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Brigadier Murray Moten
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Brigadier Murray John Moten, CBE, DSO and Bar, was in command of a Citizen Military Force unit at the outbreak of war and was second to command the 2/27th Australian Infantry Battal...ART26668
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Brigadier Neil Hamilton Fairley
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait depicting Brigadier Neil Fairley, CBE, FRS, MD, DSc (Melb), FRCP (Lond), FRACP, DTM&H, Director of Medicine Land Headquarters South West Pacific Area, Chairman Combined Advisory Committee to ...ART24271
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Brigadier Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley
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Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of Brigadier Sir Neil Fairley, CBE, FRS, MD, DSc (Melb), FRCP (Lond), FRACP, DTM&H, Director of Medicine, Land Headquarters South West Pacific Area, Australian Army Medical Service; Chairman,...ART27685
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Brigadier Thomas Weavers
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Depicts a portrait of Brigadier Thomas Edgar Weavers, OBE, Director Volunteer Defence Corps, Commandant, South Australian Line of Command Area.ART24460
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Brigadier William Windeyer
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Maker: Godson, John Barclay
Depicts a portrait of NX396 Brigadier William John Victor Windeyer, CBE, DSO and Bar, MID (x3), joined the AIF to command the 2/48th Battalion during its training and in the siege of Tobruk in 1941, w...ART31763
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Bring him home sooner...Invest in the First Victory Loan
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Maker: Commonwealth War Loans Office Unknown
Poster issued by the Commonwealth War Loans Office to promote the First Victory Loan (28th March - 9th May 1944) which followed on closely after four successfully subscribed Liberty Loans. The target ...ARTV10405
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Britain Expects That: You Too, This Day, Will Do Your Duty
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Maker: C F The Admiralty Chromoworks Ltd H.M. Stationery Office
British Second World War poster highlighting the national (patriotic) expectation that each Briton 'do [their] duty'. The poster depicts a flag-bearing signaler in the upper section, with a bodiless s...ARTV02087
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Britain is pledged to smash Japan
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Maker: J. Howitt & Son Ltd.
Propaganda was essential for boosting morale particularly during the tail end of the war. During the final strikes against Japan, British forces operated as an integral part of the American task force...ARTV00169
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Britain's Air Offensive
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Maker: Her Majesty's Stationary Office
This British Second World War poster was created by His Majesty's Stationary Office to help spread word of the successful Allied bombing campaign on German territory. The poster shows most major citie...ARTV02198
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Britain's oil has to be imported...
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Maker: Ministry of Fuel and Power W.R. Royle & Son Ltd.
Second World War thrift poster encouraging the British people to use less oil. This is to reduce the pressure on importation, enabling better logistical management for the merchant seamen. This item ...ARTV02427
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British Army Exhibition
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Multi Machine Plates Ltd
British Second World War poster promoting a 'British Army Exhibition'. During the Second World War the Ministry of Information held many exhibitions around Britain to display to the people on the home...ARTV02335
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British Centre (British WRENS, VAD Joan Farquharson and VAD Katherine Elwood)
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
The British Centre provided entertainment and meals for the large forces of British personnel who were in Australia. The two British WRENS seated at the table had only been in Australia for two days. ...ART25184
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'British war comforts fund Tel-Aviv: the AIF will hold a surf carnival display'
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Maker: Unknown [TEL-AVIV] : BRITISH WAR COMFORTS FUND, [N.D.]
A British War Comforts Fund poster, featuring both the Australian and Palestinian flags, advertising an AIF surf carnival in Tel-Aviv in which sportsmen from both countries were invited to participate...ARTV05013
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British weapons to defeat Hitler
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office LONDON : H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE, [N.D.] (READING : GREENSLADE & CO. (READING) LTD.) Greenslade & Co. Ltd.
British Second World War poster depicting a tank with a palm tree behind it in the distance. The tank is firing. Two smaller depictions of tanks with an elephant in one, and a horse in the other, depi...ARTV02317
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British weapons to defeat Hitler
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office H.M. Stationary Office Greenslade & Co. Ltd.
