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AAMWS (Private Gwynneth Patterson)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of NFX173196 Private Gwynneth Patterson, Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS), 2nd Australian Blood and Serum Preparations Unit.ART22822
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A battle-scarred warrior
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
A large pandanus tree scarred by mortar and rifle fire, Finschhafen, Huon Peninsula, New Guinea, August 1944.ART22123
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Ambulance plane carrying battle casualties from Morotai to Townsville
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Ambulance plane carrying casualties from Morotai to Townsville. The plane is from No.2 Medical Air Evacuation Transport Unit, Royal Australian Air Force and a Flying Sister of the Royal Australian Air...ART24375
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[An aircraft on the runway]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
An aircraft on the runway, with air traffic controllers in the foreground, (image inverted).ART29199.014
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Anti-tank gun practice
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Anti-tank gun practice with the 106 Australian Tank Attack Regiment using a QF 6 pounder Gun, Fischhafen, New Guinea. In a letter home to her parents dated 9 June 1945 Nora wrote 'I have been doing a ...ART22110
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Any road in New Guinea
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts palm trees & vehicles on the road with a tent in the lower right.ART29201.006
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[Artists' notes]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Heysen has included a list of subjects for the subjects of her paintings. Contains a faint sketch of a flower lower right and coloured pastel along lower edge.ART29200.016
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Bathing in New Guinea
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicting one of the toilet difficulties in the forward areas. 106 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Finschhafen, New Guinea.ART22093
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[blank page]; [Study of the dispensary]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Verso:This is a study for the field dispensary at the 111 Casualty Clearing Station, Alexishafen. This image features the front of the dispensary tent with guy ropes suspending the top of the tent to ...ART29202.014
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[Blank page]; verso:[Study for washing carboys]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Verso: Medical assistants stand at the bench cleaning out the carboys, the large glass storage vessels used to hold blood and serum.ART29200.012
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[blank page]; X Ray
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
This image features a man lying on a stretcher being positioned for X Ray of his right leg.ART29202.015
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[blood donation]; [blood donation]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Recto: A blood donor lies on a medical bed with their head towards the viewer, two medical assistants assist with the blood collection. Verso: Depicts the donation of blood from a female patient in a ...ART29200.003
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[blood donation]; verso: [blank page]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a detailed drawing of the seated medical assistant who is holding the glass storage jar in which the blood is being collected. There are two positions shown for the jar and the hands. The outs...ART29200.004
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[blood donation]; verso:[blood donation]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Recto: Incomplete drawing of two medical assistants assisting with a blood donation. Verso: This image depicts a female patient undergoing blood donation. Assisted by two nursing staff, one holds the...ART29200.002
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Blood donor
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Taking whole blood for export by air to the battlefronts, 2 Australian Blood and Serum Preparations Units, Sydney Hospital.ART23058
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Blood transfusion
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a patient surrounded by four medical staff who are assisting in giving the patient a blood transfusion at the 111 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, New Guinea.ART22860
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Blood transfusion
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Two doctors wearing surgical gowns and masks and a female nurse attend the right arm of a native Papuan who lies on a hospital bed at the No 3 Casualty Clearing Station, Finshafen and undergoes a bloo...ART29202.005
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Blood Transfusion on a dangerously ill Native; [Hospital Jeep]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
This is a study of a man who watches a medical assistant as he inserts a needle into his right arm for the blood transfusion. The other medical assistant holds the patients arm still at the shoulder w...ART29202.019
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Blood transfusion study
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Giving a blood transfusion to a scrub typhus patient at 111 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Finschhafen, New Guinea.ART25979
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Bluey (Sapper Bashforth)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of a young male soldier, Sapper Bashforth, Royal Australian Engineers, in New Guinea. Sapper Bashforth, presumably knicknamed 'Bluey' for his red hair, is seated with his left arm draped acro...ART23417
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Bottling serum
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Shows two unidentified medical staff bottling serum in a sterilisation and heated chamber, 2 Australian Blood and Serum Preparation Unit, Sydney Hospital.ART22676
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[Bottling serum]; verso: [Sealing and labelling bottles of blood serum]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts an incomplete sketch of an unidentified medical staff bottling serum in a sterilisation and heated chamber, 2 Australian Blood and Serum Preparation Unit, Sydney Hospital. Verso: sketch of a ...ART29200.009
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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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Bringing patients to the operating theatre
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Bringing patients to the operating theatre, 111 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Alexishafen, New Guinea.ART22400
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Building a picture theatre
