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2/3 A.A. Regt Searchlight Bty site
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Maker: Friend, Donald
anti-aircraft; 2/3rd Australian Anti-Aircraft Regiment; campaign; anti-aircraft searchlightART23260
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Card game on an L.S.T. 936
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Troops en route to a beach landing in a Landing Ship Tank (LST), relax at a game of cards.ART23223
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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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Crowds dancing, Kings Cross, Sydney
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Maker: Friend, Donald
This is a highly personal response to the celebrations that Donald Friend witnessed in Kings Cross, Sydney, after the announcement on 8 May of Germany's unconditional surrender at the end of the Secon...ART23203
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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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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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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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Field casualty
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Depicts a field casualty. Soldier laying on a stretcher while two men sit in the background.ART22900
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From my window at Lae
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Maker: Friend, Donald
View from the artist's window of a native village in Lae, New Guinea. Donald Friend was in Lae the last week of May 1945. Of Lae he wrote in his Diary 24 May 1945; ' From the air it looked romantic, t...ART23218
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Gracie Fields concert
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Maker: Friend, Donald
A sketch of the audience at a concert at which Gracie Fields, a celebrated London variety artist, appeared. Miss Fields was touring the battle areas in the South West Pacific with other artists entert...ART23205
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Gunner carrying drag rope
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Maker: Friend, Donald
Study for "gun maintenance". Picture of unidentified gunner with a drag rope over his shoulder.ART23245