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Darwin harbour
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Maker: Wood, C Dudley
The time is 1941-2. This is a general view of Darwin Harbour, prior to attacks by the Japanese. The artist has depicted a variety of craft, ranging from merchant vessels, to a warship, and barge. A...ART29218
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Darwin harbour
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Showing unidentified Boom Defence vessel in foreground and two of the nine ships sunk by enemy air action. The "Manna-Loa" (right) and the "Meggs". In the far background is the leper island, geograph...ART22725
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Darwin, harbour front
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Depicts a panoramic view of the harbour front, unidentified vessels in port, Darwin.ART26124
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Das ist das Heil, das sie bringen! (That is the salvation, that they bring)
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Maker: Heartfield, John Heartfield Archive and GDR Government
A skeleton hand with bomber planes issuing from its five fingers, raised imposingly over the destroyed city with bodies of dead children in the foreground. This work was horribly prophetic when first ...ARTV09077
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Dawn action stations
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Before dawn on the cold wet upper deck of HMAS "Australia". Lookouts watch the horizon, gun crews stand by, turrets are trained port and starboard and all fighting equipment is tested. Hands fall out...ART21770
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Dawn landing, Garbutt, Townsville
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
A lighted airstrip and aircraft landing at dawn, Garbutt Airfield, Townsville. Hills dominate the background.ART28373.010
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Dawn landing, Garbutt, Townsville
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
Lighted airstrip and aircraft landing at dawn, Garbutt Airfield, Townsville. Hills dominate the background.ART28373.011
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Dawn landing, Townsville
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
Lighted airstrip and aircraft landing at dawn, Garbutt Airfield, Townsville. Hills dominate the background.ART28373.009
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D-Day, 0300 hours, interrogation hut, Warrant Officer George Lindenberg
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Maker: Bowen, Stella
Inside a Nissen hut at 0300 on D-Day, an Australian Flight Officer of the British WAAF (Womens' Auxiliary Airforce) serves refreshments to an Australian pilot, Warrant Officer George Edward Maskell Li...ART26266
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Dead [Italian], Tobruk
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
(The Road to Victory). A dead Italian soldier lying where he fell in the desert sand near Tobruk.ART22882
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Dead Japanese, Old Vickers Position
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts an image of the body of a young, dead Japanese soldier. This is a study for 'Taking Old Vickers Position, Bobdubi Ridge, 28 July 1943'.ART22509
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Dead Japanese on Kamiri airstrip, Noemfoor Island
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work depicts the corpses of two unidentified Japanese soldiers on Kamiri airstrip.ART22305
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Dear Daddy... don't get accidented
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Maker: Giles, F Kenwood Ministry of Labour and National Service and Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents Loxley Brothers Ltd
casualty; cautionary poster produced for the Ministry of Labour and National Service and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, depicting a child's letter to her father, which includes a s...ARTV01712
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Debris, Balikpapan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Showing the results of bombardment and strafing of a town prior to the landing of 7th Australian Division.ART23243
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Decorating the officers' mess
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Maker: Friend, Donald
At an artillery training regiment in N.S.W. The artist stated that he was "temporarily rescued from the horrors of gun drill, digging gun pits, foot-drill, rifle drill, kitchen fatigues, guards and th...ART23244
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Defeat, Singapore
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Infantryman, his gun emptied of ammunition, looks over his shoulder at a burning building in the background - the Fall of Singapore, February 1942. The surrender of Singapore was one of the largest a...ART22927
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Deir Suneid Village, near Camp
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Army transport, on the wrong side of the road, has pulled up to give "Baksheesh". A typical native village, through which runs a military tarmac road, Palestine.ART30050
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Dental centre, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
At the prisoner-of-war camp at Changi Goal. Dental treatment was affordable at the fall of Singapore and who took their equipment into captivity with them. The Centre is housed in a native-built attap...ART26467
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Depth charge, HMAS 'Swan'
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
View from the rear deck of HMAS 'Swan' (1937-1962) showing a plume of water from an exploding depth charge in the ship's wake.ART22338
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Desert
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Just desert - Typical of the unpleasant Sinai crossing, with its never-ending strip of tarmac!ART30075
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Deserted trenches, Darwin
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Maker: Wood, C Dudley Wood, C Dudley
The trench has a dark, shaded entrance which is supported by pilasters of piled stones. It is accessed by a broken ladder, which descends from high ground of red dirt. The trench is located amongst s...ART29212
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Desolate plantations, Balikpapan
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Appointed an official war artist in 1945, Friend served in Labuan, Morotai and Balikpapan in Borneo between 23 May and 10 September. The work depicts a war-ravaged landscape at Balikpapan.ART22894
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Despairing head
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
Albert Tucker was drafted on 14 April 1942 and sent to Wangaratta training camp, where he worked sketching medical diagrams. He was subsequently attached to the Medical Corps for whom he produced draw...ART29482
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Destroyed bridge at Damour
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts bridge crossing Damour, Syria, (now Lebanon). Herbert's classically trained handling of the medium renders the scene clearly, but in an aesthetically pleasing manner. The artist writes 'Syri...ART30067