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Building a picture theatre amid the ruins of Alexishafen, New Guinea.ART22403
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Building a picture theatre amid the ruins of Alexishafen; [studies of soldiers building]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
In the foreground there are three men seated, one is crouched on his haunches as they take a tea break amongst the activity of cutting of logs from surrounding trees used in the construction of the th...ART29202.002
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Camp of 2/14th Australian Field Regiment, Alexishafen
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Camp of 2/14th Australian Field Regiment, Alexishafen, New Guinea.ART22404
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Captain Robert Black
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of QX36074 Captain Robert Black, Australian Army Medical Service, pathologist, 106 Casualty Clearing Station, 2 AIF. His head is turned to the right, and he holds a cigarette in his left han...ART22662
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[Church]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
This pencil study is a detailed drawing of a wooden church in Finschafen with three people seated inside amongst the pews.ART29202.020
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Church ruins, Satelberg Mission
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
The timber remains of the church at Satelberg Mission; only the cross and the pulpit are left standing.ART22096
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[cloth bound sketchbook containing 26 drawings]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Sketchbook comprising drawings by Heysen at the Blood and Serum Preparation Unit in Sydney, 1945.ART29200
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Colonel Sybil H Irving, Controller, AWAS
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of Colonel Sybil Howy Irving, MBE, Controller Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS).ART22220
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Colonel Sybil Irving
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait depicting Colonel Sybil Howy Irving, MBE, Controller of AWAS.ART22214
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Corporal Arthur Batchelor
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait depicting Corporal Arthur Ronald Batchelor, SX21563, of the 4 Australian Remount Squadron, a voluteer patient at Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit for malaria research.ART24273
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Corporal Joan Whipp
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Standing portrait of Women's Australian Auxiliary Airforce Cook Corporal Joan Beatrice Whipp, with arms folded. Whipp was a cook at 25 Operational Base Unit, Cairns, Queensland, July 1945.ART24272
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Corporal Norton (Shorty) Shorthouse
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait depicting Corporal Norton Thompson 'Shorty' Shorthouse, VX67564, Royal Australian Engineers, 2/1st Australian Mechanical Equipment Company.ART22102
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Cypher officer (section officer Jean Ewing)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a portrait of an unidenfied Cypher Officer, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force serving at Group 824, Royal Australian Air Force,Cairns, Queensland.ART24303
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Cypher officer (section officer Jean Ewing)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a portrait of Cypher Officer Jean Ewing, WAAAF, 25 Operational Base Unit, Cairns.ART24290
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Dance in the Sisters' mess
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Army officers and uniformed nurses dancing in the Sisters' mess tent at Finschhafen, New Guinea. The tent is decorated with flowers and ferns, and a man is playing a piano at left.ART23712
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Despatch rider (leading aircraftsman George Mayo)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depticts a portrait of leading aircraftsman, 439815 L.A.C. George Robert Mayo RAAF group 824, Cairns wearing gloves, hat and goggles on his forehead and holding a piece of paper.ART24367
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[Doctor wearing mask]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a male doctor wearing surgical gown and mask, his right arm grips the left arm of a patient.ART29201.003
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[Doctor wearing surgical gown and mask]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a Doctor in surgical gown and mask.ART29201.004
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Draughtsman (Corporal Henry Fitzherbert)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait depicting Corporal Henry Patrick Fitzherbert, VX18230, patient at the Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit, wearing hospital gown. Over 200 service men volunteered as patients at the LHQ M...ART24275
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Ema Bosboi
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of Ema, a Boss Boy with the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU).ART22113
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[Female portraits with flower]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
verso: Two head and shoulder portraits of a woman with a flower behind her left earART29201.021
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Fever patient (Leading aircraftsman A. Smith)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Leading aircraftsman Alexander Edward Smith, No 80 Sqdn RAAF.Royal Australian Air Force, a patient in 106 Australian Casualty Clearing Station; 126846 (or 128246).ART22111
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Field dispensary
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
The Dispensary, 111 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Alexishafen, New Guinea.ART22405
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Figures of soldiers outside a canteen
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Several figures of soldiers outside a canteen in Finschhafen, New Guinea. A truck is parked at right.ART92642.001
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[Figures on stretchers inside an aircraft]; verso: [Two seated men and figures inside an aircraft]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Figures on stretchers loaded into an aircraft; verso: Two seated men, one wearing a hat; and figures seated inside an aircraft.ART29199.018
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Finschhafen seascape
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a view of the landscape over Finschhafen, New Guinea.ART26116
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First Officer Mardi Gething
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of First Officer Mardi Gething, a Ferry Pilot with the No. 15 Ferry Pool, Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), Hamble.ART24287
