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Aircraft leaving on strike against Japan from British Pacific Fleet on 9.8.45
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Showing planes and carriers that have just taken off on a bombing mission to the Japanese mainland, Pacific Ocean.ART21880
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Aircraftman C C Coombes
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of Aircraftman C C Combes, RAAF. A prolific painter and printmaker, Kenneth Jack (b.1924) served with the RAAF as a survey and cartographic draughtsman in New Gui...ART93471
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Aircraftman I (Bluey) Edmonds
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of Aircraftman 1 'Bluey' Edmonds, RAAF wearing a hat, during the Second World War in New Guinea.ART93539
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Aircraftman I P Connelly
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of Aircraftman P Connelly, RAAF, wearing a cap. The portrait was painted on board a Navy ship between Sydney and Lae, New Guinea. A prolific painter and print ma...ART93480
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Aircraftman I P Connelly
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Depicts a head and shoulders profile portrait of Aircraftman P Connelly, RAAF.ART93458
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Aircraftman 1 Kenneth Brown, Canberra
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Depicts half figure portrait of man facing left, holding something in hands.ART28134
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Aircraftman Kevin H Kelly
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of Aircraftman Kevin Henry Kelly, RAAF. A prolific painter and print maker, Kenneth Jack (b.1924) served with the RAAF as a survey and cartographic draughtsman in...ART93477
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Aircraftman P Connelly
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of Aircraftman P Connelly, RAAF.ART93457
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Aircraftman R G Clifford
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of Aircraftman Reginald Glendinning Clifford, RAAF, wearing a cap.ART93459
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Aircraftman Robert T Chapman
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Depicts a portrait of Aircraftman Robert Thomas Chapman, RAAF. A prolific painter and print maker, Kenneth Jack (b.1924) served with the RAAF as a survey and cartographic draughtsman in New Guinea, B...ART93476
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Aircraftman Wong Yen
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of Chinese Aircraftman Wong Yen, RAAF. A prolific painter and print maker, Kenneth Jack (b.1924) served with the RAAF as a survey and cartographic draughtsman in ...ART93478
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Aircraft of the R.A.F. : Some famous types.
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Maker: Royal Australian Air Force [S.L : S.N., N.D.]
British Second World War recruitment poster depicting ten different types of Allied aircraft. The poster was one of a series of similar posters used for the identification of aircraft and features ima...ARTV01588
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Aircraft of the R.A.F. - Some famous types
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Maker: Royal Australian Air Force
British Second World War poster depicting ten different types of Allied aircraft. The poster was one of a series of similar posters used for the identification of aircraft and features images of the d...ARTV05208
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Aircraft of the R.A.F. - Some famous types - I
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British Second World War poster depicting ten different types of Allied aircraft. The poster was one of a series of similar posters used for the identification of aircraft and features images of the d...ARTV01571
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Aircraft of the R.A.F. - Some Famous Types - I
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British Second World War poster depicting ten different types of Allied aircraft. The poster was one of a series of similar posters used for the identification of aircraft and features images of the d...ARTV03470
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Aircraft of the R.A.F. : Some famous types - II
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Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British Second World War poster depicting ten different types of Allied aircraft. The poster was one of a series of similar posters used for the identification of aircraft and features images of the d...ARTV01572
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Aircraft of the R.A.F. - Some Famous Types - II
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Maker: Unknown LONDON : H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE, [N.D.] (S.L. : FOSH & CROSS) Fosh & Cross Ltd. H.M. Stationery Office
British Second World War poster depicting ten different types of Allied aircraft. The poster was one of a series of similar posters used for the identification of aircraft and features images of the d...ARTV03471
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Aircraft spotter
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Depicts an Australian aircraft spotter holding a pair of binoculars in his right hand, clad in shorts, boots and a hard hat looking skywards. The spotter was crucial in alerting the troops to the immi...ART21903
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Aircraftswoman Ella Naylor
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Maker: Goodchild, John
Portrait depicting Aircraftswoman Ella Naylor, waitress, Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force.ART21813
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Aircraft tank shop
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Maker: Ragless, Max
Aircraft petrol tanks being made by General Motors Holden at Woodville, South Australia. Here tanks are being washed in a hot bath. The men are at work in a high roofed workshop filled with various ...ART22649
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Aircraft targets, Thursday Island
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Maker: Annand, Douglas
Two Torres Strait Islander boys are setting up brightly coloured aircraft targets on Thursday Island. These targets were to be floated out to sea. A red flag is seen at left with two coconut palm tre...ART92444
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Aircraftwoman Doreen Bradford
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a portrait of Aircraftswoman Doreen Bradford, Records Section, Air Force Headquarters, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART23549
