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Admiralty House
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
"The road to the sea-front, Mersa Matruh". Admiralty House on left, a destroyer in the harbour. The destroyer made trips from Tobruch, landing wounded for the Mersa Matruh hospital or for train transp...ART30086
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AIF POW theatre, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This building had been a workshop and was used for about a year by an Australian POW Concert Party until it was required for accommodation. All seats were made from palm logs. Rear stalls made of rubb...ART26496
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A 100 metre hut, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men relaxing outside an atap hut, which is made from split bamboo, with the sides of hut raised for ventilation in November 1944. The garden beds out the front are those of individual prisoners. In 1...ART25063
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Ansons on the Tarmac
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Avro Anson training planes at No.10 Air Observers School, a unit of the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS), through which many trainees of the Royal Australian Air Force passed, on the tarmac ready to ...ART21983
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Auschwitz: the victim's shoes (left behind)
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Maker: de Kessler, Thomas
A family of four standing in a large room in an old building piled high with shoes left behind by the victims of Auschwitz.ART91467
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Australian Forresters, Scotland
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
A group of four members of the Australian forestry unit manually saw the felled wood into smaller pieces for transport. Two men saw the wood while one holds the log in place and the other is lining up...ART25524
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Australian officers' compound, Sulmona, Italy
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Maker: Comber, Albert
Officers relaxing at the German prisoner of war camp at Base POW Campo 78 at Sulmona, Italy. Mountain, house and road in background. Comber and other officers were based there from October 1942 to Jun...ART34781.004
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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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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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[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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Bomb damaged quarters, Selarang
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Buildings used at Selarang to house the prisoners of war. The prisoners repaired the bombed buildings as best they could with what scraps they could find, as the Japanese did not provide any materials...ART26471
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Borneo Soldier's Club
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Maker: Flett, James
So designated was Artillery Headquarters at Seria. Typical house of the pre-war white residential section of the town, taken over by 2/17th Australian Infantry Battalion in the shadow of the smoke clo...ART25881
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Bound for the Middle East
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
A convoy of trucks is travelling down a street. The trucks have been painted with desert coloured camouflage pattern. Passersby include a woman and a young boy, while on the other side of the street...ART26225
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Burton Court, Chelsea
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Maker: Meeson, Dora
Depicts severly damaged buildings, a block of flats, at Burton Court in Chelsea, London in 1941. Despite being recommended by Arthur Streeton as an official war artist for the First World War, Meeson ...ART26915
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Bush Mill in Scotland
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
A figure stands in front of a saw mill preparing a log in preparation for rail transport. The 3rd Coy, Australian Forestry Unit based in Canonbie, Dumfrieshire, Scotland is situated in close proximity...ART23538
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Camouflaged aviation spirit storage depot, Gayndah, Queensland
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Maker: Bustard, William
This watercolour was painted by William Bustard (1894-1974) using sketches he made on active service with the R.A.A.F as a camouflage officer. It shows a project he was involved in at Gayndah, Queensl...ART26933
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Camp of Indian prisoners, Rabaul
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Maker: Herman, Sali
Depicts camp in jungle for Indian prisoners of Japanese. The Japanese put the camps mostly into gullies so they could watch them better from the top. The huts were put up in a circular disposition. Wh...ART22888
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Coconut grove theatre
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Theatre built by POWs at Changi. The theatre became a popular attraction in the camp, and the productions that were staged bacame more and more elaborate over the years the men were in captivity.ART25055
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Corner of the old Duntroon homestead
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Built of stone and hand wrought timbers, this sturdy old home is now Military Staff Headquarter and Officers Mess of the Royal Australian Military College, Duntroon, Canberra.ART21398