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First Officer Sheila McClemans, WRANS
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of First Officer Sheila Mary McClemans, Director of the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS).ART23416
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[Five studies of arms]; verso: [Red Cross caravan]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Five studies of arms and hands; verso: Red Cross caravan, with mountains in the background.ART29199.009
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Flying Sisters' Quarters No.2 M.A. E.T.U, Morotai
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
The Sisters' Quarters of No. 2 Royal Australian Air Force Medical Air Evacuation Transport Unit, Morotai.ART24295
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[Fore shortened study of patient lying on a bed]; [two studies of patient lying on bed]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Recto: The artist captures in a study, a person lying supine in bed with his right hand on his chest and his right knee raised. This angle from the side and below gives the impression that the person ...ART29202.008
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Glueing Rubber Discs (Private A Dansey)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Private A Dansey, of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS), glueing rubber discs on the rims of Soluvac bottles in preparation for filling them with wet serum at the 2nd Australian Blood...ART22682
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Going to Mess
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Showing members of the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force, serving with Group 824 Royal Australian Air Force, on their way to a meal in their mess nut, Cairns, Queensland.ART24294
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Group Officer Clare Stevenson
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of 351001 Group Officer Clare Grant Stevenson (1903-1988), Director of the Women's Australian Auxiliary Air Force (WAAAF).ART22215
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Gunner Harold Hiatt
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait depicting Gunner Harold Oswald Hiatt, VX37290, Royal Australian Artillery, 9th Division, 2/4th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment.ART22103
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[Hands clasping bandage to arm]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Study of the movement of two hands clasping a bandage to an arm.ART29200.015
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Head of a surgeon (Major Thomas Wilson)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of NX113199 Major Thomas Edward Wilson, a surgeon with 111 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC), wearing a mask, cap and gown for operating.ART22406
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Hospital Alexishafen; [Study of men working on the Theatre]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Recto: Australian Army Medical Corps, No 3 Casualty Clearing Station Verso:Three studies of male torso from the rear, and one full study from the side features the down ward thrust of the axe into so...ART29202.001
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Infecting mosquitoes with malaria (Gunner Gilbert Seaton)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Seated at the LHQ Medical Research Unit, Gunner Gilbert Rowland Seaton (WX22004), RAA, is a voluteer participant in the top secret studies that were aimed to further knowledge about the treatment and ...ART24269
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[Inside view of an aircraft with backpacks on the ground]; verso: [Portrait sketch of Major Josephine Mackerras]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Inside view of an aircraft with three backpacks on the ground in front (image inverted); verso:preliminary study for portrait of Major Josephine Mackerras, chief entymologist responsible for the mosqu...ART29199.020
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[Instrument tray]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
A corner of a table in an operating theatre containing a medical instrument tray.ART29200.014
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Japanese prisoner, 106 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Finschhaffen, New Guinea
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Emaciated figure of a Japanese prisoner of war lying in a hospital bed in the 106 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, Finschhafen, Huon Peninsula, New Guinea in June 1944..ART22108
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Land headquarters medical research unit
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
The Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit in a mountainous setting at Redlynch, near Cairns, Queensland. At centre a soldier carries a white sack over his shoulder, whilst other groups of men walk t...ART24372
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L.H.Q. Medical research unit, Cairns
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Landscape showing the L.H.Q. medical research unit in Cairns, Queensland.ART92638
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Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Powell
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a portrait of VX76 Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Hunter Powell, DSO, Commanding 106 Australian Casualty Clearing Station smoking a pipe. Lieutenant Colonel Powell served in the Middle East, Austra...ART22669
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Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Blackburn
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ruthven Bickerton Blackburn, Commanding and Senior Physician of the Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit (LHQ, 1MRU), Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC). Du...ART24376
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Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen Best
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Australian Army Medical Women's Service; Lieutenant Colonel Kathleen A L Best, Matron 2/5 AGH, AAMWSART22216
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Lieutenant-Colonel May Douglas
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait depicting Lieutenant Colonel May Douglas, Controller of Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS).ART22217
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Lieutenant Colonel Ruthven Blackburn
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Ruthven Bickerton Blackburn, Commanding and Senior Physician of the Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit (LHQ, 1MRU), Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC). Du...ART24302
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Lieutenant Harry Sherring
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of Lieutenant Harry Robert Sherring, NX33441, 2/14 Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, lying in a hospital bed at a casualty clearing station in Finschafen, New Guinea.ART22105
