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Abandoned scout car, Manikin River, Timor
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Depicting a scout car abandoned on the Manikin River; February 1942.ART26342
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A Boston crew, 22 Squadron, RAAF (Flight Sergeant Alexander Mackay, Sergeant Phoenix, Wing Commander Charles Learmonth)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Flight Sergeant Alexander Mackay, Sergeant Phoenix (?), and the Commanding Charles Learmonth, 22 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force are seen walking to aircraft to take off from Ward's Drome to bomb...ART21711
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Abu Gosh
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Abu Gosh, A village beside the road, close to Jerusalem'. Principal leave centre for troops in Palestine.ART30084
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Action stations - flag deck, HMAS Shropshire
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Unidentified signalmen, wearing tin hats (protective helmets) and anti-flash hoods on Flag deck HMAS Shropshire, at routine action stations off the Admiralty Islands.ART22281
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Admiralty House, Tobruk
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Originally the Headquarters of the Italian Regia Marina, now British Naval Headquarters. Building was damaged by bombing, causing the collapse of the western wing. The red flag is a warning to town an...ART21741
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A Driver
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
One of No.3 Squadron transport driver (unidentified) in cabin of truck. Internally many of the trucks still retained their buff-coloured camouflage from the Desert Campaign.ART23481
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After a blizzard, Saskatchewan
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Typical scene on a Canadian airfield the morning after a blizzard; the snow is liberally plastered on walls as well as on roofs and the clearing of the roadway makes a wall of snow which will stay unt...ART23088
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"After years in uniform, dear, aren't feminine clothes divine! "
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Maker: Woolcott, Alfred Richard
Depicts two women standing in front of a fire place , one wears a suit, with a tie, while the other wears a jumper and long trousers. This is the drawing for the cartoon that appreared in 'Salt' , vo...ARTI01326
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AIF cemetery, Changi, early days
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Graves with wooden crosses in a jungle clearing, AIF cemetery, Changi, Singapore, in the early days. From a small space cut out of the jungle, the cemetery was gradually extended and laid out with gre...ART24494
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AIF cemetery, Changi: front entrance
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
Griffin shows the entrance path to the AIF cemetery, with gardens and trees on either side. The AIF rising sun symbol strung on two poles at the path entrance.ART26477
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AIF cemetery, Changi: interior
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Maker: Griffin, Murray
In this cemetery are buried all the AIF prisoners-of-war of the Japanese who died in captivity in Changi Goal, Selerang. When this was drawn there was a great difference between the first start of the...ART26478
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A.I.F. coming aboard
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A unidentified soldier of the AIF loaded with with full kit embarking on a landing ship at Morotai to take part in landing operations on Labuan, North Borneo.ART23326
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AIF embarking at Stonewall Wharf, Sydney
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Maker: Norton, Frank
In April 1941 Norton recorded troops from 2 Australian Imperial Force disembarking from a train to board a ferry at Pyrmont in Sydney. The ferry would then take them out to a transport ship. Several...ART21100
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AIF Engineers making a road, Kokoda
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Royal Australian Engineers; group of Engineers standing at side of road as convoy of Army trucks passesART23677
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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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A mechanical press
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Maker: Ragless, Max
This depicts one of many large presses used to produce aircraft parts at Richards Industries, Ltd, Adelaide during the Second World War.ART23119
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Anti-aircraft defence
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
A Bofors 40mm anti aircraft gun and a slit trench. Emplacements are sand - bagged for protection. In the foreground is an observer's position. The occupant left his steel helmet lying on the ground ou...ART30066
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Apparatus for testing respirators (Cartridge Bundling Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a sketch of apparatus for testing respirators, government agencies, Commonwealth Expolsives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART22601
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Are your guards all present and correct
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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
poster produced by the Ministry of Labour and National Service and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents to increase awareness of need for safety guards on machinery, depicts a guardsman m...ARTV01682
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Armourers (Warrant Officer James McMillan and Corporal Wilcox)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
