three unidentified Baltimore crew members talking after a raid, Italy.ART24341
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Baltimores return, 454 Squadron, Italy
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Showing unidentified air crews of 454 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force leaving their aircraft after an operational missiong in mid winter. Martin Baltimore aircraft, Falconara Marittima, Italy, Eu...ART24339
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Barbed wire entanglements
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Barbed wire entanglements along a beach in Melbourne. Edward Albert Douglas Watson born 1920, served as an official war artist in Australia, New Guinea and Borneo from 1943 to 1946. He became the youn...ART22195
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Bardia (action leading to the fall of Post 11)
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
VX3511 Sergeant H B S 'Jo' Gullett, VX3495 V N Maloney, VX3497 Private H F Brockley, QX3118 Private F C Damm, all of 2/6th Btn 2 AIF, unidentified Australian and Italian soldiers. The first major camp...ART27576
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Barge landing, Oro Bay, New Guinea
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Oro Bay; troop movements; unidentified Australian soldiers landing on beach from barges, naval vessels standing out to sea; Sanananda, and campaigns; second man is carrying mortar tube, man bebind him...ART22739
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Barrack square, Selerang
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
View of makeshift kitchen built in Selerang Barrack Square, with the former British Army barracks in background. This is one of the few works in which Griffin portrayed the austerity of camp life. Alt...ART26475
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Barracks, sleeping figures, Wangaratta
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Two unidentified figures asleep under greatcoats, on floor of barracks.ART29698
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Barrage balloons over Plymouth
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
A cluster of barrage ballons hover over the city of Plymouth.ART22289
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Barrowman, Perth
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Maker: Dobell, William
Group of men on a construction site, the foremost man emptying barrow load of cement onto formwork. Dobell was working for the Civil Constructional Corps when he painted this work.ART30248
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Base Hospital Camp, Chungkai; verso: Huts and trees
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Hospital huts, with trees and hill in background. Verso: huts and trees.ART91824
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Basketball at Makasura
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Maker: Parkin, Ray
Seven male figures, wearing only shorts, playing basketball in an area with palm trees and a fence. One figure has thrown the ball towards the goal ring. This print is included in a folio of drypoints...ART90933.008
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Basketball, Sulmona
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Maker: Comber, Albert
Depicts a drawing of four basketball players, Sulmona, Itlay.ART34781.007
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Bathers, Lake Barrine Convalescent Camp, Atherton Tableland
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Maker: Dargie, William
A scene at Lake Barrine Convalescent Camp in Atherton, North Queensland.ART22156
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Batswoman clean bowled at cricket match, Fawkner Park
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
On 23 January 1944 the women in the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) held a cricket match, 'AWAS Officers vs Other ranks', at Fawkner Park, in Victoria. As an official war artist, Tony Rafty rec...ART25144
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2/7 Battalion embarking from Salamaua at night
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts the 2/7 Australian Infantry Battalion embarking on barges at Salamaua to go en route to leave in Australia during the Second World War.ART22307
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2/32 Battalion holding German counter-attack, El Alamein, 31 October 1942
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Maker: Dargie, William
2/32nd Australian Infantry Battalion holding German counter-attack at El Alamein, Western Desert, Egypt, on 31 October 1942. The men are from B Company and the tank depicted is a German Mark IV C mode...ART22251
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35 Battalion Memorial Chapel, 1945
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Maker: Evans, Rod
A chapel built by the 35 Infantry Battalion AIF, at Alexishafen, New Guinea, in 1945. The chapel was built in a coconut plantation from palm logs, a thatched palm leaf roof, and waterproofed Hessian w...ART93023
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35 Battalion Memorial Chapel, Alexsishafen, 1946
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Maker: Evans, Rod
A chapel built by the 35 Infantry Battalion AIF, at Alexishafen, New Guinea, in 1945. The chapel was built in a coconut plantation from palm logs, a thatched palm leaf roof, and waterproofed Hessian w...ART93022
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Battin' the breeze (Sergeant Frederick Nielsen (USAAF) and Private Sam Brook (Australian))
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy Cecil
Depicts Sergeant F. K. Nielsen, 9 Fighter Squadron USAAF on the left chatting with Private Sam Brook, returned for Middle East, Darwin. The objective of this drawing was to capture a typical American ...ART21346
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Battle casualties, Malaya
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Convalescent Depot for rehabilitation of men (all amputees) playing deck golf. It was located in part of barracks formerly occupied by Gordon Highlanders. The workshop run by the prisoners were able t...ART25088
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Battlefield 1942
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Tucker served in the army for several months, and his many images from this period are quite bleak. This work depicts a man, his body distorted and grotesque, lying beneath a military tank. The sun se...ART94636
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Battlefield burial of three NCOs
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
On the afternoon of 29 July 1943 three sections of Major George Warfe's 2/3rd Independent Company attacked Timbered Knoll, a Japanese position on the slopes of Bobdubi Ridge in New Guinea. That attack...ART22560
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Battle for Fuel: We Must All Keep within Our Target!