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Lieutenant Harry Sherring lying in a hospital bed
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of Lieutenant Harry Robert Sherring, Royal Australian Artillery, 2/14th Field Regiment, NX3341, lying in a hospital bed, hands resting on the sheets.ART22104
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Lieutenant Kenneth Pope
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts Lieutenant Kenneth Geoffrey Pope, SX28400, a Biochemist with the Australian Army Medical Corps, Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit, filling pipettes and plasma bottles for atebrin estimat...ART24293
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Lieutenant Quinto Ercole
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait depicting Lieutenant Quinto Noel Ercole, NX87345, AAMC, an Entomologist with the Australian Army Medical Corps, Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit.ART24279
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Lieutenant Thomas Le Merle
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts Lieutenant Thomas Hodges Le Merle, NX99874, an Assistant Entomologist at the Australian Army Medical Corps, Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit, separating mosquito larvae from pupae.ART24299
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Loading a Liberty ship at Langemak Bay
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depticts the loading of a Liberty ship at Langemak Bay, Finschhafen, New Guinea. Surrounded by green sea and lush green vegetation the ship is being loaded and unloaded by trucks while docked at a rec...ART23714
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[Loading an aircraft]; verso:[ Portrait of Major Josephine Mackerras]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Several figures loading an aircraft; boots and luggage at top left; verso: A preparatory study for the portrait of Major Josephine Mackerras, chief entymologist at the LHQ Medical Research UnitART29199.021
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LST loading, Dreger Harbour
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
L.S.T loading troops, Dreger Harbour. Showing the embarkation of troops onto landing ships, tanks, Finschhafen, New Guinea.ART22397
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LST loading troops, Dreger Harbour
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Australian troops embarking onto landing ships, tanks in Dreger Harbour, Finschhafen.ART23627
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Lucy (Sergeant Lucy Lewis)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Australian Army Medical Women's Service, Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit; 107842 Sergeant Lucy A Lewis, AAMWS, LHQ Medical Research UnitART24286
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Major John Tonge
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Australian Army Medical Corps, Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit; NX138347 Major John Iredale Tonge, AAMC, Pathologist, LHQ Medical Research UnitART24301
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Major Josephine Mackerras
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of Major Mabel Josephine Mackerras (NX137899), Australian Army Medical Corps (AAMC), Senior Entomologist, Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit.ART24395
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Major Robert Walsh
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Major Robert John Walsh, RAAMC, Commanding 2 Aust Blood & Serum Prep Unit, Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, 2 Australian Blood and Serum Preparations Unit, Sydney.ART22679
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Major Thomas Gregory
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait depicting Major Thomas Screen Gregory, VX38195, Senior Pathologist, Australian Army Medical Corps, Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit. The pathologists at LHQ Medical Research Unit were ...ART24274
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[Male soldier wearing a hat seated on a bench reading]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
A male soldier wearing a hat, seated on a bench reading a newspaper.ART29199.007
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Matron Annie Laidlaw
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of Principal Matron Annie Ina Laidlaw, Women's Royal Australian Naval Nursing Service (WRANNS).ART22219
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Matron Annie Sage
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a portrait of VFX361 Colonel Annie Moriah Sage, Matron in Chief AANS. During the war Colonel Sage saw services in the Middle East, Pacific Area, New Guinea and Singapore. When the Japanese sur...ART22218
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Matron Lucy Staton
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a portrait of NFX70205 Matron Lucy Agnes Staton, Australian Army Nursing Service, 2/1 Australian Hospital Ship "Manunda", Sydney, New South Wales.ART22671
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Metpi
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait of William Matpi, DCM, PN417 of the Papuan Infantry Battalion who sat for the artist while recuperating at 106 CCS in April 1944. (Heysen has misspelt his name 'Metpi' on the portrait.)ART22659
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Miss Dallas the needle sharpener; [incomplete sketch]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Private Rosalin Mitchell Dallas, NFX146445 the needle sharpener is drawn in at her desk sharpening needles for the 2nd Australian Blood and Serum Preparation Unit, Sydney Hospital. Verso: incomplete s...ART29200.011
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Miss Rosemary Gore
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Portrait depicting Corporal Rosemary Ella Corbert Gore, QFX52404, a Clerk in the Australian Army Medical Women's Service, Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit.ART24283
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Mosquito colony (Lieutenant Thomas Lemerle)
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
The interior of a purpose built laboratory at the Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit in Cairns. Seated is NX99874 Lieutenant Thomas Hodges Lemerle, AAMC, Assistant Entomologist who is feeding the...ART24374
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[Mountain]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a blue line taking the form of a mountain, incomplete drawing.ART29201.012
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[Mountain landscape]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Depicts a mountain landscape with trees and houses in the foreground.ART29201.013
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[Mountain landscape]
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Maker: Heysen, Nora
Mountain landscape with palm trees and village to the right of the composition, colour notations are made for areas of sky and water.ART29201.011