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Bomb thrower
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Depicts a soldier in uniform with a bomb in one hand, about to launch it at his target. The plaster cast was made in 1942, Cairo, and the bronze was cast in 1985 by Meridian Sculpture Founders, Melbou...ART40928
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Forced march
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon F J Lemon, Frankston, Victoria
This sculpture depicts a soldier on a forced march over Mt Olympus in the intense winter cold. Troops had to cover great distances, with a complete lack of roads and suitably warm clothing and equipm...ART40988
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Greece
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Dadswell completed the plaster model for 'Greece' in July 1943, in time for the touring exhibition which opened in Melbourne that year. It was his second, larger and more finished interpretation of a ...ART40925
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Head of a soldier
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon F.J.Lemon, F.D.S., Melbourne
This is a bronze bust of an Australian soldier. In the Daily Telegraph (01/05/1942), interviewer Mr R.C.H. McKie writes "Among the men he [Dadswell] marched and fought with, the sculpture found three...ART27763
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Lieutenant R. W. Sanderson
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Portrait of Lieutenant Roger Sanderson from the 2/10 Australian Infantry Battalion. This bronze edition was cast in 1986, taken from the plaster edition created c.1940.ART40986
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maquette for 'Figure group'
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Crawford, Alan
This work is the last of five casts made for Dadswell's family, the only one released commercially. The bronze memorial sculpture 'Figure group', for which this work was modelled is held by the Newcas...ART40991
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Munition workers
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Male and female munition workers stepping forward together striving for agreed goals.ART40926
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Soldier in summer dress
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Dadswell completed two versions of 'Soldier in summer dress'. The sculpture depicts an Australian soldier holding a rifle and wearing 'summer dress' consisting of shorts, short sleeved shirt and boots...ART40929
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Soldier in winter dress
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Bronze statue of an Australian soldier dressed in winter uniform in Greece during the Second World War. This bronze edition was cast in 1987, plaster acquired under official war art scheme in 1942.ART40987
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Stretcher bearers
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Bronze statue of a soldier lying on a stretcher with two stretcher bearers tending him. This edition was cast in bronze in 1985 by Meridian Sculpture Founders, Melbourne.ART40930