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Maker: Fosh & Cross Ltd. H.M. Stationery Office
British Second World War poster promoting fuel savings. This is one of the 'battle for fuel' series. With the cost of the war mounting as the years passed, the British Government promoted domestic sav...ARTV02073
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Battle of Germany: join an air crew
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Maker: Holmes H.M. Stationery Office
This British war poster depicts RAF Halifaxes flying over a fire from a bomb-damaged German tower.ARTV07256
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Battle of the Atlantic...Warwork News No.4
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British poster issued by the Ministry for Labour and National Service in the form of a broadsheet titled 'Warwork News'. This is No. 4 and provides information on the Battle of the Atlantic including ...ARTV02111
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[Battle scene in city]
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Maker: Macfarlane, Gordon Henry
Depicts an imaginative and stylised battle against the backdrop of an industrial city. Numerous tanks swarm the foreground of the work as they move over rubble created by the fighting. Industrial chim...ART93163
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Battleship HMS Anson
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Maker: Ragless, Max
Battleship HMS Anson being towed past Garden Island to the Captain Cook graving dock.ART25485
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Battleship HMS Anson
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Maker: Ragless, Max
The 35,000 tons battleship HMS Anson in Sydney Harbour, Australia.ART23420
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Bayonet charge, Simpang Rengam, 28th January, 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Made by two companies of 2/30th Australian Infantry Battalion and a platoon of 2/26th Australian Infantry Battalion with the object of clearing Japanese from the area. The cathedral-like arches of the...ART24481
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Be a cadet nurse
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Maker: Whitcomb, Jon US Office Of War Information U.S. Government Printing Office
United States Second World War recruitment poster for nurses. Designed by Jon Whitcomb, the poster was published by the US Department of Health and Human Services and distributed by the US Office of W...ARTV01281
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Beachcomber (Able Seaman Keith Walsh)
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a portrait of ON18875 Able Seaman Keith Walsh, Rending Mines Safe Unit, Royal Australian Navy, with which he served for 16 years, Salamaua, New Guinea.ART21222
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Beach Dunkerque
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Depicts the beach at Dunkerque Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Mrs Kate Hodgkinson in memory of Frank HodgkinsonART94190
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Beaching a Catalina at Koggala
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Flying boats beaching at Koggala Lake, Ceylon (Sri-Lanka). The Catalina pictured in the foreground bears the markings JX 336. This Catalina was built by Boeing Canada in Vancouver, Canada, for the RAF...ART25892
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Beach view with palm trees
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Maker: Ueki, Shizu
Depicts a scene of a beach in Rabaul, with three palm trees. Shizu Ueki was a Japanese nurse who worked as a civilian nurse with the 8th Naval Hospital in Rabaul, New Guinea from 1942-43. She presente...ART91553.006
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Be a fire-fighter
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Maker: Civil Defence Organisation
Distributed by the Queensland Civil Defence Organisation, this is a recruitment poster is for the auxilliary fire service, encouraging civilians to apply at the nearest fire station to be a fire-fight...ARTV02592
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Beaufighter navigator
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Maker: Freedman, Harold
Navigator in Beaufighter aircraft, No 30 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. The navigator is probably Richard Sydney Woodgate, service record 433244. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted i...ART26986
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Beaufighter Observer
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicts a portrait of an unidentified observer, part of interior of Beaufighter.ART23463
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Beaufighter pilot
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Maker: Freedman, Harold
Depicts Captain Robert McIntosh Wemyss (MID), No. 30 Squadron, flying a Beaufighter. During the Second World War Freedman enlisted in the RAAF and was appointed as a war artist attached to the RAAF Hi...ART26985
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Beaufort bomber aircraft over Rabaul, 1944
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Five Beaufort bomber aircraft fly high over Rabaul, dropping bombs over the ocean, landscape and vessels below. Japan, after occupying Rabaul, New Britain, in January 1942, they developed the town, h...ART27747
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Beaufort Pilot (Squadron Leader Harvey Charlesworth)
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
A portrait of Squadron Leader Harvey Charlesworth during flight. The artist, Mainwaring, was sent to New Guinea as an Australian Army artist in 1942 and completed many portraits of military personnel ...ART21644
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...because somebody talked!
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Maker: Heyman, Wesley WASHINGTON : OFFICE OF WAR INFORMATION, 1944 (WASHINGTON : U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, 1944)
This is a cautionary poster urging people to take care with the conversations they have with others. Pictured is spaniel dog resting its head and tear filled eyes on a seamen's square rig collar that...ARTV00047
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Before Take Off
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Dean Stanton, an Australian RAAF pilot with the 37 Squadron RAF was painted by Adams getting some rest, hours before the night's bomber command operation in Serignola, Italy. He has pulled his leathe...ART22246
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Being searched for liquor before entering brothel by madam
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Maker: Simon, Sidney
Being searched for liquor before entering brothel by madam.ART29392
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Be in the fashion - cover your hair
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Maker: Rothholz, Hans Arnold Ministry of Labour and National Service Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Loxley Brothers Ltd
British Second World War work safety poster commissioned by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and issued by the Ministry for Labour and National Service featuring photographs of women ...ARTV01036
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Bell P39 Airacobra
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A US Bell Aircobra aircraft is depicted in a Dispersal Bay at Seven-Mile Drome near Port Moresby, New Guinea. The Bell P39 Airacobra fighter aircraft used for aircraft was used in the Second World War...ART28026
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Belsen doctor
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Maker: Moore, Alan
The Hungarian member of the SS, Fritz Klein was the Bergen-Belsen Camp doctor, and earlier a physician at Auschwitz. He subjected inmates to appalling medical experiments and would later hang for his...ART25015
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Benghazi
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
The westernmost place of any size captured by the 6th Australian Division in it's advance through the Western Desert, and 360 miles from Australia's first battlefield of the campaign at Bardin.ART22202