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Action at Parit Sulong, January 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This work depicts the fighting at Parit Sulong by the men of the 2/15th Australian Field Regiment. A 25 pounder gun is in the lower right corner. This battle became the scene of a massacre at the hand...ART24477
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Action at Sattelberg
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
The attack of the 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion, supported by tanks, attacking at Sattelberg, New Guinea.ART27627
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AIF Malaya memorial
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Maker: Dowie, John Stuart Meridian Sculpture Founders
Statue in memory of the men and women of the AIF Malaya who held up the Japanese advance on Singapore 14 January - 15 Feburary 1942.ART41004
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Attack on Japanese tanks on the Bakri-Parit Sulong Road
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Reconstruction of action against Japanese tanks by 2/4th Anti Tank Regiment along Bakri-Parit Sulong Road. This was the scene of intense fighting by withdrawing Australian troops as the Japanese rapid...ART27570
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Australian action at Buna
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
This painting shows an attack by troops of the 18th Australian Infantry Brigade, supported by General Stuart tanks of the 2/6th Australian Armoured Regiment during the struggle for Buna. The combined ...ART27547
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Australian Comforts Fund: don't let them down, the Blueys and Curleys
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Maker: Unknown Australian Comforts Fund Unknown
Depicts a 2nd Australian Imperial Force poster appealing for donations of reading matter (books and magazines) for distribution by the Australian Comforts Fund to soldiers. Soldiers are shown in the j...ARTV05272
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Civilian hospital at Rabual
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Maker: Ueki, Shizu
The civilian hospital in Rabaul, surrounded by jungle.ART91538
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Commando - 2/6th Independent Company [Sergeant W R Twohill]
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Maker: Dargie, William
Depicts Sgt W R Twohill, a Commando of the 2/6th Australian Independent Company, Papuan Campaign. Twohill is depicted in uniform with his sleeves rolled up, holding a rifle and wearing a handkerchief ...ART26049
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Cookhouse, Markham Valley
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Maker: Sodersten, Emil
Depicts two men preparing and cooking food under sail cloths, in a jungle clearing, with papaya and banana trees nearby. Emil Sodersten (1899-1961) was an architect. From 1915 he studied part-time at ...ART32366.028
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Discovery of cannibalism in Japanese hide-out
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts two Australian soldiers discovering evidence of cannibalism in the Suain area, New Guinea, in a Japanese hideout.ART25745
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Fragment of battlefield at Sanananda, New Guinea
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts the Sanananda Track (Road), with a General Stuart tank, abandoned Japanese foxholes and equipment.ART21702
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Grenade throwing, Bobdubi Ridge
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts Australian soldiers from the 58th/59th Australian Infantry Battalion throwing grenades to press forward an attack near an Old Vickers Position on Bobdubi Ridge, New Guinea on 28 July 1943. Hel...ART22556
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Gumilababa, Trobriand Islands
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Maker: Sodersten, Emil
Depicts a village with huts, shelters and pathways, in a dense jungle setting on the Trobriand Islands. Emil Sodersten (1899-1961) was an architect. From 1915 he studied part-time at Sydney Technical ...ART32366.023
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Halt during the withdrawal from Bakri, January, 1942
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Australian soldiers resting under a tree in the jungle at Bakri, Muar River, during the defence of Malaya and Singapore. The simple scene of two men resting under a large tree is intruded upon by the ...ART24490
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Huggins Road block on the Sanananda Road, New Guinea
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
On Sanananda road approaching Sanananda Point. A strategic block astride Japanese Lines of Communications when heavy fighting took place. The drawing was done from life on the spot with the Allies fie...ART28401
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2/12 Infantry Battalion 18 Brigade AIF at Oro Bay
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Showing the 2/12 Australian Infantry Battalion setting out on a march to Cape Endaiadere in the Buna battle area. They arrived from Milne Bay by sea transport and marched 15 miles through swamp, river...ART21700
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In from patrol
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of QX25895 Signaller Allan Cecil Oehlman, 2/3rd Australian Independent Company, on his return from jungle patrol in Salamaua, Bobdubi, New Guinea.ART22496
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In the Owen Stanley Jungle: two camouflaged soldiers about to go out on patrol
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Maker: Dargie, William
A double portrait of Private Claude Farrrell (standing) and Private Phillip Buckley. They look as though they are about to go on patrol in the jungle of the Owen Stanley Ranges in New Guinea. Dargie n...ART27560
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Japanese landing near Vulcan, Rabaul
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
"A" Company, 2/22nd Battalion in action at Vulcan on the morning of 23 January, 1943. The Australian garrison at Rabaul (New Britain) consisted of the 2/22nd Infantry Battalion, AIF, supported by othe...ART27632
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Kokoda trail
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Representing troops of 25th Australian Infantry Brigade crossing a creek along the Kokoda Trail. This picture was intended to represent a patrol pushing along a side track, but it is typical of any fo...ART24074