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Devastation, Balikpapan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts the devastion and condition of a section of an oil refinery at Balikpapan, South East Borneo, showing oil tanks burnt out after the bombardment preceding the landing by 7th Australian Division...ART22997
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Digger
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts a figure study of a semi naked Australian soldier for the work 'Australian troops disembarking at Alexandria after the evacuation of Greece'.ART21924
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Digger resting (Study for 'Australian troops disembarking at Alexandria'
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Recumbent figure of a 6th Australian Division soldier wearing only a pair of shorts.ART26565
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Digging bore hole latrines, Changi camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Men using improvised auger to dig bore-hole latrines, a necessity in a camp that housed thousands of men.ART24493
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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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Disembarkation at Alexandria, Egypt
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Sketch depicting Australian soldiers disembarking a troop ship at Alexandria, Egypt.ART21893
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Disembarkation from HMAT "Manoora"
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Disembarkation of 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion from HMAT Manoora, onto Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel (LCVP), which took them to the beach head, Tarakan, Borneo.ART22476
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Disembarking, HMAS Kanimbla
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Members of the Royal Australian Navy disembarking from Landing Ship Infantry, HMAS "Kanimbla", in the Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippines.ART26752
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Dive bombers attacking, fire from an Oerlikon
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
One of the three Oerlikon 20mm guns of HMAS Wagga in action against Japanese bombers at Milne Bay during daylight raids. In a letter to Lieutenant Colonel John Treloar - Officer in Charge of the Mili...ART22824
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Diving controls No.2
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Maker: Ravilious, Eric
This lithograph which illustrates a drawing of the interior of the submarine with two sailors monitoring the submarine's progress. This was one of ten prints made from drawings of submarine interiors...ART29186
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Dock under construction
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Maker: McClintock, Herbert
A scene from above of a graving dock under construction. McClintock's focus on the immensity of these structures is demonstrative of the scale of the project being undertaken.ART30268.011
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Domain crowd V-E day
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Maker: Friend, Donald
'Domain crowd V-E Day' depicts a scene in the Domain in Sydney on 9 May 1945, jubilant crowds celebrating the early morning announcement of the surrender of Germany.ART23294
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"Don't get carried away, Fred!"
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Maker: Rice, N H
Depicts a number of servicemen watching a romantic film outdoors. One serviceman has put his arm around the shoulder of the serviceman beside him, much to this man's annoyance. This is the drawing for...ARTI00450.B
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Don't Leave Spoil for the Enemy
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Maker: Unknown Camouflage Research Section, Department of Home Security Johnston, Leslie Ferdinand (L F), Commonwealth Government Printer
Poster encouraging soldiers to be discrete when digging holes, so that they do not alert the enemy to their presence. This cartoon is designed to humourously convey messages about safety. Depicts a y...ARTV03268
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Don't spill the good oil
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Maker: Armstrong, H B LHQ, Australia Unknown
A poster published by the Army Land Headquarters to advise army officers not to waste oil. The image is of a soldier spilling petorl all over the ground while he fills up an army truck without lookin...ARTV07818
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Dormitory of weekend Hostel for Servicewomen (Black Rock)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
This dormitory which accommodated 24 girls was attached to the weekend Hostel for Servicewomen, Black Rock. Information received from the Matron in charge, Mrs Morse: "The Country Women's Association ...ART22578
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Down through the night
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
The pilot of a stricken aircraft who has just bailed out. Having exited head-first out of the escape hatch, he is free falling in the glare of searchlights. His right hand grips the rip cord handle r...ART22192
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Drawing a Batch
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
Depicts three soldiers baking bread, and removing the bread from oven. 3 Australian Field Bakery Company, General Details Issuing Depot; Corporal G A Moore, Private R K Brennan, Private C Oakes (all B...ART22291
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Drawing salt water for the camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
As little or no salt was issued to the POW's held by the Japanese, organised parties were allowed to collect salt water in which to cook their rations of rice. The drawing shows a party of men pouring...ART25068
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Drogue plane takes off for gunnery practice
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
A Lysander plane taking off at No.2 Bombing and Gunnery School, Mossbank. Lysanders where used as drogue-towing planes for air gunnery practice by trainees under the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) ...ART21956
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Dropping the drogue
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Depicts a Westland Lysander releasing drogue (target) after gunnery practice in the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS), No 2 Bombing and Gunnery School, Mossbank, Saskatchewan, Canada.ART24099
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Duck yard, Changi
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
When the rice ration at Changi POW Camp was sufficient, a certain amount of swill enabled many men to keep poultry, (mostly ducks) and a motley assortment of pens sprang up everywhere, composed of wir...ART26508
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Durian tree, Changi camp
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
This painting depicts an old tree near the Changi camp gardens under which many of the prisoner-gardeners ate their midday rice. The lush tropical forest of the Malay Peninsula fascinated Griffin. As...ART24468
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Dust at Daly Waters
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Unidentified soldiers examining the engine of a truck (possibly a Ford or Dodge) in the midst of dust clouds.ART30131