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Aircraftwoman M Gillam, Meteorological Office, Canberra
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
Portrait of Aircraftwoman 93723 Margaret Gillam, Royal Australian Air Force, in profile facing left, wearing uniform overcoat, scarf and beret, Canberra.ART28145
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Aircraftwoman, WAAAF [Gloria Gwendolyn Grace]
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Maker: Freedman, Harold
This is a portrait of Gloria Gwendolyn Corcoran (nee Grace) (1920-2009) who served with the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) during the Second World War, service no. 97284. The portrait...ART27556
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Air gunner
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Maker: Moore, Alan
A full length drawing of an unidentified air gunner from the No. 454 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force.ART25004
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Air Gunner in Catalina blister (Flight Lieutenant Laurence Court)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
The port gunner is firing his .5 automatic Browning which has a mechanical feed and is warding off an enemy aircraft on the port quarter. The unidentified starboard gunner is shown in a disabled state...ART23151
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Airing blankets
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a daily scene after Reveille, of the troops airing their blankets in the sun. The camp was situated near a town called Qastina which was located in what is now the called the Gaza Strip - it ...ART30048
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Airman
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Maker: Ewers, Ray Battaglia & Co, Milan, Italy
An airman from the Second World War wearing full flying kit, (flying suit and helmet) and carrying his parachute over his shoulder.ART40978
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Airman in nose turret of Liberator
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Maker: Dargie, William
This is the Emerson electrically operated power turret, fitted with two 0.5 inch Browning machine gun. In the sketch the airman can be seen through the sections of bullet resistant glass, which, toget...ART21048
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Airman - Milne Bay
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Sketch depicting an unidentified airman, wearing tin (protective) helmet and gum boots.ART21684
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Airman (pattern)
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Maker: Ewers, Ray
Figure of an airman in uniform, carrying a parachute. This sculpture was created as a souvenir for sale through the Australian War Memorial. There is a large scale version of this sculpture in the N...ART90972
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Air Marshal Sir Frederick Scherger
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Portrait depicting Air Marshal Sir Frederick Rudolph William Scherger, KBE, CB, DSO, AFC, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).ART27540
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Airmen and gear (Flying Officer Skinner and Flying Officer Harold Rowell)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Depicts Flying Officer Skinner and 406958 Flying Officer Harold M Rowell, both of No 22 Squadron RAAF, preparing for air attack, May 1943 at Ward's Drome.ART21709
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[Airmen's non-stop ball]
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Maker: James, William
A female angel wearing a purple dress kisses the cheek of a smiling airman. A green plane flies off to the left of the composition and the text advertises a ball for airmen at the Civic Hall Casino on...ART93976
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[Airmen wearing headphones and study of headphones]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts studies of airmen wearing headphones, observed from the side and rear and studies of pairs of headphones. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), known as 'WEP' was a war correspondent, painter, ca...ART96516
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Airocobra
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
A fighter plane of the United States Air Force stationed near Port Moresby, New Guinea.ART23675
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Air Picquet (Gunner K Thompson)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
The subject of this drawing is 261617 Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth William Thompson, ED. Thompson died on 5 November 2001 aged 77 years (BS). Royal Australian Artillery, 14 Anti Aircraft Battery; Gunner...ART21686
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[Airplanes on runway]; [Profile of man]
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Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
This image contains several studies of spitfires on runway, and the verso contains two male caricatures with the subject unknown. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program...ART96562
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Air raid, Alexandria - HMAS "Hobart"
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Maker: Norton, Frank
On receipt of yellow warning all H.M.Ships in Alexandria Harbour proceed to make smoke, thus causing a heavy pall of smoke over the harbour. This impression mad immediately after a raid, shows H.M.A.S...ART21149
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Air raid, Cape Gloucester, New Britain
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Maker: Simon, Sidney
This work shows a group of United States Army combat engineers bathing when an air raid occured at Cape Gloucester in New Britain, January 1944.ART29423
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Air sea rescue, 1943 (Flying Officer John Shelton, warrant officer Fred Ring, Flying Officer A Filear, Sergeant S.J. Bell, Lega and US Pilot Lieutenant George Wicks)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Bootless Bay; air-sea rescue, launch; 45 Operational Base Unit, Air-Sea Rescue Unit; l-r: Flying A J Filear, Commanding RAAF Flying Boat Base and Marine Section, Sergeant G J Bell, coxswain of crash b...ART22745
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Air sea rescue is not confined to open water
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
This painting depicts a "spotter" plane dropping a message to a RAAF Air Sea Rescue Launch carrying out a rescue in an inland Papuan river. A plant with colourful red flowers appears down the right ed...ART22413