Warrant James McMillan (front), Corporal Wilson (or Wilcox) (rear); Browning testiing and cleaning .50 calibre machine guns of aircraft.ART21713
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A shadow across Hitler's path
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Maker: General Motors Holden
This Australian Second World War poster was produced by General Motors Holden (GMH) in 1941, and was likely produced for use in one of their factories. The poster is aimed at factory workers, attempti...ARTV02146
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Assembling a 3.7 anti-aircraft gun, Maribyrnong, Victoria
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Maker: Hanke, Henry
A heavy 3.7 inch heavy anti-aircraft gun in the course of construction, Ordnance Workshop, Maribrynong. Melbourne.ART23436
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Assembling gas masks (Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a sketch of unidentified women assembling gas masks and respirators, Government agencies, Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART22598
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Assembly shops, Beaufort Division, Dept. of Aircraft production, Fisherman's Bend, Vic Victoria
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Maker: Hanke, Henry
Looking down on the Assembly shop, Beaufort Division's Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, Fisherman's Bend, Victoria.ART26088
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A study for the trial of General Tojo
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
General Tojo became Prime Minister of Japan during the Second World War. As the most powerful leader in the government during this time, he approved the attack on Pearl Harbour and pushed the Japanes...ART91988
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A study for the trial of General Tojo
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
General Tojo became Prime Minister of Japan during the Second World War. As the most powerful leader in the government during this time, he approved the attack on Pearl Harbour and pushed the Japanes...ART91976
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A study for the trial of General Tojo
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Maker: Tucker, Albert
General Tojo became Prime Minister of Japan during the Second World War. As the most powerful leader in the government during this time, he approved the attack on Pearl Harbour and pushed the Japanes...ART91995
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Australian commandos attacking Japanese shipping in Singapore Harbour, September 1943
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Dennis Adams was commissioned to depict Operation Jaywick, a bold raid by members of Special Operations Australia from Z Special Unit. Fifteen men under the command of a British officer, Major Ivan L...ART27649
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Australian Military Forces, Rabaul
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
Depicts three Australian Military Force personnel in jungle wearing tin helmets and carrying rifles.ART28376.006
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Australian POWs embarking for home on the Largs Bay at Singapore docks
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Maker: Buckmaster, Ernest
Ernest Buckmaster was born in Hawthorn, Melbourne on July 3 1897. After being rejected for military service due to his physical frailty Buckmaster attended the National Gallery Art School from 1918-24...ART23374
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Avro Anson on coastal patrol, NSW
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Maker: Norton, Frank
This sketch was drawn whilst Frank Norton was flying on a sea patrol in an Avro Anson with 73 Squadron, RAAF. The squadron were protecting a convoy that were on anti-submarine duties. Seated at the ...ART21081
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A Winter's Day
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
No. 450 Squadron (unidentified), pilots' mess in EPIP (European Privates' n Pattern) tent. Into one side of this the pilots had built a chimney from bricks. Firewood or coke was almost unobtainable bu...ART26115
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Ball game practice at night at Morotai
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a group of unidentified soldiers playing basketball at night, Morotai.ART23222
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Battalion intelligence officers searching Japanese dead
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian intelligence officers searching the bodies of dead Japanese soldiers, Wau, Salamaua, New Guinea.ART22514
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Battle equipment, Derna
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of an Australian soldier standing with rifle, head slightly lowered.ART22875
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Battlefield, South Bougainville
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Maker: Herman, Sali
This picture shows what bombing and artillery fire made the jungle look like, yet our men were living in dug-outs covered with heavy timber and a few painted tent flaps. On the day the artist sketched...ART22842
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Battleship screen, HMAS Napier
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Australian destroyers H.M.A.S 'Napier', 'Nizam' and 'Vendetta', with British destroyer and battleship, at sea off Alexandria. Having steamed line ahead down the 'Swept Channel', the destroyers are now...ART21002
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Beach at Morotai
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a group of unidentified Australian soldiers on beach using a civilian canoe, Halmacheras Islands, Netherlands, East Indies. In 1942, Donald Friend enlisting with the AIF, was posted as a gunne...ART23221
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Beaufighter pilot
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Depicting a pilot wearing 'Mae West' inflatable life jacket, holding flying helmet.ART23472
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Beaufort Navigator (of No.100 Squadron, RAAF)
