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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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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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"Chariots of the Sons of Heaven"
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Maker: Bush, Charles
A pile of discarded Japanese bicycles heaped in a room of the wrecked house of Portuguese General at Same in Portuguese Timor.ART26159
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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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Clock tower at Victoria Town, Labuan
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Drawing of the clock tower at Victoria Town, Labuan, which was one of the three surviving structures after the Japanese evacuated the town in 1945. Writing for the Australian Women's Weekly of his tra...ART29342
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Conduit Street
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Maker: Meeson, Dora
Depicts a number of wrecked buildings in Conduit Street in London after an air raid during the Second World War. Despite being recommended by Arthur Streeton as an official war artist for the First Wo...ART26913
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Corner of Bond and Bruton Streets
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Maker: Meeson, Dora
View of wrecked buildings on the corner of Bond and Bruton Streets in the West End after an air raid. Despite being recommended by Arthur Streeton as an official war artist for the First World War, Me...ART26910
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Crashed plane, Tobruk
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts the wreckage resulting from a crash of a Bristol Blenheim aircraft, flown by the Royal Air Force during the North Africa campaign, into a building at Tobruk, Libya. Aircraft and building are a...ART22201
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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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Das War Smolensk [That was Smolensk]
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Maker: Unknown
The town of Smolensk is located in western Russia close to the Russian/Belarus border. In 1941, Operation Barbarossa saw the German forces advancing on Soviet territory and panzer armies were closing ...AWM2018.844.2
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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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Demolitions, Piraeus, Greece
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Maker: Dargie, William
Piraeus, the seaport for the city of Athens, was the port of disembarkation for troops of the 6th Australian Division when entering Greece in April 1941. The damage shown here was caused to German ins...ART24023
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Destroyed Government Offices and Japanese A.A Defence - Madang
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Destroyed government offices and Japanese defences, Madang, New Guinea.ART22707
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Destroyed workshop, oil distilling area, Balikpapan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
This work depicts a workshop that has been destroyed by bombing in Balikpapan, Indonesia.ART22453
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Destruction in Chancery Lane, London
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
The ruins of Kings college in the distance are in evidence as the artist depicts them from his viewpoint in Chancery Lane, London.ART26223
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Destruction's playthings
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a scene of destruction of a building and a wrecked vehicles, Timor.ART26137
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Deutschland, Deutschland über alles Über Deutschland R.A.F. [Germany, Germany, above all over Germany RAF]
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Maker: Toegel, Stanislaw Markiewicz, Antoni F W Dobereiner
Caricature of Hitler weeping amidst the ruins of a German city. Graffiti on the wall to his right states ' Wir Kapitulieren nie' which translates as ' We never surrender' and the flag of the third Rei...ART96184.004
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Devastation, Yokohama
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Showing the devastation in an area of Yokohama, near the centre of the city. Concrete buildings survived except for complete burning out of inflammable material in them. The Christian Church was thoug...ART22807
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Excavations below the Acropolis, Athens
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Maker: Dargie, William
Excavations below the Acropolis, Athens.ART24027
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First house bombed in Moresby
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
The first house to have been bombed in Port Moresby is depicted, with severe damage to the roof evident.ART29969