British Second World War poster depicting military vessels; the battleship, a cruiser and a destroyer. A small mass of land in the background has a single palm tree. The poster celebrates British mil...ARTV02318
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Broom making, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Showing various aspects of the manufacture of brooms by Australian prisoners-of-war captured at Singapore. At the time the drawing was made the brooms were made from sliced bamboo, later they were mad...ART26505
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Brown Beach landing, Labuan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicting troops disembarking from the landing ship into the surf. Sappers of the 2/7th Australian Field Company were in the first wave to clear the beach of mines. The assault battalions were the 2/4...ART23224
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Bruce "Slugger" L'Estrange
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Bruce Maitland "Slugger" L'Estrange, NX171438 (N3842), MM, 2/6th Australian Cavalry Commando Regiment, 2/7 Australian Independent Company, engaged in patrol operations in the Aitape...ART24392
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Buildings in a landscape
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Maker: Ueki, Shizu
Nurse's quarters, with Japanese text noting 'the height of the verandah near the building is human height, and a person can stand under it'.ART91543
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Building the railway 'bund' (embankment)
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Prisoners of war building the 'bund' (embankment) for the railway in the jungle at Kanyu in 1942, with rocks and earth, under supervision of Japanese engineers and Korean guards; possibly a Japanese e...ART91846
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Bulk fuel tanks, Tenau
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Bulk fuel tanks at the Japanese submarine base, Tenau, Timor, after bombing by allied aircraft prior to the Japanese surrender, October 1945.ART26317
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Bullock carts
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Drawing on Japanese postcard. Two Thai/Burmese wooden bullock carts in Konyu, Thailand.ART91817
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Bullock carts
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Maker: Chalker, Jack
Four detailed drawings of Thai/Burmese teak bullock carts, Konyu, Thailand.ART91818
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'Bullring', Leave Transit Depot, Exhibition Park, Brisbane
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
Troops awaiting in bull ring at the leave and transit depot, Brisbane, for movement. In the lower right hand corner of the grand stand is Sergeant-Major who is in charge of the parade and is using a ...ART25148
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Buna Beach, March 1944
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Maker: Anderson, Ivan
Possibly depicts Giropa Point. On New Year's Day 1943, Giropa Point was the site of the initial attack of the battle of Buna. The attack was made by the 2/12th Battalion and began at 8am following an ...AWM2017.1456.2
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Buna bound - SS Bantam (Sapper D Bryant, Sapper Roy Lewis, Sapper Rex Briggs)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Seen sitting on the ships raft are, left Sapper D. Bryant, 2/4th Australian Field Company, Royal Australian Engineers; centre, an American sapper of 43 U.S.A Engineers; right, Sapper R.Lewis, and back...ART21699
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Buna rubber plantation, Kokoda
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Maker: Nicholls, John
A view of the Buna rubber plantation in the Owen Stanley Ranges, New Guinea. This work was drawn by soldier artist Lieutenant John Nicholls, NX160003, 2nd Australian Jungle Trunk-Line Maintenance Sect...ART93235
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Bunk beds
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Maker: Slawik, Bernard
Janowska's smaller barracks had three-storey bunks and the larger barracks had five-storey bunks with ladders leading to the overfloors. The distance between the levels was so small that it was almost...ART90351
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Bunk beds, Janowska concentration camp
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Maker: Slawik, Bernard
A camp guard standing with a whip in front of the bunk beds in the Janowska concentration camp, Lvov. Janowska's smaller barracks had three-storey bunks and the larger barracks had five-storey bunks w...ART90350
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Burial of an airman killed in action
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Padre Flight Lieutenant Campbell Begbie of 22 Squadron RAAF, conducts the funeral of Sergeant Arthur Taylor, also of 22 Squadron, who was killed in action on 24 May 1943. The pall bearers and mourner...ART21708
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Burial of a soldier
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Maker: Herman, Sali
A group of Australian soldiers burying a dead comrade in a jungle clearing in New Guinea.ART22891
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Burial of Corporal Hooks, Corporal Buckingham and Sergeant 'Bonny' Muir, Timbered Knoll
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Soldiers from 2/3 Australian Independent Company burying Corporal Hooks, Corporal Buckingham and VX57539 Lance Sergeant A S 'Bonny' Muir, all from 2/3 Independent Company.ART22515
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Burial service, Aitape, New Guinea
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a scene of unidentified men gathered around grave site, other graves in area, possibly Padre Ronald Arthur Terrence O'Brien, Chaplain Fourth Class, 2/3 Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Mili...ART22150
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Burning cane before harvesting, Gordonvale
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Owing to the labour shortage in the cane fields during the war, practically all ripened cane was first fired to remove superfluous leaves and trash and so make cutting easier. Cane cutting follows wit...ART25652
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Burning off in Scotland
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
Several men toil in the foreground alongside some tall trees. A large fire burns in the back ground in efforts to burn off the remains of the de-forestation area and preparing the ground for replantin...ART22310
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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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"..but for Heaven's sake don't say I told you." Careless talk costs lives
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Maker: [Great Britain S.N., N.D.]
