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Admiral Sir Guy Royle
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Maker: Wilkinson, Jeffery Meridian Sculpture Founders
Bronze portrait of Admiral Sir Guy Royle, KCB, CMG. Royle was the first naval member of the Australian Commonwealth Naval Board and was also Chief of the Naval Staff from 1941 to 1945. This bronze ed...ART90537
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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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Australian serviceman
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Maker: Ewers, Ray Meridian Sculpture Founders
This statuette is the first in a series of a possible edition of 100, which were to be cast for sale through the Australian War Memorial shop. The maquette was originally made to assist in raising fun...ART90837
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Bomb thrower
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Depicts a soldier in uniform with a bomb in one hand, about to launch it at his target. The plaster cast was made in 1942, Cairo, and the bronze was cast in 1985 by Meridian Sculpture Founders, Melbou...ART40928
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Embarkation figure
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Maker: Allen, George Meridian Sculpture Founders
An exhausted Australian soldier, wearing a slouch hat and carrying a rifle slung over one shoulder and a pack on the others, walks up a formed track. This bronze edition of 'Embarkation figure' was c...ART90169
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Embarkation figure
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Maker: Allen, George Meridian Sculpture Founders
An exhausted Australian soldier, wearing a slouch hat and carrying a rifle slung over one shoulder and a pack on the other, walks up a formed track.ART26389
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Fatigue
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Maker: Walker, Ralph Trafford Walker, Ralph Trafford Meridian Sculpture Founders
Walker's sensitivity to the long periods of boredom and fatigue that constituted much of his experience of service life is reflected in his sculpture. His figures capture essences: distilled experienc...ART40996
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Greece
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Maker: Ewers, Ray Meridian Sculpture Founders
Figure of a soldier fully equipped and wearing winter uniform, marching across Greece in winter.ART90936
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Greece
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Dadswell completed the plaster model for 'Greece' in July 1943, in time for the touring exhibition which opened in Melbourne that year. It was his second, larger and more finished interpretation of a ...ART40925
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Gunner James Wigley
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Maker: Ewers, Ray Meridian Sculpture Founders
A head and shoulders portrait bust of Gunner James Wigley. This work was cast in bronze in 2000, taken from a plaster cast completed c.1943.ART91653
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Japanese prisoner of war resting
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Maker: Walker, Ralph Trafford Meridian Sculpture Founders
Sculpture of a Japanese prisoner of war at Rabaul from the Second World War. He is in a squatting position, wearing barely any clothes and his body is almost skeletal.ART90372
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Lieutenant R. W. Sanderson
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Portrait of Lieutenant Roger Sanderson from the 2/10 Australian Infantry Battalion. This bronze edition was cast in 1986, taken from the plaster edition created c.1940.ART40986
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Munition workers
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Male and female munition workers stepping forward together striving for agreed goals.ART40926
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Native girl
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Maker: Ewers, Raymond Boultwood Meridian Sculpture Founders
A head and shoulders portrait bust of a Papuan girl. This figure has also previously been referred to as "Diara".ART91652
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Native head
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Maker: Walker, Ralph Meridian Sculpture Founders
Bronze casting of a native's head. The subject is a man from an area in New Britain where it was customary to bind the head of infants in order to create an elongated effect as they grew.ART92251
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Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop
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Maker: Corlett, Peter Meridian Sculpture Founders
This sculpture of Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop (1907-1993) commemorates all Australian doctors and other medical staff who served Australian prisoners of war in the Asia Pacific region between 1939-1945....ART90407
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Soldier in summer dress
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Dadswell completed two versions of 'Soldier in summer dress'. The sculpture depicts an Australian soldier holding a rifle and wearing 'summer dress' consisting of shorts, short sleeved shirt and boots...ART40929
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Soldier in winter dress
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Bronze statue of an Australian soldier dressed in winter uniform in Greece during the Second World War. This bronze edition was cast in 1987, plaster acquired under official war art scheme in 1942.ART40987
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Soldier with a Bren gun
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Soldier mid-stride as if on a march, with a Bren gun over his soldier. Plaster cast c.1942, Middle East; bronze cast 1986, Melbourne.ART40969
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Stretcher bearers
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Maker: Dadswell, Lyndon Meridian Sculpture Founders
Bronze statue of a soldier lying on a stretcher with two stretcher bearers tending him. This edition was cast in bronze in 1985 by Meridian Sculpture Founders, Melbourne.ART40930