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Airstrip at Maleme
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Maker: Dargie, William
From the hill to the south of the 'drome'. It was here that many German troops transports were landed during the attack on Crete. Troops of the 5th New Zealand Brigade strongly defended the area and i...ART23867
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Airstrip at night
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Maker: Thake, Eric
57 Operational Base Unit; view of airfield at night with flares illuminating runway.ART26971
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Airstrip Dunkerque
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Frank
Depicts the temporary airstrip on the beach at Dunkerque containing a fence and barbed wire which stretches out along the beach Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by...ART94189
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Airstrip, Ozuki
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
2 New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF), area near Chofu and Shimoniseki. This aerodrome was used for the training of Japanese kamikaze pilots during the later stages of the war. From here they would...ART26382
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Air support control
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Maker: Flett, James
Air Support Control, RAAF at 24th Australian Infantry Brigade Headquarter, Brunei, Borneo.ART25467
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Air support, 57 mile down from Darwin
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Maker: Horne, Dave
Dave Horne was a soldier artist stationed in Darwin. In this work he has depicted two unidentified members of an air support unit outside Darwin, Australia. One is sitting at a table reading whilst t...ART29372
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Air Support: Qantas Empire Airways
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Maker: Jardine, Walter Lacy Qantas W.M Brooks & Co. Ltd
Second World War propaganda poster designed for QANTAS by leading Australian commercial artist Walter Jardine. The image is a depiction of Australian soldiers and a Papua New Guinean in the valley of ...ARTV05158
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Air training Corps poster
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Maker: Unknown
Air training Corps poster; from a collection of material relating to the service of Sgt Ronald Keith Douglas (63429), 2 Embarkation DepotART96678
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Air travel - Lieutenant Ray Ewers
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Depicts a drawing of Lieutenant Ray B Ewers, Official War Artist, his sleeves rolled down and groundsheet over his shoulders, against the cold. He passes the time by reading on board the Labuan - Moro...ART25869
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Air Vice Marshal Adrian Cole
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Maker: Dunstan, Granville
Adrian Lindley Trevor Cole (1895-1966) served during both world wars. During the First World War, he was posted to No. 1 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps (AFC). Cole was awarded the Military Cross fo...ART94053
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Air Vice-Marshal F.H. McNamara
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Maker: Gilbert, Donald
Plaster bust of Air Vice-Marshal Francis 'Frank' Hubert McNamara, VC, CBE (4 April 1894-2 November 1961). McNamara flew in the First World War with the No. 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps (AFC) an...ART34904
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Air Vice-Marshal Frank McNamara
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Maker: Honisett, Ray
Depicts a montage portrait of First World War and Second World War No. 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corp and No. 5 Flying Training School; Air Vice Marshal Frank Hubert McNamara, VC, CBE, RAAF. The wo...ART29094
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Air Vice-Marshal George Jones
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Maker: Jones, Vernon
Depicts a caricature of Air Vice Marshal George Jones, CBE, DFC, MID, Chief of Air Staff, RAAF (also previously in First World War, No 4 Squadron AFC )ART27583
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Air Vice-Marshal George Jones
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Maker: Murch, Arthur
Air Vice Marshal (later Air Marshal Sir) George Jones, CBE, DFC, Chief of the Air Staff, RAAFART26120
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Air Vice Marshal Henry Neilson Wrigley
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Maker: Tribe, Barbara
Bronze bust of Air Vice Marshal Henry Neilson Wrigley. Cast in 1986 from plaster made in 1943. Air Vice Marshal Henry Neilson Wrigley CBE DFC AFC (Service no. 6) was born in Collingwood, Victoria on ...ART40971
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Aitape
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
An encampment in Aitape, New Guinea, can be seen surrounded by palm trees with a view of the sea in the background.ART28200
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Aitape to Wewak 1945
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Maker: Piper, Lloyd
Postcard size fold-out folder of drawings by NX129974 Gunner Lloyd William Piper, 2/2 Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery. The front cover features the title 'Aitape to Wewak 1945' and the colo...ART92997
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Aiyau
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Maker: Belcher, Douglas Leonard
Depicts an Australian campsite at Aiyau in Yaula, New Guinea. Two soldiers are crouching beside a tent in the foreground, and more tents can be seen behind, with a mountainous backdrop. Sergeant Belc...ART28249
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Aizawa Torayoshi
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Maker: Warren, Guy
Portrait of Japanese prisoner of war, Aizawa Torayoshi, made after the Japanese surrender. The Japanese gradually emerged from different parts of the Bougainville jungle and surrendered to the Austral...ART94342
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A Japanese sergeant
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Maker: Korsch, John Donald
Depicts a portrait of a Japanese Sergeant of the Imperial Japanese Army.ART28535.023
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Akiu
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicts a head and shoulders portrait of a young boy, Akiu, a local guide in Portuguese Timor during the Second World War.ART26152
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A. K. 95 Water transport ketch