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
This is a portrait of a pilot who was an expert in navigating using the Beaufort aircraft. Seven hundred of these aircraft were produced for the Royal Australian Air Force in the Second World War. The...ART21647
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Beer issue, 1st T.A.F
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A rough sketch showing personnel of No 1 Tactical Air Force Headquarters, Royal Australian Air Force, lining up for their issue of bottled beer from Australia. This event stood out even more prominen...ART23271
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'B' gun, HMAS Arunta
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
On board the deck of the HMAS Arunta, we see a view of a man standing beside a gun mounted in the 'B' position. The gun's machinery is shown in detail. Tribal class destroyer's built during the Second...ART25679
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Bluey, Flight Mechanic (Sergeant John Le Cornu)
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Portrait of Sergeant John Le Cornu, Flight Mechanic for 466 Squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force.ART23465
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Boat deck, HMAS Diamantina
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Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Showing the boat deck and bridge of HMAS Diamantina. The surrender of the Japanese forces in Nauru Island and Ocean Island was signed on her decks.ART24241
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Boiler cleaner, HMAS Cairns, Bombay
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Maker: Norton, Frank
HMAS "Cairns" alongside the dockyard wall of Royal Indian Dockland, Bombay. Secured to "Cairns" are HMS "Tulip" (English corvette) and HMIS "Madras" (Australian-built corvette of Indian Navy). Left fo...ART21274
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Bombarded landscape, Tarakan
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Sketch for painting showing troops ascending Tank knoll among broken tanks. A torn and twisted oil tank forms a frame through which the artist looks.ART25440
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Bombardment, Balikpapan
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts the bombardment of beaches immediately prior to landing at Balikpapan. Douglas Watson joined the AIF in 1943 and was an official war artist for Australia, serving in Australia, New Guinea and ...ART22992
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Bombed house in Yerania village, Greece
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Maker: Dargie, William
Described in the Official War History as 'Yannina', and also known as Ioannina, the Greek town pictured here experienced the fortunes of war on several occasions during the 1939-45 conflicts. Captured...ART23978
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Bombed house near the air strip, Iraklion, Crete
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Maker: Dargie, William
The town Iraklion is described in the Official War History as Heraklion. Heraklion was one of the points where German air-borne troops were landed in the invasion of Crete. The 2/14th Australian Infan...ART24042
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Bombed oil tanks
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Maker: Friend, Donald
The effects of bombardment prior to the landing of the 7th Australian Division in Balikpapan, Borneo, 1945.ART22909
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Bomber Crash, Rabaul
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
This is a semi-abstract composition combining exterior and interior views of a crashed aircraft in flames. This is a representation of a crash of a Lockheed Hudson on take-off for aerial reconnaissanc...ART28377.001
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Bomber Crash, Rabaul
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
This is a representation of crash of a Lockheed Hudson on take-off for aerial reconnaissance.ART28377.002
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Boomerang fighter
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Maker: Hanke, Henry
A Boomerang fighter aircraft standing in front of a hangar, Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, Fisherman's Bend, Melbourne.ART22126
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Boom town, Dafoe
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Boom towns or shanty towns have made their appearance at most of the remote air stations in Canada. Enterprising farmers build and tent these little shacks to the families of Air Force personnel and t...ART23090
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Boston pilots back from Salamaua (Flight Officer John McMaster, Flight Lieutenant Robert Wines and Flight Lieutenant Henry Craig)
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
This picture tells its own story, showing four pilots of the Royal Australian Air Force just back from a strike over Salamaua and directly after the interrogation. Included in the picture are:- Flying...ART22742
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Bow river, Banff
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Royal Australian Air Force trainees in Canada under the Empire Air Training Scheme on leave at Banff, going canoeing on the Bow River. Portion of the Canadian Rockies can be seen in the background. Ra...ART21958
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Bridge works, HMAS Shropshire
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Maker: Norton, Frank
View from starboard chains of Bridge superstructure of this cruiser. Dusk stand to, Admiralty IslandsART24186
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Bridging the Driniumor River, Aitape
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Maker: Hele, Ivor
Bridging the Driniumor River, Aitape.ART25750
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25 Brigade advancing along Kokoda Trail near Templeton's Crossing
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
