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Action in the Vale of Tempe, Greece
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Maker: Dargie, William
Towards the end of 1940, Italian forces invaded Greece from Albania. In February 1941 the British advance in North Africa was halted and a force, which included the 6th Australian Division, was organi...ART27554
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Arpad Maleter
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Maker: Binder, Tibor
Depicts portrait of Hungarian soldier, Arpad Maleter, sitting, side profile smoking a pipe, arms crossed, in Gross-Born Army Barracks, Germany. Tibor Binder served in the Hungarian Army Artillery, was...ART27827
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Back them up!: A British tank attack in the Western Desert
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Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
This British Second World War poster depicts a British Matilda tank in the foreground, with guns ablaze, leading a convoy of others. To the left of the poster, a German tank burns, with German soldier...ARTV02305
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Back them up!: Britain's new Airborne Army goes into action in Europe
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Maker: Oliphant, Leslie H.M. Stationery Office Thomas Forman & Sons Ltd
This British Second World War poster was created by His Majesty's Stationary Office on behalf of the Ministry of Information. The poster depicts Allied soldiers and gliders going in to battle in Europ...ARTV02295
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2/32 Battalion holding German counter-attack, El Alamein, 31 October 1942
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Maker: Dargie, William
2/32nd Australian Infantry Battalion holding German counter-attack at El Alamein, Western Desert, Egypt, on 31 October 1942. The men are from B Company and the tank depicted is a German Mark IV C mode...ART22251
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Bridge demolition east of Delphi,
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Maker: Dargie, William
Royal Australian Engineers, British Army Engineers; Greek campaign; ruins of bridge demolished in turn by Australians, Germans and BritishART23846
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Ferenc Torr
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Maker: Binder, Tibor
German Army Hungarian soldier in army barracks, Gross-Born Army Barracks, Germany. Red stripe on sleeve indicates that they were eligible for officer school. Subject is Hungarian officer cadet. Note: ...ART27847
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For The Soviet Country
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Maker: Kukryniksy USSR government Unknown
A lithographic edition of the stencilled TASS poster No. 534 from the 6th of August 1942 designed by the Kukryniksy group. It depicts a Red Army soldier attacking a German soldier who is standing on a...ARTV00229
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Forward to Victory
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Maker: Brule Unknown
Second World War poster depicting British soldiers in the foreground charging with their guns towards retreating Germany Army Soldiers in the background.ARTV05079
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For you the war is over
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Pencil sketch created in Ekali, Greece depicting the capture of an Australian officer and one soldier by German troops at an Australian hospital camp in 1941. The men had stayed behind to look after t...ART94378
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Frigyes Raffay
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Maker: Binder, Tibor
Depicts a portrait of Frigyes Raffay, an Hungarian soldier in Gross-Born Army Barracks, Germany. Tibor Binder served in the Hungarian Army Artillery, was captured by the Americans and held a POW in Ro...ART27830
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German soldier, musician in camp theatre orchestra
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Maker: Binder, Tibor
Unidentified German soldier playing a violin, musician in prisoner of war camp theatre orchestra, Mailly-le-Camp, France.ART27845
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Gyorgy Ramusi
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Maker: Binder, Tibor
Depicts a portrait of Hungarian soldier Gyorgy Ramusi in Gross-Born Army Barracks, Germany. Tibor Binder served in the Hungarian Army Artillery, was captured by the Americans and held a POW in Romelly...ART27824
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Hungarian soldier, nicknamed 'Bumba la Negra'
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Maker: Binder, Tibor
Depicts a portrait of Hungarian gypsy soldier, nicknamed 'Bumba', in prisoner of war camp, Mailly-le-Camp, France.ART27838
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Incident on the road in Germany
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Maker: Moore, Alan
Recovered Australian prisoners of war in (possibly) German staff car passing by a column of German soldiers. Two of the Australians are giving a mock Nazi salute. An AIF banner tied across back of veh...ART25518
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International military types
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Maker: Gordon, Dudley
Sheet of humorous head portraits of " International military types" by Dudley Gordon.ART94604
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Keep the enemy in the dark : be careful what you say or write
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Maker: [S.L.] : RECRUITING PUBLICITY BUREAU, UNITED STATES ARMY, 1944
This American Second World War poster depicts a soldier in the dark, being backlit with his arms in surrender. There were many campaigns during the Second World War to urge silence and security aroun...ARTV05561
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Medical examination
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Maker: Vaughan, Keith
This drawing records one of the more intimate and humiliating aspects of internment witnessed by Vaughan during his employment at a prisoner of war camp in Yorkshire, United Kingdom. It shows a Britis...ART92958
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Nazi, Sollum
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of an unidentified German prisoner of war, from the armoured corps, captured during the North African campaign near Salum (Sollum), Libya. Hele was impressed by the prisoner's ability to sit ...ART26656
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No second chance...
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Maker: Kirby, Rollin
American Second World War poster to promote investment in war bonds. The illustration is about the atrocities of war, depicting people being pushed by German soldiers into a snow bound cattle car for ...ARTV05890
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Operation Bulimba (2/15th Battalion attack near Tel el Eisa, Egypt), September 1942
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Tel el Eisa; 2/15th Australian Infantry Battalion; QX5634 Corporal Horton Ford McLachlan (later Sergeant, DCM) 2/15 Btn 2 AIF, unidentified Australian and German soldiers; Operation, Battle of Alam el...ART27559
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Scene in Halfaya Pass
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Maker: Dargie, William
Dargie noted, "Shortly after we had re-taken it [Halfaya Pass] from the Italians and Germans in January '42. Behind the knocked-out British tank can be seen one of the large guns, with French markings...ART23894
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Talk in here kills out there
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Maker: Games, Abram Ministry of Home Security J. Howitt & Son Ltd.
British Army; cautionary poster warning of the danger of careless talk, depicting a patient in a hospital bed, the foot of the bed is drawn to resemble the head of a soldier wearing a German helmetARTV01864
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Talk less. You never know
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Maker: Noke, Charles J Ministry of Home Security James Hawthorn & Brother Ltd
A British Second World War poster reminding the civilian public of the prominence of German spies. During the war, the need to keep quiet about any state or military related matters was reinforced in ...ARTV02631
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The inspections
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Maker: Vaughan, Keith
This drawing records one of the more intimate and humiliating aspects of internment witnessed by Vaughan during his employment at a prisoner of war camp in Yorkshire, United Kingdom. It shows a Britis...ART92957
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Tough tactics
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Maker: Unknown Unknown Whitehead Morris (E) Ltd
This British Second World War poster was created to promote the film 'Tough Tactics', a film outlining the physical training techniques used in the Middle East School of Physical Training. The introdu...ARTV02513
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Twilight of the Wehrmacht
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Maker: Colahan, Colin
Two feeble looking German soldiers walk with a women through the streets of a ruined German village. Wehrmacht became a general term for the German Armed forces throughout the Second World War.ART25709
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We smashed the enemy with lances...
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Maker: Kukryniksy Ministry of Supply Unknown
British Second World War poster published by the Ministry of Supply. It is a reproduction of a Soviet war poster designed by a group of artists known as "Kukryniksy". The poster depicts caricatures ...ARTV01342
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Women of Britain: Arm him
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Maker: Ministry of Labour and National Service Stafford & Co. Ltd.
This poster issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service is aimed to compel British women to join the war industry. The poster uses dramatic imagery to draw a direct link between the producti...ARTV01675