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Maker: Hanke, Henry
Water transport ketch. Liberty ships in the background, Lae, New Guinea.ART22131
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Alan Mildenhall
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Maker: Garvey, Joe
Garvey's cartoon portrait of Alan Mildenhall, from a series of thirty-six pencil drawings made in Syria, Palestine and Lebanon in 1942 of members of 15 Platoon 'C' Company, 2/32 Battalion, Lebanon 194...ART91866
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Alarm! Invasion sighted (theory), Lake Sentani, Dutch New Guinea
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Maker: Green, Douglas Allan
Figures of three soldiers with rifles on duty on the shore near a stand of trees. In a miitary exercise (in theory) they have raised the alarm at the sight of the enemy invading. Donated through t...ART92724
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Alberts Collison
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Maker: Milgate, Eric Lovell
Portrait depicting Albert Sylvester Collison (NX4127), drawn while in a POW camp in Grupignano, Italy. Collison also signed the image and gave his address.ART29255.005
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Albury railway station
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Maker: Drysdale, Russell
Depicts a group of soldiers wearing great-coats outside a darkened 'RTO' sign at the Albury railway station. A dark railway carriage forms the left hand side of the work. In wartime Australia the ra...ART28078
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Albury Station, January 1943
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Depicts a large number of sailors, officers and soldiers on the Albury Railway station platform with their luggage and bags, during the Second World War. This railway station is the scene of great com...ART21560
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Alert
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts troops and civilians in Haifa moving towards shelter during an alarm for an air raid. A small newspaper clipping pasted to the front of the drawing reads "Air Raid Alarm in Haifa: An air raid...ART30289
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Alert in Piccadilly
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
A night scene in Piccadilly, London. Several dark figures move quickly, while several search lights crisscross the sky illuminating a silhouette of the Nelson's column, Trafalgar Square, London.ART23537
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Aliakmon River and escarpment
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Maker: Dargie, William
View from the bridge at Aliakmon River, south west of Servia. The withdrawal of British forces, which included the ANZAC Corps, from Greece passed through this area in 1941.ART23974
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Aliakmon River and escarpment
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Maker: Dargie, William
It was near this point, south-west of Servia, that the 19th Australian Infantry Brigade crossed the river over a hastily constructed and improvised bridge built by 2/1st Australian Field Company, Roya...ART23972
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Aliakmon River Valley
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Maker: Dargie, William
Looking towards positions occupied by 19th Australian Infantry Brigade, on the other side of the river, Greece.ART23833
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All Change
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Maker: Nichol, Arthur John
A poster for a theatrical performance in German POW camp Stalag VIII-B, Lamsdorf, Poland (later renamed Stalag 344) by artist NX4185 Sergeant Arthur John Nichol. This poster was one of many produced b...ART28414.002
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Allied air offensive against Germany
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office J Weiner Ltd
A British Second World War poster illustrating the Allied air offensive against Germany up until 1st January 1941. This British Second World War poster was created by His Majesty's Stationary Office...ARTV02271
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Allied air offensive against Germany
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office J Weiner Ltd
A British Second World War poster illustrating the Allied air offensive against Germany up until 1st January 1941. The poster features a map of Germany with an enlarged inset of the Ruhr area and Be...ARTV03851
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Allied air offensive against Germany
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office Weiner, J
A British Second World War poster illustrating the Allied air offensive against Germany up until 1st January 1941. This British Second World War poster was created by His Majesty's Stationary Office...ARTV02199
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Allied servicemen around a Merry-goround in a northern town, 1944
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Maker: Crooke, Ray
Depicts a group of service men and women standing around a Merry-go-round at night.ART28605
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Allied troops on beach at Otomata Point
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Maker: Dargie, William
Watercolour sketch of Papuans launching small vessels off the beach, while soldiers sit, or stand on the beach looking on. As Dargie noted, "There was an American listening post here [Otomata Point] ...ART25021
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Allons-y [To Victory]
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Maker: Ministere des services nationaux de guerre
Canadian propaganda poster featuring a cartoon of a beaver, representing Canada, rushing to join a fight with a lion, representing Britain. Both have their swords drawn. This item has been digitised ...ARTV02579
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All over camp is activity
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Maker: Walton, Tim
Page eleven of a handwritten and illustrated manuscript titled 'A day in camp'. The work was created to commemorate the first anniversary, on 9 March 1943, of the 4th Australian Employment Company. ...ARTI00304.010
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All services canteen Mackay
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
This canteen was the voluntary effort of the women of Mackay. It stood alongside the railway station and throughout the war it never closed, day or night. Its welcome hot meals will not be forgotten b...ART25616
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All the fine young men: If it had not been for the Second World War...
