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Army supply boats on assembly line
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
The assembly line at Halvorsen's Yard, Ryde, Parramatta River, NSW, showing Australian and Norwegian shipwrights constructing high speed boats for the Australian and American armies. All the craft are...ART21359
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CCC camp site on Fish River, Oberon
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Maker: McClintock, Herbert
Camp site scene including sheds, figures in groups, a large cylindrical object and surrounding hills and trees.ART30268.023
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C E Crowley, boatbuilder
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts a portrait of Mr C E Crowley, boat builder, contract for refuelling barges, Brisbane. The proprietor of a boat building yard on the Brisbane River who was completing a war contract to build re...ART25586
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Coxswain, Air-Sea Rescue Launch, RAAF Marine Section 45 OB Port Moresby [Sergeant Arie Smelt]
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Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of Sergeant Arie Albert Smelt, service no. 75164, coxswain, of the Royal Australian Air Force Marine Section, 45 Operational Base Unit. He is wearing a slouch hat and smoking a cigarette. D...ART22314
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Crowley's yard, Brisbane River
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Seven of the eighteen employees in this yard are apprentices learning the trade and continuing with their studies at night school. In this small yard Crowley has built sailing craft, power boats, repa...ART25587
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Damour R.
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
This is a landscape looking down a valley road towards some buildings and the mountains in the distance. The curves of the road follow the Damour River past a small group of isolated buildings set in ...ART94180.009
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Duntroon landscape
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Showing military exercises on the hill and Parade Ground. The old station homestead is seen on the extreme right. In the background is Canberra's Fairbairn Airfield and the Molonglo River winding thro...ART21390
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F88C Steyr (Bullpup) + Cordited (MS.WWII) Handgrenades (Pineapples) Solomon Islands/Guadalcanal, Gifu + Hell's Point
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Maker: eX de Medici
An F88 Steyr, the rifle used by the ADF, lies on a bed of grenades that have had the cordite removed. The grenades represent Hell's Point, the site of the battle of Tenaru in 1942 and now the decommis...ART94157
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Interior CCC hut, Fish River, Oberon, November 1943
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Maker: McClintock, Herbert
Interior of a hut at the Civil Construction Corps camp site at Fish River, Oberon.ART30268.021
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Jaba River, building a boom
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Depicts a group of sappers preparing to construct a boom across the Jaba River to arrest the force of logs coming downstream that could damage the piers of the bridge. Mt Bagana, an active volcano nic...ART22483
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Jungle swamp, New Guinea
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Maker: Warren, Guy
A jungle swamp in New Guinea, supply debris lies abandoned on the edge of the water.ART94339
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'Luny Lane' Saida Djessine Rd
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
This landscape depicts a section of the Saida-Djezzine road that leads into a town. The road runs along the base of an escarpment, disappearing from view as it passes a house perched on the edge of a ...ART94180.004
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'Luny Lane' Saida Djessine Rd
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Beneath an overcast sky a large cliff can be seen leading down to a flowing river. The river continues down the valley, disappearing at a turn with a small rectangular building. Above the river to the...ART94180.003
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Machine gun posts, in jungle, raised on piles above level of flood waters of Maiwara River
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Maker: Dargie, William
The machine gun posts are made of a bamboo structure and have palm leaves creating roofs. Dargie noted, "These weapons had a field of fire covering the approaches to the nearby river. However, this ...ART23171
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On the Thailand Railway, 2
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
A group of three emaciated naked prisoners are shown walking away from the river whilst working on the Burma Thailand Railway. Trestles and support bridgeworks are visible in the background. The Burma...ART22931
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Pacific Styx (Dev. Robert Hunt Library/US 1st Division Dec 1943)
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Maker: eX de Medici
This work relates to the Second World War and emerged within the Solomon Islands series from research eX de Medici undertook while completing the commission. Soldiers from the United States First Div...ART94144
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recto: Shellfire/Saida - Djezzine, Syria; verso: Litani River / Syria - 1941
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Francis George
These sketches come from a series completed by VX18229, Sergeant Francis George (Frank) Hodgkinson, HQ 7th Australian Division, completed during his time in Syria and modern-day Lebanon as part of Ope...AWM2019.803.2
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Return to River Kwai
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Maker: Parkin, Ray
This print is a view of the River Kwai and the Elephant Hills from a prisoner of war camp on the Thai-Burma Railway. It was made by Parkin for his 1992 Christmas card from the original drawing he made...ART91030
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Ryan's Shipyard, Brown's Creek, Taree
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
In a rural setting of rich dairy lands, some distance for the sea, Ryan's builds his 45' wooden tugboats for the Australian Navy, Taree, New South Wales.ART25581
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Troops crossing river, October 1942
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Frank Hodgkinson's earlier sketch of this subject is dated October 1942 and has a direct correlation to the artist's experience with 7th Australian Division. Hodgkinson enlisted in May 1940, but was n...ART27524