Advancing along Kokoda Trail near Templeton's Crossing. Painted from data gathered from eye-witnesses and notes made of the country at the locality whilst passing through. Unidentified members of the2...ART23615
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Building Wooden ships, Fremantle, Western Australia
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Two wooden vessels under construction at Fremantle. These vessels are 300 ton cargo ships and are due to be launched. Built of jarrah, they are the first vessels of this type to be constructed at Frem...ART21087
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Buoys on the beach
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Enormous buoys have washed up on a beach at Labuan. The buoys are almost twice the height of the soldier who walkd amongst them.ART23300
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Buoys, Victoria Town, Labuan
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Maker: Jack, Kenneth
Depicts a pile of mooring buoys resting on the edge of a lake, beside an old building in Labuan, Borneo during the Second World War.ART93836
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Burnt out Japanese aircraft on Kamiri airstrip, Noemfoor Island
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Maker: Watson, Douglas
Depicts the remains of a wrecked and burnt Japanese aircraft on the Kamiri airstip on Noemfoor Island during the Second World War.ART23731
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Camouflaged artillery
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a 25 pounder gun camouflaged outside of Damour, Syria (now in Lebanon). Produced during the Syrian campaign and painted in July 1941. The artist wrote of the work 'Camouflaged artillery - Un...ART30090
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Camouflaged Gun Positions, Middle Head, Sydney
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Maker: Ashton, Richard
Richard Ashton, an artist with the Military History Section, painted a number of works related to Australia's defences during the Second World War. This work depicts anti aircraft guns in place at Mi...ART23665
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Camouflaged truck
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a camouflaged truck at Richon-le Zion Palestine (now in Israel). The artist wrote that the truck was depicted "in a setting of date palms - proving the effectiveness of Army camouflage". Ris...ART30042
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Camouflage RAAF Defence Unit, Darwin
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
A group of men from the Camouflage Defence Unit sit outside tents.ART28374.001
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Camp area designed as homestead for camouflage purposes
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Maker: Ragless, Max
A camp in an unknown location designed to resemble a homestead and outbuildings for camouflage purposes. This is one of six drawings purchased from the artist in 1944 prior to his appointment as an o...ART30199
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Camp concert
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
Depicts a view of concert in a camp, audience sitting beneath a 'rain' tree, Townsville, Queensland.ART28373.002
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Camp gate, LHQ Signals, Albert Park
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Maker: Browning, George Julian
The gloom of English trees, silhoettes, the centry and those around the M.T. park. The CO's car is drawn up on the left. On the right is the canteen staffed by an AWAS, who was friendly with a sergean...ART23435
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Camp laundry
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
This drawing was made at the R.A.A.F. Pool situated in a Government Experimental Mango Plantation about 5 miles out of Townsville. It was a place of very dense vegetation, plagued by flying foxes and ...ART28365
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Camp Panorama
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Qastina encampment and water tower. The town was in what is now the Gaza Strip - it was totally destroyed, (in what conflict is not clear) and no longer exists. The artist writes, 'An extensive view o...ART30071
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Canal, Helwan
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Maker: Herbert, Harold
Depicts a group of Egyptians carrying water away from a freshwater canal in Helwan, which is near Cairo. Other groups are working in the fields. In the distance are hot baking chalk-white hills. Th...ART30045
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Car park, Main Street, Atherton
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Maker: Abbott, Harold
View from a verandah of a Barrett's Railway Hotel on the main street of Atherton. The street is lined with military vehicles, the post office on the right is surrounded by anti-blast barricades and t...ART23872
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Carrier leaving Sydney wharf
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
HMS Ruler with Grumman Avenger aircraft on deck, leaving wharf assisted by tug, Harbour Bridge in background.ART21376
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Catalina Flying Boat
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Maker: Adams, Dennis
Moored and swinging lightly on Maquarie Lakes, an Australian Catalina flying boat is checked by mechanics. The nose houses a turret for a machine gunmen and a 'venetian blind' covering the window for ...ART26958
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Catalina in front of hangar, Lake Boga
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Maker: Flett, James
A Catalina aircraft, with overhaul and repairs completed, stands in front of a hangar waiting for a tractor to tow it to the slipway, in readiness to undergo tests, Lake Boga, Victoria, 1945.ART23362
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Catalina repair depot, Lake Boga
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Maker: Flett, James