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Maker: Evans, Roslyn
Depicts a collage like image of two baby photographs and a photograph of two young men overlayed with sections of text, deal with politics and war, derived from newspapers. The border of the image con...ART29767.001
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All the fine young men: My father, Stan, was Eric's friend...
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Maker: Evans, Roslyn
This work illuminates how great events in history, such as war, affect the intimate and private parts of a family's history. It contains two sections: screenprinted images on paper in the background, ...ART29767.002
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All the fine young men: My husband's father, Fred, was 18 when he joined the RAAF
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Maker: Evans, Roslyn
This work illuminates how great events in history, such as war, affect the intimate and private parts of a family's history. It contains two sections: screen printed images on paper in the background,...ART29767.004
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All the fine young men: My stepfather, Frank, was in the same unit as Eric
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Maker: Evans, Roslyn
This work illuminates how great events in history, such as war, affect the intimate and private parts of a family's history. It contains two sections: screen printed images on paper in the background,...ART29767.003
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['All the nice girls love a sailor']
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Maker: Woolcott, Alfred Richard
This work describes through a series of eight cartoon sketches, the story of a young man seeing a sailor with his arm around two girls which motivates him to join the Navy. After much physical effort,...ARTI00542
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A L'Oeuvre: C'est Notre Guerre
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Maker: Aldwinckle, Eric Department of National War Services Department of Public Information
This poster was one of a number produced by Canadian artist Eric Aldwinckle during the Second World War. Also printed with English text, this poster depicts a man's muscular arm wielding a hammer, tha...ARTV02467
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Alola
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Maker: Nicholls, John
A view of the signal station in Alola, New Guinea. This work was drawn by soldier artist Lieutenant John Nicholls, NX160003, 2nd Australian Jungle Trunk-Line Maintenance Section, during his service on...ART93197
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Alola signal station
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Maker: Nicholls, John
A view of the signals station in the Alola area of the Owen Stanley Ranges, New Guinea. This work was drawn by soldier artist Lieutenant John Nicholls, NX160003, 2nd Australian Jungle Trunk-Line Maint...ART93228
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Alongside BCOF ferry terminal, Koyo, Eta Jima
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Maker: Rowed, Reg
Familiar scene to all travellers on the Koyo - Kure ferry.ART26383
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Alongside in Tokyo docks
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
vessel, warship, destroyer, sentry, harbour; RAN River Class destroyer HMAS Warramunga at wharf in, 40mm Bofors gun on deckART25678
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Altar at Changi
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Maker: Spain, Rod
An altar at the Changi prisoner of war camp. The artist was a prisoner of war from 1942 through to 1945.ART92162
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Alterations to bridge, HMAT Duntroon
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Workmen putting a concrete protection around the bridge and officers' quarters. First a framework was built, into which was fitted concrete slabs, leaving narrow slits around the wheelhouse, Durban, S...ART21065
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Alternative drawing for headpiece for 'Mess etiquette for A.A.M.W.S.'- unpublished
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Maker: Rafty, Tony
A group of AAMWS women are seated around a table in the mess in their uniforms and are shocked by the appearance of one of their members in her dressing gown and slippers.ARTI03513
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Alternative headgear
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Three small sketched portraits of an Australian soldier from three different angles, wearing three different types of Australian Army issued clothing.ART29835
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Altitude 21,000
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
A Lockheed Hudson bomber aloft in the clear coldness of the sub-stratasphere.ART23396