British Second World War poster depicts a man in a blue coat and yellow pants talking in a red phone booth, imploring the listener not to tell anyone that he had told them. The image is surrounded wit...ARTV07196
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But - Russia needs the tools NOW!
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Maker: the Kukryniksy Ministry of Supply Unknown
British war poster issued by the Ministry of Supply. It features a reproduction of a Soviet poster by the Kukryniksy initially published by Iskusstvo in June 1941 in an edition of 2000,000. The image ...ARTV02334
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750,000 buyers wanted...
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Maker: Unknown Unknown Unknown
This Second World War poster was issued to promote the sale of 4th Liberty Loan. The title is positioned across the top of the poster and beneath this appears a photographic reproduction of a crowd wi...ARTV10235
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Buy Your Savings Here: This Is Thanksgiving Week
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Maker: National Savings Committee, London and Scottish Savings Committee, Edinburgh The Whitwell Press Ltd.
British Second World War poster promoting national savings and the sale of savings/bond certificates. This poster was issued on 'Thanksgiving Week' - various weeks given this title around September an...ARTV02114
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By cripes! That would save the army hundreds of quids!
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Maker: Gurney, Alex Melbourne : Army Inventions Directorate, [N.D.] (S.L.: F.W. Niven PTY) FW Niven PTY LTD
Australian Second World War poster. The top half of the poster features a cartoon by Alex Gurney of an Australian soldier having a bright idea. The title for the poster is written into the soldiers' s...ARTV02339
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"By Cripes, the sand in this stew tates much better than the stuff we got at Tobruk!" drawing for cartoon in "AIF News", 17 October 1942
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Maker: Myhill, William Dudley
Two diggers are seated outside a trench, one with a cigarette in his mouth and the other is eating stew from his mess kit and spoon.ARTI01001
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By the Fireside
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A pilot of No 450 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, Flying Officer 'Tubby' Shannon (either Alan Lancelot or David Eliot), relaxes in the Pilot's Mess. Cards and the writing of letters and reading ...ART24443
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Cabin 122-3, HMT "Duntroon"
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Sister's cabin on "B" deck, 2-berth Bibby cabin accommodating four nursing sisters of the Australian Army Nursing Service on their return from the Middle East with the A.I.F, Indian Ocean.ART21062
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Cable-laying in a jungle clearing
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Before the introduction of reliable portable radios, army signallers maintained communications by telephone. As shown in this painting, the AIF had to lay the cables connecting positions. Murray Grif...ART24488
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Cadaver
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Male corpse in the Heidelberg Military Hospital. Albert Tucker was drafted on 14 April 1942 and sent to Wangaratta training camp, where he worked sketching medical diagrams. He was subsequently attach...ART29696
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Caldwell in the cockpit
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Maker: Baird, John
Sketch portrait of Wing Commander Clive Robertson 'Killer' Caldwell (402107), DSO, DFC, Commander No 1 Wing, Royal Australian Air Force, seated in the cockpit of a Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraf...ART27858
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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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Camouflage drawings for two pages of Department of Home Security booklet
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
Pencil camouflage drawings for pages 7 and 8 from the Department of Home Security booklet 1942 detailing recommended placement and camouflage of trenches. This is one from a series of twenty layouts, ...ART91594