Panorama of the depot painted from the Duty Pilot's tower on the edge of the lake looking towards the camp. View of end hangars with Catalina's under repair, entrance gate, orderly room and stores alo...ART23361
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[Cemetery]
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Maker: Banks, Gillian
Koo-wee-rup; woman digging grave in makeshift cemetery while others carry coffin for burial. This work illustrates the fact that the women POWs often had to bury their own dead.ART28536.004
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Chapel service at Toko
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Maker: Herman, Sali
Toko; 3rd Australian Division; service in improvised chapel in jungleART22852
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Chargeman in the soldering bay (Detonator Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a sketch of an unidentified chargeman in soldering bay, detonator section, Government agencies, Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART22592
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Chargemen (Detonator Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Chargemen W Fanning and T McLellan working at a bench packing detonators at the Commonwealth Explosives Factory at Maribyrnong, Victoria. These men wearing scarlet uniforms are painting, labelling and...ART26106
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Chargemen painting, labelling and tipping detonators (Detonator Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Charge painting, labelling and tipping before final packing of detonators to services. The chargemen wear a uniform of bright red, with a yellow band on the left arm on which is a black letter, "C". G...ART22579
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Chinese Temple
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Chinese temple used as billets for Australian soldiers, 4th Australian Bulk Petrol Company, but shared by an aged Chinese priest called 'Wong', who vigorously repelled all attempts to move him to othe...ART23233
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Chipping ship's side, HMAS Napier
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Maker: Hodgkinson, Roy
The task of chipping and painting an iron ship is endless. Whenever possible, hands suspend themselves over the side in large numbers with shipping hammers, red leads and grey paint to fight the corro...ART22778
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Cleaning No.2 gun, Middle Park, Melbourne
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Maker: Bush, Charles
Shows camouflaged entrances to guns 2 and 3. Melbourne's skyline as a background, with Government House and The Shrine of Remembrance predominating. Middle Park, unidentified soldier cleaning 3.7 inch...ART26082
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Coast camouflage
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Maker: Hinder, Frank
Depicts a group of men erecting camouflage nets over gun at West Head Battery, Sydney.ART28371.005
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Coast of New Brunswick
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Maker: Warner, R Malcolm
Atlantic weather rolls in over the coast as New Brunswick is reached on a flight from No.8 Operational Training Unit, Greenwood, Nova Scotia. The Unit is part of the Empire Air Training Scheme under w...ART21961
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Commander of a submarine looking through the periscope
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Maker: Ravilious, Eric
This lithograph which illustrates a submarine interior with the commander looking through the periscope. In a bubble to the right the artist has illustrated the air plane which is being viewed from th...ART28413.002
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Compass platform, HMAS Hobart
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Ship's 'bridge', navigational equipment, compass, rangefinder, chart locker; HMAS; unidentified personnel on compass platform l-r: officer of the watch, Captain's messenger, Navigating, Captain (seate...ART21055
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Container production Room (Cartridge Bundling Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a sketch of machinery in Container Production Room, Cartridge Bundling Section, government agencies, Commonwealth Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong, Victoria.ART22602
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Convoy signals, HMAT Zealandia and HMAS Hobart
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Maker: Norton, Frank
The work depicts HMAS Hobart and HMT Zealandia in the Great Australian Bight. Unidentified signalman using Aldis lamp to send signals to HMAS Hobart from SS Zealandia.ART30025
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Cordite sheeting machine
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Maker: Curtis, R Emerson
In 1940 Emerson Curtis visited the Commonwealth Explosives Factory, at Maribyrnong, Melbourne. He described the works as '...five to six hundred separate buildings, each designed for some special purp...ART23072
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Crashed fighter plane
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Maker: Herman, Sali
This plane was returning from a raid and about to land when it crashed at the end of the Torokina airstrip. The pilot was killed. It is a Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft.ART22843
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Crows nest lookout's relief, HMAS Quiberon
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Maker: Norton, Frank
Looking up the mast of HMAS "Quiberon",as the crows nest lookout goes aloft to relieve his opposite number, Bay of Bengal, India.ART22279
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Cutting and scraping (Women workers in T.N.T. Room, High Explosives Section, Commonwealth explosives factory, Maribyrnong)
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Maker: Craig, Sybil
Depicts a sketch of unidentified women at work bench in the T.N.T room, High Explosives Section, Explosives Factoury, Maribynrnong, Victoria.ART22569